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=== Third Mortal Epoch - The Midnight Age=== | === Third Mortal Epoch - The Midnight Age=== | ||
* Abhorash is embraced as a Consanguine and the four houses are established. | |||
* The Demon Blade rises to prominence. | |||
* The First Totem War takes place in Tasur'ke, as the town angers the Hunter by expanding. | |||
* Bloodloch is resettled by Abhorash. | |||
* Lanos, the Lord of Truth, sacrifices Himself to seal off the Shadow Plane from spilling into the Prime Material. | |||
* Through a ritual led by Haern, the Great Oak is awakened as a conduit of Dendara. | |||
* Rahn is born from a mortal hero and the violent torture at the hands of an unnamed God, erupting from His volcano in a rage. | |||
* The name of Chakrasul, the unnamed God, is revealed by a powerful lich named Amairgen through a necromantic ritual. | |||
* The Sword of Lanos is shattered by Severn, leading to a crisis with the Shadow Plane that is promptly resolved. Lanos is confirmed as dead. | |||
* The latest of many skirmishes between the failed Ankyrean experiment, Zsarachnor, and the displaced Llazuth rock the lower levels of Azdun. In the aftermath, a servant of Llazuth, Lachesis, is returned to the service of the Spider Queen, and the Black Keep is revealed. | |||
* Lleis is awoken from the Mitrine stone in the Liruma scrubland. | |||
* The failing Priest guild splinters, and the Luminaries are founded under the guidance of Sahmie Rhayse. | |||
* Two of the landmarks of the War of Power are rediscovered, these being the Orrery and the Horologue. | |||
* The Ankyrean citadel of Spinesreach is uncovered in the Tarea Mountains, much to the torment of Qeddwyn. | |||
* An ancient sword, a failed precursor to the legendary Demon Blade, is uncovered beneath Hashan and subsequently destroyed after a resounding failure by the lich Amairgen to control it and the slaughter of many residents of the city. | |||
* A faction of Sentaari, led by Clio Thetis, sacrifice their grasp of Kaido for their own Inner Spark, following after the Luminaries and becoming the Daru. | |||
* The existence of the Grand Artifice becomes known to mortalkind. | |||
* A visitation to Zahmekoses and followers by the shade of Habbak, the last Ard-Dhasan of Spinesreach, culminates in the opening of the citadel and resettlement of the city for the first time since the fall of the Ankyrean Order. | |||
* Following complaints and insults from Eocik, a farmer of Spinesreach and harvester of secrets, the Cabal is founded within the citadel. | |||
* Enslaved Dwarven labourers in the caverns of Bloodloch rediscover a | |||
rusted blade, likely that of the shattered Demon Blade. Escaping the | |||
clutches of the lich Amairgen with the weapon, the Dwarf ultimately | |||
surrenders it to the hands of Trabarg the Archaeologist of Shallam and | |||
Dorin Silverbeard, a forger of some repute. | |||
* Ultimately, the blade is stolen by the Consanguine and bloodshed | |||
engulfs Hashan once again, after which Gar'losha himself awakes and | |||
retakes his blade, plunging it into his own chest and destroying both | |||
himself and his weapon. | |||
* Djeir and the Black Lake are revealed far below Azdun. | |||
* Alongside the return of Arion, God of Valor, and His Isle, war | |||
collides with the distant city of Ashtan in the form of shiploads of | |||
Nazetu. Only the intervention of Duiran prevented the Nazetu | |||
establishing a permanent foothold in the Bay of Balaton, and even | |||
afterwards it is known that Chakrasul walks the land once again. | |||
* The Black Forest south of Thera rises up and consumes the village. | |||
* The Syssin Defenders are formed in Spinesreach from the remnants of | |||
the Shadowsnakes. | |||
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* Arbothia is founded by displaced Therans. | |||
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* An attempt is made by Vasilus and Rosalind, among others, to cure the | |||
Yggdrasil of its corruption, with limited success due to the | |||
interference of Rellin and Sigfriend Cardinalis. | |||
* A cure for vampirism is discovered when Zsarachnor tricks his rival, | |||
Belladonna, into attaining mortality once again. | |||
* The spirit of Azaeru attempts to refound the Naldareth, calling on the | |||
Magi to reveal the Silver Spire and Kelsys and take up the burden of | |||
