Trio Nefarious

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The Trio Nefarious, also known as the Khov'Anilessa by elves, were a threesome of especially powerful Nycaloths named Aulmpiter, Gaulguth and Malimshaer.

It was and is widely believed that the three were summoned by jealous Netherese mages who wanted to test the abilities of the elves should they ever come against Netheril. In truth, the archwizard Aldlas Sodhese had heard that the Nether Scrolls lay somewhere in the Elven woods and summoned the Yugoloths to wreak havoc and help him find the artifacts both by distracting the elves and helping search.

Aulmpiter was a master strategist, Gaulguth a stealthy warrior and Malimshaer a terrible berzerker. While in the Blood Rift, they all served under the fallen Solar Malkizid but the trio would argue and compete against each other almost constantly, but in destroying the Elven villages they were single-minded and, under the direction of Aulmpiter, wiped out whole tribes of satyrs and centaurs and at least two green dragons. Aldlas believed that he had complete control over all three of them, though he was actually being manipulated into that belief by Aulmpiter. The four together were unstoppable until they came within a few hundred yards of Cormanthyr where the Elves had arrayed an organized army. The battle lasted for a whole day but eventually Gaulguth and Malimshaer were almost slain, Aulmpiter was subdued and Aldlas had been killed in a spell duel with the Grand Mage of the city.

The Nycaloths were imprisoned using the N'Quor'Khaor ritual which created an invisible, undetectable subdimensional prison high above the city. The three Yugoloths were trapped there, unable to do anything at all, none of their abilities worked and all of their equipment became inert and useless. A sequencer key was set up to the the prison with the condition being that a "red dragon that never knew malice or greed in its heart flies over the Coronal's throne." would release the prisoners. Floating a mile above Cormanthyr they were forced to watch as the city grew and their names were relegated to stories meant to frighten children.

Over 1800 years later a mage named Saevel Ammath procured a dragons egg and altered the unborn hatchlings physiognomy and innate nature. he hatched a red dragon with the physical characteristics of a blue dragon and the mixed magical natures of both. He also made sure it would be a lawful and good creature so as to be a friend of the Elves. He named it Garnet. The two were the closest of friends and nigh inseperable, often flying above the forest to keep up to date on news from the outlying settlements. Unbeknownst to them, this act was continually weakening the prison that held the three Nycaloths until it was weak enough for them to shatter it. A Flind shaman, living north of the Dragon Sea enacted a summoning ritual at roughly the same time as their escape. The Yugoloths teleported to it immediately upon escaping so that none would realise that they were gone. After eight months they had slain the shaman that summoned them after misleading him that they were under his control. They immediately set upon putting a plan into action that they had been working on for nearly 2 millenia.

The threesome organized a massed army of orcs, gnolls, bugbears, trolls and hobgoblins from Thar and the northlands and drilled them into strict military precision. They summoned many lesser yugoloths to act as officers and eventually created one of the largest hordes ever recorded at around sixty-thousand creatures. It was called the 'Army of Darkness'.

In a three-year long war known as the 'Weeping War', all of the generals on both sides of the conflict were killed. Aulmpiter was the last to die (a mere 5 days before the end of the war) and the remaining members of the Army, now without their leader, descended upon Myth Drannor in a rage. No tactics, just complete annihilation on their minds.

Although the Trio Nefarious had been slain, they had precipitated the fall of Myth Drannor and got their revenge for being imprisoned for 1800 years.