Chessenta took its name from the first Grand Viceroy Iphram Chess when the region was a province of Unther Prior to the Spellplague, Chessenta was a country of individual city-states that were often at war with one another. The city of Cimbar was the theoretical capital of Chessenta as it was the definitive capital of Tchazzar's brief Chessentan Empire. After Chessenta defeated Threskel in 1479 DR, Threskel became a vassal state.