watching for the Children. | |||
* The Grand Artifice is penetrated by a shard of the Sword of Truth, | |||
revealing the Misty Isles behind the facade of Ashtan-that-was. | |||
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* The shell of Mebrene is killed when a misguided attempt to purify the | |||
Flame of the Yggdrasil, made by Ayalaine, channels corruption into | |||
Rahn's form. Forges fail to light and the sun fails to shine. | |||
* Necia, the Luminary tutor, is killed when Mebrene attempts to take | |||
them as a shell. | |||
* Mebrene takes a sick child as a shell and is reborn as Auresae. | |||
* The Sentinel tutor of the time, Vixen, is renamed Inesse by Auresae. | |||
* Lencissa, the last leader of the Illuminai, is brought forth by | |||
Auresae to serve the Luminaries as a tutor; her long vigil over the | |||
temple has however driven her mad, and the Goddess is forced to seal off | |||
the elemental's memories. Now known as Lenci, she takes up a post in the | |||
guildhall. | |||
* A ritual of remembrance for Tecpatl, a Rajamalan hero, frees Omei from | |||
Her prison. | |||
* The Teradrim Sect is revealed within Bloodloch as servants of the | |||
Underking, Dhaivol. | |||
* Two landmarks - the Fist of Dameron and Pillars of Maya - crumble to | |||
ruin. | |||
* A Grook named Oloo, fervent campaigner for 'Free the Suicide Mice' and | |||
'Live in harmony with the Beetles' movements, cordons off the Blood | |||
Falls, a landmark, for environmental reasons resulting from year-long | |||
marathons of blood-pouring. | |||
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* Iosyne returns to prominence. | |||
* The Tree landmark is destroyed by lightning. | |||
* The Crystal Cave is destroyed by an earthquake. | |||
* The Rememberers, a group of oral historians, are revived by Qedddwyn | |||
and the Oracle Orechnai. | |||
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* Wsalaly, traitorous guardian of the Globe of Balance in Ashtan, is | |||
killed by Barrkesh of the Bahkatu. It is revealed that Wsalaly's abuse | |||
of the Globe of Balance was directly responsible for the destruction of | |||
several landmarks. | |||
* Unable to reconcile the confusion within Himself, Dhaivol splits into | |||
Dhar and Ivoln. | |||
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* The Second Totem War takes place in Tasur'ke as Indorani and Bahkatu | |||
aggression spurs the populace to embrace undeath and destroy their | |||
totem. After the sanctifying of a monument to undeath and the subsequent | |||
vicious warring back and forth, as well as the emergence of a holy | |||
artifact called the Savage Crown, the defending spirits are destroyed | |||
and the monument is broken, leaving Tasur'ke covered in lifeless sand. | |||
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* Around this time, the secrets of Reanimation are discovered/developed. | |||
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* The settlement of Nuunva is revealed to the wider world when a search | |||
for a missing child wanders into it. | |||
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* The Chapel Gardens are stricken with a curse of undeath as traitors in | |||
the prison bend necromancy to their own ends. | |||
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* In a bid to take the power of the Silver Spire for themselves, Saayar | |||
of the Spellshapers of Ayhesa tricks the Magi into assisting in a grand | |||
heist. When Saayar explodes due to a miscalculation, the Silver Spire is | |||
destroyed in a vortex of power, and Kelsys is destroyed along with it. | |||
* The Kerrithrim, a huge and terrible beast, is wakened by the violence. | |||
Ia, ia. Shastaan is utterly destroyed in its emergence. | |||
* Arion is badly wounded in an engagement with the beast, fading away | |||
before His follower's eyes after only a brief scuffle. | |||
* Khepri is eaten unceremoniously when ordering the Kerrithrim to 'sit'. | |||
* A unified army is assembled from the villages across Sapience, and a | |||
plan is proposed by Corporal Cazin of the Enorian Army - using | |||
catapaults, a team of warriors could be launched onto the beast, to cut | |||
into it and kill it from the inside out. | |||
* Severn attempts to command the Kerrithrim while wearing the form of an | |||
unknown Goddess. The beast does not fall for His trick and the God loses | |||
