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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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⤛ The Masked Cult
It is suspected that the cult is responsible for raising an army of undead Atrómitos knights to launch an attack on Krimnos, and later raising the dead orcs from A City Under Siege to attack the City of the Free Peoples. It is also theorized that the cult was responsible for the magical barrier that blocked Fishers' bay off from the glass ocean and caused the bay to drain completely of water.
During Memento Mori the cult was finally actually seen on the outskirts of the three major cities. They surrounded the cities with a red mist or fog that burned to the touch, preventing people from leaving or entering the city through any means but by flight/airship.
The risen dead were discovered to have weak replicas of the dragon-glass soul vials of the awakened and were found to not respond to pain or stimulus despite possessing clear evidence of strategy and ranking in their actions. Later dissection of one of their bodies revealed the bodies were devoid of internal organs. A strange alchemical orb was lodged in the chest where the heart should be and a smaller one in the skull covered in foreign symbols. The eyes were likewise small glass orbs. Among the undead army attacking Krimnos was a beast with glowing blue eyes that seemed to be working with them to bury the city's defensive wall in an avalanche of snow.
The cult was seen observing each of the three cities from beyond the fog, clad all in black with strange white masks covering their faces.
With Fishers' Bay drained of water a massive circular hole is revealed in the muddy, debris-strewn flats that remained and a message goes out to all couriers in all cities.
the young and old, the broken and whole.
and to her soul, all things return.
ashes. ashes. burn. Burn. Burn.
From the second to the ninth of February each dusk red marks in the shape of a phoenix appeared on the backs of the necks of random people in the three cities. The marks could not be removed and once they appeared the affected were completely cut off from their magical and physical strength, leaving them weakened and their senses dulled. Animas were affected in the same ways as their people.
When night fell groups of the masked figures headed into the cities, all but the masks over their faces disappearing from the moment they stepped through the surrounding red mist. They grabbed the marked individuals, and any animas that attempted to retaliate, and tossed them into wooden wagons painted black and drawn by black horses.
No matter where they were collected from they were all taken to the hole in Fisher's Bay which would soon become known as "The Pit". Red mist rose from the center of the pit and the long spiraling path down into it was lined with captives held there until the 10th of February with very little food or water as the pit continued to drain. Sand devils with glowing blue eyes patrolled the captives and the path down contained scattered nests of destroyed dragon eggs and dead hatchlings.
On the 10th the masked cult and potentially their leader marched the captives down into the depths of the pit where an injured and angry blue dragon was chained. The awakened were removed from the group of captives, after which red auras surrounded the captives and were ripped from them into a glass orb, causing the captives to fall dead to the floor. Fifty of those among the cult were also sacrificed seemingly without pre-hand knowledge, blue auras being ripped from their bodies to join the red ones in the orb.
At the end of the ritual only a dozen masked figures remained with their leader. The orb began to crack as they approached the dragon with it, shattering and releasing the trapped auras. Some escaped into the cavern but most slammed into the chained dragon. As the dragon broke free of its chains the awakened within the pit blacked out, the marks disappearing from their necks.
The dragon was seen by some residents of Didymos flying quickly from the pit over the city and Northward.
The masked figures have not been seen again, though there are rumors that King Ardis' scouts caught a glimpse of them heading North-East, and rumors from some captured werewolves that masked individuals in black were seen taking captured werewolves out of the underground cells they were being held. Neither of these claims are verified but could have merit.
There has been no sign of the dragon since February, but there are unverified rumors of a dragon in the North near Preciposte, the mountain outpost between Krimnos and Einjar.