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The Sword Coast Chronicles quests and events over the years:
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--In chronological order across the years . . .
Destroy the avatar of Bhaal [Complete!] – Amalric struck the fell-handed death blow on the avatar of Bhaal, thus ensuring he cannot take form and act directly for one hundred years!
Defeat the unholy Ramsets of Netheril [Complete!] -- The Ramsets were destroyed in 1344 Dale Reckoning . . .
Hunt down across the years the half fiend daughter of the eighth duke of Hell . . .
Slay the necromancer of Ulcaster and his infernal lieutenants [Complete!] -- The necromancer of Ulcaster, Alabashen the Lord of the Blood Pit, and Harabadar the pit fiend of Asmodeus, were slain by Amalric and his holy crusade . . .
Slay Blackspear the batiri chieftain in single combat, in the verdant glades of Cloak Wood . . . [Complete!]
By command of Duke Eltan, and on behalf of Baldur's Gate, hunt down and slay 'The Black Widow' (An enormous monstrous arachnid) that did stalk and prey on travellers passing through Cloak Wood . . . [Complete!]
Fulfil his ducal oath to bring Lady Katherine Vernosa to Justice . . . [Complete!] -- Lady Katherine Vernosa was slain on the end of the flanged headed mace of Amalric, and the seditionist movement [The Virtuous Soil] was defeated!
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--In chronological order across the years . . .
Save Grushk the Outcast from the evil tribe of hobgoblins he was estranged to . . . [Complete!]
Destroy the evil spirits haunting the Witch of the Cave's demesne . . . [Complete!]
Defeat the large army of goblins amassing north of Beregost . . . [Complete!]
Save Beregost from The Iron Throne . . . [Complete!] -- The Iron Throne was driven out of Beregost in a great battle in 1344 Dale Reckoning.
Save the Sword Coast from the Temple of Murder [Complete!] -- May the people rejoice! For the efforts of The Order of the Radiant Heart Auxiliary, and many others, the Temple of Murder along the Sword Coast was cast down in its villainy and will plague the innocent no more . . .!
Win the Amn-Gate War -- [Incomplete!] Alas the great war did end in a stalemate and Amn claimed Beregost as its own . . .
Uproot the insidious and corrupt influence of The Thieves Guild within Baldur's Gate, and avenge their massacre of Markhold, and the instigation of the Amn-Gate War during The Year of the Bright Blade, 1347 Dale Reckoning.
Defeat Lotrik, a murderous servant of Garagos in single combat in the test of arms; for murdering two devotees of Tempus within the Temple of Tempus in Baldur's Gate, and bring him to justice . . . [Complete!]
Slay Lyran the Hermit Lich within the evil forest . . . [Incomplete!]
Destroy the 'Den Mother' (giant queen arachnid) and its brood (giant spiders), in their den . . . [Complete!]
Vanquish the vampires that had taken over the Lord's Alliance Tower in Baldur's Gate . . . [Complete!]
Slay Tho'Daah-Nugh the horned devil, and rival to 'The Harvester Devil', on the open field of battle, far north of the city of Baldur's Gate . . . [Complete!]
Destroy the hordes of undead amassing in the Fields of the Dead, and purge 'The Restless Crypt' of its befoulment . . . [Complete!]
Save the Village of Triel -- [Incomplete!] Alas for Triel was destroyed . . .
-- Defeat the great host of mountain orcs known as the Black Horde in the first 'Battle of Triel'! [Complete!]
-- Successfully defend the Village of Triel during 'the Siege of Triel! [Incomplete!]
-- Retake the Village of Triel from the The Black Horde! [Complete!]
-- Defeat the Zhentarim mercenaries and brigands calling themselves 'The Saviours of Triel'! [Incomplete!] --The battle ended in a stalemate . . .
-- Save Triel from being destroyed by the plague worshipping orc shamans of Yutrus, and slay the vile Zhentarim encroaching from the north . . . [Incomplete!] --Undermined at every turn by corrupt allies and their craven efforts to forge an alliance with the Zhentarim . . .
Escape the Shadow Realm of Baldur's Gate, in between the plane of reality . . . [Complete!]
Destroy the demon responsible for the murders in the Palace District of Baldur's Gate . . . [Complete!] --Within the Temple of Helm in Baldur's Gate, Amalric did slay the demon by shattering its guise as a magical sword, with a single great blow from his giant mace . . .
Drive the Thayan Enclave from the Sword Coast and put their foul kind to the sword and the torch . . .
Burn Roaringshore to the ground and end the reign of the pirate lords.
-- Slay two dozen pirates during the annual raid on Roaringshore! [Complete!]
-- Defend yourself! Fight back and kill Kalma Helstorm in single combat at the Thunderhammer Smithy in Beregost! [Complete!]
--Bring the Helstorm Crew to justice for their numerous crimes and atrocities committed against the Grand Duchy of Baldur's Gate and the denizens of The Sword Coast . . .
Slay the host of werewolves amassing in the Wood of Sharp Teeth and win the Battle of the Fell Glade. Save the imperiled young Priestess of Selune from the forces of evil . . . [Complete!]
Muster a great crusade of righteous and noble paladins and champions of good, to lay siege to Dark Hold, and bring the sword and flame to all black handed servants of Bane. Destroy the unholy fortress of evil known as Dark Hold . . .
Bring the murderers and brigands known as 'The Hunters of Vengeance' to justice for their betrayal and murder of members of the Order of the Radiant Heart Auxiliary . . . --A farce of a formal apology by the scumbag brigand and recent convert of Hoar Koryeneer Sentinel was eventually received and rejected, their cult was all promised the executions they rightfully deserve.
Liberate the village of Longhaven, and St Petunia's Refuge from 'The Descendants of Bhaal' . . . [Complete!]
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--In chronological order across the years . . .
Save Beregost from a horde of ravenous wyverns drawn to 'The Sprouts of Sorrow', and destroy the source of the evil beleaguering the village . . . [Complete!]
Destroy 'The Infernal Cauldron' and kill the 'Unholy Summoner' and his evil minions . . . [Complete!]
Destroy 'The Infernal Portal' and the hordes of demons being summoned onto The Sword Coast just south of Baldur's Gate . . . [Complete!]
Destroy the Ramset Phylacteries -- [Incomplete!] Alas! For through treachery and blood sacrifice they were stolen and offered to Mephistopheles, The eighth duke of Hell . . .
Hunt down across the years and destroy the Ramset Phylacteries that were spirited away to be used as weapons by the eighth duke of Hell in the Infernal Blood War . . .
Recover the 'Staff of Light' for the lizard men of Cloak Wood, after it was stolen by Blackspear and his batiri . . . [Complete!]
Destroy the Plague Artefact of Bhaal [Complete!] – Amalric shattered the unholy sphere and survived its foul miasma of negative energy . . .
Save the Village of Lenore from evil forces. . . [Complete!] – Amalric of Helm slew the monstrous 'White Wolf of Lenore' in single combat, and with the help of others purged the great cathedral of the queen of vampires and her hordes of undead. With a great blow from his temple mace, the noble paladin destroyed the phylactery of a lich that was contained within a magical spear crafted from scorched iron . . .
Amalric swore a solemn vow to Helm to never rest across the years until he had recovered the holy relic known as the 'Gauntlet of Torm', from the Zhentarim, and Dark Hold. [Incomplete!] - Cannot be completed as the Gauntlet of Torm was destroyed . . .
Destroy the unholy artifacts sought by the evil Cult of Bhaal known as 'The Descendants of Bhaal' . . . [Complete!]
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Restore Thyrlagord's holy blade as a Holy Avenger and true weapon of one pure of heart and deed -- [Incomplete!] Alas! For Thyrlagord was destroyed in a great battle with a fell host of Unholy undead before its time . . .
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Major Baldur's Gate: The Sword Coast Chronicles Event Progression-Onward:
The Battles of Sir Amalric of Germont, noble paladin of the temple of Helm and chivalric knight
Ordained Knight of The Order of the Radiant Heart Auxiliary
Ordained Senior Knight of The Order of the Radiant Heart Auxiliary
Canonized Grand Master of The Order of the Radiant Heart Auxiliary
-The Year 1344 Dale Reckoning Onwards-
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The Year of the Moonfall, 1344 Dale Reckoning
In the Year of the Moonfall, the Arch Wizard Ragefast exiled his evil disgruntled apprentice, who then planned his revenge by joining forces with a great host of Mind Flayers.
He started a planar invasion of The Grand Duchy of Baldur's Gate, and summoned portals that unleashed an army of Devils from The Nine Hells to assault the city.
Justin Crownsilver, Amalric of Germont, Lucien Huss, and others, fought back the invasion and rally the high clerics from all of the temples in Baldur's Gate, to close the portals. However, the evil apprentice escaped through a planar portal at the last minute at the closing of the battle and was never seen again. [Event by WhenWizardsWar.]
The Iron Throne merchant organization occupied Beregost for ten days with a great host of hired brigands and mercenaries.
Amalric, Justin Crownsilver, and many other adventurers, liberated Beregost, alongside of a company of Flaming Fist Mercenaries led by Commander Aegis Feld. [Event by WhenWizardsWar.]
The Red Wizards of Thay were then permitted within The Grand Duchy of Baldur's Gate for the first time and began constructing an enclave north of Beregost.
In time they began to feud with The Iron Throne Merchant Company, and open conflict and bloodshed between the two insidious factions broke out.
