Sambar (priest)

Father Sambar was a priest of Shar posing a priest of Mystra at the false Temple of Mystra in Wheloon, Cormyr, in the Year of Lightning Storms, 1374 DR.

Father Sambar was the first to pass through the Shadow Gate, a portal to the Plane of Shadow intended to provide a shortcut for the Sharrans' operations. However, the portal was a failure: all Sambar's clothing, skin, and flesh simply misted away as shadow. His gruesome death was seen as a sacrifice to Shar. However, the temple guard accompanying him survived, becoming a dark creature, the first of the shadow guards.

Sambar's bones were left heaped around the altar, the first of many, and his quarters remained empty.