Karaline von Ethro

Karaline von Ethro was a female human adventurer, anthropologist, archaeologist, explorer, and inventor.

History
During her career as an adventurer, Karaline von Ethro designed the Sunbeam Compass, which proved useful in underground navigation. She also recovered numerous relics from battlegrounds in O'Noa and early civilizations in the Daggerbay Mountains; and predicted the presence of civilizations on Visa Isle.

Death and legacy
Later in her life, Karaline von Ethro claimed to have visions of Salar, a subterranean city of tall, twisting pillars. She described a huge, pearlescent disc that she called the Moon Disc, which served as the city's primary source of light, at the top of the central pillar. She began hearing whispers and voices, and recorded them in her journal. Most believed she had gone mad, and she died at the age of 37.

Karaline von Ethro is long dead, but her journal is still the most coherent record of the Unseeable City. The Arcana Pansophical kept it in a closely guarded vault, which only added to its mystique. However, the journal was stolen long ago, and since then, dozens of manuscripts said to be the Von Ethro journal and have been sold in black markets across Tal'Dorei.

Despite her list of accomplishments, von Ethro became most remembered for her descent into insanity after describing her visions of the lost city of Salar. As a result, most believed her journal was little more than the "diary of a madwoman", and scholars have overwhelmingly dismissed any attempts to verify anything von Ethro had written there. However, von Ethro's visions were correct; Salar still exists beneath Tal'Dorei, populated by a surviving aboleth society led by Durrom.