Night of the Red Coup
The Conflict
Prelude
In 1442, High Rider Klav Ikaia of Elturel's Hellriders, led an expedition into the Snakehills. A feral vampire had begun turning a wide swatch of yuan-ti, orcs, trolls, and other monstrous races into vampire thralls, which threatened the safety of the various settlements under the protection of Elturel's Guard. . The expedition was a success, and the feral vampire, and most of its spawn, were destroyed. Unbeknownst to the rest of the expedition, however, Ikaia had become infected. The new vampire lord of Elturel kept his true nature hidden, but the darkness of his curse ate at the city like a cancer. In 1447 DR, the secret was discovered by Naja Bellandi, the High Watcher of Helm. Bellandi managed to escape from the High Hall before she was turned into a vampire herself, fled through the moonlit shadows of the garden, and escaped from the vampires hunting her by jumping from the Maiden's Leap into the canal below.
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