SIMBUL

THE SIMBUL In all Faerun, no mage in living memory has had as fearsome a reputation as the Simbul, also called the Storm Queen, the fiery- tempered, silver-haired, wily, ruthless, awesomely powerful Witch-Queen of Aglarond. Almost alone she held back the massed might of Thay from sweeping over her kingdom (and all the Inner Sea lands beyond it), for year after year and decade after decade. In countless spell battles she defeated Red Wizards, Zhentarim, Shadowmasters, lich lords, and even, legends insist, beholder mages. A Chosen of Mystra and one of the legendary Seven Sisters, the Simbul was always the most independent and defiant of the Seven, going her own way in open defiance of her elders Elminster and Khelben, and at times even the goddess Mystra herself. Few in the Realms today know her true name. After coming to the throne of Aglarond, she called herself only the Simbul (in an ancient local tongue, a simbul was a watchful warrior-wizard). After the death of the Seven Sisters' mother, a witch of Rashemen called Oraumae raised the girl who would one day become the Simbul. Oraumae did so at the behest of Mystra herself, and the goddess gave the witches spells that enabled them to rule Rashemen and repel invasions by Thay. From her earliest days, the Simbul seemed driven to understand magic more comprehensively than anyone else. She strove to master applied magic—spells cast often and decisively to influence the world around her—as opposed to painstaking and solitary or secluded magical research, which is the life led by many a mage across Faerun. She was complex and moody, a loner by nature, and spent much of her life flitting about the Realms in shapechange-wrought disguises. Little is known of the 400-year period after the young wizardess left Rashemen, except that she spent much of it wandering the planes. She ended up posing as the apprentice of I None, a lesser sorceress and ruler of Aglarond, under the name of "the Simbul." Ilione made the Simbul her successor, and it was after Ilione's death that she assumed the throne. The Simbul's closeness to the wizard Elminster is part of her legend. It is rumored that they were lovers, and that at one point Mystra sent the Simbul into the Nine Hells to retrieve Elminster when he was banished there. In turn, Elminster's influence is said to have helped reduce the frequency of the Simbul's berserker rage fits, though she was still feared for the sheer amount of damage she could inflict when provoked. This factor alone made her a living deterrent to the expansionist ambitions of neighboring Thay. Always ready for a fight, the Simbul maintained many caches of magical items all over the Realms. The Simbul’s spell matrix, allowing her to cast a number of spells in quick succession, was one of the secrets of her ongoing success against the Red Wizards, which allowed the continued survival of herself and her queendom for many years. She herself used a more powerful form of this ritual, known only to her, now believed to exist in written form only in certain hidden caches. One of the Simbul's caches is known to be in Evermeet, another in the Herald’s Holdfast, and a third in a demiplane accessed only via a spellweb linked to a staff of power the Simbul owned. This last cache can only be reached by doing exactly the right things to the staff when it is in exactly the right place in her private, spellguarded apartments in Aglarond. Many—including the legendary King Azoun IV of Cormyr— described the Simbul as a good friend, but a deadly enemy. She was a legend among the common people of many lands across the Realms, who thought of the Simbul as a fey witch best kept well away from. Most folk privately thought the unpredictable, awesomely powerful sorceress who ruled Aglarond must be insane but were still glad she existed. As one merchant of Suzail put it, "Better her fury and spellhurling than all of us being spelltwisted slaves of the Red Wizards.” In Aglarond, of course, and in the halls of the Harpers, the Simbul had a different reputation. The folk of her kingdom worshiped her for working so tirelessly to keep them alive. The Harpers, as well as the folk in Telflamm and in Shadowdale, which she visited often to see Elminster, viewed her with more respect than fear. The Simbul was widely believed to have been consumed in the fire that destroyed the deity Velsharoon in 1 425 DR, the Year of the Seven Sisters, though the exact nature of her disappearance remains a mystery to all but a few.

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