Ritual of Evernight

This just covers the main plotline of the Ritual of Evernight. For subplots, see Unsolved Mysteries.

At Amelia's birthday party, the Twilight Gryphons learn story of white bird and black bird. White bird (Selune) becomes jealous of black bird (Shar) and how the people loved the black bird as she protected them from the creatures of the night. The white bird poisoned the mind of the people and convinced them to attack the black bird while she slept. Origin of creatures of the night and why they exist in the world.

Amelia and co are trying to get us to "truly" hate her for the ritual. They were chosen by the Goddess of Night (Shar) and strive to make the "perfect plane of darkness". She kills Os to get us to hate her.

As we get out of the dungeon, find a note with 2 concentric circles and 6 stars. "We look forward to seeing you again."

Marthis -> Memnon

Rindel Felwind -> Waterdeep

Sepitus Snow -> Starmantle

Kianda -> Halruaa

Perria Shadowbane -> Bezantur

Amelia -> Not Baldur's Gate. They don't know where the correct location is.

They are known as the "Sovereign Six". Amelia poses as their leader, though if the idea of her being leader is mentioned to Snow, he will vehemently disagree.

The cities that the vampires are in are on specific Shadoweave leylines and regular leylines that are required to do the ritual.

When Amelia tortures Harriet in Starmantle, Snow calls it a "violation of our laws". Marthis then takes out a blade and cuts his own arm before using it to decapitate her. Her body liquefies and evaporates as it goes back to her phylactery.

Followers of Shar are known as the "Cabal of Night"

Spoke to Grandmother at Temple of Selune: Grandmother sent a messenger to us, apparently got intercepted. Important part: Their work can only happen by the New Moon.
 * Ao: Proverbial father of existence and all gods.
 * Created Selune/Shar, two beings in one. They created the other gods and the rest of the world as well as Mystera who created magic and Chauntae who created life.
 * Came to a disagreement because of Chauntae. She asked for warmth. Sun existed, but gave off no heat. Selune/Shar split into two entities from fighting over whether to give this. Selune wanted warmth and good things for the living beings. Shar wanted death and cold. There were staged? attacks on Selune, but Shar was locked away at full strength. They worked together during the Dawn War, but Shar has remained sealed away otherwise while Selune regained her strength.
 * Originally, most of the beings (other gods presumably) were on Shar's side, but eventually were able to bind her to her plane.
 * Strong sense of betrayal on both sides as the war brought forth all the bad things in the world
 * Mystera was killed or destroyed in some way

Their current task is to gather enough sacrifices to complete the obelisk to ground the plane. As of 5/7 they have 76, they need 200. When the obelisks of this plane, the Feywild, and the Shadowfell are completed, the Ritual of Evernight will occur the following new moon and bring the planes together.

As of 5/16, the Feywild has less sacrifices than the Prime plane, while the Shadowfell exceeds.

The Shadoweave has leylines that might be good for the obelisk. They would need someone proficient in those magics.

The Black Staff tell Cedric that the sacrifices must be performed on the New Moon and must take place where leylines and Dark Lines overlap. Waterdeep is one of those places. The resulting blood and energy must then be channeled into an obelisk made of stone so black it absorbs light. 2 ritual casters must work in unison on a New Moon that falls on a day of power to finish the ritual.

Shar is also known as "Mistress of Night", "Lady of Loss" and "Dark Lady"

We travel to the "Dark Embrace", a temple to Shar in Athkatla, and speak to the clerics there. They tell the party that "Evernight" that is spoken of in their religious texts is not a ritual, but instead is a "great day of fortune for all of Faerun." and that "Peace would be brought to the land after Shar's revenge is quelled".

The party also learn that Halruaa is the sacred place for the worshippers of Shar as it is where she guides the Sun and Moon's rise.

Soon after Amari tells the clerics about Amelia's party however, an angel that seems to have both the purple aura of Shar and a silvery unknown aura (that Amari shares) kills the clerics with pillars of fire and tries to kill Albrek, Ryker, and Amari. It chases us until 3 members of the cowled wizards cast a binding spell at it and it disappears.

After the War with Bane, a woman shows up in Yartar looking for the Twilight Gryphons. She tells them that they failed in stopping the ritual so Goldspire and a team of wizards sent her back in time with information about a powerful weapon called an Altavaska.