an arm in the resulting scuffle. | |||
* The combined assaults of Omei, Galleus, Chakrasul, Ivoln and Dhar | |||
avail them nothing, and Galleus loses an eye to the Kerrithrim. | |||
* The beast is slain when Dreadlord Missari and the Azudim Warlord | |||
Mazzion survive the assault on the heart chamber and succeed in | |||
destroying it, and collapses beside the highway. | |||
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* Chakrasul merges with the essence of Khepri and becomes Ysmali. | |||
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* A second Master Crystal is revealed beneath the Globe of Balance as | |||
Alaihandra attempts to recruit Ianus of the Ascendril Circle into | |||
propping up the flagging guild of the Magi. | |||
* Mitrine hunters in the Tundra accidentally trigger an explosive device | |||
in the lost Ankyrean Containment Laboratory, sending up a beacon and | |||
killing most of the group. A group of adventures move to the containment | |||
facility, and Atrapoema releases an Ankyrean biological war machine | |||
called Amalgamated Prototype - Amal for short. In his rage at | |||
discovering the loss of the Ankyrean Order, Amal killed many, only | |||
halting when confronted by Qeddwyn and ordered to stand down. | |||
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* The Dreikathi invade from the east of Sapience, sending a fleet of | |||
airships to invade Delos, bomb Spinesreach and Eleusis, and finally | |||
regroup and establish a beach head in Scidve. Polemarch Andalso declares | |||
that Sapience has been claimed in the name of the Autarch, and demands | |||
the unconditional surrender of the entire populace. | |||
* The Aalen Forest is bombed with a terrible purple sludge, and | |||
mutations and death afflict all who live there. | |||
* Ashtan is conquered by the Dreikathi and they begin brutally digging | |||
out the leylines once called the Seams of Balance. | |||
* Having returned to physical existence and now seeking answers from His | |||
Brother Severn, Arion invades the minotaur village of Sterion and cuts | |||
His way into the Shadow Plane, vanishing from sight. | |||
* Amal rises from the Great Rock and destroys a Dreikathi airship | |||
single-handedly, destroying the Shooting Star Inn, then clashes with | |||
Polemarch Andalso directly before being struck down. | |||
* Weeks of guerilla warfare and outright conflict, as well as the | |||
singular efforts of Villi of Spinesreach in picking off Dreikathi | |||
troops, result in the driving-back of the Dreikathi, and through the | |||
theft of an airship followed by the machinations of an elemental | |||
eld'akathi, the continent of Albedos and the city of Delve made known to | |||
Sapience. The eld'akathi also spreads their power in benediction, | |||
passing knowledge of the Albedi tongue - previously called Herolian - to | |||
the people of Sapience. | |||
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* Dhar departs to examine the mystery of the Albedi dead. A revolt | |||
occurs within the Underking's Halls in His absence, led by the | |||
power-hungry Verkai. Edhain, Dhar's Order, as well as His High Priest | |||
Jirair, enter the Halls of Judgement to fight back Verkai but are | |||
repulsed. | |||
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* Haern attempts to cleanse the Aalen with divine fire, resulting in the | |||
wounding of the God and the emergence of blood-red stalks from the | |||
purple sludge. | |||
* A terrible disease rises up from the stalks. Known as the Aalen Bloom, | |||
it kills many with no apparent cure. | |||
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* When the Hunter attempts to speak to the assembled people of Duiran | |||
about the nature of His wound and His work in the Aalen, it becomes | |||
apparent that He is cursed to silence. Calling upon Auresae, the | |||
congregation learns that the Artificer's mark is on Haern's geas. The | |||
sudden reappearance of Severn, wielding the stolen blade of Arion, once | |||
the Sword of Truth and now the Axiom, throws proceedings into violence, | |||
and it takes the sacrifice of a slave named Danerran to distract the | |||
Artificer long enough for His Sword to be broken and the Artificer | |||
driven off. | |||
* With the breaking of the Axiom, Lanos' essence takes the broken body | |||
