Five Lives of the Princes of Chaos

Most well-known for his recounting of the five notable Rulers of Chaos, Amric Ethuve assiduously drew his material from contemporary sources. A Deliopian by birth, Amric retired to Amerzcelindo in 2573, where he produced his magnum opus, Five Lives of the Princes of Chaos in the second half of his life. The book was published in 2579 in the Ithatian language.

The book tells the biography of five notable Chaos Rulers of the Middle Ages and is considered required reading for the period. In his own journal, Amric reveals that he chose five due to this number's association with Chaos since time immemorial and he preferred to focus on the most notable rulers in great detail, rather than create a dull reference book about the dozens of Chaos Rulers, small and great, of the Middle Ages.

The biographies, in order presented in the book, are: Copazousa, Titney the Magnificent Pest, Bexaloth the Archmage of Infinite Chaos, Lord Kualotha of the Groaning Earth, and Prince Ulcanov of the Shattered Waters. He did not write of Ddägduch Lord of the Flying Earth.

Critics say that Ethuve intentionally began with Copazousa, the chaos ruler of his own homeland, Deliops, and concluded with Prince Ulcanov, generally regarded as the most evil and despicable of the Chaos Rulers, placing the comparably benign Lord Kualotha just before Prince Ulcanov to underscore the latter's dire evil.

Ethuve lived over a century after the Middle Ages and used as many sources as he could acquire, including court documents, chronicles of the Isbajutha, temple chronicles, and regional folk accounts, like Tales of Old Pytharny.

The Five Lives remains widely available in the huge libraries of the great cities of the Pallathantic today and in many a private bookshelf.

See Also

• Amric Ethuve
• List of Greater Chaos Rulers of the Middle Ages
• Lord Kualotha of the Groaning Earth
• Tales of Old Pytharny