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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Broccli_Head" data-source="post: 726607" data-attributes="member: 105">Recalling the events of Fall of Irieabor: 9-10 Tarsakh, Year of Rogue Dragons (1373)from The History of the Heroes of the Vilhon Reach by Khi'rin al-D'hib,  1376 DR Stormwolf Press, Alaghon, Turmish...Exactly what led to the Fall of Irieabor is muddled in controversy. Are the Heroes of the Vilhon Reach to blame? For the last two years, their names have been villified by the oppressed residents of the City of Many Spires. In fact, rumor has persisted that it was they who were in league with the Zhentarim and the Shades, allowing their rise to power in Irieabor. On a recent visit, I myself overheard the Heroes implicated for the assassination of Lord Bron.  Clearly, all this spin-control by Shreevoth of Shade and "lord" Aronar Thaeglos, leader of the Zhentarim,  is false.  Undoubtedly, these two live in fear for their very lives, always looking over their shoulder for the day when the Heroes decide to avenge the people of this fair city. Read on, good madams and sirs. In this chapter, the truth of the events of those days is revealed.......It was Benito Moltos,  who first brought word of the Zhentarim force en route to sack the city. Opportunistic as always, the Black Network had received word of fighting in the city. Benito and Ivan Vorshev of Rasheman, Lionar of the valiant 32nd Cormyrean Expeditionary Force, returned to Irieabor as quickly as magic could allow after securing the Starym Moonblade (q.v.) in the vault of the Temple of Justice in Alaghon (editor's note: Evil beings seeking this sword need no longer inquire at the Temple. IT IS NO LONGER THERE!).  Lionar Ivan Vorshev recalled the jaunt: "They [the priests of Tyr] sent us back to Irieabor with the Blood Portal. We arrived under the city and met with the Shades. They gave us a magical device showing the Zhent advance."Ironically, it was the Shades, as you well know, who betrayed the good folk of Irieabor and bargained with the Zhentarim to divide the city and later with them, tighten their collective grips on trade and personal freedom.  It was also ironic that the Zhentarim force was led by the infamous dark ranger, Aronar Thaeglos. Strange how destiny guides our paths. This same man, as is now publically known, is the father of Benito Moltos. What is not as commonly known, is that Thaeglos was the Malar-worshipping traitor who sold Aris Cloud-dancer into slavery.  Unfortunately, neither Aris nor Benito were able to confront him, but be sure that a reckoning will come........By the time Benito and Ivan returned to Irieabor, the city was a battle-torn mess, but pickets had stabilized in front of the High Tower, where the majority of the Black Talons and the remaining elements of Eldereth Veluthra had crawled. The one green dragon had summoned two of its verdant brethren, and thus three dragons patrolled the skies of the city, terrorizing the citizens, and occasionally skirmishing with brave priests of Selune in the air above Irieabor.  Sorties to relieve the High Tower met with fierce resistance from the Talons and inevitably one or more of the dragons would swoop down and devastate the already diminished Shields. Demoralized by the loss of Lord Bron, the belaguered defenders of the city found themselves in a losing battle of attrition. It was best to wait in the burned out buildings of the city than face certain death in the open. It did not help that knowledge of Bron's spirit's unwillingness to return spread like wildfire from the temple to Eldath where Souliess, the Heroes' psion, had left it; rescuing it from the clutches of the elven, lich leader of Eldereth Veluthra (whose name still evades my scrying...).  Now instead of the whitewashed High Towers gleaming from the great tor that overlooked Irieabor, a scintillating sphere pulsed, blinding those who tried to look directly into it. It was from here that the lich watched our every move and cast a heavy shadow upon the city.... to be continued....</blockquote>

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