Empire of Fiery Pit

"No, I thought wrong! Vanifer... was not the person I thought she would be! That... that is not how Gauntylgrym reborn. That... is how liberty died... with thunderous applause."

- Drizzt Do'Urden

The Emprie of Fiery Pit is an elemental Dark Empire created by Vanifer, the Prophet of Fire, alongside her minions in the Imix-worshipping cult, the Cult of the Eternal Flame. The Empire is bulit within the ancient city of Gautylgrym and started a false benevolent attitude, but soon revealed their true color as crazed zealots and drove dwarves away.

Overview
The modern fire cult began when Vanifer recovered one of the four elemental weapons crafted centuries before by the drow archmage and Elder Elemental Eye cultist Vizeran DeVir.

All their work culminated in 1491 DR at in the Fane of the Eye, under the ruined dwarven city of Tyar-Besil. Working simultaneously with the other three elemental cults, the fire cultists tried to summon Imix to Toril using members of a missing diplomatic delegation from Mirabar and other captives as sacrifices. Fascinating with the Dark Empires, Vanifer ignored her companions' warning and created this zealous Dark Empire, so that she took over Gauntylgrym under a pretence after Vizeran adviced her to do so.

The followers of the Eternal Flame cult were fascinated by the destructive power of fire in all its manifestations. They aspired to use the power of fire to eradicated the "corruption" of both civilization and nature using volcanic eruptions, forest fires, heat waves, and droughts, in order to herald a new world of ash and cinders ruled by fire alone. In the fire cultists' doctrine, the world and all its peoples were wicked and malformed, and the only hope was to purify everything, reducing all to smoking cinders.

Members

 * Vanifer (Empress)
 * Crannak Smoulderburn
 * Elizar Dryflagon
 * Bastian Thermander
 * Ignatia
 * Lytin
 * Lyzandra Calderos
 * Fatell
 * Doril Cire

Recruitment
The Empire of Fiery Pit recruited from among those drawn to destruction for its own sake. This philosophy was very popular among creatures of elemental fire and even non-intelligent fire monsters served the fire cultists.

Tactics and philosophy
The fire cultists' main personality traits were impetuousness, hotheadedness, and violence. However, they did not act like mindless savages; they used a touch of fiendish inventiveness in their impetuousness. In their forges managed by captured slaves, they created new instruments to advance their crazy philosophy. Fire cultists considered it a necessary step in their plan to unleash chaos over the world, to conquer, and to enslave.