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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 Song of Suffering
Koroc and Lykos engaged in a courier-broadcasted fight which left both of them heavily wounded but neither of them dead. Following this broadcast and the city-wide revelations that both Koroc and Lykos were werewolves war fully broke out between the separate sides, with Koroc supported by undead soldiers provided by the Masked Cult, Ardis fighting alongside Lorna's rebels and the strange travelers, and Lykos re-entering the fray as soon as his injuries had been healed.
As the fighting began two twelve-foot blood wolves entered the city and joined the fight, indiscriminate in who they targeted. The river ran red with tainted waters from Einjar shortly after and worsened the conflict by overtaking the city's inhabitants who heard the river's ringing or touched the tainted waters with uncontrolled paranoia, fury, and desperation
By the 5th the effects of the tainted river left the City of the Free Peoples, pushed downstream by the natural current. The water level in the river lowers for a few days but will be back to normal by the 8th or so.
Lykos, Alice, Lorna, and Ardis were warned of the river's effects early on and managed to get their respective forces under control, however, the Defenders, the general population, and Koroc were still heavily affected by the various properties of the river and Koroc could be seen fighting in both werewolf form and full armor during the event.
At some point during the Song of Suffering the white blood wolf was killed by Strange & Rey, and the red blood wolf was cleansed and captured by Shura, Daud, and Billie before ultimately being given a merciful death. Both blood wolves were revealed to be dragonborn, changed recently enough that they were still transforming/acquiring scales. Aspects of their non-wolf forms suggested that they may have been experimented on or tortured and the dragon blood in their veins appeared to have given them an external immunity to silver.
Koroc was assassinated during the event and the surviving Defenders were rounded up and locked up by a mixture of rebels and Ardis' soldiers. Between the skirmishes across the city and the outbreak of induced violent paranoia, the death toll was high but not as high as it could have been. A masked vigilante also put a dent in the numbers of the defenders and the worst-of-the-worst criminals in the city (serial killers, rapists, underground slavers, fake healers and other people who might prey on the poor in seemingly innocent ways).
After the fighting stopped the city was officially leaderless and confused. There was still enough strong public support behind Lykos that the city accepted his decisions about where it would go after the resolution. Lykos' decision was that the city would remain free of rulers and be renamed the Free City. Lorna, Alice, and Lykos decided to work together with what was left of their supporting forces to repair the damages to the city and see to the surviving population's health and safety. The plan for the future was to have Lorna restructure and rebuild the city's defensive forces, Alice see to the protection of the outskirts and surrounding lands from creature threats, and Lykos help the city restructure while working with the city's now much larger population of cursed individuals. Their hope was to form a coalition of officials to govern the city's major choices and political dealings and build that coalition from the city's citizens.
There was no signs of the masked cult after the fighting stopped and the remaining defenders mysteriously seemed to have died all at once around the 5th. Their bodies were hastily burned before the general population could ask many questions. The strange travelers chose to remain in the city, establishing a camp in the Northern outskirts. They seemed to be funding all of the repairs.