THE EBON TRIAD
From the fanatical peripheries of three evil churches comes a blasphemous doctrine known as the Way of the Ebon Triad. An anonymously penned collection of essays and scrolls soaked in phantasmagoric allegory and apocalyptic ecstasy, The Way outlines in vague terms a series of rituals and portentous events that culminate in the spiritual and physical adhesion of The Dead Three - Bane, Bhaal, and Myrkul into a single supremely powerful Overgod. Outlaws even within their own blasphemous religions, adherents to the Way of the Ebon Triad travel the world in search Of fellow wanderers, often banding together to influence important events and edge the world closer to catastrophe.
Four years ago, agents of the Triad conspired with another dangerous cult to trigger a volcanic eruption that nearly consumed the city of Cauldron, in the distant southern jungles. This event was a critical moment in Faerun, but to the Ebon Triad it was merely one of a handful of prophesized events presaging the advent Of the Age of Worms, an era of darkness and writhing death that would provide the required backdrop for the ascension of their tripartite god.
What the Ebon Triad cultists below Kurth and throughout the world do not understand is that the entire religious movement is a fraud launched at the direction of Kyuss, an ancient being who has plotted to bring about the Age of Worms for millennia.
The Ebon Triad is an evil cult dedicated to merging the Dead Three gods Bane, Bhaal, and Myrkul into a mighty Overgod.
Adherents to the doctrine of the Ebon Triad clutch close their secrets even from Other worshipers Of Bane, Bhaal, and Myrkul, who consider them heretics. In fact. word Of the heresy has not spread far from these three Chu rches, who keep accounts of Ebon Triad activities brutally suppressed lest the cult gain more converts.
Despite the internecine struggle between the Ebon Triad and the orthodox churches, clerics of Bane, Bhaal, and Myrkul in thrall to the cult continue to receive spells from their godly patrons. This fact especially galls the church of Bane, whose rigid faith cannot square the contradiction. The idea that a mortal cult could bind gods as powerful as Bane, Bhaal, and Myrkul is extremely doubtful, even preposterous.
The Ebon Triad hopes to bring about the Age Of Worms as a precursor to the creation of its terrible god, and has its hands in apocalyptic conspiracies across the land. Perhaps the gods support these rebel clerics because they too wish to see the world cast in darkness?
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