In Li Wei's view, there was no better disguise than the Harpers for the coming campaign to sweep away filth and root out evil.
But to keep some young hotheads from being led astray, he still planned to use the banner of Kaierben's self-created branch organization—the [Moonstars].
Of course, whether Kaierben could withstand the pressure from all sides of the evil forces afterward, or would choose to dump the blame back onto his old employer, the Harpers, depended on the old man's Schrödinger-style integrity.
By Li Wei's malicious reckoning, there was an eighty-percent chance he would do exactly that afterward!
In truth, Kaierben had long become incomparably skilled at this sort of blame-dumping, and similar stories had played out countless times across the Coriel Continent.
Especially among those of chaotic good alignment: inspired by the Harpers' many early heroic deeds, when carrying out the "justice" in their hearts, they often called themselves Harpers as well.
As a result, aside from the Sword Coast in the North, Cormyr, and most ordinary folk in the Cormanthor Valley who still regarded the Harpers as heroes, in southern lands such as Amn, Tethyr, and Calimshan, some rulers even saw the Harpers as birds of a feather with the Zhentarim and other conspiratorial organizations.
The Harpers' full name was the Alliance of Silver Harps.
Some Harper members could identify one another through magical silver crescent-and-harp pins they wore, but a Harper could be anyone practicing any profession.
They were unorganized, secretive, and inclined to go their own way.
No one knew exactly when the organization had been founded, but it was said that Elminster, the great archmage and Chosen of the Goddess of Magic, had been one of its founders.
The Harpers believed in individual strength, the balance between civilization and savagery, and the good