Talk:Arcane Brotherhood

There seems to be a link problem with the members page for this article. There is a 'members of the arcane brotherhood' category page but this article will not link there. I was wondering if this was due to the page being called 'Arcane Brotherhood' rather than 'The Arcane Brotherhood'. For linguistic sense it may make sense to use the latter. There is also precedent for this term being used in Lords of Darkness pg 108-116. If there is another way to reconnect these pages then that could also be used as I note that the Zhentarim article still seems to link to the 'members of the zhentarim' category page even without adding 'The'. --Eli the Tanner 19:25, February 18, 2012 (UTC)


 * All fixed! Cronje (talk &sdot; contribs) 19:30, February 18, 2012 (UTC)


 * Excellent! It's always nice when the red text is replaced with a soothing blue --Eli the Tanner 20:07, February 18, 2012 (UTC)

Alternative Archmage Arcane?
It should be noted that a certain Queltar Thaeloon was cited as being thought to be the Archmage Arcane during the late 1360s DR, in at least three different Realms works: Volo's Guide to the North, The Accursed Tower, and The North: Guide to the Savage Frontier. (The last work's reference, however, may have been a typo, as the source also lists Arklem Greeth as being the master of the Host Tower, and indicates that Dendybar the Mottled, Bok, and Whisper are still around in 1370 DR--even though all got whacked in 1356 DR in Streams of Silver.)

One earlier work touching on the subject of Luskan--The Savage Frontier (1988)--said that Arklem Greeth was the master of the Hosttower of the Arcane back in the mid-1350s DR. And a later work --Lords of Darkness' (2001)--says that Greeth remained the head of the Arcane Brotherhood since its inception through to 1372 DR.

Therefore, it is possible that Greeth may have appointed some sort of stand-in to act as Archmage Arcane for a time late in the 1360s DR, for some undisclosed reason, and then resumed the title again. Perhaps it was his obsession with securing lichdom that moved Greeth to put Thaeloon in place?

We are told that subordinate mages attempted to assassinate Greeth in 1371 DR, but only succeeded in killing his top assistant (Lords of Darkness). Perhaps this was Thaeloon, while indeed serving as a fill-in for Greeth?

--BEAST --76.31.69.189 22:28, March 27, 2012 (UTC)

EDIT: Realms sage George Krashos has prepared an excellent scroll entitled "History of the North" , which theorizes that Greeth did indeed hand authority over the Hosttower to his assistant Thaeloon in 1365 DR. --BEAST --76.31.69.189 22:40, April 1, 2012 (UTC)