Yorath

Grandmaster of the Brotherhood of Illusionists, Yorath was a monk and later priest who became Bishop of Bregate towards the end of the 15th century. In 1498, during the worst days of the Half-Moon Heresy, Bishop Yorath called away the other orders, betraying Tyffayne, the White Rose, and nearly throwing the war back in the favor of the werewolves. The priest was chased out of Bregate by the Inquisition; fleeing northwest, he was ambushed by the seventh Cardinal, Cahir, along with Father Aeron and the adventurer Hudde. They fought in the White Forest, where they believed the fey and the druids would protect them. However, the Half-Moon Heresy had unleashed bloodshed and chaos upon the forests, and desecrated the groves of the fey and the circles of druids. In their place reigned instead the creatures of the night, who tore apart Hudde and let Yorath safely escape and disappear into darkness. Thereafter, Cahir and Yorath's names were stripped from the Holy Record and they were both excommunicated. Now, the high priest of Fraz-Urb'luu has taken on the face of the Bishop of Bregate anew. Yorath took possession of Anselm's form and locked the promising priest away in a cell prior to the beginnings of Vaeilnor's cult's assassination spree against the church of Sol, committed under the guise of Infernal Pact killings. He used the party's advancements against the Infernal Pact to rise to Bishop of Bregate and later rose to Archbishop when Harald, along with his deacons and acolytes, were slain during the Eclipse. Furthermore, when the Black Cardinal - the priest Cahir possessed by the demon Legion - was finally defeated, Yorath absorbed his demonic strength, becoming chief among the Nine grandmasters that serve the Blade in the Dark.