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Lady Saharel of Spellgard: G S S M L M

1) Ioulaum, a popular archwizard of Netheril, disappeared in 339 DR, causing panic among the people. This led to the casting of Karsus's Avatar spell that destroyed the Empire of Magic. 2) After Netheril's fall, Ioulaum continued taking apprentices, including illithids from the nearby mind flayer city of Ellyn'taal. He merged his consciousness with an elder brain created from his illithid students, becoming an undead elder brain lich. 3) Tabra, Ioulaum's last human apprentice, witnessed this transformation and thought Ioulaum destroyed. She went on to slaughter remaining mind flayers

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Lady Saharel of Spellgard: G S S M L M

1) Ioulaum, a popular archwizard of Netheril, disappeared in 339 DR, causing panic among the people. This led to the casting of Karsus's Avatar spell that destroyed the Empire of Magic. 2) After Netheril's fall, Ioulaum continued taking apprentices, including illithids from the nearby mind flayer city of Ellyn'taal. He merged his consciousness with an elder brain created from his illithid students, becoming an undead elder brain lich. 3) Tabra, Ioulaum's last human apprentice, witnessed this transformation and thought Ioulaum destroyed. She went on to slaughter remaining mind flayers

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FALLEN NETHERIL

unlife in the process. Manshoon returned almost immediately In Ð339 DR, Ioulaum disappeared from Netheril. Because the
by means of his stasis clone spell and, because her task was not archwizard had been an immensely popular Þgure and something
done, Lady Saharel returned as a ghost (CG female human ghost of a folk hero, the news of his disappearance touched off a panic
wizard 20/archmage 5/Netherese arcanistPG 5). She cannot be among the populace. The High Mages of Netheril grew fearful of
laid to rest permanently until Manshoon of the Zhentarim and a popular revolt, and Karsus was moved to cast KarsusÕs avatar,
all his clones and incarnations are well and truly dead. the spell that Þnally doomed the Empire of Magic.
Since the Time of Troubles, Lady Saharel has manifested After the fall, Ioulaum quietly continued to choose apprentices
to anyone who restores a piece of her castle to its former state. from among the most promising Netherese refugees. Curiously,
In such an encounter, she willingly he also accepted apprentices from the nearby mind ßayer city
answers three questions about of EllynÕtaal, and his illithid students,
Low Netheril before van- who called themselves the Alhoon,
ishing anew. But the are believed to have been the Þrst
lady cannot be pushed; illithiliches. IoulaumÕs inten-
she turns on anyone who tions became clear when
joins her on the Ethereal he created an undead elder
Plane with a savagery brain from the minds
laced with madness, of his illithid students
then uses her spells to and then merged
depart quickly. his own sentience
into it. Most of
MORASHA OF his illithilich ap-
prentices were
THE LONELY
destroyed in this
MOOR arcane ritual, but
Illustration by Jason Engle

In the heart of the a few escaped and


Lonely Moor stands spread the secret of
a ruined castle of black illithilich creation to
basalt that belongs to the mind ßayer commu-
lich known as Aumvor the nities throughout the
Undying. Within it dwells Realms Below.
his great-grandniece Mora- IoulaumÕs last human
sha (LE female Netherese apprentice, Tabra (NG
human necromancer 5/cleric female human wizard 18/
5 of Jergal/mystic theurge 8). archmage 5), witnessed the rite
Morasha was a low-ranking and thought her master had
arcanist during the Shadowed been destroyed in a battle with
Age of Low Netheril, and his own students. In revenge,
though she is quite mad, she Lady Saharel of Spellgard she slaughtered the last few
does remember a great deal about of EllynÕtaalÕs mind ßayers by
that period. She does not part with casting IoulaumÕs longevity on herself in the midst of the
information easily, but she can often community. She then destroyed all records of the spell (except
be persuaded to answer questions in exchange for dark secrets her own and those that Ioulaum himself had secretly hidden
of necromancy that she does not yet know. She is already quite away) and ßed to the surface.
conversant in the dark arts and is willing to sink to any depth of Thanks to many subsequent castings of that epic spell, Tabra
depravity, so information of interest to her is likely to be both still lives today. Until recently, she operated a rooming house
unutterably vile and extremely obscure. and festhall called Bargewright Inn and often worked with the
Harpers. Most of the locals suspected that she was a gold dragon
ORACLE OF ELLYNÕTAAL in disguise, thanks to her apparent longevity and infrequent cast-
The legendary inventor of the mythallar was one of the few ing of shapechange to assume the form of a dragon. Recently,
sorcerer-kings who neither perished in the fall of Netheril nor however, she was captured by the Shadovar and brought back
ßed to Halruaa. Thanks to his crafting of the lost epic spell to the City of Shade. Her present circumstances are unknown,
IoulaumÕs longevity (see page 43), Ioulaum of Seventon lived but if she yields to the persuasions of the Shadovar, the princes
for centuries, throughout most of the Netherese era. When the of Shade may gain some important clues about IoulaumÕs last
phaerimms arrived, however, he soon realized that their lifedrain known location and circumstances.
spells were causing his life-sustaining magic to fail. Foreseeing Ioulaum survives today in the form of an undead elder
the doom of Netheril, he embraced lichdom and established a brainUnd (LN elder brain lich wizard 31/archmage 5/Netherese
lair in the depths of the Northdark. arcanistPG 5). Now known as the Oracle of EllynÕtaal, he lairs

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