An ancient red dragon then claimed The Sword Coast as its territory, and the Thayans of the newly constructed Thayan Enclave send a great host of Red Wizards to slay the beast after it ravaged the countryside for a week.
The ancient dragon was slain in the end, but not before it scorched the land around The Ruins of Ulcaster.
The Red Wizards then secreted the body of the dragon away, and through unholy magic turned the dead dragon into a dracolich and bound its soul to the Master of the Enclave.
Eventually the Red Wizards had a fatal dispute with the Grand Dukes of Baldur's Gate on the tax placed on their licence for having constructed an Enclave in the region. The Thayans then laid siege to Baldur's Gate, led by their Master of Trade, a powerful Wizard, who lead the assault borne aloft on the back of the Unholy Dracolich bound to his will.
The Red Wizards were defeated by the combined efforts of the Flaming Fist Mercenary Brigade, and many adventurers on the coast, including The Weave Masters. [Event by Whenwizardswar.]
~Thyrlagord, The Year of the Moonfall, 1344 Dale Reckoning~
Legend has it that this ancient blade was swallowed up by an ancient red dragon that Amalric and his fellows slew in a fraught battle. Upon carving open the great wyrm’s stomach, was its greatest treasures revealed.
A weapon of divine power, Thyrlagord was said to have been crafted by Helm himself, and its true power was that of a Holy Avenger, a paladin’s ultimate weapon against the forces of evil.
Before it was swallowed by the Ancient Red Dragon, Thyrlagord has had a long and bloody history of being wielded by a long line of ill-fated paladins who all met their ends battling great forces of evil that threatened the goodly folk of the realms.
Thyrlagords last wielder was the famous paladin, Sir Aldorn Gramguard, of the band of paladins known as 'The Company of Twelve’, who slew the corporeal form of Sammaster the Unholy Chosen of Mystra, after storming his stronghold in The Year of the Black Snake, 1285 Dale Reckoning.
Sir Aldorn, along with nine other paladins of The Company of Twelve did not survive the battle, and the blade was thought to be lost in the ruins of Sammaster’s stronghold.
Thyrlagord burned with a latent amount of holy fire and could dispel any enchantment with a single strike of its blade.
Thyrlagord’s blade had inscriptions and the scriptures of Helm, god of guardians and protectors, running up and down its great blade.
Legend said that should a paladin worthy enough to match the deeds of a true hero, ever have wielded this sword, its blade would have burned with solar fire and it would truly be a weapon that not even the denizens of the lower planes would dare face.
Unfortunately, no virtuous wielder of this holy great sword ever lived long enough to accomplish its divine mission, and Thyrlagord was eventually shattered in The Fields of the Dead when Amalric was set upon by hordes of shambling undead warriors and with the last stroke that he did cut down the host, did the great blade finally break.
~The Solar Heart, tie-in to The Infernal Auction~
After [The Infernal Auction], Amalric's body was too badly damaged to be revived by conventional healing spells, and so did Helm, the god of guardians and protectors, infuse him with the heart of his dead Solar - Solor, who was the guardian of the Citadel of Everwatch, before he was most foully slain by Bhaal, The Lord of Murder.
The Solar's heart regenerated Amalric’s badly damaged body and hummed with life beneath his chest. Because of its enormous size, he was required to wear armour, and the immense size of the Solar's heart distorted and disfigured Amalric's torso as it pumped life giving energies into the other parts of his body.
Its true purpose for being was not revealed until the events known as ‘The Crusade’, several weeks after the Amn-Gate War, and several years after The Infernal Auction.
~The Armour of Saint Solor, tie-in to Infernal Auction~
The Warplate of Saint Solor was the personal armour of the warrior angel Solor, who served Helm as the guardian of The Citadel of Everwatch, until he was slain by Bhaal, The Lord of Murder.
During the battle known as both The Infernal Auction and also The Doom Auction, Amalric was grievously injured and in the aftermath was always required to wear armour over the great deficit in his chest. No way of healing his injury could be found for several more years.
~The Ramset War, The Year of the Moonfall, 1344 Dale Reckoning~
During the Year of the Moonfall, an ancient unholy family of Liches known as The Ramsets plagued The Sword Coast, and the dead rose to menace the living.
Amalric distinguished himself in two great battles, by destroying the son and daughter both of Lord Ramset of Netheril. The patriarch of The Ramset brood.
Amalric was then chosen by Nahum Ithilduin the Weave Master Exarch, to be his champion and accompany him and several others to the pocket plane where The Ramset phylacteries had been hidden in secret for millennia.
The Weave Masters had not gained this information without great cost however, and were tricked into slaying the bronze dragon Platonix, by a half-fiend daughter of the eighth Arch-Duke of The Nine Hells.
The small band entered a hidden portal near The Ruins of Ulcaster, which lead them to the dimension where the phylacteries lay hidden.
They fought and defeated the Unholy Ramsets most terrible Undead creations, before Mephistopheles' half-fiend daughter stole the phylacteries and offered them in unholy ceremony to her arch duke father.
The arch duke had great plans to use them as his weapons in The Blood War between The Abyss and The Nine Hells.
The small band were unable to stop the half fiend from making off with the phylacteries, and the unholy ceremony conducted to sacrament the evil objects as weapons for The Eighth Duke of Hell.
Anger and resentment over their failure drove them apart, and they all swore to go their separate ways.
Amalric was summoned south to The High Hall of the Radiant Heart in Athkatla and departed at once.
~Establishing the Order of the Radiant Heart Auxiliary in Baldur’s Gate, The Year of the Saddle, 1345 Dale Reckoning~
In the Year of the Saddle, Amalric was summoned to The High Hall of the Radiant Heart, where he was ordained a noble Knight of the Order for his efforts.
He was further charged with founding a chapter of The Order of the Radiant Heart Auxiliary, in The Grand Duchy of Baldur’s Gate, to route the rise of evil along the Sword Coast.
Amalric was the founder of the order within The Grand Duchy of Baldur's Gate, but a paladin of Torm named Jonas Rokranon took over his steed several months afterwards, and ennobled himself to the hearts of others in his time.
The founding members of the Radiant Heart Auxiliary were all initiated into the order by Sir Amalric in the following order and were thus:
Founding:
Sir Amalric of Germont
Sir Tristram Truefaith of Tyr
Jonas Rokranon of Amn
Thiago the Elder
Squire Aethor Siger of Cormyr
When Justin Crownsilver was sent with other expeditionary forces of The Flaming Fist Mercenary Brigade to The New World (Maztica), a battle mage of The Flaming Fist Mercenary Brigade named Myhun Kren, delivered to Amalric a letter, fixed with the personal wax seal of Duke Eltan, which offered the paladin the rank of captain within The Flaming Fist Mercenary Brigade.
The noble paladin declined the offer made by Duke Eltan, however. For he would not break his vows as a paladin, and allegiance to The Radiant Heart Auxiliary in good faith. He would not become yet another mercenary and glorified brigand wandering the land.
~The Siege of the Temple of Bhaal, The Year of the Saddle, 1345 Dale Reckoning~
During the siege of The Temple of Bhaal, the noble paladin was charged with defending the besieger’s encampment and fortifications, and fought furiously to the last man, to ensure the forces of evil and murder, did not harm those that were rescued from the temple during the siege.
Amalric did slay a score of Shadow Reavers and a host of shambling undead during the siege.
He was further drawn upon the honour roll on the wall of the now established Friendly Arm Inn, after Bently Mirrorshade refurbished the besieged Temple of Bhaal.
Amalric was one of those recorded as given permission to carry his weapon on his person while inside the walls of the inn and stronghold.
~The Plague Artefact of Bhaal, The Year of the Bloodbird, 1346 Dale Reckoning~
During the year that the plague struck The Sword Coast, Sir Amalric and The Order of the Radiant Heart Auxiliary, and many others, sought out the cause of the blight and found it to be an underground cult of Bhaal, who sought revenge on Baldur's Gate.
The plague was spawned by an unholy artifact in their possession. This unholy artifact emanated death and decay like radiation.
Amalric shattered the artifact into six fragments, and he and six other heroes swore to take the fragments far away from The Sword Coast, and thus end the plague.
Those sworn to this duty all succumbed and died to the evil and plague emanating from the fragment, except for Amalric.
Amalric took his fragment far into The Fields of the Dead, where the land was already twisted and evil, and it could do no further harm.
Over time the negative energy of the fragment made the paladin deathly sick and weakened him greatly.
Amalric did not die however, and eventually the fragment died instead as it dissipated into nothing. This was the start of a divine curse upon him however that he would be afflicted by, and grow worse and worse over the years.
~The Holy Shrine, The Year of the Bright Blade, 1347 Dale Reckoning~
In the Year of the Bright Blade, Amalric took it upon himself to protect [The Holy Shrine], which was erected in memory and to house those who died in the siege of The Temple of Bhaal.
It was situated half a day’s journey north of the established Friendly Arm Inn. It was here that he remained in defense of the shrine and his soul, through solitude and supplication.
Few tried to deface the sacred shrine while the noble paladin guarded it so fervently, and none can doubt the righteous power of Ilmater that emanated from its crypts and mausoleums.
The shrine gave life to the land around it and healed the suffering and those who sought solitude there. This life-giving healing power of the shrine may also have been what prolonged his fleeting life and kept his ruined body alive long enough to fight in [The Amn-Gate War] and set out on [The Crusade].
