Lurin
Duke
So, one of the issues we often run in to is that often many people are behind the times, or unawares. While I would always wish to have better information myself, I can only help things from my position.
So, with that in mind I have some information I think everyone needs to know that will need to be addressed promptly.
There is an island off the northern coast of Typhany, located west of the infamous spider island. In the past this island has been relatively peaceful, and unknown to most because it was unremarkable. That has recently changed and the island bubbles and seethes with dangerous forces, that are too dangerous to confront at the moment, but must be defeated as soon as possible. Now these words are used often in our lands, almost too often, so I will explain why and let you draw your own conclusions.
Recently a number of us have been reached out to by a pair of elemental paragons of Life and Death, as most opposed forces and elementals do, they had been engaged in a titanic struggle for eons, the ebb and flow of the energies of their combat flowing into the world around us maintaining the natural order of life and death. Many years ago, in the dusts of history they arrived upon this island and crashed into it, bursting into a cavern at a most in opportune time. Their battle brought them into a circle of elementalists attempting to capture and tame an Chaos elemental, an overlord in strength as far as I could tell from the visions and my studies. This destruction left the chaos overlord trapped in the body of an elephant with the two paragons.
I will break here for a moment to explain part of why this is such a dangerous issue. Elementals, much like us, have their own rankings, an Elemental knight for example, would in general be a match, but not an insurmountable one for the entire adventuring population most days, often having strong martial skills and natural magics, occasionally including some abilities on par with dragons, although their access to such are far more limited than such great beasts. An Overlord is much like a Duke might be, their own might incredibly great, but bolstered by the elemental Lords and Knights they hold sway over, as well as a far larger number of shards, imps, lesser, and great elementals of their type. An overlord would likely outmatch our town entirely without the adventurers having a significant ally or advantage, indeed a small portion of his servants would likely destroy the town.
As great as an Overlord is in power, they pale in comparrison to a paragon, which is so far above an Overlord as to feel no threat from one. This explains why the paragons ignored this creature as they continued their struggle. As they did so the creature stalked around the circle for centuries, absorbing the power from the elemental nodes that were ment to contain it, growing in strength. When the final energy of the nodes was expended and the creature had gain all it could, over a millenium, it was a batch for the paragons, to late they realized it and just recently they were consumed into the beast, who proclaims his name to be Thonesh. This consumption and the release of the circle containing him has set the island ablaze with his magic.
Now a Paragon of Chaos, the beast has consumed both Life and Death, and uses that force to negate their influence, a lack of both life and death energies leaves only undeath and the island is already awash with it, those with weaker spirits already have been turned into zombies and undeath. Some pockets of resistance remain, as well as a few ancient keeps but it is not safe to goto the island until the initial waves of chaos and undeath die down. Paragons have great power, and our window to destroy him will close quickly, he has not been able to fully integrate the paragons of Life and Death who have reached out to a few in town and are lending as much power as they can, power Thonesh won't have while it's kept from his hands, power that will weaken his hold in this world.
Consider this, while his power is being confronted, and countered by TWO paragons, weakened through they might be, Thonesh has already destroyed a large island removing not only life, but also death, leaving only a tortured existence behind. Given more time, the paragons will be consumed, leaving Thonesh with enough power to extend his reach far into our shores, and likely beyond.
Those they know me, know I am the last to call for action or battle, but this creature could very likely consume tens of thousands of lives and render half our world unlivable with his power, including the area where our people live.
So I ask, who will come and confront this threat? I could use a strong, experienced leader to head the charge, or lead us into battle, against what will likely be an army of undeath. Given his history as an undead hunter, and his recent actions which can't help but prove that he holds the interests of others above his own well being, a trait that I have little, if any claim to despite my efforts, I would hope that Kalin would stand up and lead us in this, supported by the knights if they are willing to serve as battle leaders under his overall guidance and experience with the undead.
Even if no one else is willing, My group will be doing all we can while this small window is open, but I expect, and hope, many of you will join us to ensure this threat is destroyed before it's deadly influence can reach our shores. Once we know who is coming, plans should be made for not only how to penetrate the waves of undeath, but also defeat Thonesh himself.
