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The Sorority of the Silver Fire was founded in the Year of
Bright Nights (985 DR) by the half-elven incantatrix Fetitia
Ledora, said to be the daughter of Alustriel Silverhand, and
Yhelfanna the Masked, a Rashemaar witch of the Hathran.
In the decade prior to their first meeting, the two incantatrixes
independently confronted the enduring legacy of
Sammaster#146;s madness in the form of powerful dracoliches
which sought to ravage their homelands: Everlund and
Rashemen, respectively. Both women felt compelled to
track down the source of this blasphemous contamination
of the Weave, a trek which led them to Sembia and the
secret temples of the Keepers of the Secret Hoard.

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Originally posted by dazzlerdal

So far i think the energy wheel Sammaster creates is some kind of time stop spell maybe.

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Originally posted by dazzlerdal

Ooh, i like it, he did after all remove a body part and turn it to ash for his future reanimation as a lich, no reason that he wouldnt have tried to create items and weapons out of a gift of the gods (even before he became evil).

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Originally posted by LordXenophon

Alustriel is half-Elven.

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Much of the early history of human exploration and life in the North is shaped and driven by the cruelty and greed of the followers of Bane. The worshippers of other evil creeds fell over each other in an effort to compete with the faithful of the Black Lord.

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The clergy of Bane (under the ambitious man who was then the High Imperceptor, their titular head of all mortal clergy) moved to establish their own kingdom in the Moonsea North. Hunting Harpers became a popular sport among these evil brotherhoods;

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The Harpers soon mobilized to infiltrate, disable, and destroy the Cult cell in Chondathan before Sammaster’s evil could thoroughly infest the newly formed country of Sembia. (Sembia was formed in 913 DR under the banner of Rauthauvyr the Raven, commander of the new nation’s military for the Overmaster, the elected merchant ruler of the nation.)
While they had some successes, they failed to destroy Shargrailar and could not prevent the spread of the Cult’s ideology across the face of Faerûn.

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some followers remained loyal to the memory of the First Speaker and continued to operate openly, while others followed Algashon into secrecy and exile, first to Urmlaspyr and then west and north into the Western Heartlands and the North. Most cells were eventually forced by their enemies to follow Algashon into hiding or face extinction, which allowed the Banite theurge to return to Sembia in triumph, where he became first of the Wearers of Purple.

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As Algashon ruled over the decades, he slowly brought more and more of Bane’s doctrines and philosophies into the Sembian branch of the Cult. While many of the followers he had brought west with him from Chondathan had no compunctions about this, many of those who joined the Cult later grew unsettled as Algashon steered the Cult farther and farther toward a seeming union with the church of Bane.

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Originally posted by dazzlerdal

So assuming the church of Bane operates openly in Sembia then in 1141 DR they must have had considerable political clout to torture and execute a Harper Agent in public in Selgaunt (such a thing may have prompted a political backlash but since the Harpers later assassinate the High Imperceptor of Bane i doubt the Sembian authorities did anything).

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