~The Amn-Gate War, The Year of the Bright Blade, 1347 Dale Reckoning~
With the onset of The Amn-Gate War, the Order of the Radiant Heart Auxiliary declared neutrality between the warring of The Grand Duchy of Baldur's Gate and the nation of Amn.
After the sacking of Gullykin, and other atrocities committed by the great hosts of soldiers and monsters that comprised of the Amnish military might, and the disappearance of Lance Renslin after he was last seen in the Pirate Den of Roaring Shore, the Order of the Radiant Heart Auxiliary remised under the command of Thiago the Elder, a paladin of Helm, who pledged it's knights, and it's faith, to The Grand Duchy of Baldur's Gate.
It was the final great battle of the war that Amalric was charged by Duke Eltan to lead the duchal forces in a pincer strike against The Golden Legion, the monstrous auxiliary forces, and The Cowled Wizard regiments in play that were protecting the southern nations artillery weapons.
A dwarf warrior and kingswarden to his deceased clan by the name of Master Revenark Stonehold was charged with leading the other half of the duchal forces against the main host of soldier conscripts in the destroyed ruins of Beregost.
Between Amalric of Germont, and Revenark Stonehold, the duchal Forces won a mighty victory, and succeeded in routing and repelling the Amnish forces to reduce the war of attrition to a stalemate.
In the wake of this the great host of The Lord's Alliance finally marched on Beregost, and The Sword Coast, and in the wake of the assassination of General Gilberto Guerro, the Amnish lords and masters of war, and the Grand Dukes of Baldur's Gate and their lords, and Flaming Fist officers, were forced to conform to a peace treaty which ceded the township of Beregost over to the nation of Amn.
~The Crusade, The Year of the Bright Blade, 1347 Dale Reckoning~
The events of The Crusade happened several weeks after The Amn-Gate War.
During The Year of the Bright Blade, Amalric led a great host of desperate pilgrims, peasants, and with paladins, fighters, clerics, dwarves, adventurers, and Thalantyr of High Hedge, and traversed the length of The Sword Coast in a quest to destroy The Necromancer of Ulcaster, who threatened to invade Amn with his unholy host of undead.
The Crusade's pivotal moments were its four great battles, which were: [The Siege of the Friendly Arm Inn Stronghold], [The Battle of the Blood Fen], [The Scourging of the Wastes], and [The Battle of Ulcaster].
~The Fate of Triel I, The Year of the Spur, 1348 Dale Reckoning~
During the Year of the Spur, The Order of the Radiant Heart Auxiliary was charged by The Grand Dukes of Baldur's Gate with clearing the northern trade routes of villainy and recovering the company of Flaming Fist Soldiers which had disappeared in the north.
Amalric led The Order of the Radiant Heart Auxiliary, and was aided by Revenark Stonehold and Pate the Ranger, in doing battle with the brigands and marauders who blockaded the northern trade routes between Baldur's Gate, [Elturel], [Triel], and further east along [The Western Heartlands].
Amalric and his knights routed many of the brigands, but were ambushed and captured.
They escaped captivity within the marauder camps during the winter months, with evidence that the brigands weapons and armour were being supplied by The Red Wizards of Thay, and their roaming bands bolstered by Orcs of a tribe native to Thay, known as [The Black Horde].
Upon finally reaching Triel later that year, they deposed of the villainous Elvar the Grain Lord, and learned that the one hundred Flaming Fist Mercenaries who had disappeared in the region were last seen marching on the evil forest lair haunted by [Lyran the Hermit Lich].
They further battled their way through the unholy hosts of undead inside Lyran's evil forest, until they finally were set upon by Lyran the Hermit Lich. Only Amalric of Germont, Ferragus Manus, Revenark Stonehold, and Pate the Ranger, survived the battle.
~The Fate of Triel II, The Year of the Bridle, 1349 Dale Reckoning
In The Year of the Bridle, The Order of the Radiant Heart Auxiliary and The Order of the Silver Rose, were charged by The Dukes of Baldur's Gate, to marshal a host and meet The Black Horde in battle.
The Thayan Orcs were encroaching on The Northern Trade Way and marching on the rural grain village of Triel.
A great host was mustered in Baldur's Gate, and they met the hordes of orcs in battle, south of Triel. The combined host of both orders, and those of other factions, and adventurers fighting alongside them, routed half the number of the orcs marching on Triel.
In the end they were given to withdraw from the field by command of Uriel Honourblade, a paladin of The Order of the Silver Rose, who was elected to lead the conjoined hosts.
Amalric then lead the host of the auxiliary, to the Village of Triel, where they prepared for a siege, and further battle with The Black Horde.
~The Fate of Triel III, The Year of the Bridle, 1349 Dale Reckoning
The hosts of The Order of the Radiant Heart Auxiliary, The Order of the Silver Rose, and also a war band of northern elves, and northern barbarians from The High Moor, and others who flocked to the banner and the defense of the village of Triel, repelled the hordes of mountain orcs for a time, before villainous mercenaries and brigands, standing behind the defenders lines, betrayed the defenders, and overran them from behind.
The villainous mercenaries and brigands had been cajoled and paid off by The Zhentarim, and many innocent men and women were slain in the brutal carnage.
Sir Ferragus of Helm and Brother Ameris of Ilmater, found themselves stranded on the outskirts of the village, and were forced to watch the mountain orcs descend upon the fortifications and set the village to the torch.
Borbag Zirkus of Torm fought valiantly beside Amalric, but was pierced by many blade and arrow wounds, and after collapsing from wounds the brigands dumped his stricken form into The Chionthar River.
His loyal mule was also brutally cut and slashed by many sword wounds, and pierced by arrows, but nonetheless courageously carried the gravely wounded Borbag of Torm to safety downstream, before the poor and noble creature lamentably died of its grievous wounds.
Amalric was set upon from behind by a score of brigands, and he was beaten upon relentlessly by the pommels of rusty swords that could not penetrate his holy armour, before he eventually collapsed in defense of the villagers who were killed around him. Eventually he found himself on the edge of the village as it was destroyed.
The villainous brigands victory was short lived however, as they themselves were then butchered by the hordes of mountain orcs, who proceeded to sack the village of Triel and burn everything and kill everyone.
~The Battle of the Three Pennants, The Year of the Bridle, 1349 Dale Reckoning~
One month to the day of the fall of the village of Triel, the survivors of those who defended the village rallied, intent on liberating Triel from the hordes of mountain orcs who had laid it low.
The remnants of 'The Defenders of Triel' battled their way through [Thundar's Ride], from the south, all the way to the outskirts of Triel, slaying many mountain orcs.
Upon preparing to marshal on the the village centre, they were met with a host of mercenaries and brigands from The Zhentarim.
Nothing but battle would suffice for Amalric, and he challenged their boldest warrior to single combat.
Uriel Honourblade of Torm also threw down his own gauntlet as well, and The Host of the Auxiliary stood by Sir Amalric.
The Elves of En Dharasha Evarae, and the remaining host of The Order of the Silver Rose did not stand with Uriel Honourblade and instead withdrew from the field.
Battle was finally met when Thedran Rock the Bard appeared at the end and engaged The Zhentarim of his own accord.
The battle ended in a stalemate, and the villainous host of The Zhentarim withdrew from Triel.
~The Fate of Triel Finale, The Year of the Bridle, 1349 Dale Reckoning~
Later in the year, a strange, magical and seemingly incurable plague affected the northern villages of Soubar and Triel. Hundreds of people died to the plague and its effects.
Attempts at curing it were ultimately futile as a small Orcish band lead by a plaguebearer of the Orcish god Yurtrus, attacked Triel and Soubar.
Many powers along The Sword Coast combined to save the village of Triel.
By command of the evil Eliphas Valkarian, and Sir Borbag Zirkus of Torm, The Order of the Radiant Heart Auxiliary swore to follow the orders of the scribes of Candlekeep, and the half elf sea captain, Mealir Ostirel.
The Order of the Radiant Heart Auxiliary was restrained from meeting The Zhentarim in battle at crucial stages, and undermined by the treacherous manipulations of Eliphas Valkarian, and Amalric was denied single combat with Ambrose Valexeus, a commander of the Zhentarium leading the brigands blockading Triel once again.
Soubar barely survived due to the actions of The Order of the Silver Rose, the scholars of Candlekeep, and emissaries of The Greyfox Tribe.
What was left of Triel was almost completely leveled by a surprise attack, and most of its population slaughtered by plague zombies, earthquakes and fire storms.
The village was literally erased from the maps as a town inhabited by the living, its ruined and smoldering buildings now host to the restless dead.
Only the grain silo, that The Order of the Radiant Heart Auxiliary, swore a holy vow to defend, and almost died to the last man defending, remained of the village of Triel.
~The Gibberling Host Invasion, the Year of the Morning Star, 1350 Dale Reckoning~
In the Year of the Morning Star, Amalric, acting alongside a northern barbarian and an elven ranger, and two wizards, routed a great host of Gibberlings, who spilled forth from the underdark, intent on invading the Friendly Arm Inn Stronghold.
Upon routing them within their caves and dens, a great host of the Cult of Malar and the evil beasts they commanded, were also slain, who intended on laying siege to the Friendly Arm Inn Stronghold.
Through diverging tactics and clever stratagems Amalric lead his small band to annihilate the servants of evil wholesale, without suffering any losses.
