The Ironfell Council meets in a large central castle in this city. Men and women are shipped off by the thousands to die in labor building city-sized fortresses laid out in concentric circles known as the “Dread Rings”. Vaasa is a desolate realm of bogs, tundra, and windswept mountains in the northwest. Still, servants make the worst masters as the old proverb goes and the citizens of Impiltur can attest to. The Warlock Knights in essence have been exiled from their homeland to Impiltur and retain their authority only as long as they follow the lich’s orders. Telos: Fortress City - Population 15,000 - The Ironfell Council meets in a large central castle in this city. It is now the fortress city of Knight Vindicator Mansard Kanaoth, an influential member of the Ironfell Council who wishes to be Vaasa’s king. Vaasa has become a land overrun by the Witch-king’s undead. Palischuk was peaceful until the coming of the Warlock Knights. The evil lich has disbanded the Vassan Ironfell Council and wields supreme power over all Warlock Knights as he has somehow managed to usurp control over Telos, the primordial that fuels the Warlock Knight’s eldritch powers.
Yet an even greater darkness festers in the Warlock Knight’s homeland of Vaasa as the dread Witch-king Zhengyi has returned to power. With each passing year, the citizens seem to suffer ever more greatly under the dark occupation of the Warlock Knights. The year is 1499 DR and nearly twenty years ago the invading kingdom of Vaasa conquered the good people of Impiltur. Mansard Kanaoth, the only half-orc on the council and the most vocal detractor of the Voice.This Forgotten Realms campaign takes place in the nation of Impiltur.The Voice of Telos, the thirteenth member of the council and de facto leader.One of the councilors, Knight-Vindicator Mansard Kanaoth, began trying to capitalize on these developments to undermine the Voice of Telos with the goal of ultimately declaring himself a successor to the Witch-King. Concerned, the Ironfell Council sent agents to investigate the ruin, as well as to seek out any other evidence of related threats to their power. In the Year of the Purloined Statue, 1477 DR, the ruined Castle Perilous shed its crumbling exterior to reveal a rejuvenated and evil-looking fortress beneath. As most Vaasans and outsiders did not know the nature of this parasitic relationship to Telos, it was widely assumed that the Ironfell Council's role was to commune with the primordial, who was publicly venerated by the Warlock Knights similarly to a deity. The council was named in honor of ironfell, a magical metal harvested from the primordial Telos which granted the Warlock Knights many of their powers. Although each Knight-Councilor had a suite of rooms to themselves in the Citadel, they preferred to come together as little as possible, and instead spend time in the lands which they individually ruled directly. The council met five days out of every month at the Citadel of the Iron Sky in Telos City to debate and decide issues of government. The council held the power to conscript its citizens into military service, including high ranking Knights and their entire armies. The Ironfell Council was the undisputed pinnacle of Vaasa's feudal hierarchy, and one of its primary duties was to perpetuate this hierarchy by allocating land and vassals to Warlock Knights as they ascended the order's ranks. The final member of the council, and also its leader, was the mysterious and long-lived founder of the Warlock Knights known only as the Voice of Telos. As members of the Ironfell Council, these Vindicators were known as Knight-Councilors. Among them were the twelve most powerful members of the Warlock Knights who had attained the rank of Vindicator, meaning they were powerful land-owning feudal nobles with their own standing armies and to whom lesser-ranked Knights swore their allegiance. The council was made up of thirteen members.
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