aliases = Prisoner Melysse<br/> The Anti-Keeper

class = Clerc 3e_level = 10 (21 in Fort-de-la-Flamme)

age = 500+ years old (preserved in a petrified state) dob = Sometime before 497 AR

Melysse Miron is a mysterious figure from the history of the Église de la Flamme d'Argent in Thrane.

Specific knowledge regarding Melysse Miron has been purged from the record, and her exact history is unclear to all those outside the highest levels of the Église de la Flamme d'Argent's hierarchy.

Melysse was a Humain peasant woman who claimed to be of distant relation to Tira Miron. Promising reform, she challenged the then Gardien de la Flamme in 497 AR. Believed by the Church to be an agent of the dark powers in the Flamme d'Argent, she was petrified and interred in the kundarak-run prison of Fort-Terreur by the council_of_cardinals of the time.

Based on the timeline of Keepers of the Flame from the Cinq Nations sourcebook, Melysse Miron appears to have challenged Kyra Danth for leadership of the Church (who served between 461-524 AR).

Keith Baker refers to the schism between Melysse and the Gardien de la Flamme at the time as the Time of Two Keepers. He also refers to her as Le Geolier of Bel Shalorurl = http://keith-baker.com/Marques du Dragon-411-religion-and-faith/|title = Marques du Dragon 4/11: Religion, Faith and Souls|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20180607065415/http://keith-baker.com/Marques du Dragon-411-religion-and-faith/|archivedate = 06/07/2018|author = Keith Baker|date = 04/11/2012|accessdate = 02/25/2019|quote = This leads me to another question though… are there schisms in the [[Église de la Flamme d'Argent|CotSF]]? I recall that it has been mentioned that the Church uses excommunication, and that the faithful of [[Aundair]] tend to be more zealot than their counterparts elsewhere, so perhaps there are churches of the [[Flamme d'Argent]] splitting from the one guided by the [[Gardien de la Flamme|keeper]]… just some thoughts… Certainly. Historically, the biggest schism was the Time of Two Keepers, when Melysse Miron challenged the sitting [[Gardien de la Flamme|Keeper]] and was ultimately revealed to be Le Geolier of [[Bel Shalor]]; Melysse has been kept in the stone ward of [[Fort-Terreur]] for the last few centuries. Meanwhile, page 79 of [[City of Cap-Tempête (book)|City of Cap-Tempête]] calls out that the Keep of the Flamme d'Argent in [[Cap-Tempête]] was severed from [[Fort-de-la-Flamme]] after [[King Thalin|King Thalin’s]] death – and that there is a second heresy hidden deeper within it (I won’t spoil, but I will say that it’s NOT anything to do with [[Bel Shalor]]). And [[Aundair|Aundairian]] [[Dariznu|Archbishop Dariznu]] – the governor of [[Thaliost]] and foremost spiritual leader of the Pure Flame – is definitely on a collision course with the [[Gardien de la Flamme|Keeper]], who despises the tortures he’s inflicted on his own people in the name of maintaining order. If there’s a split between the [[Aundair|Aundairian]] faithful and [[Fort-de-la-Flamme]], I’d expect [[Thaliost]] to be the flashpoint. Beyond that, of course, you have the other cultures that have their own traditions tied to the Flamme d'Argent. We’ve named the [[Shulassakar|Shulassakar yuan-ti]], the serpent cult of [[Khalesh]], and the [[Ghaash’kala]] [[Orcs]] of the [[Les Désolations Démoniaques]] – but there can easily be others.