Hishari

Hishari was a village in Issylra that was home to an elemental cult.

Culture
The secondary portion of the word Hishari is elemental-based and has a common roots with the word "Ashari".

As a part of their culture, Hishari peoples had a ceremonial helmet, a combination of a cured leather mask with "sculpted heavy brow that pulls across the nose" and a headband with a series of leather tendrils in the back that "curl up like a living flame", pulling upward.

History
Hishari began as a commune, but eventually coalesced around a charismatic leader and began exploring strange elemental worship. In about 823 PD, "a couple of decades" before Campaign 3, when Hishari performed a "reckless" ritual around a glowing gate, the village was ultimately destroyed. It has since become a cautionary tale about the dangers of cult worship. They are described as reminiscent of a "dark Ashari" counterpart.

Campaign 3
Bells Hells found a Hishari helmet in their heist of the Twilight Mirror Museum. It appeared "weirdly familiar" to Ashton. Ashton stole it as they left the museum, and later fell asleep staring at it while at the Calloway's hideout outside Bassuras. During Imogen's power surge in Bells Hells' fight against Otohan Thull, Ashton's vision was a memory of himself as a child, standing before a glowing gate as his father began an unknown ritual.

When Keyleth brought Bells Hells to Whitestone, she briefly mentioned that the Ashari leadership was worried about a "rogue faction" in Issylra.