hahaha yeah this is true...though whenever we play, we leave the NPCs out of it as much as possible...cameos at best...

anyway, there was actually a book entitled elminster in hell, and during the time when the city of shade reappeared, i think they witnessed him being torn out of faerun...been a while since i read those books....took him a while to get back

any of the chosen showing up is just a bit too deus for me, even if it's just to slap somoene in the face

but you have to have some iconic FR characters show up and with a plot as epic as this, the sage of shadowdale is quite likely to poke his hairy nose in