Tower of the Masked Mage

The Tower of the Masked Mage was a temple to Vhaeraun in Sshamath.

Description
Sshamath was a drow city in an Underdark cavern, the temple hang from the cavern’s roof. It was situated in the Darkwoods district, Sshamath’s slum.

The city was unique among drow cities in that it wasn’t ruled by a clergy but by mages. Vhaeraun was primarily prayed to in his role as the drow patron of shadow magic and spellfilchers. Religion and divine magic wasn’t seen high in the city and the same applied to this temple’s faith. Due to this reason, they didn’t have many cleric and the majority were rogue and spellfilchers as well as arcane caster who used the Shadow Weave. The head priest of this temple was Shadow Sorcerer Pharaun Lhalabar, despite his title, he didn’t own any arcane capabilities.

The School of the Shadow Weave was an attempt to get a seat in Sshamath’s ruling body.

During the Silence of Lolth, Lolth’s priesthood lost their powers and Vhaeraun’s clerics took the official positions formerly held by Lolth’s clergy.

When Vhaeraun died in the course of the War of the Spider Queen, a minority tried to convert to Eilistraee to follow the remainder of their former deity and was killed by those who converted to Shar.