In the 800s, the curse of the lycanthrope proved to be problem for the people of the continent of Khorvaire. In the year 832 YK, the Church of the Silver Flame announced the Lycanthropic Inquisiton: a church sanctioned scouring of the continent to destroy all lycanthropes and their ilk. Known also as the Purge, this crusade slaughtered most of the lycanthropes on the continent, as well as a race of lycanthropic descendants known as shifters. Due to the atrocities committed by the templars of the Silver Flame during the Purge, it remains a dark page in the church's history.