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Past Events & Major Developments
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 Game-Changing or Unresolved Multi-Month Developments | |
| Captain Lykos • Queen Adira • The Masked Cult • Empty Einjar • City of the Free Peoples | |
| December 18 | |
| City Under Siege • Day of Lefkokó* • The Long Night | |
| January 19 | |
| Thlipa's Tribute* • A Tale of Three Cities | |
| February 19 | |
| Memento Mori • The Aftermath • The Oxen Gods* | |
| March 19 | |
| The Thaw • The Einjar Excursion • The Wyrm Moon • Arkoda's Awakening* | |
| April 19 | |
| Crowning the Cat* • The Calm Before the Storm | |
| May 19 | |
| The Song of Suffering • Return to Einjar • Seyra's Seenade* • Friend or Foe | |
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🜙 March 19
⤛ The Thaw
Farmers in the area around the City of the Free Peoples hired guards to protect their farm animals, and Krimnos and Didymos held competitions to find new knights to add to their ranks.
Didymos' bay had returned to its clear, calm waters but the sea life had not come back with the waters and fishing ships had to hire extra hands to defend them as they ventured further and further out into the Glass Sea, beyond Logistykon's Reef in search of fish to feed the increasingly hungry city.
King Ardis left Didymos in his sister's hands to pursue a lead to the City of the Free Peoples with a small force of his knights, seeking both a resolution to the city's conflict and a possible lead on the masked cult that had attacked all three cities.
The rebels began suffering heavy losses as the Defenders cowed the city's citizens into giving up their friends and neighbors for fear of being labeled treasonous or rebels themselves. Koroc grew increasingly erratic and aggressive but the prolonged absence of Captain Lykos had swayed many of the Defenders to support him and believe the suggestions that the rebellion had either killed him or taken him hostage.
The airship >Zenith began running from Krimnos to the Northern outpost of Preciposte once more and through that re-opened route communication about Einjar's silence during the winter was received.
⤛ The Einjar Excursion
A group of Knights of Krimnos, several mountain guides from Preciposte, and a group of volunteers journeyed through the dangerous Northern Mountains to Einjar following the start of the thaw in an attempt to discover why the dwarf city had gone silent in its communications with Preciposte and Krimnos.
Along the way they were rescued from animal attacks by a family of kobolds that said they were not from Einjar. Among the family was a towering individual named Monty who claimed he was also a kobold, though in appearance he resembled a dragonborn of another race, possibly elf or human.
The excursion team found its way into Einjar through the massive protective doors and found Einjar devoid of life, the furnaces cold and the mines and city abandoned seemingly mid-meal and workday. Within the mines they found a pool of dark liquid that caused a variety of violent and unexpected actions and reactions within the team and the kobold family. After experiencing heavy losses on the way to Einjar, especially of the dwarves in the party, and animosity between the knights and the kobolds they suspected of being involved, it was decided that the team should return to Krimnos before any more losses were incurred and report their findings.
The knights demanded Monty return to Krimnos with them for questioning on suspicion of involvement in the Einjar event as well as suspicion of being a dragonborn. The kobolds aggressively defended Monty from the knights' attempts to take him into custody and refused to allow him to leave.
Despite their actions during the Einjar excursion, the Knights of Krimnos bowed to the will of the majority when confronted with an overall dissent against their accusations and demands of the kobolds. While they were not pleased with the end result, the overall reaction of those supporting the kobolds appeared to be level-headed with a strong focus on communicating with and listening to both sides. The Knights were questioned on their demands while the kobolds were supported and defended by those who opposed the knights' actions and demands. With only one other non-knight member of the excursion team on their side to support them, they relented and allowed Monty to remain with his kobold family.
Those who remained neutral or defended the Knights were rewarded a little more lucratively at the end of the excursion, but all parties who went with the knights to Einjar were compensated for their efforts and the risks they took with a decent sum of gold, a couple pieces per day the excursion was gone and several more for handing over any information or artifacts they took from the empty city.
Upon the return to Preciposte and then Krimnos, the knights separated from the excursion team after requesting that they keep the circumstances and discoveries of the trip to themselves until more information could be gathered. This request is not enforced by enchantment or punishment, but the knights deny the involvement of any individual who makes 'wild and outlandish' claims of what occurred.
⤛ The Wyrm Moon
Koroc's behavior became almost manic and the orc declared himself king of the city and renamed it Atrómitos. Citizens of the city suspected of being rebels or rebel supporters were locked up in cells in the Defenders' camp and Koroc declared King Ardis' presence near his city an act of war.
As the moon rose a coordinated pack of werewolves launched an attack on the City of the Free Peoples. The Defenders protected the city but the outskirts and the farms around the city were attacked. Koroc was nowhere to be seen during the attacks yet multiple citizens of the city claim to have been personally rescued by Koroc.
Later that same night eleven of twelve dragon eggs hatched across Idan, ten of them ending up in the care of the awakened and one in Queen Adira's care, sparking the dawn of a new age of dragons.
Queen Adira immediately announced the hatching of the dragon in her care and advised her people to withhold judgment over the creature until they understood it better. The news that a second living dragon existed spread quickly to wildly mixed responses.
⤛ Constellation Deity Celebration: Arkoda's Awakening
In Krimnos, Arkoda's Awakening is celebrated by the tolling of the Hymn of the Mountains from the crystal bells in Arkoda's temple, as well as a competition of strengths and honor held by the Krimnos Knights.
In Didymos the celebration is split between the quarters.
In the overlook quarter the Queen pardons a number of people from serving out time for their crimes with the option of community service assisting on the docks or in the academies, keeping the buildings and ships orderly. A celebration of the Didymos justice system includes debates and elections for the Queen's staff of judges and advisors.
In the ocean quarter, the fishermen are celebrated with sea shanties, shoreline bonfires, dancing, music, and a jubilee for the upcoming spring, all culminating in a grand feast where the main dishes feature fish, berries, boars, rabbits, fruits, nuts, and various honeyed sweets and drinks.
In the City of the Free Peoples, the celebration is usually one of peace and mockery, a combination of cheerful drinking and telling of stories mixed with puppet shows and plays depicting kings and queens as fools to remind the city of why it has no kings or queens.