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Silver Helix#

An ancient organisation with ties to the Emerald Enclave. Communicates infrequently, and avoids long range communication and city-to-city teleportation to avoid drawing the attention of mages guilds and nefarious powers. Sends emissaries to various cities to align.

Rumors#

  • "their word faded from the word of mouth as the effects of the sundering, and the fall of the netherese empire came and went, without any accellerating global deterioration, but rumors say the organisation still persists, somewhere in Gulthmere, below the sea of fallen stars".

Overview#

  • goal: destroy/distort the information about ancient undead powers, so that history does not repeat itself, and that power structures in the outer planes maintain their balance.
  • members: metallic dragons, high ranking champions of celestials, emmisaries from outer planes (hell, gehanna, ysgard, elysium, limbo), high ranking druids, one seelie court member
  • stance on undead: heavily anti. lost their most powerful leader and a large part of the eastern land to an undead scourge hundreds of years ago. anything touched by undeath inevitably corrupts.
  • earlier achievements: helped topple the Thayan liches.
  • stance on dragons: heavily in favour of; breeds them, uses them as powerful emissaries, infiltrators of high society to naturally seed trust in them as advisors and allies. the dragons' loyalties to the silver helix will inevitably yield good returns trade, and standing.
  • long standing goal: figure out what happened to felgolos
  • recent goal: investigate the death of a blue dragon Chorom in Neverwinter; current insights imply undead influence, but there is also a group of adventurers who were found tampering with his hideout; motivation likely positive, but would like to clear out.
  • ongoing goal: track the movement of the demon lords, learn of their origin.
  • current goal: investigate the corruption of the waters in dragon lake. undead spotted on the outskirts of Cormyr, dispatched by Zaehesh

Core Features#

  • Membership: Planar emissaries (magnus), draconic influencers in human cities. Forged through an old unity of two metallic dragons, along with the sultan.
  • Goals: Unity among the planes; natural order to everything, they are a guiding hand towards peaceful coexistence and cooperation. Not above using subterfuge and deception to get a goal accomplished. Dhaikhezzish provides incentives to even the dragons, by granting wishes once every hundred years.
  • Secrecy: Trust likely to be eroded if people knew it was "arguably undermining" public free thought. They are afraid of the mages scrying eyes and as such have magic free zones. Some of them are indirectly met with; Diana latest from sword coast. Previously Pre-Celerom arch-mage from Arcane Brotherhood.
  • Tensions: Dhaikhezzish focus on the material planes is not universally welcomed. He has maintained many city-of-brass style ideals of what is reasonable for trade that feels outdated today. He talks a bigger game on unity when not dealing with the city. Due to its size and sphere of influence, it is often ignored.
  • Tensions: Lost alliances in Luskan, Neverwinter recently. Stormguard plant never worked out. Waterdeep always warded dragons, and mages too busy to control the city to think about continent-level problems.

Members#

Magnus Incalesco: Dhaikhezzish The Incandescent (sultan of the efreet from plane of fire)
Magnus Ambulos: Andraste
Magnus Arbor: Emmantiensien (from seelie-court)
Magnus Umbra: Melanura (shadow fell shadar kai, been to Irithyll)
Nobilis Argentum: Adalon (Icewind Dale)
Nobilis Aurochalcinus: felgolos (Stormguard)
Nobilis Sapphyrus: Chorom (Neverwinter)
Nobilis Aurum: Aerosclughpalar aka Vaeros Fireshield (Baldur's Gate)

Base#

City of Brass in Plane of Fire.
Curtain of beaten brass surround the entire city, stretching for 100s of miles. Hemisphere.
Charcoal Palace in the center of the city.

He is transactional.
Get him something valueable and shiny
Do not make arguments against good or evil.

https://dungeonsdragons.fandom.com/wiki/City_of_Brass
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/City_of_Brass

Items#

Bracers of Defense. +2 AC if no armor and no shield.

Teleportation#

Only way to get there is to plane shift with a special token the helix.
Brass ring, hollow, delicate, looks like it's made out of one continuous spring.
Only way out of there alive is a plane shift to Cormanthor.

Allies#

Waterdeep#

No dragons allowed in waterdeep because of the ward.
But jarlaxle occasionally trades information about them for safe harbour of bregan-daerthe.

Luskan#

Arabeth Raurym (pre-celerom overwizard of tower arcane, south tower) - now dead

Neverwinter#

Chorom - Adult Blue Dragon undercover as a wizard at the peak of castle-never.

Icewind Dale#

adalon (undercover Draco Nobilis Argentum). High Chancellor of Icewind Dale.

rumors: "Adalon is fair, knowledgable and fond of silver. You infernal better stay on your toes, eh? / Perhaps why we've never had infernals attack this region, eh?

Baldurs Gate#

Aerosclughpalar - in the form of a druid. He is seen as the socrates of baldur's gate.
Knows all the leaders, can manipulate, and can debate.
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Aerosclughpalar

rumors: "Do not underestimate Vaeros. Despite merely running debate circles in the open, he is frequently invited to present popular viewpoints to the council."

  • Aho Mitakuye Oyasin

Stormguard#

felgolos agreed to influence the giants, but he has not responded back in ages, presumed dead, or not wanting to be found.

Knowledge#

They know of Irae + Arklem, but not where they are hiding. Scrying does not work.
Adalon has seen Arklem firsthand.
They serve as first defenses against cities. Know that with dragons in place, the demon lords are going to face stiff competition => likely next target == Neverwinter.

They know about Baba Yaga.
Leader knows about the prophecy of Kiaransalee.
Adalon knows about Maerimydra and its slaughter. Wards are in place should she return. Imprisonment.