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Undying Soul#

Faction that worships kiaransalee.
The unambiguously evil faction.

Rumors/Lines#

  • "the undying soul changes everything" (liches doomed before, but now, can self-sustain)
  • "they brought demon lords to toril, do you really want to fuck with them?"

Prophecy#

In books about the divine realms of the dark seldarine:

The aligned three avenges that which came before. They shall become the true harbingers of the long peace. Through all means necessary, the errors of the past shall be corrected, and through conflict, peace will return. So sayeth the revenancer.

Nothing is as powerful than that which returns having avenged.

Slashes indicate translation issues from undercommon. Peace and stability is the same word in undercommon.

Prophecy Goal#

Felgolos, Arklem, Irae must be present/die in the room of Kiaransalee.

Motivation#

Goal: Unending life, unending peace. Irae can make it happen. High ranks have power. Raise all they can. Start with the shadowfell. Mind control important people. At a certain point they will have critical mass and can start taking on the silver-helix.
Possible goal: Have koth reclaim neverwinter. Valindra?
Temporary goal: Protect velddrinnsshar from party.
Membership: Recruitment of the best of the best by extremely secretive liches. You don't get to choose not to say yes. Geas / mind control / death are usual results.
Organisation: Irae + Arklem runs the show. He is the facilitator + invisible hand, she is the only one with the power to use Kiaransalee's artifacts.
Secrecy: Need to build the eradicator in velddrinnsshar, and amass an army big enough for it to not be stoppable.
Tension A lot of very powerful liches working for the same goal, all fit for leadership role. koth is not a pet on a leash, but an extremely intelligent ancient being.

Members#

  • Grand Extender arklem (diseased)
  • Righteous Hand and Supreme Matron (ilharess alur) irae (part of Kiaransalee)
  • Vindicator Valindra (part of Kiaransalee)
  • Shadow King larloch (part of Kiaransalee)
  • High Psion koth (in underdark)
  • Stormlord umnos (diseased)
  • Expositor zaehesh (diseased)
  • Hypnotist mordai-vell (diseased)

Early Developments#

  • Works with larloch in irithyll and learns from his research
  • Arklem becomes a Lich >700 y, ago.
  • valindra starts the arcane brotherhood in 800DR
  • Takes over the Arcane Brotherhood after valindra in 950DR
  • Safekeeps Egg of Galadaeros after the defeat of Kiaransalee.
  • valindra works on dracolich tech in Neverwinter
  • Arklem takes over irithyll and starts populating it with raised heroes + demons
  • Resurrects Akkhan for his energy -> fails.
  • Manipulates relationship between dwarves and giants, to try to get in with fire giants
  • Broker a peace with umnos
  • Conspire with drow priestess disloyal to Lolth; irae, make her a lich.
  • Work with Valindra in Neverwinter to enslave an aboleth and use it to harness mindcontrol

Late developments#

  • Tether mordai-vell to koth and slowly corrupt dragon's influence in neverwinter
  • irae sequesters umnos, opens the spine, and unleashes demon lords
  • arklem + irae heads to pit of hatred - fights/banishes orcus but steal his wand
  • irae steals staff in gilgrin-vault, puts matriarch boss in place
  • Party defeats mordai-vell after losing two members in shadowfell
  • irae unleashes wd-demogorgon - steals scythe blade with Time Stop
  • irae sends Yeenoghu to luskan
  • arklem destabilizes arcane-brotherhood + steals egg
  • irae returns as an undercover angel, convinces celerom to keep undead
  • irae brings back umnos, controls him with koth and gives him Blackrazor
  • Party defeats umnos and closes the spine; demon lords not controllable.
  • irae + arklem baits felgolos into shadowfell for his kids, doing a slow drain there
  • Party defeats bone city, discovers irae's behind the scenes work, fixes celerom
  • irae starts rituals to summon kiaransalee, needs 3 ancient souls
  • (had plenty of weeks here while party was in city of brass)
  • Uses Valindra and use her soul to power ritual (she agrees)
  • Uses larloch's betrayed soul
  • Captures felgolos; planned 3rd soul
  • arklem has his phylactery destroyed (cannot be used for summoning)
  • felgolos converted to a dracolich to have his soul extracted
  • irae sacrificed as final soul instead of felgolos
  • kiaransalee rose, fought party and plane shifted to safety

Goals#

  • Re-animate, and kill the Raven Queen, to raise Kiaransalee
  • Slowly convert the living into an army of the dead

Headquarters#

velddrinnsshar