History
What the Ebon Triad cultists throughout Oerth do not understand is that the entire religious movement is a fraud launched at the direction of Kyuss, an ancient being who has plotted to bring about the Age of Worms for millennia.
The Ebon Triad was founded by Lashonna, a vampiric silver dragon, and Mahuudril, an avolakia envoy from the Wormcrawl Fissure, in the Well of Triptych Knowledge, a dungeon complex under a sickhouse known as Sinner's Sanctum in the city of Alhaster. At the core of their machinations is a unique fiend (see the section The Ebon Aspect below) bred and shaped by Lashonna and Mahuudril to serve as a focus for the misguided faith and devotional energy of the heretics they recruited from the churches of Erythnul, Hextor, and Vecna to populate the cult.
Within the Well of Triptych Knowledge, the architects of the Ebon Triad spoke to those they had chosen to be the leaders and priests of the cult. These heretics were taught the beliefs of the Ebon Triad, and were given copies of the Way of the Ebon Triad that would serve as their guide once they were in the world, leading their own cults. Once the cult was established, its agents spread throughout the world, working unknowingly to advance Lashonna's plans and make way for the Age of Worms.
Lashonna and Mahuudril succeeded beyond their expectations with the cult, and today, the Ebon Triad is a self-sustaining organization that truly believes in its goal to unite Erythnul, Hextor, and Vecna into a supreme overdeity. So powerful is their belief now that their clerics receive spells from prayer not from Kyuss, but from the power of their own devotion. As the Ebon Triad grew, Lashonna withdrew from the project, leaving the day-to-day organization of the cult's actions and goals to Mahuudril, whom the heretics knew only as a mysterious cloaked figure called Mother Maggot.
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