Queen Filfaeril ' s Blades Queen Filfaeril ' s Blades was a secret society of spies and assassins working to maintain order within the kingdom of Cormyr . Activities . Under Toraunt Hawkgar , the Blades did their best to keep a low profile , as rumours of their activities made it more likely that their identities would be revealed by the War Wizards , whose attentions they avoided to the utmost . The Blades killed or otherwise disrupted the plans of seditious citizens and nobles who worked against the Crown . This included smugglers and tax evaders as well as those guilty of high treason . They also surreptitiously fostered trade alliances between other nobles , endeavouring to get their targets to make beneficial deals publically rather than in secret . Goals . The Blades worked towards Queen Filfaeril ' s vision of Cormyr , a vision they dubbed " Fee ' s Fire " . In it , a kingdom is believed to be most secure when it ' s people are busy and prosperous and that those who know they will be rewarded for doing so , are more likely to be law - abiding . In other words : Commoners must be made to see that committing crimes or being elevated to the nobility are not the only methods of personal gain . Therefore , nobles cannot be allowed to exert their authority to the detriment of the common folk under their purview and the coin earned by the realm should be distributed as a fair wage to those who ' ve worked to make the realm prosperous . History . Some time after Filfaeril Selazair became Filfaeril Obarskyr , the queen of Cormyr , she realized that she had a political opponent in the form of Vangerdahast , whom , it quickly became clear , thought himself the most capable individual to effectively rule the kingdom . To ensure that her husband Azoun maintained the power in his own realm , she organized a group of agents who would operate in complete secrecy . They would do with their actions what Filfaeril could not with her voice ( and the manipulative woman could do a lot with her voice ) . With the help of Storm Silverhand and Dove Falconhand , Filfaeril weaved a web of misdirection to convince the more wily courtiers of the realm that her agents were all Harpers and Cormyrean Highknights loyal to her instead of the king . In reality , her Blades were her arm against internal threats to the Crown and she managed to keep their identities and doings secret from her husband as well as Vangey , her sister Laspeera and the other War Wizards . During her life , the Blades managed to gain knowledge of several potentially devastating noble rebellions and stop them by performing strategic assassinations against the rebel leaders . When the rebels saw the instigators of their seditious movements slain in mysterious circumstances , their self - interest tended to take precedent over their desire for regime change . After Queen Filfaeril ' s death in 1390 DR , the leader of the Blades at the time , Anathur Hawkhorn , kept the group going by reporting the results of their missions to Filfaeril ' s personal crown ( the tiara she wore day - to - day , not the state crown ) . The other Blades began to believe that their sponsor ' s spirit could observe them through the crown and Hawkhorn ' s successor continued the practice .