Istmaeon Illistim

Istmaeon Illistim was the Argent Mirror who ruled at the end of the Kiramon War. The war was a thousand years old at the time, having begun only a couple of millennia after the Undead War, ultimately leading the Illistim to resort to drastic measures. They were vanquished using a spell that banished their enemy, tricking the kiramon into traveling through a portal to what was thought to be an uninhabited world. Whether this was truly developed by Illistimi scholars, or some forbidden lore of antiquity, it was necessary for Istmaeon to authorize its use.

Though he called their triumph a "heroic act" in public, he felt there would be greater consequences. It would later be discovered that the portal had been to the world of Bre'Naere, which was inhabited by the people who would be enslaved and transformed into the Aelotoi. The guilt of this collateral damage was a major factor in the way they were received in the Elven Nations in 5,103 Modern Era.

Istmaeon assumed the Peacock Throne in -12,105 Modern Era (37,002 Illistim) and presumably abdicated in -11,884 Modern Era (37,223 Illistim) after 221 years. His actions have been considered reasonable at the time they were made, and that the horror inflicted upon the Aelotoi was accidental. There are some Faendryl critics who regard this as extreme hypocrisy, since the Illistim suspended their own rules regarding forbidden magic when it suited them, only to defend it with the same argument they rejected with Despana. The Undead War was only 3,000 year ago, still within living memory. Tearing the Veil and summoning extra-planar entities was "only forbidden with voids and demons", the argument goes, but "merely 'research' when calling it portals and elementals."

Argent Mirror of the House of Illistim
Preceded by:	-12,105 Modern Era to -11,884 Modern Era (37,002 to 37,223 Illistim)	Succeeded by:
Unknown (eventually Segeir Illistim)		Unknown (eventually Yathrauniel Illistim)
Non-Dynastic Argent Mirrors
Descendant of:		Ancestor of:
Unknown		Unknown