So there it is, I'll put out the call myself, who will stand up against this threat to the world?
So, with that in mind I have some information I think everyone needs to know that will need to be addressed promptly.
There is an island off the northern coast of Typhany, located west of the infamous spider island. In the past this island has been relatively peaceful, and unknown to most because it was unremarkable. That has recently changed and the island bubbles and seethes with dangerous forces, that are too dangerous to confront at the moment, but must be defeated as soon as possible. Now these words are used often in our lands, almost too often, so I will explain why and let you draw your own conclusions.
Recently a number of us have been reached out to by a pair of elemental paragons of Life and Death, as most opposed forces and elementals do, they had been engaged in a titanic struggle for eons, the ebb and flow of the energies of their combat flowing into the world around us maintaining the natural order of life and death. Many years ago, in the dusts of history they arrived upon this island and crashed into it, bursting into a cavern at a most in opportune time. Their battle brought them into a circle of elementalists attempting to capture and tame an Chaos elemental, an overlord in strength as far as I could tell from the visions and my studies. This destruction left the chaos overlord trapped in the body of an elephant with the two paragons.
I will break here for a moment to explain part of why this is such a dangerous issue. Elementals, much like us, have their own rankings, an Elemental knight for example, would in general be a match, but not an insurmountable one for the entire adventuring population most days, often having strong martial skills and natural magics, occasionally including some abilities on par with dragons, although their access to such are far more limited than such great beasts. An Overlord is much like a Duke might be, their own might incredibly great, but bolstered by the elemental Lords and Knights they hold sway over, as well as a far larger number of shards, imps, lesser, and great elementals of their type. An overlord would likely outmatch our town entirely without the adventurers having a significant ally or advantage, indeed a small portion of his servants would likely destroy the town.
As great as an Overlord is in power, they pale in comparrison to a paragon, which is so far above an Overlord as to feel no threat from one. This explains why the paragons ignored this creature as they continued their struggle. As they did so the creature stalked around the circle for centuries, absorbing the power from the elemental nodes that were ment to contain it, growing in strength. When the final energy of the nodes was expended and the creature had gain all it could, over a millenium, it was a batch for the paragons, to late they realized it and just recently they were consumed into the beast, who proclaims his name to be Thonesh. This consumption and the release of the circle containing him has set the island ablaze with his magic.
Now a Paragon of Chaos, the beast has consumed both Life and Death, and uses that force to negate their influence, a lack of both life and death energies leaves only undeath and the island is already awash with it, those with weaker spirits already have been turned into zombies and undeath. Some pockets of resistance remain, as well as a few ancient keeps but it is not safe to goto the island until the initial waves of chaos and undeath die down. Paragons have great power, and our window to destroy him will close quickly, he has not been able to fully integrate the paragons of Life and Death who have reached out to a few in town and are lending as much power as they can, power Thonesh won't have while it's kept from his hands, power that will weaken his hold in this world.
Consider this, while his power is being confronted, and countered by TWO paragons, weakened through they might be, Thonesh has already destroyed a large island removing not only life, but also death, leaving only a tortured existence behind. Given more time, the paragons will be consumed, leaving Thonesh with enough power to extend his reach far into our shores, and likely beyond.
Those they know me, know I am the last to call for action or battle, but this creature could very likely consume tens of thousands of lives and render half our world unlivable with his power, including the area where our people live.
So I ask, who will come and confront this threat? I could use a strong, experienced leader to head the charge, or lead us into battle, against what will likely be an army of undeath. Given his history as an undead hunter, and his recent actions which can't help but prove that he holds the interests of others above his own well being, a trait that I have little, if any claim to despite my efforts, I would hope that Kalin would stand up and lead us in this, supported by the knights if they are willing to serve as battle leaders under his overall guidance and experience with the undead.
Even if no one else is willing, My group will be doing all we can while this small window is open, but I expect, and hope, many of you will join us to ensure this threat is destroyed before it's deadly influence can reach our shores. Once we know who is coming, plans should be made for not only how to penetrate the waves of undeath, but also defeat Thonesh himself.
So there it is, I'll put out the call myself, who will stand up against this threat to the world?
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