~The Annual Raid on Roaring Shore, The Year of the Bridle, 1349 Dale Reckoning~
During the Year of the Bridle, Amalric lead a great host of The Order of the Radiant Heart Auxiliary, The Order of the Silver Rose, and a war band of elves from the village of Doron Amar, and sacked the port and pirate den of Roaringshore.
Scores of brigands and land locked pirates were routed and slain, and over two dozen were captured, before The Flaming Fist Mercenary Brigade blockaded the dock with their war-galleons and transported the captured brigands and pirates away to Baldur's Gate to be hanged for brigandry. Amalric swore to burn Roaringshore to the ground so that it may never rise again.
The high captains of Roaringshore are believed to have known of the impending raid, and fled out to sea on their own galleons, the night before, with everything they could take with them.
During the following year, Kalma Hellstorm and his pirates did swear revenge, and a noble squire of the Order of the Radiant Heart Auxiliary was slain in the wilderness near Candlekeep, stripped of his vestments, and hung from a tree.
Kalma Hellstorm the Pirate Captain was defeated a ten day after this by Amalric, at The Thunder Hammer Smithy, in the then lawless and suffering village of Beregost.
Amalric was spied and attacked by the pirate captain, who launched himself at Amalric with his two scimitars in hand. In the insuring battle, the paladin smashed both of Kalma’s arms and legs, as well as his back, and left him bodily broken, but still barely alive.
With the help of Sir Ferragus Manus of Helm, Ameris Santraeger, and an elven ranger, the villain was transported north to Baldur's Gate after a long journey through the wilderness.
After years and hundreds of thousands of gold offered for the capture or death of Kalma Hellstorm by the Grand Dukes of Baldur's Gate, Amalric did bring the pirate captain before The Flaming Fist Soldiers, and the gates of The City of Baldur's Gate to face judgment.
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A squire of the order named Cecilia Lafayette, and Ameris Santraeger, were captured in a fraught battle against overwhelming odds in the pitted ruins of the former village of Triel.
A cleric of Ilmater named Sister Brenda Duvale, took her own life during the battle, and both former squire and knight of The Radiant Heart Auxiliary were held for ransom by The Zhentarim enforcers of Dark Hold.
Ransom demands were made for Ameris by The Zhentarim, and it was eventually revealed that he was hanged within twenty four hours, and that he was not only a cleric of Ilmater, but a Harper Agent on the side.
An attempt by The Zhentarim to ransom Cecilia back to The Radiant Heart Auxiliary was made. The terms demanded were all of the holy avengers held in the possession by the paladins of the auxiliary be given to The Zhentarim in exchange for her life.
When the auxiliary sent word that they had no holy avengers in their possession, Cecilia Lafayette was hung, within a ten day.
Eliphas the false Master of the Auxiliary at the time, charged the order to remain complacent.
Both Ameris and Cecilia are brought back to life at a later date (see other people’s threads).
~Shattering the Sword, The Year of the Morning Star, 1350 Dale Reckoning~
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~Battle of the Fell Glade, The Year of the Morning Star, 1350 Dale Reckoning~
In the Year of the Morning Star, 1350 Dale Reckoning, Sir Amalric lead a band of twelve adventurers and went to battle against a host of forty wolfwere beasts and overcame their number. Only Amalric and a curious gnome Terrence Malkuth who was a worshipper of the overgod Ao, survived the battle. And Amalric rescued a priestess of Selune who was held hostage and returned her to the safely of the temple of Garl Glittergold inside the courtyard of the Friendly Arm Inn Stronghold.
~The Orc Host Invasion, the Year of the Morning Star, 1350 Dale Reckoning~
In the Year of the Morning Star, Amalric of Germont, Ronin Marcus the squire, and a half dozen others, including elves and wizards, routed a great host of Orcs who spilled forth from the Wood of Sharp Teeth to lay siege to the Friendly Arm Inn Stronghold.
~The Demon Invasion of The Lion's Way, The Year of the Morning Star, 1350 Dale Reckoning~
In the Year of the Morning Star, a number of battles were fought in the hills along the Lion's Way on the Trade Coast, against a great host of demons, including several infernal regiments of hulking balors.
Amalric was the first to engage the host of balors and held his ground, slaying two of the hulking brutes and surviving the death throes of several others, to later depart the field alive when the battle was won.
~The Grievous Battle with Baphomet, The Year of the Morningstar, 1350 Dale Reckoning~
In the Year of the Morning Star, Sir Amalric fought alongside the Nashkel garrison and many adventurers also to save Nashkel from Baphomet, the Demon Prince of Beasts, who cajoled a great horde of giants and giant kin to invade in 1350 Dale Reckoning.
Amalric stood his ground when all others fled around him, and fought the demon prince in single combat, and was slain buying the beleaguered garrison time to rally their forces.
With the great horde of giants all but spent and their mightiest champion slain, the demon prince fled the field after the sacrifice of Amalric, and so was Nashkel spared terrible destruction at the hands of infernal denizens.
~The Enemy Within, The Year of the Morning Star, 1350 Dale Reckoning~
During the Year of the Morning Star, the chancellor of The Most Noble Order of the Radiant Heart, and bearer of the Gauntlet of Torm, and his entourage, arrived at the chapterhouse of the Order of the Radiant Heart Auxiliary to canonize the auxiliaries' holy charter.
During the reformation ceremony Amalric expressed doubt and discontent in their sworn Grand Master, Eliphas Valkarian, who had been in office for seven months prior.
Unease began to show during the solemn ceremony, until Eliphas' squire, Cecilia Lafayette of Tyr brought forth and revealed documented evidence of Eliphas' evil, before the holy procession.
With his ruse lifted, Eliphas ran chancellor Omased Nobleheart through with his Banesword and declared his worship of the Lord of Tyranny.
He then held his black sword of Bane to Cecillia and deigned to use his former squire as a hostage and means to escape the chapter house of The Radiant Heart Auxiliary.
Events then became misconstrued when Cecilia told Sir Amalric and the Order that she intended to make the supreme sacrifice for the noble cause of the order and to thwart the evil scheme of Eliphas.
However, the former squire was said to recant this later and state that she was struck down and slain by Amalric.
What did happen that day was that Eliphas used her as a body shield to avoid a crushing blow of Amalric's giant temple mace.
When Cecilia was struck down by the noble paladin's holy mace, Eliphas was then harried by the resounding blows of Ferragus Manus' long sword, before Amalric struck Eliphas with a smiting blow from the flanged head of his mace, that sheared off chunks of armour, and embedded itself in the traitors' neck.
The wounded Eliphas managed to snatch [The Gauntlet of Torm] from the stone floor of the chamber, and flee through the power of Bane, The God of Tyranny, who teleported him away in a black haze and miasma of mist and foulness.
With the villain having now fled, Amalric used his divine power of lay on hands to heal Chancellor Omased Nobleheart back from the brink of death, and Gaervin Goldenshield, and Ferragus Manus both healed Cecilia Lafayette back to health and vitality.
Amalric swore to a vow to Helm that he would lay siege to Dark Hold, and never rest until he had recovered The Gauntlet of Torm from Eliphas.
Gaervin Goldenshield and Ferragus Manus were ordained knights of the senior council of The Radiant Heart Auxiliary, and Cecilia Lafayette was ordained a knight of the order.
A ten day later, Sir Amalric, was canonized The Grand Master of the Order of the Radiant Heart Auxiliary, by Prelate Wessalen, of The High Hall of the Radiant Heart, and the reformation of the order was sanctified.
~The Gauntlet of Torm, Finale, The Year of the Crown, 1351 Dale Reckoning~
In The Year of the Crown, Eliphas Valkarian was finally slain by his former squire Cecilia Lafayette, and The Gauntlet of Torm was destroyed and exploded. The rampant energies of the holy artifact ripped his body into pieces which were cast into the magical vortex known as The Weave, which surrounds the sundered world of Toril.
Amalric and others who were wronged by the Dreadlord, and those who aided and served the servant of Bane, were witness to his end, and Sir Amalric swore a holy vow before the slain body of the warrior-angel of Torm who was killed by Eliphas, to hunt down and kill the remaining vile servants of Darkhold.
Days later Sir Amalric sought out others who had shared the extra planar experience and they confirmed it among themselves. Seeking out Sir Ferragus, Slayer of Drakkar, the paladin then went forth to seek out and do battle with the remaining servitors of Bane who had colluded with Eliphas and served Darkhold.
They found the brigand Xavier Aylomen, and evil elf Selengil Harkonis in the wilderness south of the Grand Duchy of Baldur’s Gate lingering amongst the scum and villainy of sell sword encampments and making a mockery of any level of justice and process. Amalric brought his holy mace down on Selengil in quick succession and struck the mortal blow on the evil wizard, as Xavier rang steel against steel against Ferragus. Amalric then turned his attention to the villain and cut him down also. As this occurred an air genasi Stormlord of Talos named Zeno Zelot had spent several moments calling upon every foul ward and power that Talos would issue to him and upon ethereal jaunting into another dimension entirely, came forth out of the fabric of reality with all the magics of that elemental plane and struck both Amalric and Ferragus through with great bolts of lightning and terrible corrosive storms. Zeno Zelot was later obliterated from existence entirely for mass cheating and using exploits to stack armour class, save throws and skill points up to well over a hundred, as he did in this battle. With the cosmology itself intervening this occurrence was reset, which was another corrupt cop out to spare the scumbag cliches of any indignity.
