SembiaSeven 3:
1) Culark’s Hall: due south of the southern edge of the easternmost Archwood, across the border into Sembia and across (so, south of) the overland road built to link Ordûlin and Archenbridge, in open, rolling 2)
…farming country. The least overgrown and ruinous of these seven ‘dungeons.’ Over a decade ago, the cruel, crooked merchant Hithyn Culark (pronounced ‘HITH-in COOL-ark’) escaped death at the hands of furious fellow Sembians…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 27, 2019
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…he’d swindled by transforming into a flumph and flying away. Although his country mansion, where he bred horses (and, rumor correctly has it, monsters for Sembians monster-collectors and monster-meat gourmands, in caverns 4)
…beneath it), was ransacked of everything, and searched repeatedly for signs of him hiding there, no trace of him was ever found. Now, however, a cult of mysterious black-hooded-gowned Sembian women, that’s led by something…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 27, 2019
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…many-tentacled and flying/hovering, that also wears a black gown with hood to conceal its true nature, dwells in the Hall, supported and visited by women from several Sembian cities. They call themselves the Believers 6)
…(the Believers in Darkness, in full), and it seems they plot to gain personal power and influence in Sembia, which their leader, the monstrous “Darkness” can exploit, and in return it pays them handsomely. The cult holds…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 27, 2019
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…lavish dinners at which they drink ruith, a salty, opaque black wine rumored to subtly alter humans who imbibe it over sufficient time. 8)
Latest rumors say there are male cultists, too; some disguising themselves as women to visit the Hall. Why they do so is unknown.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 27, 2019