of Danerran as a shell and is reborn as Damariel. He frees Haern of His | |||
geas and speaks of Ohlsana, the Shadow Mother, and the true death of | |||
Arion. It seems that the God of Valor sacrificed his essence to fuel | |||
that of Lanos during their long imprisonment in the Axiom and the Shadow | |||
Plane. | |||
* A sarcophagus is uncovered in mysterious circumstances below the | |||
Mhojave Desert, guarded by a terrible Gorgon. Touching this sarcophagus | |||
consumes the blight of the Aalen Bloom, as well as something deeper, | |||
from the bodies of those who do so. | |||
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The first Idreth is born as Korvok Irontooth and Lauri pass uncovered | |||
Ankyrean writings to Spinesreach and Conduit Eleanor sucessfully | |||
undergoes the process. | |||
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* Ysmali is destroyed by the accidental assistance of Niuri, as the | |||
Goddess of Mystery attempts to assist Her Sister and instead overloads | |||
her. The sad remains of Khepri form a crazed beast, swiftly caged, and | |||
the essence of Corruption takes Empress Irijali of Djeir as a shell, | |||
returning Chakrasul to the realm. | |||
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* Seeking to fill the void left by Varian's silence, Galleus looks into | |||
the Ark of the Celestine and ascends to a higher echelon, leaving His | |||
domain of Air untended. Following raging storms in Spinesreach and the | |||
uneasy cessation of weather patterns, the spirit of Air takes root in | |||
Bokag, once-king of Hashan, and is reborn as Maghak. | |||
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* Iosyne is betrayed and murdered by Her sister Omei and brother Maghak. | |||
Omei takes Her eyes, and Maghak takes Her heart. | |||
* The planar orrery is rediscovered under Spinesreach, and the vengeful | |||
spirit of its Ankyrean tender is wrested from the young girl it was | |||
possessing and placed in a mindless shell. The spirit, Vusbati, shares | |||
with assembled Spireans some details of the Disturbance and the true | |||
origins of the Atabahi. | |||
* After meddling by two odd, mysterious Kelki and the assistance of | |||
Xavin, the Iernian Fracture yawns wide beneath the Putoran Hills, | |||
consuming the Naldareth facility housing the Ascendril guild in the | |||
process. | |||
* Baelak Shipbreaker, Nazedha Emperor of the Western Isles, makes | |||
landfall on Sapience. After allying himself with Bloodloch, his Nazedha | |||
Empire demands the obedience of the other three cities, only to be | |||
swiftly denied. | |||
* Shastaan is cleansed of its Thrim infestation by the Ascendril magi | |||
and a group of Kelki called the Pact. Strange, deformed cultists and the | |||
men responsible for opening the Fracture are also found, and killed, | |||
during the purging. A settlement is built over the ruins, named | |||
Mournhold by those living there. | |||
* The corruption of Dendara comes to a head, and in an effort to purge | |||
it of the Shadow that taints it, Lleis sacrifices Her life to merge with | |||
the plane. The Great Oak is revitalized in the process, Dendara is | |||
cleansed, and the spirits of the Praadi come forth, reforming the | |||
Shamans from the tatters of the Druid guild. | |||
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* The ancient edifice of Stormcaller Crag is reclaimed by Maghak and | |||
settled by Trolls from Hashan. | |||
* The Nazedha Empire invades Sapience in full force, sending units of | |||
highly organized and powerful soldiers to seige the mainland. | |||
* Their alliance with Bloodloch does not last long as the Nazedha turn | |||
on the mainlanders. | |||
* The Dun Fortress is conquered and rededicated to the strange Chaos God | |||
of the Nazedha, Lanu Du. | |||
* The Revelation of the Dark Spire of Nazedha is made known, shocking | |||
those scholars of Enorian who recall Sahmie's Revelation and the Age of | |||
Enlightenment. | |||
* Prince Tolonar turns to Lanu Du and the Nazedha for power, becoming | |||
lord and regent of the Dun Fortress. | |||
* The Entropic Acropolis, an alien shard of the Chaos Plane, along with | |||
its three strange and terrifying Lords is discovered to be accessible | |||
from the Dun Fortress. | |||
* After a vicious, bloody, gruelling war, the Nazedha are repulsed, in | |||
