Confluence

The Confluence were a loose secret association of half- steel dragons based in Waterdeep with the purpose of eliminate all shapechangers that tried to enter in the City of Splendor; it's primary enemy in 1374 DR was the Unseen.

Relationships
Their allies were the noble families of the Bladesemmer, the Tesper and the House Thongolir, how raised the half-steel offspring, the Harpers and the derivate Moonstars, plus the Church of Selûne. Other enemies were the church of Malar and the People of the Black Blood.

Membership
Members had to be sponsored by a patron, usually one or both of their parents and were often called upon to perform services for these patrons. They also hired adventurers to perform various missions for the group, though they never revealed their own identities.

Members traveled the city in disguise, whether magical or conventional, to hide their nature from passers-by.

History
the birth of the Confluence originated by a pair of steel dragons, Auntyrlothtor and Quituryte. They during the Harpstar Wars of 1182 DR-1222 DR fought in Waterdeep against the malaugrym together with a group of noble women; in time the two brothers produced half-breed offspring that were raised in secretly by the noble families of the original dames, on contrary of the customary of the Waterdhavian noble to not allow half-dragons in their families. In 1254 DR, the half-steel nobles had reached maturity and the malaugrym subtly attack again Waterdeep; thank to the experience of the veterans of Harpstar Wars the menace was stopped but they understood that they need remain vigil to stop future resurgence. so they founded the Confluence to control and eliminate all shapechangers entered in the city. in the decades successive they ruin more than a dozen of malaugrym plot. The climax was in 1291 DR when the Confluence expose the secret sorcerers guild of the Eyes of the Golden Hawk as sons of Malaug, stopping an insidious ten-years-long plot to supplant the Lords of Waterdeep. In 1331 DR they discovered that the high members of the Master Mariners Guild were a group of weresharks and stopped their criminal plan. The war with the Unseen started in 1363 DR and continued. The Confluence frequently came into conflict with the Unseen, one such battle was the cause of the Rat Hills Conflagration, an other time they manipulated Volothamp Geddarm in unmask the doppelgangers courtesans of the Hanging Lantern festhall, one more time they report to the Lords that the pirate leader Black Admiral was a doppelganger. The only shapechanger tolerated in the city was Amarune, how posed as lady Nael Irlingstar, but only as personal request of the famous Elminster Aumar.