[Balanor]

The long awaited attack has come - directed at the free towns and cities of the Wizard’s Reach including Thasselen and Murbant. In a surprise and fatal twist for the targets of the attack, hundreds upon hundreds of fire-wreathed Salamanders and cunning Efreeti have been summoned to Faerun by the Zulkirs of Evocation and Conjuration and other Red Wizards involved in the plot.
Directing the attack is Hargrid Tenslayer, Tharchion of Lapendrar, who is leading the forces of Thay and their planar allies ever closer to the coast. What promises were made to secure the Salamander and Efreet assistance are not widely known however.