Vergil, I'm impressed by your level of knowledge of the Forgotten Realms. However, I'm going to ask you to forget all of that for this campaign because the vast majority of the places, events and NPCs are coming straight out of my head with no reference to the established lore, by complete design.<br/><br/>The reason is that my understanding of the lore is vague at best and I want to focus on the group and the game and forget about slotting it into a particular place and time... and cut down metagaming in the process.<br/><br/>So, if you want to know something, have your character ask or investigate. Her success will dictate what is revealed and when.<br/><br/>Any relationship to established lore is likely to be purely coincidental.