The Zhentarim were beaten fairly in this occurrence and should have faced their rightful end, but instead were again protected by the corrupt DM regimes who always wanted to create a disgusting bastardization of that disgusting Game of Thrones tv series, where everyone is corrupt and decadent.
Cecilia Lafayette left the order not long afterwards because the moral standards were too high for her, and sunk into debauchery with the slimy Eldarian in Beregost for some some, before trying to take over the order from Amalric with a scheme involving Jonas Rokranon who had briefly returned and revealed himself to be another scumbag, but then he always was for breaking the very laws of ordination and inducting low caliber sociopath mercenaries such as Thedran Rock and Kald Blake into the order years earlier as his henchmen because he could not fight his own battles being a decadent type that spawned a dozen children and hardly cared for higher duties and prosecuting the cause of righteousness. Cecilia had no authority in her ridiculous scheme and was rebuked again. James White was revealed as a worshipper of Loviatar and not Ilmater, or perhaps he converted to Loviatar and disappeared entirely, another cop out where he was said to have died elsewhere, instead of facing the execution he deserved. Eliphas was now writhing as a Lemure in the inferno of the Nine Hells, which is what he deserved.
~The DragonWing Brought Low, The Year of the Crown, 1351 Dale Reckoning~
This roll of deeds depicts the fraught battle between Grand Master Amalric of Germont, and Squire Erza of Sune; against the villainous pirates of the DragonWing Crew of Roaringshore on Hammer 4.
Although outnumbered two to one; the paladins of the auxiliary did win the day; and of Squire Erza it is written that she should be commended for her bravery fighting alongside the Grand Master of the Auxiliary.
No sooner had the paladins made their devotions to faith and divinity for the victory wrought; were they accosted by another servant of evil; a black-hearted witch named Mary Myers, who was clad in a pitted and scorched suit of full plate armour, and bearing a massive reapers scythe. The witch exuded arrogance and wrought unholy magics to transcend herself to the ethereal reality; while taunting the two paladins and cladding herself in unholy devotions borne of divine evil. A nuanced blunder on her part however saw herself ripped from the ethereal plane and brought back into the material world, to which she was slain in a deft fashion.
~The Four Duels of Hammer 5&6, The Year of the Crown, 1351 Dale Reckoning~
Year of the Crown 1351 Dale Reckoning—On Hammer 6, a great roll of parchment is wrought within the Order of the Radiant Heart Auxiliary Chapterhouse and hung from the great stone walls of the stronghold for all to bear witness.
It is sacrosanct with the coat of arms of the Order of the Radiant Heart Auxiliary, and the heraldry of Grand Master Amalric.
The script, written in long flowing deed, is the prosaic dialogue of the Grand Master of the Order of the Radiant Heart Auxiliary, and at the bottom of the parchment it denotes that it was dictated by Sir Amalric and transcribed by his page; Artois Guillame.
The roll of deeds depicts four wrought duels fought by the Grand Master of the Order of the Radiant Heart Auxiliary, on the field of valour, along the lawless Trade Way, south of the Duchy of Baldur’s Gate over the course of two days spanning.
The first duel was fought on Hammer 5, where a small and slight man later confirmed to be a lithe moon elf named Sywyn, clad in a blue cloak and hooded cowl, did insist on battling Amalric. The paladin did pray and supplicate to Helm for strength, and then engage with him on the field; to which the Elf did break the conditions of honourable battle and let loose volleys of arrows at Amalric from afar, far away in the distance he had secreted himself to. The paladin did cry out in outrage, as he charged the Elf while harrying the volleys of arrows as they pelted his heavily armoured form.
Once Amalric had closed the gap between them, he dragged his giant temple mace through the gavel bodily, and with a sweeping blow, bring it up and around in a great arc, and drove it into the abdomen of the elf. He then wrenched the great mace out of the elf’s flesh and brought it down on his hooded and cowled head; the sharp flanges splitting it apart and ending the archer.
No sooner was Sywyn the moon elf brought low, that Amalric did contend his mettle with the devil spawn known as Koga of the Blade. Koga fought with a large demon blade of curved eastern origin and harry and fend at Amalric with his exotic skills. But so, it was in vain, as Amalric's war mace did split through Koga’s lamellar cuirass and tear it from his body. And the divine energy of Helm coursing through giant triangular mace, tore a great gash through the devil spawn’s armour and flesh and organs from shoulder to hip. And so was Koga of the Blade seared in agony, and he convulsed and died.
On Hammer 6; Amalric did do battle with a villain of sorcerous power named Kenton Lane. The servant of evil served an infernal cult known as the Coven of Darkness. Lane concealed much of his head and self in a large hood and cloak; but wore a garish Chessentian styled breastplate with lurid male torso musculature engraved over it. In his hands he bore a large glaive that crackled with evil magics.
As Amalric steeled himself with his strength of arms and purity of beliefs and devotion; Kenton Lane clad himself in all manner of unholy and deceptive magics; and became a blurred phantasm of several different images of himself. Amalric struck down each phantasm with wrought iron and smiting blows of his mace, and they would shimmer and disappear to reveal themselves as illusions. Kenton in turn did gouge and rent great wounds on the paladin, before the villain's illusions were finally all but spent. Amalric’s endurance and stamina did see him through to bow Kenton off his feet and bring his great mace down on Kenton’s Chessentian breastplate with strength and piety and righteous fury in his faith and shatter the unholy villain’s armour and crush his rib cage and heart. As the Brigand did die, Amalric did rise and stand at ease for a moment, as Valiant Blinncraft approached him from behind, with flames of fire licking off of his giant sword held out to one side in one hand.
The final duel of the four was met with the evil traitor, Valiant Blinncraft; who used unholy magics to conceal himself, and dishonourable tricks, to hide from Amalric, and harried the paladin with furious slashes of his great flaming sword. The paladin was already spent from his duel with another fell denizen of evil moments earlier; and suffered rends and damage to his armour, and grievous thrusts and slashes, and his own life blood pooled around him, before he finally met purchase with a crushing blow from his giant temple mace, which crushed bone and rended the flesh and sinew of the villain. He then brought his mace down on Valiant Blinncraft’s skull, shattering bone and rending his face.
As the servant of evil collapsed in the gavel and died, Amalric pried the shattered remains of the terrible flaming sword from the villain’s death grip, and with a final act, fold the disgraced squire of the order’s arms over his ruined chest, before the villain’s sorcerous accomplice, a woman named Diedre, rushed forward and wrapped herself around the prone form of the now dead Valiant, and they both disappeared in a stream of magic and arcane miasma that disoriented onlookers for the briefest of moments.
~The Affair of the Treacherous Hoarites, The Year of the Crown, 1351 Dale Reckoning~
During the Year of the Crown, Amalric was approached by a stranger, a Cleric of Hoar named Tegeus Cromis, who asked for an alliance between his band of then vigilantes and brigands, and The Radiant Heart Auxiliary. Amalric refused, to which the Cleric of Hoar criticized the paladin for being 'unable' to slay Valiant Blinncraft permanently, despite the numerous times the villain had been slain by the order, beheaded, and burned to ashes.
A month would pass before the paladin would be approached by the Cleric of Hoar again, this time Tegeus Cromis sent a distraught telepathic message to the paladin, that he was in dire need of aid against evil forces, out to the east along The River Chionthar.
Amalric mustered five squires of the order, and found the cleric of Hoar at an ambush site along The River Chionthar. Tegeus Cromis had set a trap for the paladin and surrounded him with his band of brigands and assassins, as well as pirates from Roaringshore, and villains from Dark Hold and the Zhentarim. Amalric and his squires were outnumbered five to one. The cleric of Hoar intended to murder the paladin to avenge the death of the former evil spy mistress of Thieves Guild turned villainous Pirate, known as Desrah Asher. Amalric had slain her, just as he had slain her evil sorcerous brother, Merek Asher, some years before.
The Cleric of Hoar also held Amalric responsible for Erza burning the dead pirate's body with a vial of acid, an act in which the squire paladin of Sune had in actuality acted out of her own accord, and against the paladin's wishes.
The cleric of Hoar held a mock trial in the name of his lord of revenge, to which Amalric denounced the cleric and his lackeys as villains, before Tegeus Cromis, and his allies who were hiding around the paladin and his squires, attacked and brutally murdered them as they were flanked on all sides. Nonetheless the paladins stood their ground and fought to the last. Several of the low disgusting brigands of the Zhentarim were also there, further displaying the disgusting and evil corrupt nature of Tegeus Cromis and his filthy band of brigands called the Hunters of Vengeance.
This entire abusive occurrence was set up by another disgusting corrupt DM called Karond, who sent me messages describing a joint adventure between the Radiant Heart Auxiliary and the Hunters of Vengeance, only for it to be in actuality an abusive pvp gank crime where I was alone and the scumbags of the Hunters of Vengeance and the Zhentarim had ten players. This was all further allowed by the corrupt abusive Head DM at the time Golem, aka Kleomenes, who said that too many people had enjoyed abusing me for it to be retconned. He really is a disgusting and corrupt abuser.
Only Amalric was recovered in the temple of Helm in Baldur's Gate, and the Grand Master of the Auxiliary spent a month petitioning the Dukes of Baldur's Gate to brand Cromis and his lackeys as brigands and murderers.
