The Razing of Salem

Disaster / Destruction

Delegates of Salem, a large village in Kavir, refused the assistance and treatment offered by members of the Andorian Church, raising its suspicions. When a group of Wolfmen arrived, they discovered many of the villagers formed a vast network of cultists and even warlocks, who followed the bidding of a hag coven. Upon discovery, the wolfmen locked the residents inside their homes and torched the hovels; killed the hags and threw their bodies inside the village well; and finally, filled the well to the brim with whatever debris they could. These wolfmen would thereon refer to similar acts as "doing as in Salem", or Salemizia in Kaviric.   The term "salemizia" became commonly used in Aderic and The Common Languages after a large-scale wave of anti-casters riots, with the razing of Salem the first of these to involve so many deaths.