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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Luthien Greyspear" data-source="post: 2422818" data-attributes="member: 34334">Ghazneth 101THe ghazneths are some of the principle bad guys in the Cormyr novel series (Cormyr, Beyond The High Road, and Death of the Dragon).  While you don't get to see them in their full-on evil demonic forms in the first of these books, you do get to see their origins.  Basically, all of them are traitors to the crown of Cormyr, specifically to the Obarskyr family.  The first of them was Suzara Obarskyr, the wife of the first King of Cormyr, who left her husband because she hated the country they had settled in.  The rest of them followed along similar lines: one was a War Wizard who decided to overthrow the king and establish a magocracy, one was a scheming noblewoman who tried to plunge the country into needless war, one was a royal father-in-law who sold Suzail to a pirate king, etc.At the time of the second book, the ghazneth have been transformed by a mysterious force into six deadly plagues upon Cormyr, as was foretold in an ancient prophecy (ain't that always the way?).  They basically started the wars in Cormyr, and are directly responsible for making Cormyr the embattled country it is now.  Their leader (revealed in the third book) was an insane elf from ancient Cormanthyr that wanted to kill all the humans that had taken away her beloved woodlands and had killed her husband.  She permanently transformed herself (with what must have been epic-level magic) into the biggest mama-jama red dragon anywhere, but was imprisoned along with a whole goblin army behind a magical ward in sub-dimension.  The books followed the release of the ghazneths, which led to the release of the Devil Dragon, which led to many revelations, which led to a showdown between Azoun IV and the Devil Dragon, where both of them died.A lot of this is also found in the FRCS, page 114.  The last four paragraphs before the "Plots and Rumors" section on Cormyr tell the story.</blockquote>

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