[Balanor]

Now known throughout Thay, the campaign of conquest against the cities and towns of the Wizard’s coast was a smashing success. Within mere weeks, under the leadership of Tharchion Tenslayer and the Zulkirs Nevron and Malythist, the Lapendrar legion supplemented by Salamander allies under the command of a Lord Fyzzar, efreeti allies under the command of Sultan Murrake, and assorted mercenary units and patriots of Thay overran all opposition. Yet the full price of that success has yet to be paid...

Immediately after all cities and towns were taken, the treacherous Salamanders and Efreeti then turned against those they were called to serve and demanded the portal that brought them to Thay be made permanent! Working ferociously to remove these traitors from Thayan soil, Zulkirs Nevron and Malythist succeeded in closing the original portal and through some power of their magic were able to draw all Efreeti back to their home plane. However, Fyzzar and his Salamanders remain, now destroying all they can along the Wizard’s coast and plains of the Priador. Even worse, it is rumored that Fyzzar somehow has the ability to temporarily reopen a portal to his home on the Elemental Plane of Fire which allows him to replenish and increase the number of his Salamanders ravaging the land every day.

The Salamanders already have control of several towns from their legion compatriots, and travel across the Priador and coast has become hazardous at best as the vengeful creatures attack anything on sight. Tharchion Tenslayer is now surrounded in his newly captured city of Escalant. And he, along with most elements of his Lapendrar legion, now have their backs to the Sea of Fallen Stars and an army of angry Salamanders between them and Thay itself. How the commanders of this war plan to proceed and eliminate the ever-growing Salamander threat is unknown at this time.

It appears the war has only now just begun – the Salamander War!