With no response from the Grand Dukes, Amalric engaged the cleric of Hoar at a tournament in The Northern Farmlands a month later, and denounced him for murder, and brigandry. He challenged the cleric of Hoar, and all who sided with him, to battle, with no quarter asked for in return, and instead the cleric of Hoar denied any wrong doing and refused to face Amalric in the test of arms.
Ameris Santraeger of Ilmater tried to compromise the matter, and force the Grand Master of the Auxiliary to not hold Tegeus accountable for his crimes.
Amalric would not compromise the foul murder of his paladins, even as Tegeus and his band of villains known as The Hunters of Vengeance were acquitted of their crimes by Ameris, and the crowd surrounding them, on the condition that the cleric of Hoar attempted to resurrect the now dead squires of the Auxiliary.
The crowd showed nothing but apathy, and was comprised of those little better than Tegeus and his brigands themselves. Amalric would not accept this verdict as Helm's true vision, and Ameris eventually challenged the paladin to the test of arms himself, over the quarrel. To the mind of Amalric, the slimey Ameris could do no other but fall to him in battle. As surely, he must to an ordained paladin of Helm and noble knight. He was forced to compromise the grave injustice done to him and the order, when the only apparent outcome to him in his actions that day would be the death of Ameris, and The Hunters of Vengeance going free once more.
Within the crypts below the Temple of Helm in Baldur's Gate, the bodies of the fallen squires were expedited, to be resurrected. Tegeus Cromis used his own blood and other witch craft like practices in his ritual resurrections, and was in danger of collapsing from blood loss, after two squires were brought back to life. It was then that Amalric did invoke his own divine powers and heal the cleric of Hoar back to health and mindfulness.
The servant of Hoar was able to resurrect four of the five dead squires, before collapsing and passing out. Amalric now had Tegeus Cromis at his mercy, just as the paladin had been at Cromis and his lackeys' mercy along the river Chionthar, and were brutally murdered for it.
Amalric instead against better judgment chose to display mercy to one as evil and disgusting as Tegeus Cromis, and was chivalrous in carrying in his arms the limp and unconscious form of Tegeus to the healing chamber of the temple, and beseeching The Watchers of Helm to heal the Hoarite back to health and vitality.
Amalric then left the temple that day, but the evil done to him and the Order of the Radiant Heart Auxiliary would not be forgiven or forgotten. It was only long after it was too late that Amalric would learn that he had been set up by the decadent Erza of Sune who held no respect for his austerity and asceticism and nobility of character and wanted him out of the way. Long hours did she spend not attending her duties but instead with another priestess of Sune. What occurred between them Amalric would never seek to find out, and the companion of Erza was a callous and snide woman who could not hide the sneer she wore on her face.
~Descendants of the Lord of Murder, The Year of the Crown, 1351 Dale Reckoning~
Rumours told of a dark shadow and spate of murders falling over the port village of Longhaven, just south of the Cloudpeaks. Numerous residents went missing and a pall of fear fell over the town, connected to rumours of a dark artifact in the hills above.
Even the arrival of Sir Mevil, a paladin of Torm from the Radiant Heart Auxiliary in Athkatla, and his squire Layla, did little to alleviate the darkness. Sir Mevil received dire premonitions of danger. Unwilling to abandon his investigation but realising matters might be too much for him and Layla alone, he sent his squire to find aid. Sir Mevil soon went missing.
The first to answer the call were the paladins of the Radiant Heart Auxiliary in Baldur's Gate, namely Grand Master Amalric and the squire Erza. What occurred when they arrived is unclear, but it appears there was a battle against a cult of Bhaalists which had taken over the headquarters of the Longhaven Militia, during which Sir Mevil was rescued. Together, the three knights went up into the hills. They returned some hours later, telling of the defeat of a foul priest of Bhaal whose followers were responsible for dark sacrifices and missing villagers.
The three knights left soon afterwards, bearing a wicked object to the High Hall of the Radiant Heart in Athkatla.
The Cult of Bhaal was later tracked by Amalric, and Knights of The Order of the Silver Rose to an old mission dedicated to Ilmater called 'St Petunia's Refuge'.
Within St Petunia's Refuge, Amalric and his band of fellows fought and overcame many evils, including the murderous servants and bloody priesthood of the Cult of Bhaal, the unholy undead and the evil denizens of the lower planes, hell hounds, horned devils, a black dragon, and a pit fiend.
They eventually slew the pit fiend in the highest tower of the great bastion of evil and suffered through the evil wards that protected the unholy artifact that the Cult of Bhaal, before the paladin did stomp on the Bhaalist relics with great fervor and destroy them.
~On the Virtuous Trail (Meta-Plot Act II Campaign), The Year of the Crown, 1351 Dale Reckoning~
In the Year of the Crown, Amalric was charged by Duke Eltan of Baldur's Gate to investigate Lady Katherine Vernosa, a noblewoman and fierce golden haired warrior maiden of Baldur's Gate, known for her worship of Chauntea, and the bountiful harvest on her lands each year.
After investigating the wayward noblewoman at her estate north of the city, she was revealed to be a traitor and seditionist to The Grand Duchy of Baldur's Gate.
During a fraught battle between her retainers, and a regiment of Flaming Fist Soldiers, she escaped on horseback into the north. The paladin took a horse from her stable, and furiously galloped after her, following her trail for two days, before the trail of the verdant noblewoman had gone cold. Amalric did swear to Helm that he would bring Lady Katherine Vernosa to face judgement.
Later on in the year, Amalric, and an elven ranger of Doron Amar known as Alsarias, found Lady Vernosa's trail once more leading into The Grey Peak Mountains, and between pitched battles with the fire giants who dwelled there, they were caught between an inter-tribal feud between two rival tribes. For their efforts they found the trail had once again grown stale.
Weeks later, it was discovered that Lady Vernosa had hatched a long-prepared plan to assassinate the Dukes of Baldur's Gate as they attended the anointing ceremony of a new Flaming Fist War Galleon.
The Vernosans would send a flaming ark filled with black powder explosives careening into the port of Baldur's Gate and explode in the ship yard, slaying the dukes, and all attending the ceremony.
Aboard The Whistling Wandress, and alongside it's crew for the first time, Amalric did pursue Lady Vernosa for the final time, and in the fraught battle fought out at sea, he and others managed to sink the exploding ark before it reached the shipyard.
During the sea collision with Lady Vernosa's own war galleon, the battle between the heroes aboard The Whistling Wandress, and the Vernosan Separatists ensued.
While the battle raged, and when most of his allies had been slain or incapacitated, Amalric finally struck down and slew Lady Katherine Vernosa, with the help of Vendor Xon, a half elven Ranger.
With the death of Lady Katherine Vernosa, it was the end for the separatists, and the back of their rebellion was broken.
~Stronghold, The Year of the Crown, 1351 Dale Reckoning~
Year of the Crown 1351 Dale Reckoning—On Mirtul 16, several great manuscripts of ivory coloured scrolled parchment were wrought and expedited to the Grand Dukes of Baldur's Gate. Four of them contain full accord and details and are sent to be received by the Grand Dukes of Baldur's Gate. Several others containing oaths of loyalty and proof of monetary grants are lobbied to the temples and nobles who sponsor the Order of the Radiant Heart Auxiliary; they are without petition to the Grand Dukes, but still contain all of the details and records of the required stone, iron, lumber and other materials needed for the task of re-construction and fortification of the Order of the Radiant Heart Auxiliary Chapterhouse.
The manuscripts of parchment are sacrosanct with the coat of arms of the Order of the Radiant Heart Auxiliary, and the red and white quartered shield heraldry, and device of a upright white boar over a red field.
The script, written in long flowing deed, is the prosaic dialogue of the Grand Master of the Order of the Radiant Heart Auxiliary, and at the bottom of the parchment it denotes that it was dictated by Amalric and scribed by his page; Artois Guillame.
In the name of the Auxiliaries solemn oath of fealty to the Grand Duchy of Baldur's Gate in the Year of our Gods, 1345 Dale Reckoning; the manuscript continues to swear to uphold the afforded number of ordained and pious paladins (no more than fifty) (fx. includes all of those of rank and status ordained as knights of the auxiliary and above), and no more than twice this number of those serving the chapterhouse and grounds as its levy (fx. No more than twenty two peasants employed by the order may be elevated to men at arms; and bear arms; and no more than one peasants of Balduran heritage may be elevated to the warden at arms.)
In the name of the Vigilant Lord and Holy Torm; the most venerated gods of the order and of honour and goodness, and by solemn oath of Amalric; paladin of Helm, and Grand Master of the Order of the Radiant Heart Auxiliary; the order will continue without desist to labour for the cause of honour and righteousness and the good of the Grand Duchy of Baldur's Gate, forevermore unless released from this bind by the sovereign and rightful rulers by lineage and or of the four Grand Dukes presiding as the solemn and rightful rulers of the Grand Duchy of Baldur's Gate; arbitrators of duchal justice, and sovereign protectors of the realm.
