Edna soon gained an even clearer understanding of just how powerful her big sister Sanda King's "get them" really was.
The countless thin, sprawling evacuation routes taken by the Amn Kingdom's merchants, each heading in a different direction, visibly began converging into a handful of routes when viewed from the sky.
Of the two most obvious routes, one led straight toward the Cloudmist Mountains in the north, with the Twin Towers as its unmistakable destination... that one came as no surprise to anyone.
After all, Shar had originally sent Iltmarra to seize the Fifth Imaskar Artifact from the Twin Towers. Now it seemed that the Masked Mages' Guild, which had existed since before Amn's founding and declared every mage outside its own ranks illegal, might have chosen to revive the Artificers' faction from the very beginning.
That was the real reason they purged outsiders... the old Imaskar Kingdom had committed countless atrocities. If anyone discovered what they intended to do, Unther and Mulhorand, far to the south of Faerûn, might abruptly set aside their mutual hatred and send armies straight to the border to wipe them out first.
Although few people in those two nations still worshipped the Unther Pantheon or the Mulhorandi Pantheon, they would never forget their ancestors' origins... they were descendants of the slaves Imaskar had abducted from those two universes, along with slaves native to Faerûn.
Whenever they saw an Artificer, they would kill first without hesitation.
As for whether their target was good or evil... weren't all the remnants of Imaskar in the Underdark now? What good person ever came from there?
Ah... once every nation on Faerûn allowed drow to come and go freely, then people could discuss whether Artificers from the Underdark had any rights!
In that case, the Salem Family, the royal