The Finch family who live outside Zarash'ak. Duke Jalnar ir'Edar now seeks untold heights of arcane magic in a mad quest to reclaim glory for Aundair that he believes has been lost in the last ten years. His family is rumored to be prone to madness since a distance ancestor first took a half-orc from the Shadow Marches for his wife. The Duke of Passage, Jalnar ir'Edar, and his daughter Melys ir'Edar lead a cabal of almost 60 cultists in the city. They feed their elders and the infirm among them to the beasts as a mad form of preservation–their practices dictate that the souls of those consumed are preserved within these entities. These clans, also known as Gibberers, revere and tend to gibbering mouthers. Members of these cults follow the daelkyr Kyrzin, the Prince of Slime. It has been sharing the secrets of symbionts, grafts, and unique discoveries made by the Closed Circle with its followers. Ī mind flayer named Chyrassk, along with a small force of lesser aberrations from Khyber, have established a presence in the former Citadel of the Closed Circle in the undercity district of Khyber's Gate. They were destroyed by the other magic guilds of Sharn-the Esoteric Order of Aureon and the Guild of Starlight and Shadows-for delving too deep into the occult following their research into the daelkyr. The Closed Circle is a defunct wizarding guild of Sharn. Sul'aashta Steelbane is a hunter of the Aashta clan, who hunts warforged and ventures into the Mournland, driven to defeat the warrior of steel and stone that haunt her dreams. Karr'Aashta, House Tharashk inquisitive of Deathsgate in Sharn is a member of the Aashta clan, and a follower of the Dragon Below. Khundar'aashta is one of the three triumvirs of House Tharashk, and represents the interests of the clan to the house in Zarash'ak. The Aashta clan contains cultists of the daelkyr Kyrzin, the Prince of Slime. The Aashta and lesser clans in service to them are rumored to be bound to the Dragon Below. The Aashta clan is one of three half-orc clans native to the Shadow Marches to have developed the Mark of Finding and forming House Tharashk. There are no fewer than three sects of the Cults of the Dragon Below active in Sharn. Ĭults may worship aberrations, daelkyr, or other fiends of Khyber and their masters from the First Age. Many followers of the Dragon Below are insane, holding strange beliefs as aberrations being beautiful creatures that will reward them for their devotion. The large majority of these cultists are mad and dangerous, and they turn towards forces society shuns for personal power. Cults Ĭults of the Dragon Below are not a unified religious doctrine. These regions suffered most during the Daelkyr War, and bear the greatest scars from that ancient conflict, both physical and psychological. Worship of the Cults of the Dragon Below are strongest in the western regions of Khorvaire, especially the Shadow Marches. There have always been those who choose to worship Khyber, the Dragon Below, in order to gain power or in hopes of some dark promise being fulfilled. The cults have existed since the beginning of time in one form or another. 2.3 The Cults of Slime (Gibbering Cults).