Category:Wizards of the Amber Temple

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Over two millennia ago, a secret society of Good wizards the Amber Temple was initially constructed by a secret society of Good-aligned wizards for the purposes of holding ancient and evil vestiges and the temptations of secret knowledge they offered. Faced with the threat of those tempted to the dark side freeing the vestiges, the wizards took residence in the temple to protect it from intruders. However, the wizards were ultimately corrupted by the evil of the beings they confined. All had perished long before Exethanter entered the Amber Temple^[1]

The sole exception would be the wizards at the lowest levels, whom sealed the lowest level to prevent access from the temple's upper layers. Despite the powerful wards they put up against their captive vestiges, they began to succumb to the influence of the Evening Glory, a former deity whose dogma of eternal love even to undeath connected closely with their forever-lasting zeal.^[2] Each of the wizards became fettered with an obsession, and their emotions and desires began to tear apart their unity. Each of the wizards imagined their own plan for holding the vestiges. Magister Krausenatti decided to solve their disputes by poisoning all of them. All perished but then reanimated as undead. All but Dr. Keletifold, their leader, became incorporeal undead^[3], whereas Dr. Keleitfold rose again as a corporeal undead.^[4]

A few months before the present time, Ivan Randovich, burgomaster of Orașnou, found a scroll detailing Amber Temple and specifically the Evening Glory's imprisonment. He ventured there with his boss, Esmae Amarantha, to find this vestige. Burgomaster Randovich seduced one of the wizards into murdering Keleitford for good, a task needed to open the vault that held the Evening Glory. Using the silver locket, a strong artifact, Esmae used captured the essence of the Evening Glory and merge with her. Esmae and Burgomaster Randovich left the temple, with the traitorous wizardf resealing the vault. Thus, the murderer of Dr. Keleitford remained a mystery, at least for a time.^[5]

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