Waterdeep 1353 DR

Hammer

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Midwinter Festival

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Alturiak

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Ches

• 23rd: Fleetswake. In the middle of Fleestwake, Khelben "Blackstaff" Arunsun sends members of his household (Ahmadar, Ciro and Glim) to fetch his new apprentice Evendur from the House of Wonder. He is introduced to the other apprentices (Aelandelia and Dran Wands), shown his new quarters, given the tour and then has his interview with Khelben for the first time.
• 26th: Fleetswake. Blackstaff Tower is visited by an unassuming wizard who names himself simply "Im" who is a friend of Khelben's.
  • As it turns out, he is Imrul Athelzedar: the Magister of Mystra. He bestows surreptitious gifts of spell scrolls on the apprentices before he and Khelben retire to catch up.
  • In a few hours, Khelben emerges, announcing that he has to leave with Im for a tenday or so. They depart as evening falls.
• 30th: Highcoin Ball (Society Event)

Tarsakh

• 2nd: Waukeentide. As Ciro attends his mother Andedda Melshimber on her first shopping excursion of the year, Dran finds him to reveal that Aelandelia has been arrested by the Watch for thievery.
  • They fetch the others at the tower, which begins an investigation that reveals the person who actually committed the thievery was none other than the half-elf mage-thief Demisante.
  • In searching for her at the Warm Beds Inn and Sleeping Snake, they run afoul of some hired toughs: a halfling named Jamis, a wastrel duelist and a pair of short-sword-wielding sailors, who are all beaten handily.
  • They track her to the Yawning Portal, only to discover she is just now being dropped down the well. The group is forced to follow her into Undermountain.
  • Though their travails end up in injury for nearly everyone and the actual death of Glim, they find Demisante...in the company of a dwarf named Ahkhalan who is Ahmadar's twin brother! Ahkhalan is a slaver, and his small group is being hosted by some drow in a temple to some god named Selvetarm, depicted as male and sword-wielding. He clearly expects the drow to protect him, but their leader, a priestess named Essra is infuriated that one of his have led outsiders to their temple, and so contemptuously raises the dead halfling, and rescinds the protection of her temple to the slaver and his cohorts.
  • Ahkhalan promises to kill Demisante for her actions, and she switches sides. The apprentices are aided by a half-elven ranger who has been hunting Ahkhalan. The slaver ends up fleeing the scene using a strange horned ring, and they are permitted by the drow to depart. Demisante leads them back out of Undermountain.
• 10th: Spheres (Society Event)
• 23rd-27th: The Vernal Trousseau Festival (Society Event)

Greengrass Festival

• Greengrass: The Greengrass Tastings (Society Event)

Mirtul

• 4th: The Presentation Ball (Society Event)
• 12th: Guildsmeet Ball (Society Event)

Kythorn

• 6th: The Steel Revels (Society Event)
• 20th; Summer Solstice: The Ball of Blossoms (Society Event)
• 30th: The Gathering of Quills (Society Event)

Flamerule

• 1st: Founders' Day Viewing Parties (Society Event)
• 5th: Sornyn Ball (Society Event)
• 11th - 20th: Theater Season (Society Event)

Midsummer Festival

• Midsummer: Midsummer Ball (Society Event)

Eleasias

• 1st: Ahghairon's Day
• 1st: The Promenade of Violets (Society Event)
• 8th: The Harbor Spectacles (Society Event)
• 12th: The Divine Pageantry (Society Event)
• 17th: The Annual Garden Parties (Society Event)
• 24th - 27th: The Gathering of Harps (Society Event)

Eleint

• 10th: The Matrons' Diversion (Society Event)
• 22nd: The Pankration (Society Event)

High Harvesttide Festival

• High Harvesttide: Harvesttide Hunts (Society Event)

Marpenoth

• 11th: The Raising of the Guard (Society Event)
• 23rd - 27th: The Autumn Trousseau Festival (Society Event)

Uktar

• 9th - 12th: The Five Feathers Event (Society Event)

Feast of the Moon Festival

• Feast of the Moon: The Remembrance Revel (Society Event)

Nightal

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