I'm rereading the section on the Cerberus Assembly in Explorer's Guide to Wildemount, and holy shit I forgot that Lady Vess de Rogna replaced Lady Briarwood. There's so much good lore in here. #CriticalRole #CriticalRoleSpoilers

— Hannah Rose ✊🏽✊🏻✊🏿 (@wildrosemage) September 18, 2020

She WAS a minor noble, but upon making her deal with the Whispered One, her knowledge and spellcraft advanced enough to carve a place of power within the Assembly… until her illegal, necromantic delving were discovered.

— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) September 18, 2020

Not the School of Necromancy, but certain, specific rites of Necromantic Magic’s that are deemed against order/law. The use of forbidden magic to create a vampire lord (Sylas) was deemed by the Assembly and King a high crime.

— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) September 18, 2020

Yay, fellow DM, you responded! 😁

I certainly am not surprised it was actually Delilah who cast the spell to return Sylas as a vampire lord, Vecna merely imparting knowledge.

The gray area is the part I’m uncertain of. Especially in a tyranny, law often applies unjustly. If all law were “unjust”, society would be harder to control. It’s not about those in power creating only villainous laws… many function and serve common sense/protect those in power/avoid fearful competitive powers, etc. Then, sneak in a number of unjust ones along the mix.

— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) September 18, 2020