The Simbul, real name Alassra Shentrantra Silverhand, is a fictional character in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. Also known as the Witch-Queen of Aglarond, she is one of the Seven Sisters, a chosen of the goddess of magic Mystra, and one of the most powerful spellcasters in Faerûn. Her character features in a number of novels by setting creator Ed Greenwood, most recently Elminster in Hell, published in 2001.

She also features more prominently in the 1997 novel The Simbul's Gift, by author Lynn Abbey. Her personality echoes her talents as a powerful and somewhat wild sorceress, highly unpredictable and prone to sudden outbursts of rage. She is queen of Aglarond, a nation in the east of Faerûn, but many of her subjects fear her for her recklessness and apparent unstable nature.

She has been the paramour of the Sage of Shadowdale, Elminster, and is noteworthy as the only spellcaster in Faerûn to have developed a spell not already known to Mystra: Simbul's Synostodweomer (7th level transmutation). The spell's effect is to convert the energy of another memorized arcane spell into healing energy, though healing spells are generally only divine. Being one of the Seven Sisters, the Simbul is the daughter of Dornal Silverhand and Elué.

After the death of her mother, young Alassra was entrusted by Mystra, the goddess of magic, to the care of the witches of Rashemen. Mystra gave the witches spells that enabled them to rule Rashemen and repel invasions by Thay. After the Simbul left the witches, she started wandering the planes.

Little is known about her whereabouts during that period, which lasted for some 400 years. It is said that Mystra herself revealed to her the fact that she was one of the Chosen, after one of her consorts (allegedly a wizard from another plane) perished.

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