part due to contracting the Aalen Bloom that once decimated Sapience. | |||
Baelak retreats back to his islands, leaving the Balaton Bay conquered | |||
by the Nazedha and founded as a new settlement. | |||
* Iosyne is reborn in the depths of Azdun as a malignant and terrifying | |||
force, taking the name of the Malevolent. Llazuth proclaims the rebirth | |||
of the Dark Empire over the mangled corpse of Zsarachnor. | |||
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* The Sect of Blades is founded in Delos, for the glory of warriors. | |||
* Abhorash returns, dissolves the Imperium of Blood for their crimes | |||
against the Consanguine, and institutes the Dominion with himself at its | |||
head. | |||
* Dhar lays seige to Chakrasul's Tiyen Indoron, setting it to the flame. | |||
* The Pious Wards of Delve are opened to foreigners, offering insight | |||
into the absent Albedi Gods. | |||
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* Emissaries of the Dark Empire tour each of the four cities, | |||
reawakening old conflicts. | |||
* Iosyne's meddling in the Shadow Plane results in a plague of darkness | |||
afflicting both the Goddess and Her Order. | |||
* As Iosyne succumbs to the Shadowbound plague and is replaced by a | |||
strange and unstable double, Ati stirs in ancient Farsai. Revealed to be | |||
the progeny of the Shadow Mother, Ohlsana, the creature possesses the | |||
Spirean doctor Janus Anfini after killing its own priest in an attempt | |||
at attaining a physical form. | |||
* Severn intervenes directly to assist Moirean of Iosyne's order in | |||
understanding that her Goddess tapped into the Shadow Plane and | |||
succumbed to Ohlsana's corrupting power. | |||
* Strange, floating jellyfish appear across Sapience as Katia of the | |||
Pact accidentally blows a hole through the planes, only narrowly | |||
prevented from becoming a total catastrophe by the Ascendril guild and | |||
Belgarion. | |||
* Severn's intervention in Iosyne's Shadowbound state results in the | |||
return of the Goddess, although Her followers still suffer the | |||
debilitating effects of the Shadowplague. | |||
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* The threat of the strange jellies becomes apparent as they begin to | |||
nest, spawning in far greater numbers and demonstrating remarkable | |||
shapeshifting powers. The very fabric of the planes seems to warp around | |||
the pearls of their nest-spires, and intervention by Teani of Duiran and | |||
the Stormcaller Research Society is disrupted when bipedal, aggressive | |||
entities appear to seize the nests. The creatures are fought off and the | |||
jellies destroyed, and it seems stability has been returned to the Prime | |||
Material. | |||
* A rebellion occurs in Spinesreach at the hand of the mysterious | |||
anti-republic shadow broker, Vex. | |||
* A cult of insane Kelki is discovered under Mournhold, and the birth of | |||
a new Kerrithrim is only barely averted by an armed force of Enorianite | |||
and Duiranite warriors. | |||
* The Kobolds of Siha Dylis reopen their settlement in the dungeons of | |||
Azdun, having rebuilt after Iosyne's rebirth ruined their realm. | |||
* A delegation of Grecht from the distant and vast empire of the Dehkay | |||
Plateau visit the cities of Spinesreach, leaving behind a small | |||
settlement in the Northern Tundra known as Arget Efri. Soon after this, | |||
the renegade Grecht of the Siroccian mountains open the gates of their | |||
Arget Massai atop Mount Sheine. | |||
* Attempting to wrest power from the Source of Knowledge, Niuri is | |||
betrayed by Ivoln. The Gods watch in silence as Her hands are cut off | |||
and She is cast into the Source, destroyed almost entirely by the raging | |||
power of the rift. | |||
* The madness and corruption of Dendara are expressed once again as the | |||
ancient and cannibalistic spirits of Prophet's Hollow war with the | |||
ancestor spirits of the Praadi and the Sentinels. The Pride is gifted | |||
with new training to combat the aberrations that pour from Dendara's | |||
broken heart. | |||
* Mortal experimentation with Niuri's salvaged hand leads to the | |||
wounding of Vrennin and the plaintive dissolution of a fragment of the | |||
Ultraist's spirit, as a ritual to anchor the fragmented Goddess goes | |||
awry. | |||
* Current era. | |||
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