Severin Silrajin

Severin’s youth remains veiled in silence. What records exist suggest he hailed from a modest family in Baldur’s Gate, educated in arcane theory but denied formal apprenticeship due to his lowborn status. He fell in with Cult remnants during the waning years of the organization’s original dracolich doctrine.

Then came the vision. Whether sent by Tiamat, uncovered through ancient tomes, or conjured by Severin’s own ambition, it reframed the Cult’s core belief:

“…naught will be left save shattered thrones, with no rulers but the dead. Dragons shall rule the world entire…”

The Cult had missed the period, Severin argued. It was not one thought—it was two. The dead would fall, and the dragons would rise.

With this insight—and unrelenting charisma—Severin dismantled the old guard, executed dissenters, and formed a new hierarchy: five Wyrmspeakers, each granted a mask of chromatic ideology, representing the aspects of Tiamat herself.

He claimed the Red Mask of Power for himself and began the slow, inexorable march toward apocalypse.

Under Severin’s rule, the Cult expanded from fractured cells into a continent-spanning empire. The five Wyrmspeakers—Rezmir, Galvan, Neronvain, Varram, and Severin himself—oversaw this resurgence with terrifying precision.

• The Cult orchestrated raids on cities, stealing massive hordes of gold to form a sacrifice worthy of Tiamat.
• They infiltrated councils, corrupted nobles, and manipulated dragons both mortal and ancient.
• Greenest, Elturel, and Baldur’s Gate fell into chaos as Severin’s agents executed coordinated attacks, each step bringing the summoning ritual closer to fruition.

By 1489 DR, the Cult had more soldiers than some nations. Severin was called Dragon King in secret halls, and even other chromatic dragons began to bend knee.

The Five Guys, chosen of Bahamut, began to thwart the Cult’s expansion. As their power grew—bolstered by the metallic dragon masks—Severin’s strategies grew bolder.

In 1490 DR, he orchestrated the ambush on Waterdeep itself, a bold assault that nearly succeeded. Flying on a red dragon, Severin breached the city’s magical wards, confronted the Gold Wyrmspeaker Fenrir Duloc directly, and slayed Leosin Erlanthar, only for the monk to be resurrected days later through divine intervention.

This bold move unified the factions in a way diplomacy had failed to do. The war’s final year was written in fire.

In 1491 DR, Severin’s ritual was nearly complete. The Five Guys led an unprecedented army to the Well of Dragons, the ancient caldera repurposed into the Cult’s fortress and ritual site.

There, Severin and the other four Chromatic Wyrmspeakers resurrected for the battle, met their opposites in single combat. Each fell in turn—but Severin stood last.

Though mortally wounded, his blood completed the summoning, and Tiamat emerged, raging against a world that dared delay her return.

She was slain minutes later by the Five Guys.
Severin died knowing he had succeeded.

And yet, nothing remains of him—not even bones. A prophet who sparked revolution burned himself to cinders.

Severin’s legacy is complicated. He was a mortal who rewrote prophecy, a sorcerer who out-planned kingdoms, and a man whose ambitions elevated both friend and enemy to godlike heights.

His followers remain scattered but unbroken—whispers of Neo-Cult cells have arisen. His name is still forbidden in certain temples of Bahamut. And his prophecy… may not yet be finished.

“Severin was not evil because he followed Tiamat. He followed Tiamat because he no longer believed the gods had earned their place. He chose destruction over stagnation, divinity over doctrine, and left the world cleaved between silence and fire. Beware the man who rewrites a sentence. He may do the same to a world.”