Fallen Temple

The Fallen Temple, also known as the Temple of the Broken Hammer, was a cult once devoted to Tyr responsible for many crises in the Utter East until the late 14 century.

History
Originally, the Fallen Temple was a branch of the Church of Tyr, led by Patriarch Justarvis, High Avenger of Tyr's Church of the Southern Clave of the Moonshaes, that accompanied the Ffolk in their migration from the Moonshae Isles to the Utter East alongside branches of the Church of Umberlee, the Church of Chauntea, the Church of Tempus, and the Church of Waukeen.

But Patriarch Justarvis allied himself with Count Boarswic, the Northmen, the followers of Tempus, who, when their ships were struck with plague and turned away by each port and town, convinced him to get retribution. Soon, Justarvis and his followers began to kill, loot, and raze, though they labeled their deeds righteous and their victims deserving of punishment. Tyr didn't see it that way and punished with Justarvis with a horrible doom, as a kraken grabbed him and his guards and pulled them under the sea, just hours before the Ffolk landed in Utter East.

As ulterior divine punishment for the vile offenses committed, all priests of Tyr were stripped of their holy powers and spells and as mundane punishment, they were stripped of their right to vote at the last Great Council, and they gained no collective or individual fiefs from the Founding Lords as they divided up the Utter East.

These heretics, bitter at their punishment, sought out other high powers that would invest them with a semblance of their former abilities. Their descendants found Ysdar, a patron native to Utter East, a corrupt and ancient entity from Outer Planes that sought to destroy all life and they devoted themself to the mysterious Ysdar. The cult preyed upon all peoples in all the Five kingdom and in time it has managed to captur or excavat its own bloodforge.

The cultists plagued the Utter East, gathering their new adepts among the conquered Mar. They had many cells in every cities and all cultists receveid their orders during their dreams.

In, the personal agent of Emperor Aetheric III, the mar psion chancellor of Doegan Ikavi Garkim managed to defeat alone a cell based in his old quarter in Eldrinpar.

Despite being his the responsable Emperor Aetheric III conviced the group of paladins led by Miltiades of Phlan that the culprits of the abduction of Eidola of Neverwinter, the soon-to-be wife of Piergeiron Paladinson were the members of the Fallen Temple.

Then the emperor asked the help of the paladins to defeat once for all the Fallen Temple after a communion with their deity Tyr they agreed to destroy the enemies of Doegan.

After Artemis Entreri and his mercenaries managed to injured Aetheric III and the magical barriers around Eldrinpar failed, flooding the city with fiendish monsters, hordelings, and tanar'ri.

Profitting of the occasion the cultists managed to steal the bloodforge of propiety of Doeagan. and secretly gained the control of the Temple of Umberlee killing all the local priests of Umberlee.

They planned to use the two bloodforge they had obtained to finally totally summon Ysdarin Utter East. However they were attacked at the last moment by a mixed group of both paladins and mercenaries. In the process, the deity Tyr revealed himself through his new Chosen – the blind boy mercenary Ingrar Welven. The deity manifested himself through ominous red skies and collapsed part of the temple's dome. Disgusted by the cult that claimed to be his worshipers, Tyr incinerated many, and forcing the survivors to flee.

Appearances

 * Novels
 * Errand of Mercy
 * Uneasy Alliances