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The island beneath which Sartan lies imprisoned becomes the scene of mysterious and disturbing manifestations. Chief among these phenomena is a stalagmite, located inside the island's mountain. Sartan's followers begin, like lemmings, to repeatedly impale themselves upon the object, their purpose unknown until some few reveal that they have been told that thus may they purchase the release of the Evil One from His bonds, with their blood and life essence. Others, through divine trickery, are told that impaling themselves upon the thing is a way of ensuring His continued imprisonment. Those who do not believe the lie, led by the Church and Oakstone work to prevent the continuous serial impalements, but their efforts are largely fruitless. Soon a miasmic, roiling, blood red fog begins to spread about the island, consuming vegetative life. Eventually the fog, growing in power and evincing an eerie quasi intelligence begins to spread to the continent, belching forth foul demons who terrify the populace of Sapience. Gaia, the Earthmother, becomes alarmed and, seeking to stem the horrific tide, causes an earthquake with which She hopes to sink the island, apparent source of the evil haze. Alas, the fog only spreads with renewed vigour. Adding insult to injury, the event seems to crush the bonds of Sartan, allowing Him release from His prison, whereupon he sets forth forming a new body from the now plentiful supply of | The island beneath which Sartan lies imprisoned becomes the scene of mysterious and disturbing manifestations. Chief among these phenomena is a stalagmite, located inside the island's mountain. Sartan's followers begin, like lemmings, to repeatedly impale themselves upon the object, their purpose unknown until some few reveal that they have been told that thus may they purchase the release of the Evil One from His bonds, with their blood and life essence. Others, through divine trickery, are told that impaling themselves upon the thing is a way of ensuring His continued imprisonment. Those who do not believe the lie, led by the Church and Oakstone work to prevent the continuous serial impalements, but their efforts are largely fruitless. Soon a miasmic, roiling, blood red fog begins to spread about the island, consuming vegetative life. Eventually the fog, growing in power and evincing an eerie quasi intelligence begins to spread to the continent, belching forth foul demons who terrify the populace of Sapience. Gaia, the Earthmother, becomes alarmed and, seeking to stem the horrific tide, causes an earthquake with which She hopes to sink the island, apparent source of the evil haze. Alas, the fog only spreads with renewed vigour. Adding insult to injury, the event seems to crush the bonds of Sartan, allowing Him release from His prison, whereupon he sets forth forming a new body from the now plentiful supply of | ||
demonic fog. His new body is a horror to behold, mutilated, scarred, as though the evil once held deep within His heart, was now worn upon His face and form. Rejoicing in His newfound fortune, Sartan proclaims Himself Sartan the Malevolent. He takes control of the island that was once His jailer, imbuing its very stones with His essence. In an act that promises dire fortune at some point in the future, the Malevolent One calls His faithful unto him, brings into manifestation a monstrous edifice called the Baelgrim Fortress, and endows an organization calling itself the Maldaathi Knights upon the former, humiliated Infernals. Kaelin is appointed as leader of this new guild. With most of Achaea now at peace for the nonce, discussion and debate on the natures of so-called Good and Evil once again dominate the public news boards ad nauseam. Lately, debaters on the subject of the true nature of Chaos, oxymoronic as such a subject must perforce be, have also entered the fray. Achaea abides. | demonic fog. His new body is a horror to behold, mutilated, scarred, as though the evil once held deep within His heart, was now worn upon His face and form. Rejoicing in His newfound fortune, Sartan proclaims Himself Sartan the Malevolent. He takes control of the island that was once His jailer, imbuing its very stones with His essence. In an act that promises dire fortune at some point in the future, the Malevolent One calls His faithful unto him, brings into manifestation a monstrous edifice called the Baelgrim Fortress, and endows an organization calling itself the Maldaathi Knights upon the former, humiliated Infernals. Kaelin is appointed as leader of this new guild. With most of Achaea now at peace for the nonce, discussion and debate on the natures of so-called Good and Evil once again dominate the public news boards ad nauseam. Lately, debaters on the subject of the true nature of Chaos, oxymoronic as such a subject must perforce be, have also entered the fray. Achaea abides. | ||
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The flooding of Lake Vundamere from the rains has caused a lot of the rubble to be washed away as it receded, allowing exploration of the area around it. | The flooding of Lake Vundamere from the rains has caused a lot of the rubble to be washed away as it receded, allowing exploration of the area around it. | ||
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Aegis and Eris fuse the divine essence of their realms together into a sphere of energy and plant it atop the Golden Dias of Creation, causing the sphere to soak up the primal chaos around it and grow into The Eileithyian Tree. Sapience watched with baited breath to see what may come of this union, the likes of which had never been seen before. | |||
The tree blossoms with twins, a boy and girl, but before the couple could admire their new children, a slash tore across the sky, and an entity entered into the realms from beyond them. Killing the thing of chaos that was the children's guardian, the entity stole the boy god and returned to beyond the skies. | |||
Later, The Eileithyian Tree offered up the young girl, and an overjoyed Aegis and Eris named Their daughter Pandora. The day could not remain happy, however, as the sky tore open again, and the entity returned to try and steal the fledgling goddess as well. The entity was revealed to be none other than the one-time ally of the Triumvirate, Prince Slith. In a rage, Aegis chased Slith back through the tear in the sky, the rift between the worlds sealing behind them. | |||
Cree founds the Arcanist guild in Cyrene. | |||
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Pandora steals the Caduceus of Castigation from Sarapis while He was on a trip out of the realms. Upon His return, He questions Her to explain Herself, only to be told cheekily that it had bored her and next time she would steal something more interesting. Instead of fury at this indignation, Sarapis laughed, until it became apparent that the artefact had become fused to Her hand from the over-use She had given to the realms in Sarapis' absence. The only way to recover the artefact was to sever the Goddess's hand, which was done. For Her actions, Sarapis named Pandora the Goddess of Mischief, and Phaestus crafted Pandora a new hand made of silver to replace the one She had lost. | |||
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The wall of power that had kept explorers from venturing to the farthest northern reaches had been lifted. This led to Rick discovering the village of Kamleikan, and Senans discovering the village of Aran'riod. | |||
Following the upsets within the forest, a path had cleared up that was eventually discovered by a dryad servant of Queen Titania, leading to the stronghold of Forest Watch, rumoured to be one of the first human settlements outside of Ceylon, before the Buckawn overtook it. | |||
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