In the name of the Vigilant Lord and Holy Torm; the most venerated gods of the order and of honour and goodness, and by solemn oath of Amalric; noble paladin of Helm, and Grand Master of the Order of the Radiant Heart Auxiliary; the order will continue without desist and to the death, to protect the Duchy of Baldur's Gate from the vile menaces threatening without, and the unholy undead roaming south from the Fields of the Dead to the north of the Duchy of Baldur's Gate; to forever be scoured each morn
Below are the calculated drafts and estimates under study of castle and stronghold construction; and in confidence of employed and skilled craftsmen and artisans of metallurgy and stone masonry; given such wondrous gifts by the grace of their gods. The Order of the Radiant Heart Auxiliary will also accept skilled labourers lawfully licensed and directed by the Grand Duchy of Baldur's Gate; and the Grand Dukes themselves, who are not contracted or sworn temple artisans, for this task. (Zoryl Miyar; descendant of Sir Uther Miyar; paladin of Torm and former Lord of Castle Miyar, south of Baldur's Gate is mentioned and recommended to this endeavour.)
~Victory at the Trollclaw, (Meta-Plot Act III Campaign), The Year of the Crown, 1351 Dale Reckoning~
-Aftermath for the Radiant Heart Auxiliary-
The entire host of the Order of the Radiant Heart Auxiliary, once mustered at the Trollclaw Fords for the battle against the legion of unholy undead, returns to the stone chapter house in the Baldur's Gate Farmlands-- with three devout and noble paladins of the order having been slain in battle.
Last rites are held for Sir Belington the Benevolent, Sir Morglud the Mighty, and Sir Borvain the Bold under solemn ceremony, before they are interred into the sacrosanct crypt beneath the Radiant Heart Auxiliary Chapter House.
Within the keep and upon its ramparts, a night of feasting and ale, in funeral and remembrance of their noble deeds, is held as is tradition by the men at arms, and others of the peasant levy who serve the order. Sir Amalric stood on the battlements and looked on grimly in the shadow of the terrible siege to come. . .
-The Subsequent Years and the Corruption of Baldur’s Gate 1352 – 1354 Dale Reckoning-
~The Stronghold Chronicle, The Year of the Dragon, 1352 Dale Reckoning~
The reconstruction of the stronghold took two years to complete after the siege of Baldur’s Gate, and in that time Sir Amalric and his knights embarked on a holy quest to avenge the honour of Sir Horatio the Trueblade and uncovered a great maw in the earth beneath the ruins of Castle Uther that lead down into the Underworld.
Horatio, Amalric and his knights did battle with hordes of monsters and wiped out a large band of Dark Elf slavers. Horatio was slain in the final battle and his body was returned to the Temple of Torm to be held in sacrament.
Next, they had to travel back and forth clearing the caravan route for transporting stone through the Fields of the Dead to the dwarf kingdom in the north. Many perilous journeys back and forth were undertaken as they cut a swathe through monstrous hordes and the unholy undead, including a dracolich and several death knights leading an army of skeletons warriors, to finally amass the stone and other building materials required for the reconstruction.
Finally, an army of gnolls and flinds raided the eastern farmlands and captured the construction workers before Sir Amalric and his knights tracked them down to the east along the Chionthar River and slew them all in a fraught battle and rescued the dwarf craftsmen and other workers who had been leased out of contract from their kingdom in the north.
~The Corruption of Baldur’s Gate, The Year of the Arch, 1353 Dale Reckoning~
In the Year of the Arch, Sir Amalric apprehended Selengil Harkonis as he was wandering into Duchal soil from the south and marched him like he had done so many others, into the custody of the Flaming Fist Mercenary Brigade. Selengil’s crimes were far beyond deserving death. Allegiance and indoctrination to Bane the Black Hand, commanding contingents of brigands and mercenaries to pillage and murder and enslave for the cause of Darkhold, and murder within the holy shrine of Ilmater.
But instead of the death he so rightfully deserved he paid off the corrupt faculties of Baldur’s Gate with gold gleaned from murdering and pillaging in the name of Bane and for the cause of the Zhentarim, and yet another servant of evil was again set free.
The decadence of the Grand Duchy had finally rotted over into utter moral decay and the Grand Dukes held a ceremony to appease the northern aggression of Darkhold and the servitors of Bane spreading out of the Sunset Hills and into Corm Orp.
Many dignitaries and adventurers attended and watched in silence as the brigands Xavier Aylomen, Maximillian Blackthorne, Wren Di'Corvi, and Selengil Harkonis held court with the rulers of Baldur’s Gate, and only Sir Amalric could truly be counted among the righteous for only he challenged all four of them to trial by combat to stop the unholy procession.
The crowds amassed either remained silent and quivered in their cowardice or showed their decadence and ignoble disdain for the truly righteous paladin, and the Grand Dukes waived their own laws in an act of utter hypocrisy and dismissed the challenge.
Meetings were held between concerning factions in the aftermath, but no battle plans were ever drawn up and most were content to allow the land to sink into utter decadence and play political games and barter deals for scraps of dignity and the preservation of their own holdings and business investments. Sir Amalric then planned to muster his knights and join the efforts of High Rider Lord Dhelt in blockading further Zhentarim expansion from the north at the ruins of Triel.
After the first sacking of Soubar and the Black Abbey of Bane, it had become a place of brigandry once more and had grown into a buffer force for Darkhold, and Sir Amalric would join with Lord Dhelt and the Hellriders. It was his plan to finally wipe that terrible place from the face of the world.
Notes: The following five entries detail events from which I as a player after being cheated and abused out of everything I created on BGTSCC by the disgusting staff and their favourites, am no longer associated with the Radiant Heart Auxiliary, and the other various players, dms, hdms, and organizations who orchestrated what happened, and I will have no association with any of them, and as I have outlined as my goal seek to create a new group of players with which to role play with and found a new order of paladins.
~The Sanctity of the Stronghold, The Year of the Arch, 1353 Dale Reckoning~
In the dark days of waiting for word from High Rider Lord Dhelt, Sir Amalric had secluded himself with the chapel of his stronghold, and growing increasingly irate, he entrusted the sanctity of the stronghold and its laws forbidding the admittance of servants of evil within its walls, to his senior council of knights.
Further seclusion he sought within the cloister of the Temple of the Shield in Baldur’s Gate, and upon returning to his stronghold he did find his command and the laws of the stronghold had been violated by derelicts and mutiny. The charlatan paladin of Tyr Katrina had returned to the Grand Duchy a week prior and Amalric had granted her admittance once more within the Order, only to find she flouted all instruction and refused to comply with the chain of command.
Again, for Amalric, the lenience and the mercy he showed to those who only ever showed him insubordination was in error. Long did he remember her callous treatment of Ferragus, Slayer of Drakkar, alongside Aiden Vega, a merchant who wore garishly styled plate armour.
Between Katrina and the deceitful Erza Aldren, the laws had been broken and they had god-moded getting Amenthes Serb inside the stronghold in front of all of the npcs. Erza had long fled the grounds and Amalric returned to find Katrina, the corrupt lecher Ameris Santraeger, and another cleric of Ilmater brokering a corrupt bargain with Amenthes Serb of the Thayan Enclave. Their plan was to have Kahanak Habdilof killed within the Thayans own circle in return for concessions for themselves and the promise that the next Khazark would not be as much of a ritual murderer and slaver as the current one was, instead of working to remove the Thayan Enclave entirely from Baldur's Gate and return the tower to its rightful owners, the Weave Masters magic guild.
Outraged that this murderer and anointed servant of evil had been brought against his orders inside the stronghold and infuriated at the corrupt bargain being struck before his very eyes by those others who called themselves servants of good, Sir Amalric stripped Katrina of her station within the Order and had her, alongside Ameris, and the second female cleric of Ilmater, removed from the stronghold. As he did this still Katrina construed that she did not have to follow orders from the Grand Master of the very order she had sworn to serve, and a knight of the order under the command of Amalric battered her over the head with the hilt of his sword and threw her out of the stronghold.
Sir Amalric threw Amenthes Serb into a cell before demanding to know everything about what he and his co-conspirators had planned. A deft blow to the stomach of the Thayan revealed the extent of the corruption taking place. That in exchange for concessions to be made to the Thayan Enclave, key members of various factions of Baldur’s Gate would not be targeted and attacked as Kahanak Habdilof had done to so many. Sir Amalric had known well of the kidnappings and murders and for a week earlier he had investigated the disappearance and murder of the then [lawful good] spirit shaman Bran.
With this admission, Sir Amalric ordered the Thayan intruder who had meta-gamed gaining access to the stronghold, to be beheaded for his many mortal sins, and dragged him outside into the courtyard with a procession of his twenty-two men at arms and the warden at arms.
As Amalric stood with two of his knights and the procession of his men at arms and prepared to deal the killing blow on Amenthes Serb, many belligerents had gathered outside the walls of the stronghold and began assaulting the stronghold.
Again, Amalric’s command of his own faction was metagamed out of his control and instead of the entire muster of the Order coming forth to slay the four intruders, he was forced to do battle himself with the help of nothing but several low level npcs.
Amalric placed Amenthes behind his lines and organized his defense alongside his men at arms. Ameris and Katrina and the cleric of Ilmater were there clamoring on about how the order they were not members of was not his to command and he was not instituting justice. Ameris had left the order years earlier out of personal disgrace and surrounding suspicious circumstances about his activities, a cleric of Ilmater, he was never suited to the role of a paladin and knight, and never became one. He also never held a position of command. His lackeys were never members of the order. Katrina had just been excommunicated for her last disgrace as a fraud of a knight and paladin who befriended immoral merchants and treated other members of the order in a disgusting fashion.
A craven northern mercenary named Derik Ranloss had watched on and sensed an opportunity to do evil and improve his own standing with the corrupt factions of Baldur's Gate, and joined with them, and in the ensuing battle half of Amalric’s men at arms were cut down and killed.
