• By Kelemvor, the soul of this thief is assigned to his god.


• The thief, in exchange for some sort of eternal favor, sells the information about the Cyrinishad to Mask.


• Mask dispatches an avatar and recovers the book. [I suppose that as it is, the book is pretty useless for him if not dangerously harmful]

• Having Cyric subsumed the power of Leira and the portfolio of illusion, this can be plausible. [I yet have to answer the question if he consciously or not used the power of the dweomer to devise the Cyrinishad]

• Studying that part of his own portfolio he inherited from Leira, he discovered more about the anti-metatext, and new interesting uses of it


• A pity that for these new uses he need the object containing the majority of the dweomer’s power: the Cyrinishad. But he doesn’t have the book nor he can search for it. [From the Crucible]

• After the events of the 3 adventures, Cormy-Shadowdale-Anauroch she sees the dangers coming from Shar and doesn’t want to give her a second chance to strike.


• After hearing the prophecies of Savras, to save the Realms, she starts devising a ritual of her own to strip Faerun of the Shadow magic, before the end of the shadow weave. The ritual iss stongly opposed by Azuth, who seems to know better than Mystra the danger of using the primeval forces needed by the ritual


• [It could be nice to somehow relate the ritual to TIME, given the importance of chronology in my version. If I recall correctly, Mystra is the guardian of Chronomancy]


• Her Choosen are involved in her ritual efforts or busy against attacks from Shar, should the goddess learn about the ritual.

• Inserting the true name of the mortal woman once Mystra was into the woven strain of the book's lies, the Harlot could be stripped from the truth of reality. [After all, if reading a simple page of the True Metatext made Deneir a god… reading the pages of the False Metatext could “undo” a god…]


• To accomplish this plan Cyric, ironically, needs a source of magic… a source not in control of Mystra, otherwise the goddess could stop [or simply become aware of] his doing.

• Cyric completed his new book of lies, transforming it in a powerful weapon against Mystra, using the shadow weave. The book must be used in Dweomerheart: to obtain the full effect Mystra must listen to it.


• Shar, not believing completely in Cyric and fearing that he will not stick to his part of the plan, keep silent about possible unforeseen consequences in Cyric’s plot.

• The forces of Shar attacks Dweomerheart, to give Cyric a diversion. The attack was obviously expected and well countered.


• A cloud of darkness, effect of the evil inside the shadow weave, began to spread in the realm of magic as the Shadow weave is siphoned by Mystra. Cyric start reading aloud his book in the darkness and seems nowhere to be found.


• The ritual of Mystra is almost completed, the goddess of magic had the majority of the shadow weave in her. She must hurry before Cyric ends:
  -with the complete control of the Shadow Weave she can stop the effects of Cyric’s book.
  -She can free her avatars from the ritual and battle with Cyric.


• But Cyric ends first… and Mystra dies.

• Shar knows that this was going to happen, but keep silent with her ally.


• Using the last share of control on the quickly dissolving shadow weave, the dark goddess tried to reclaim what was hers.


• Cyric was engulfed with too much power, more than he could never handle. Moreover, the power of Cyrinishad, a sort of filter for the power flowing in the darksun, was corrupting not also the power of magic but also the god himself. Cyric, in a moment of clarity, before being overwhelmed and destroyed, unleashed all he gained from Mystra’s dead, casting it as far as possible from himself, destroying the Cyrinishad in the way.


• Inside Mystra, because of the almost finished ritual, there was a great portion of shadow weave: not enough to control it but enough to draw Shar with the rest of her power after Cyric casts everything away.


• Not wanting to take any more harm, Shar throws away the remnant of her power over shadow weave.


• Raw magics (all possible “magic”, past present and future was involved in Mystra’s ritual) shadow magic, the power of lies, the power unleashed by the death of a god coalesced to create the Blue Fire…

• Helm is keeping something VERY important for Cyric, who cannot even hope to stole it from him.[Something given to Helm by Mystra? Maybe the key to keep Dweomerheart closed during the ritual? Really don’t know…]


• As the affaire starts, Cyric, impersonating Tymora, tries to get this something from him.


• When Cyric understands that with this plan he is going nowhere, he completely changes strategy giving to Helm something to protect (a love token, maybe, after all he is impersonating Tymora), knowing that Tyr may want the token for himself… If a fight starts between the two gods, maybe he can stole the thing he needs. This time the plot works above expectation.

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Originally posted by Tyranthraxus

About the Cyrinishad... It's been awhile since I read Crusable, but what happened with the Cyrinishad and the True Life of Cyric? I can't remember...

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Originally posted by Ashe Ravenheart

Well, since Shar's already got these portfolios, I figured she could stand to lose the two:

Caverns
Dark
Dungeons
Forgetfulness
Loss
Night
Secrets
The Underdark

While Mask only has these:

Shadows
Thievery
Thieves

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