AD&D Accessory-FR-The Seven Sisters.pdf

Seven Sisters

by Ed Greenwood

Y ou ask why we do these sisters honor?

The Realms are richer and brighter for the work they

do. These lands are better places for us all because they

have walked the ways of the Realms and striven in them.

A nd who of all of us proud kings of Faerûn can make

— Azoun, King of Cormyr to Padangan, King of Innarlith

S tep right up, gentles! Sorceresses you expected, and

— Handobar Hillybuck of Phlan,

introducing Handobar‘s Traveling Marvels;

somewhere in Sembia, probably last year

The

My lord, do you not know?

T hese sisters are seven magnificent women who matter.

that claim, and speak truth?

sorceresses you shall see! Look within, for we have

heroines here!

To Steve Schend, for the seventh twist.

To Helen Peters and to Jennifer Brockett, because the spirit of the Seven endures.

And to all the sorceresses who have been the inspiration for the Seven.

Alive and dead, on this continent or that, ever bright in memory.

I salute you.

Credits

Design: Ed Greenwood

Editing: Julia Martin

Cover Illustration: Fred Fields

Interior Illustrations: Valerie Valusek

Electronic Prepress Coordination: Tim Coumbe

Typesetting: Angelika Lokotz

Production: Paul Hanchette

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2 Credits

Introduction ....................................... 4

Who are the Seven Sisters? .......................... 5

The Story of the Seven .............................. 6

Powers of the Chosen .............................. 10

Alustriel .......................................... 13

Dove Falconhand .................................. 20

Laeral Silverhand ................................. 27

The Simbul ....................................... 34

Storm Silverhand..................................41

Syluné ........................................... 48

Qilué Veladorn .................................... 55

Spells of the Seven ................................ 62

Magical Items of the Seven ....................... .106

Using the Seven Sisters in a Campaign. ............ .113

Contents 3

he book you hold in your hands is

Realmslore many sages and arch-

mages of Faerûn would die to pos-

sess. Some of them fear the Seven

Sisters, some worship the Seven

and all of them hold the Seven in awe. This book

may begin to explain why

This volume details seven powerful and influential

female nonplayer characters whose careers thus far

have spanned more than the life spans of most beings

of Toril. It can be used as a tome of new magic or a col-

lection of super-powerful opponents to hurl at player

characters, yesbut it is meant to be more than that.

The Seven Sisters is a guide to what goals and

aims high-level, long-lived characters in any fan-

tasy campaign setting might pursue. If you are a

mighty wizard who has taken all your revenges,

fulfilled all your easy dreams and taken steps

toward living forever (or at least a long, long time),

and you get up on the morning after managing all

that, what do you set out to do?

Design, practice, and perfect ultra-powerful spells

and then hurl them around for a bit, just to see towers

topple and mountains move at your bidding yes, but

what else? Making gravel soon gets to be a trifle stale.

Create something of lasting importance, like

a great ballad, truly comfortable chair design,

or classic recipe? Test-of-time judgments take a

while to reveal themselves, and straight-ahead

bids for classic status are notoriously unreliable.

Well, why not carve out an empire? Control the

lives of thousands, build monuments, order folk

about like slavesbut why bother?

Hmmm, why get up that morning at all?

The answers powerful beings find to such ques-

tions are as many and varied as the folk looking for

them. On rare occasions, those answers can shape

the destiny of a world. Ah, there we arehow

about reshaping the world? Or several worlds?

Wouldnt that be something? Yes? Read on.

paign color ideas litter the pages all the way

through. Even that long stretch of spells (the

Spells of the Seven chapter) can provide ideas.

Who is to say that monsters and evil NPCs have

not learned those magics over the years, or left

them as spell trigger traps to be unleashed on the

unwary or the unwelcome?

The history chapter (The Story of the Seven)

raises speculative questions about the fates of both

folk the Seven had contact with and all the magic

the Seven have accumulated along their life jour-

neys. The chapter on the Chosen (The Powers of

the Chosen) sets forth ideas usable in all cam-

paign settings for Dungeon Masters creating char-

acters who are not quite deities, but are very pow-

erful and very specialthe earthshaking heroes

who might, just might, become gods in the eyes of

folk born after them.

The entries on each Sister detail powerful char-

acters that can easily be renamed and fiddled with

for use in other campaigns, and that provide

most importantlycharacter motivations and

aims for such NPCs of might. Then comes all the

magic we could learn details of and cram into this

book (the Spells of the Seven and Magical

Items of the Seven chapters). Suggestions for

using the Sisters in a campaign bring this look at

the Seven to a close.

The Rune of the Seven

Even folk in Toril who have never heard of the

Seven or realized they are real, living beings

know this simple old rhyme:

Seven bright stars in the sky I see.

Seven for those who watch over me.

Seven be the smiles down they send.

Seven be the troubles swift they mend.

Warriors hum the rhymes descending tune

when they go into battle. Scribes and kings alike

murmur it as they stare at treaties or important

decisions. Even those who do not know the origin

or meaning of the words weave more than they

know when they recite them.

How to Use This Book

The Seven Sisters can be used at different levels and

for different purposes. Adventure hooks and cam-

4 Introduction

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