Brigands and Lawless of the Sword Coast (Player/DM IC RP)

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Brigands and Lawless of the Sword Coast (Player/DM IC RP)

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Rumor spreads that the church of Tiamat has emerged from being a mere cult in the west since the Amn-Gate War period and Tiamat's resurrection thereabout in the Hall of Wonders incident in Baldur's Gate to being fully integrating with the church of the Nemesis of the Gods in the east. It is said that some ill-reputes recruited from the typical mercenary and adventurer market of Soubar helped to secure a portal opening to the east via Lyran's Hold in the Forest of Wyrms in the past ten day. It is also said that the portal then brought in a multitude of Church of Tiamat reinforcements from the east. It is also rumored that on a reported tip by enemies of Tiamat to the Lords' Alliance that the Hellriders of Elturel expeditiously rode into the Forest of Wyrms and raided Lyran's Hold to thwart the Tiamat devout, but found nothing but a closed portal and signs of many hastily moving humanoid and draconic footprints. The Hellriders are said to have then promptly destroyed the portal as those who would go to Lyran's Hold now will see the former portal there is broken and likely beyond repair. If the tip to the Hellriders had not gone through, however, it is likely that many more servants of the Nemesis from the east would have stepped through to reinforce the newly formed Church of Tiamat in the west.

In the meantime, it is also said that the Church has seemingly recruited its first new local devout servants in the west, some even willingly and without compulsion, though by what means they choose to serve the Nemesis of the Gods remains to be seen. It is also said that the Church recruits in a more secular fashion mercenaries and adventurers to aid with its security, diplomacy, devout numbers growth, general interests, and accumulation of magical items and items of draconic interest.

Not all news has been good for the new western church branch of Tiamat, however. It is also rumored that the Flaming Fist discovered the location of another portal to the east to be used by the church on an unnamed island in the Sea of Swords and requested an adventurer band via Captain Deudermont's Sea Sprite to aid Flaming Fist and Lords' Alliance naval forces in destroying and thwarting the attempt and the portal. In this case, the forces against Tiamat were victorious and the portal and all who entered from it were seemingly destroyed and smote upon the battlefield of the island. It is also said that perhaps these portal measures of the Church are out of desperation and failure rather than success, as they only seemed to come into fruition after those of Tiamat failed to obtain enough shards related to Tiamat for whatever ends they had aimed for in doing so.
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