Editing Church of the Silver Flame (section)

==The Shadow in the Flame==
The Overlord, Bel Shalor, whom the Flame sealed away, is not idle in his prison.  

There are the subtle plots: the work of the Lords of Dust, the equivalent of the Keeper of the Flame the church locks up in Magic Alcatraz, the cults of those who give into temptations of lust and power.  And then, there are the even subtler plots.

The thing is, Bel Shalor can whisper lies through the flame.  It's not something the higher ups in the church communicate to everyone, though they do warn that the Flame's guidance can be hard to understand, but just as the paladin and the coatl speak to their worshippers, so too can he whisper lies and half-truths into their ears.

When he was free, Bel Shalor's greatest strength and skillset was corrupting good people into doing horrible things, tempting them with the idea that they were acting for the greater good, that the ends justify the means, that it'll all turn out alright in the end, and hey, better to betray the whole world than the whole world betray you, right?  And he presently uses those skills to try to destroy his prison and spread his influence over all of Eberron.