PastorGall @PastorGall@TheEdVerse
i dont think rudolph van richten is one of your creations? But is there a un/known order of specifically undead slayers in tje realms. Reasonable within the churches maybe, but any independant organizations? Or slayers of note?— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 6, 2020
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No, Van Richten isn’t one of mine. :}
I don’t know of any unknown order of undead slayers in the Realms, just orders part of established faiths who fight against undead (or support them, like the Myrkulytes). Aside from a few… 2)
…adventuring bands dedicated to cleansing specific areas of undead, I don’t know of any independent organizations, circa 1479 DR. However, there ARE some independent slayers of note, including Grim Gartheldra of Saerloon, who…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 6, 2020
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…travels the Realms destroying undead who have become a nuisance to locals (she lets ‘sleeping undead lie,’ and is a scarred, hardened woman in battered plate armor who goes into battle festooned with magic items and… 4)
…weapons against undead given to her by grateful beneficiaries and priests who value her work); the lich-mage Vorhardruil of the Wealdath, who hates ‘nuisance’ undead whose activities cause widespread fear and hatred of…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 6, 2020
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…undead in the general populace, and acts to destroy such undead; and the vampire Tesheldra Marimmon of Luthcheq, who slaughters lesser undead of all sorts to drink their ‘undeath’ into a strange magic item she bears (a gem… 6)
…she wears embedded in her always-bleeding breast), that somehow increases her own power. Azuth and Mystra have become alarmed enough by her successes that they’ve told the Chosen of Mystra to begin to keep an eye on her.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 6, 2020