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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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⤛ Memento Mori
The Beginning
The risen army from A Tale of Three Cities continued to attack Krimnos, bringing with them an unfamiliar mountain beast with glowing blue eyes. The army used the beast to cause an avalanche, burying Krimnos' main gates and wall under snow. The risen army used the newly formed hill of snow and rock to invade the city, occupying Krimnos' knights fully with attempts to keep them from successfully pouring into Krimnos over the buried wall.
While this was happening, the Masked Cult appeared for the first time, observing the battle from the cliffs in black robes with white masks. The city was surrounded by a cloud of red fog that burned to the touch and prevented anyone from leaving.
Isolated:
Meanwhile, at the City of the Free Peoples, the rebellion amassed enough numbers and weaponry to start a war with the Defenders. Riots broke out in the streets and the defenses of the city were weakened. Around the same time Tsekour's Stormers reappeared to launch a new attack on the city, but this time something was different. The orcs bore the same characteristics as the knights attacking Krimnos, bloodless, silent, and undying.
The orcs overtook the city and the same red fog rolled in, surrounding the City of the Free Peoples. White-masked individuals dressed in black robes could be seen on the other side of the fog.
Stranded:
Fisher's Bay was reduced to mudflats and out by the sunset gate the Glass Sea could be seen, held back by some form of magical barrier that prevented the water from returning to the bay.
Near the center of the bay a massive circular hole in the ground appeared, water draining down into its depths. From the pit came a creeping red fog that crossed the bay and surrounded Didymos. Anguished, angry roars could be heard through the night emerging from the bay, and the Masked Cult could be seen watching the city and the bay from the top of the Sunset Gate.
Kidnappings and the Ritual
the young and old, the broken and whole.
and to her soul, all things return.
ashes. ashes. burn. Burn. Burn.
At dusk every day strange markings in the shape of a phoenix appeared on the backs of people's necks that cut them off from their physical and magical strength. When night fell the marked were kidnapped by members of the cult who invisible except for their masks. Those who were kidnapped were taken to the pit at the heart of Fisher's Bay and kept there, bound and barely given enough food or water to survive until the 10th.
On the 10th they were marched down into the pit where a medium/small dragon was bound and chained with clear evidence of torture on its scales and in its wild, maddened reactions. The leader of the cult performed a ritual, pulling auras from the non-awakened kidnapped citizens of the three cities and from the leader's own cult members, all but a few dozen of their number. The awakened were spared from the ritual and called 'tainted' by the cult leader.
Once the auras were gathered a ritual was performed and the auras were released and most were thrown violently against the chained dragon by an unknown force. The dragon broke free from its chains, eyes glowing blue, and the awakened lost consciousness. abandoned and left to awaken and fight their way out of the pit on their own.
On the way up several of the awakened rescued eggs from the shattered nests lining the upward winding path out of the pit and emerged from the pit, dead or alive, with the eggs still in their possession.
As the last survivor made it to the shore the magical barrier holding back the sea broke and waters came flooding back into the bay. The pit vanished without a trace and Didymos' ocean quarter was flooded.