Samreeza Tharmrise

Samreeza Tharmrise (Lawful Neutral Human Cleric 10 of Waukeen) A gifted organizer and teacher, Priestess of Coins Samreeza Tharmrise traveled to Neverwinter from her native Amn in the Spring of 1481 DR, confident in her calling to administer to the needs of Neverwintan merchants, and to see Neverwinter returned to its former glory as a hub of craft and trade, all for the greater glory of Waukeen. Equipped with a considerable reserve of coins, gems and trade bars, and bolstered by a cadre of experienced underpriests and lay people, the Priestess of Coins made the journey to Neverwinter at the behest of her master Maszarlra Yondrith[1] of Athkatla. Maszarlra is bent on conquering Neverwinter from within, as part of her larger scheme to establish an empire spanning the Sword Coast from Neverwinter in the north all the way to “New Amn” in the South. To this end she has placed several loyal-only-to-her agents in the ranks of Samreeza’s underlings. Unaware of the division within her ranks, Samreeza has instituted a program of outreach spearheaded by her underpriests, who are instructed to aid the common people of Neverwinter by healing the sick and injured, and by gifting them with coins with which to purchase goods and services—thereby strengthening trade in Neverwinter even as Samreeza works to personally enforce the rules of commerce that Lord Neverember seems only too keen to abuse. Coin-laden priests make tempting targets. They've taken to hiring off-duty members of the Mintaran militia present in Neverwinter. Her lay servants are versed in the successful ways of the merchants of Amn and the teachings of Waukeen, and have begun lending themselves out to merchants, trade-minded nobles and other individuals in the city. In these and other tasks, Samreeza’s underlings have enjoyed modest success, and their efforts have not gone unnoticed by Lord Neverember, who has come to suspect that Samreeza has designs on the Mintaran mercenaries under Neverember’s control. In this his suspicious are correct. Just like Samreeza, he is not yet aware that this is part of an effort to assemble a much larger force with which to conquer and control the city, and then to pick a new ruler. While both Samreeza and Maszarlra believe it is of utmost importance that the people of Neverwinter come to see the faith of Waukeen is an integral part of Neverwinter, only Maszarlra desires that the people require Waukeen’s blessing for any claim made to the throne to be considered legitimate. In Maszarlra’s grand vision, once a Waukeen-approved (read: approved by Maszarlra) ruler sits on the throne of Neverwinter, the slow conquering of Waterdeep can commence. [1] See Ed Greenwood’s Forging the Realms article The Dream of Empire. LINK Samreeza does not believe that Maszarlra has truly lost her faith, but instead has been blessed with a vision and purpose in unifying the Sword Coast under the banner of Waukeen and the wise teachings of the church. EDIT: Sadly, WotC are once again reorganizing their website, which means they're making a mess of things by re-writing their article links and only posting half of the revised links for each article series, which means "The Dream of Empire" is lost somewhere on WotC's servers until the Dilbert-inspired evil geniuses that run their website deign to finish the job of re-linking all of Ed's older Forging the Realms articles. Джерело: <http://forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=16717&SearchTerms=Neverember>