Fallen Temple

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

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

Patriarch Justarvis fell in with the priests of Tempus, the depraved Count Boarswic, and the rapacious Northmen. Justarvis was convinced to take vengeance on every ship and town that would not offer their plague-stricken ships refuge and healing. The patriarch and his followers looted and burned and murdered, calling their acts righteous and deserved punishments for their victims. For his many foul deeds, the patriarch was rewarded by his god Tyr with a hideous death, caught in the arms of a kraken and dragged screaming with his bodyguards into the depths of the Great Sea just after 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