Shoon II Shoon II was the third emperor of the Shoon Imperium . He was remembered as the Atheist Qysar for his hatred of religion . Activities . Little was remembered about Shoon II ' s reign except for his active attempt to remove all religion from his realm . Relationships . Shoon II was a son of Shoon I . He was the third child . His older twin brother was named Ksan , and the oldest son was named Qamar . They also had a younger sister , whose name was lost to history . Shoon II and Ksan were very close and would join together against their older brother Qamar . Shoon also adored his little sister . Shoon II had six sons , all of whom were ultimately killed by the magic of the artifact known as Saarkanlyth ' s Antaglass . Shoon II had commissioned the magical mirror as a test to humble his proud sons and chose an heir , but all of them failed the test . Shoon II ' s niece gave birth to a son named Aleph yn Jadhar el Shoon , whom Shoon II adopted as his own son . One of the most trusted servants of Shoon II was a man named Sulak yn Khamas el Adnan . Saref Adnan was considered the qysar ' s rare antiques and magic " collector " . History . Born in 34 DR with the same given name as his father , Aleph yn Aleph el Shoon was not thought to be an important child . However , his two older brothers died before they had even come of age . Qamar drowned in a water fountain while drunk , and Ksan died shortly thereafter from a mysterious fever , all the while claiming that he was being haunted by the ghost of his older brother . It was Ksan ' s death that drove him to hate all priests and their gods , because he was at his twin brother ' s side when he died and saw that none of the cleric s were able to heal him . Upon his father ' s death in 75 DR , Aleph yn Aleph took the throne as Shoon II . Shoon II wasted no time in persecuting the faiths within his empire . Initially , his persecution only resulted in the exile of a few religions from the Imperium and the prevention of new temples being built . However , when priests were unable to rescue his younger sister from dying while giving birth , he went on a rampage against all faiths , ordering the pillaging and destruction of all shrines and temples . In 99 DR , Shoon II send his henchman Saref Adnan to dispose " of some trouble " among the Tethyr ian clan lords . Adnan then murdered a number of the lords , restoring control to the Imperium . Shoon II rewarded Adnan by giving him a magical item later known as the Endless Bag of Saref Adnan . After his own six sons were killed indirectly by the magic of Saarkanlyth ' s Antaglass , he selected his nephew , Vymar el Shoon , as his heir . Vymar was the second son of his older brother Qamar . Vymar found the Antaglass and slew the nemesis it created , passing his uncle ' s test . However , Vymar opposed his uncle ' s persecution of religions , and so Shoon II had him poisoned . In 107 DR , while Shoon II was on his deathbed , his grandnephew , Aleph yn Jadhar el Shoon , was born . Moments before he died , Shoon II officially adopted the infant as his son and heir . As he died , Shoon II cursed the gods and all their servants . For the next sixteen years , the Empire was ruled by Shoon III ' s regent , Hazamir al Aktorral . Reputation . Even though his campaign against the gods left their own temples and shrines destroyed , the Church of Bane considered Shoon II a great hero simply for his despotic nature . In 194 DR , a statue of Shoon II was erected in the Bakkal Sabban of Calimport as part of the Fountain of the Qysars , a monument to the first seven rulers of the Shoon , which was commissioned by Qysar Amahl Shoon V . Shoon II ' s statue was the one on the southwest side of the octagonal palisade .