Sir Amalric struck down Katrina and her assistant cleric of Ilmater, and stuck down Ameris also, as they had enhanced themselves with divine powers. In what can only be construed as arrogance, or perhaps he could not invoke the divine power he wished clad in armour, although unlikely, Ameris had shed his armour down to his frock and cap, as he cried out to Ilmater to smite Amalric with divine power, only to be rejected by the righteousness of Sir Amalric and his 94/100 lawful good alignment. The disgusting corrupt Ameris and his lackeys should have died for their crimes that day, but again against Amalric's better judgement he spared their lives.
After many rounds of battle, and being spent after striking down three belligerents, Amalric went many rounds with the god moding opportunist Derik Ranloss. Many times, both teetered near death, before finally Amalric’s weapon was knocked from his grasp and he was struck down to incapacitated. Two knights of the order rushed to his side and revived him. He was asked whether to pursue the enemy as they limped off with Amenthes Serb, but instead he let them go, for he was still unaware of the insidious ooc undercurrent happening on BGTSCC in which the staff and their friends would steal and possess all assets from everyone who did not fit into their cliché of scumbags.
~Robbed of All, The Year of the Arch, 1353 Dale Reckoning~
Over the following months I was forced to fight the staff as they desired to rob me of the faction I started in 2009 and almost certainly did most of the work for all of those years. Out of despair I tried to end it with its dignity remaining in the face of the oppression and subjugation I had constantly faced year in and year out for nearly ten years, and was still facing then. Against my own wishes and what I had gone through in years past I was forced by the corrupt DMs to admit back into the order nasty sociopaths such as the likes of Thedran the Bard and Kald Blake who I had removed years ago for their crimes, and the malicious fights and arguments with them, and others who had abused me in the 2010 era, and who were part of the old mid/late 2009-2010 cliché, who came after the original 2008 group to which I started with.
Referencing the lore of the setting and how my character did not act in error and in fact the others are all very deserving of being defrocked and stripped of their stations was in vain in the face of the agenda to turn Baldur’s Gate into a corrupt and decadent Game of Thrones type King’s Landing setting. It was set up so that I was relegated as nothing but a place holder and the whole thing had been waiting on the 2009/2010 cliché to return and have everything given to them instead, as they rejoined the staff.
The very lore of the faction was ignored, and the snide proxy Alexander Marshal was brought in from outside the server to replace Amalric, only to disappear himself and be replaced with Anthem, who in turn gave it to the insipid Eldarian, who had long been hovering and waiting in the wings, despite never having any station within the order before being given it by the two faced Anthem. Denied a noble title in the face of so many others less deserving after all these years, the last noble act Amalric performed on behalf of the order was to kill the corrupt despicable Michael Dunn and uncover him working with drow slavers, and summoning a Balor into the material world, operating between the Grand Duchy of Baldur’s Gate and Soubar.
In the aftermath the Radiant Heart Auxiliary has fallen beneath that of a paladin order and operates as a mercenary organization charging gold for services rendered and admittance, and accepting less than true paladins, and many times not paladins at all, into its ranks and command structure. Led by decadents like Gaven Arkalis and his boasts of ties to the thieves guild that Amalric worked for years to destroy, and the deceitful and insipid Eldarian. With others brought in like the favoured fraud Aaron Lyonaler who was never a paladin and never had any association with the faction, instead people like him became DMs and HDMs and gave themselves the titles and positions that they wanted. They now squat within the stronghold that Sir Amalric of Germont paid one million gold coins to have constructed, and then fought and defended its construction, and it was I who created all of the npcs and descriptions and dialogues.
With their ties and partnerships to the re branded Zhentarim who call themselves the Northern Watch and other mercenary organizations and the scummy likes of the Darius Holding Crew, all that was worked for over the years to achieve has been undermined and undone, and their disgusting take over complete. All of the key factions and important positions on BGTSCC are now held by staff members who play characters, and they each have several characters running each faction and holding all of it in collusion together.
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-The Year 1354 Dale Reckoning Onwards-
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~Intermittent Summary, The Year of the Bow, 1354 Dale Reckoning~
Sir Amalric of Germont founded the Order of the Radiant Heart Auxiliary within the Grand Duchy of Baldur’s Gate in the year 1345 Dale Reckoning, and first led the order as the Battle Lord of its knights, and then again as one of three high officers known as Prelates, and then again years later as the Grand Master of the Order under the canonization of its official structure while being abused by scumbags on this server many times. In his time, he fought in every conflict and never shirked a challenge from his enemies. Many times outnumbered he was more often than not the victor.
He was industrious in building up the order time and again, and pious and wholly devoted to the cause. He engaged in no worldly desires or pleasures as so many others did, and never attended the lavish parties of the Duchal Palace and court. He held truly to his holy vows and disdained any who were not of high moral caliber. He devoted his entire life and being to defeating the forces of evil.
~The Knights of the Righteous Order Founding, The Year of the Bow, 1354 Dale Reckoning~
In the year 1354 Dale Reckoning the Grand Duchy of Baldur’s Gate has fallen to corruption and is ridden with servants of evil re branding themselves as good. It is looked upon with shame by the other realms of the Lord’s Alliance. The cause of saving the Sword Coast from evil becomes hopeless. The last and true Grand Master of the now decadent Radiant Heart Auxiliary is found by The Righteous Order and bequeathed a new order of paladins to put the ignoble brigand, the mercenary, and all other villain upon the Sword Coast to the righteous judgment of their swords. . .
-Final Straw with the Corrupt Factions, The Year of the Bow, 1354 Dale Reckoning-
After meeting with a half dozen knights and forming the Righteous Order upon the Sword Coast in the Temple of Helm in Nashkel, Amalric traveled north to Beregost for a time and had a chance interaction with a half elf archer named Angus. They spoke in polite conversation with each other before the Thunder Hammer Smithy before parting ways. Amalric did not sense anything amiss about this individual at that time.
Several days later Amalric had traveled west and set upon a horde of gibberlings endangering the area, and it was here that he encountered Angus the archer again, but this time with a companion, a mercenary named Rensari Burkada garishly wearing the symbol of Hoar engraved upon an expensive breastplate. Outraged that this man was a worshipper of the occultist god Hoar, who had targeted him for assassination, and murdered his squires in years past, Amalric demanded to the warrior that he renounce such an evil faith.
The warrior smug with himself as he was, instead lunged forward and attacked Amalric with his spear. As battle-hardened as Amalric was, this was to cost the smug mercenary dearly, and he would pay with his life. Amalric slew the mercenary in a short battle, however Angus took the side of the mercenary and shot at Amalric from afar with his bow, sinking several arrows into his armour. He surrendered however with the felling of the mercenary.
Angus asked Amalric for terms and accepted renouncing association with evil organizations, especially those that serve the cults of Hoar. It was in error that Amalric would accept the word of Angus, however for he learned later that the half elf had taken the body of the mercenary to the Temple of Helm in Nashkel to be resurrected, and that both had been accepted into the ranks of the Watchknights of Helm, a mercenary organization associated with the various temples of Helm in the Sword Coast region.
This was the final straw for Amalric with the years of corruption within the Temple of Helm, and in disgust he renounced the temple, but by chance or perhaps divine ordinance, he was witnessed by a noble knight of the Silver Chalice, a religious knightly order of paladins who served Siamorphe the Divine Rule. Given his background as a displaced noble of a corrupted realm in Tethyr, Amalric was inducted into the faith of Siamorphe as a paladin and holy knight, and the ceremony took place within a holy chapel devoted to Siamorphe in northern Tethyr.
After defeating the low mercenary Rensari Burkada and killing him in battle, a bizarre scheme was hatched by the low mercenaries of the Watchknights of Helm in which they fraudulently claimed Sir Amalric also served their organization and tried to arrange for him to be accosted by the corrupt Wai Lee, their low mercenary general. Amalric remembered well her cowardice when he accompanied her and several others passing through the disgusting den of Soubar. Amalric was the only one to stand up against the Zhentarim mercenaries who had built a stronghold in the ramshackle village, while Wai Lee and several of her own low mercenaries cowered in fear. While doing battle with the Yuan-Ti in the north Amalric was engaged by several of their low band of criminals, and the low Luskan filth of the Darius Holding Crew, and the scumbag Thedran Rock, who all promptly retreated from engaging in battle with Amalric and the Dwarven Berserker who sided with him against them. Amalric rebuked the procession of scum who sought to accost him and told them he would never lower himself to ever serving their kind. As a knight and paladin of Helm, he far outranked all of them within the Temple of Helm as a proper member, and not a low hired mercenary paid for from the corrupt coffers of the clergy.
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The Battles of Sir Amalric of Germont, noble paladin of Siamorphe the Divine Rule, and chivalric knight
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-The Year of the Prince, 1357 Dale Reckoning-
The negative energy sickness from the curse of the Plague Artifact of Bhaal has never left Amalric, and has gotten drastically worse in the last several years. He has gained an even more solemn sense of religiousness, and his demeanor while always it had been quiet, is now that much more so. His visage has been half rotted and he wears a golden mask and shroud made from melting down another artifact within his possession that once meant a lot to him. This was bestowed upon him in ceremony by servants of the Knights of the Silver Chalice. Nevertheless Amalric is still fighting on and seeks to right the numerous transgressions against him , and drive out the corrupt factions within Baldur's Gate, before the curse enfeebles him or takes his life.
