Kalanyr has done what the Red Wizards of Thay could never do: he has united the Red Wizards of Thay.
Thay would normally have a PL of 7: now, Thay has a PL of 15.
The United Tharchions of Thay, in utter outrage, offer to sponsor anyone - ANYONE - who will rebuke the Chosen of Mystra (Kalanyr's Sponsor) for their flippantly insane attitude towards spreading forbidden knowledge far and wide. Before this spreading ends up causing a magical holocaust because it falls into the wrong hands (heh - talk about the pot calling the kettle black!)
More importantly, the Shade (PL 14) are offering to sponsor anyone who will rebuke Festy Dog or Kalanyr.
Festy Dog is spreading historical information about Netheril, and the Shade want someone who can effectively put his own spin on those histories.
Also, the Shade are infuriated that their special knowledge of Epic Magic (2nd Edition: 10th level spells) has been revealed. (The Shade will sponsor just about anyone who is disposed to be an enemy of the Chosen of Mystra, or Candlekeep and the Harpers.)
There is a magical renaissance in progress across most of Faerun.
Mages that had, say, 4 or 5 spells in their spellbooks at the start of their careers, now have 20 to 30.
Instead of begging, stealing, adventuring for, or paying astronomical sums for, rare and very rare spells, mages are buying them off the street at bargain prices.
Archmages are getting their hands on spells that ... well, to put it politely, there are Some Things Man Was Not Meant To Know. Deep secrets of Necromancy, Outsider Knowledge, Penumbral Knowledge, Time Travel ...
Monsters are appearing in the Forgotten Realms that have never been seen before. In some cases, terrified witnesses return babbling insanely about these monsters, but in most cases nobody relates the news ... the wreckage of villages and towns and the splintered bones of the dead give mute testimony to what came among them.
The number of undead is increasing rapidly. Necromancers are conjuring armies of undead with the suddenly common necromancy spells.
There is a rumor that Eternal Youth is available, for the right price. Mages everywhere are looking for it.
Everywhere, mage towers are sprouting, the power of mages are growing, and the number of mages are growing.
Mage schools are obtaining greater political power, kings and lords find themselves confronted by this increasing power, and where mages rule from behind the throne, their power is much greater.
On Lantan, the gnomes - taking advantage of this explosion of magical knowledge - are attempting to use Greater Permanency (see Kalanyr's article) and magic to create all manner of new devices.
They are trying to create something akin to a Mythallar, which would allow them to use Greater Permanency at no sacrifice to themselves. Then they could mass produce, say, + 3 Flintlocks.
There is an unconfirmed rumor that Larloch is enraged by what is happening, and intends to do something about it.
Where this rumor came from, nobody knows - nobody has exactly gone and asked Larloch for his opinion!
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