The Boneheart Wager

The Boneheart Wager was a wager made by unspecified entities regarding the fate of seven evil individuals from the world of Oerth. The entities intentionally chose the vilest mortals they could find and sent their souls into new bodies as part of a wager with other powerful beings, in order to prove that even the worst of souls can be redeemed by learning over multiple lifetimes. "The Boneheart Wager" was something of a misnomer, as not all of these individuals were members of Iuz's elite Boneheart; Layla was a member of the Boneshadow, Iuz's espionage unit, while Eclavdra was not a servant of Iuz at all, but rather a priestess of the drow goddess Lolth.

As of the present day, the wager has had mixed results.

**The Seven**

* Halga, Grand Priestess of the Greater Boneheart
* Althea, Grand Priestess of the Greater Boneheart
* Patch, High Priest of the Greater Boneheart
* Kermin Mind-Bender, High Mage of the Greater Boneheart
* Olive, Priestess of the Lesser Boneheart
* Layla, Boneshadow
* Eclavdra, High Priestess of Lolth

**The Fate of the Seven**

All of the seven could be described as cosmic *glitches* of a sort, or individuals who continue reincarnating rather than travelling to an eternal afterlife. Each has had multiple reincarnations after their lives on Oerth, of which they have varying levels of awareness. The descriptions below detail their most recent lives on the world of Toril.

**Halga** was reincarnated as a shadar-kai foundling named Gion and raised among a mendicant order known as the Public Universal Friends. While Gion was chosen at a young age as a cleric of Lathander due to her singular devotion and gift for preaching, she was expelled from the order and exiled after murdering two elders; she was also condemned to wear a cursed artifact called the Crown of the Apostate which severed her connection with her deity. Thanks to her close friend Maialen, she developed a pact with the archfey Zybilna and became a warlock. Gion was killed by Grand Priest Patch's reincarnation, Saeanos Ingaevon, and her soul presumably traveled to Earth as Zybilna had promised her it would.

**Althea** was reincarnated as Cosmina Spirefall, a ranger and Lords' Alliance agent of Untherese origin. It is implied that Cosmina also had at least one previous life holding a position of power in the Akkadian Empire on Earth; it is unknown whether this occurred before or after her life on Oerth. Cosmina, a loyal servant of the old Untherese god Marduk and enemy of the evil goddess Tiamat, traveled to Earth with a fleet of other Untherese servants of the Old Gods in the hopes of restoring the empire from which the Untherese originally came in Marduk's name. She was presumably killed during an attack by Esker Chalarsk and a fleet of Githyanki allied with Tiamat and Mordenkainen.

**Patch** was reincarnated as Saeanos Caristanial Ingaevon, an elven cleric of Bane and leader of the Zhentarim in Baldur's Gate. After losing his god's favor, he presented himself as reformed and joined the Defenders of the Faith although he had secretly formed a warlock pact with the archdevil Titivolus. Ingaevon was slain by Gion and his soul was presumably transported to Earth by Rosy Cross.

**Kermin Mind-bender** was reincarnated as Urija Morell, a monk and magician. After his mind was inhabited by the soul of a dead cleric of Myrkul known as the Master of Souls, Morell became a high-ranking cleric of the Lord of Bones and terrorized Baldur's Gate with a spate of murders, absorbing his victims' souls with the magic the Master of Souls had granted him. However, after encountering an obscure schematic of the universe known as the Tree of Life in the mind of one of his victims, Morell's eyes were opened to a wisdom greater than that promised by Myrkul. He was able to trick and trap the cleric's soul in a locked area of his mind, and dedicated himself to atoning for his past sins and gaining wisdom by ascending the Tree of Life. After this, he traveled the multiverse, dying and being reborn repeatedly; he spent time in the city of Sigil, joining a faction called the Mind's Eye, and lived for a time on the world of Honahleelysiunjahnnah, where he was known as the Wake King. Due to the extraordinary number of souls within his body and the number of times his body has been regenerated, Morell can be considered a composite being, a fact which grants him extraordinary advantages over those who would underestimate him.

**Olive** was reincarnated as Sister Garaele, a cleric of Tymora and secret ally of the Descensionists. She was killed by Elder Clarity after being discovered as a double agent.

**Eclavdra** was reincarnated as Symeon Mardanshin, a Rashemi alchemist, traitorous Harper, and onetime cleric of Oghma who became a member of first the Zhentarim and then the Cult of the Dragon. Symeon was killed during the Cult of the Dragon's attempted takeover of the Sword Coast. His soul's whereabouts are unknown, although prior to his death Maialen asked Zybilna to transport his soul to Earth in the hopes that he might be redeemed.

**Layla** was reincarnated as Dervorguilla Abernethy, a shapeshifting Harper agent and amateur philosopher. She is one of the few Descensionists remaining alive on Toril after Mordenkainen's campaign to destroy them, and has vowed to "kill" him with Rosy Cross, thereby sending his soul to Earth.