Losing Chaos's attention was fatal for Be'lakor.
During the two months Aaron had been away, Be'lakor had confidently held everything under his control. He watched the Great Horned Rat send more and more troops to the western shores of the Sword Coast. The Great Horned Rat's Grey Seers and Warlock Engineers were the first to descend upon the Realms, establishing strongholds in mines, mountains, and the ruins of elven and dwarven cities. Their presence put the gods of the Realms on alert. Lolth's oathsworn Drow soon went to war with the Skaven Clanrats, while the gods dispatched their own church armies to eradicate these ratmen whose hearts held nothing but a lust for destruction.
The Skaven Clanrats had to be culled, but not exterminated.
Be'lakor watched the Skaven Clanrats use warpstone technology to devastate settlements everywhere, igniting war between good and evil. The Sword Coast had descended into chaos. Across the entire Lords' Alliance of the North, from Silverymoon in the north to Baldur's Gate and Elturel in the south, turmoil had erupted once again. Even fundamentally evil organizations such as the Red Wizards and the Zhentarim were forced to mobilize for war, leaving them no time for anything else. Be'lakor's opportunity had finally arrived.
The Realms contained countless powerful factions. Any one of the Three Gods of Justice alone was more than Be'lakor could face head-on. Yet under his scheme, even the power of the most zealous and fervent god, Lathander, had to serve his purposes. Be'lakor had cleverly taken the countless refugees of the Sword Coast and the city of Baldur's Gate hostage. He knew perfectly well that, under these circumstances, the good-aligned deities could only compromise, because even the worst order was better than chaos at a time like this.
Even though the Paladin Inquisitor Keldorn, Reynard