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Folks have been asking me to be more clear about the happenings of the main storyline and I've always meant to, but been too lazy to get to it. This thread will list the happenings with very few details (seek the details ingame, please). It will be broken into two parts: Island Happenings and Mainland Happenings. The first post will include information as far back as the end of the last era (a couple months back now in real time) to bring everyone up to date.

14th March, 2009

Island Happenings:

*In a case of divine intervention the Eleven are sighted at Mount Armageddon, the highest point on the island. The eleven deliver a cryptic message which ends the era and leaves the people wondering just what is different in this new age and what the gods' obscure promises meant.

*A small group of Lor Angurian wizards including a High Councilor arrive on the island seeking to meet with the various leaders of the island. Is something of mystical importance happening?

Mainland Happenings:

* The Young Great King of Albar, Kerrim Alganshar Karnberra is killed in a noble uprising which is said to have secretly been fomented by the priesthood. He is mourned both by Albarian peasants as well as the Noradaj tribe of his mother.

*Mainland at war! A militant and fanatical knighthood known only as the "Riders in White" for their tunics kept white with Fuller's Earth grows out of the ashes of the uprising in Albar and launches an attack on Lor Angur even as the throne remains unclaimed.

23rd April, 2009

Island Happenings

* Strange elemental phenomenon. Elementals creatures attack seemingly randomly. Two people momentarily slip into the Plane of Spirit. Peculiar storms and other odd things happen.

*Mages from Lor Anghur find out through divination that an ancient artifact of the gods--the Anvil of the Ages--was broken deep in it's hiding spot, in the "Lands Beyond Beyond." Thus explaining recent strange elemental phenomenon

*A strange visitor from the Lands Beyond (the elemental planes) interrupts a meeting between the various city officials to come up with a solution for the strange happenings. He introduced himself as Gob, a sprite (resident spirit of the elemental planes), and confessed that he was the one who broke the Anvil of Ages. He hinted of a coming coronation in which he would be made "Prince of all Shadows" and told the captive audience that he only wants them to fear him.

Rumors

*As you go about town you more and more often hear parents complaining of their children being afraid of the dark. Among children rumors go around of a creature called "The Night Man" who lurks under beds or in the closet, waiting to get children alone and steal them or eat them up. It's not uncommon to see children taking naps about town during the day now.

*A peculiar man stood on a soapbox in the marketplace for several days saying that hermits, the elderly, and loners have been disappearing every night right under everyone's noses never to be see again. Some days later the man is nowhere to be found, with only his old soapbox which still stands in the middle of the street as reminder of him.

Mainland Happenings

*Siege on the towers of Lor Anghur! This leads to the scholars on the island retreating home. Feelings are mixed about this development.