Sammaster's fall back then could be called the labor pains of the church of magic—even of the entire Northlands.
Yet most legends concerning him could no longer be seen by living beings today, because after he lost the grace of being Mystra's Chosen, they had already been destroyed.
His sins were so monstrous that after Azuth, god of mages, personally descended and reclaimed his Silver Fire, he decreed that all mentions of Sammaster and his service to the Lady of Mysteries were forbidden in every spellbook, scroll, and other related record.
Thus, people's impressions and records of him eventually became fragmented secrets passed down by word of mouth and embellished legendary tales. Perhaps only those who had lived in Sammaster's era could remember that catastrophic past that had swept across the Northlands.
And among those who had safely survived from that age until now, aside from a few Chosen and legendary figures, none likely remembered it more deeply than the dragons of the Northlands.
For the rise of Sammaster and the Cult of the Dragon had been built almost entirely upon the blood-and-tears history of the Northlands' dragons.
Some dragons paid the price for their arrogance and greed. After becoming dracoliches, they in turn became Sammaster's executioners, drawing ever more innocent and relatively weaker dragons into the fray, until it finally evolved into a Dragonrage calamity that swept through every dragon in the Northlands.
The only child of Silvermoon Dragon Mother Weila Malandaisi and Diszed Rodon Silverwing had fallen in that calamity.
That was precisely why Sammaster's fraudulent resurrection more than thirty years ago had become a carnival of vengeance for the Northlands' dragons. Yet after easily overturning him and the Cult of the Dragon's restoration, they were stunned to discover that they had not even found the Book of