November 2019

• BMG successfully escaped from the Ojasi military encampment with sealed battle plans
• Pursued over by Orcs westwards towards the Kingdom of Jorentes, Dawn message spelled Helm who agreed to rescue all of them for the price of the Blue Chalk
• Battle plans were delivered to the Jorentes military who hailed the BMG as heroes of the Kingdom
• The Sundials Warden, Korjay Scuben, saw something so terrifying when he was using the Sundials looking over the Helegu khaganate that he collapsed and entered a deep coma, before lapsing into a coma his final words were “Dolg Catar” and "Arrival"
• Jorentes reached out seeking information about the ‘Dolg Catar’
• Spies sent into the territory of the Blue Host are going missing and secret societies they use to learn more about what has happened either vanish overnight or refuse to have anything to do with it all because of the "imminent death" omens associated with looking into the “Dolg Catar” and "Arrival"
• Sunscale, the secret spy network for the Kingdom of Jorentes asks BMG for assistance, starting with travel through Helegu controlled lands to the home of the Blue Catar, one of the many steppe tribes supporting the Helegu.
• Andjav Teasliph, who is the head of the Solar Storm (the Jorentes Kingdoms magical forces) has lost a few of his people to this, and as he is currently involved in a secret war with the Mirror Host (the Helegu's imperial magicians) can't spare anyone else to investigate
• With the commencement of the discontinuance event, teleportation spells are now routinely failing in transit, leading to deaths, disappearances, failures to launch and off target landings at best

Gimblenock

• All gnomes of importance are being summoned to a meeting with the Living Ancestors - Xoser, Selphina, Fenyaris
• The gnomes are terrified, since the Architeuthis event the sacred machines ceased responding:
  • Blinding Ark
  • Petrifying Tablet
  • Bracelet of Nightmares
  • Jar of Storms
  • Hand of Agony
  • Malediction Microlith
  • Elemental Door
  • Faith's Arch
  • Nightmare Disc
  • Mirror of Delirium
  • Canopic Jar of the Scourge
• Even the sacred masterkeys failed to reactivate them
• Since the early arrival of the green comets the machines have reactivated, however this has been much worse - they’re haunted and are responding erratically
• There are things in the Spaces that are coming through and the Living Ancestors can’t lock them out
• Give one of the Masterkeys to Gimblenock
• All the sacred artefacts were crafted using the Gnome relic Crucible of Blackflame. Only 100 crucibles were ever created for all the gnomes in all the realms in all of time. As each extinguished it was never to be lit again.
• If Gimblenock is ever in the presence of blackflame the masterkey will burn and he must plunge the masterkey into the substance, recharge the key and return to the Living Ancestors

Dwayne

• Dwayne dreams of men in golden masks who will lead him into the dragon’s belly
• a non-Euclidean hallway with three roads;
• undeniable strength under a red sky,
• undeniable respect under a frozen sky; or
• undeniable contentment under a crystal sky
• Helm tells Dwayne that the Semseers had 2 messages for him:
  • “The 13 manifold Minds are Six,
  • Another never wakes but peaks at the borders,
  • Six are too few for the Spaces,
  • If existential vanishing you desire – choose Six,

• • Your Ruby red love
  • One of Three Faces
  • Lost is the Third before they are One
  • Your problem of Six
  • They may resolve
  • Do not choose the One”

• • “The Triquetra is a prison of their own making,
  • Cross it so you may oppose the southern warlord
  • Don’t cross it and watch,
  • The final son of Holocene,
  • Rise,
  • As the Hero of the Age
  • And you stay in Shadow”
  • Is it real?

Essen

• • Essen's brother knows the Ojasi leadership are “soul sick, they are terrified are no longer existing.
  • He heard the shaman and arcanists whisper in hushed tones that existence is crumbling. It is undefining. That in order to have any chance of surviving the end, they must destroy to survive. When the Ashen Forge has turned absolute cold, when Nishrak is silent and the outer realms forgotten by the Spaces, the Ojasi will be standing, where no other will
  • Essen’s brother took on their father’s blood debt
  • 500 years ago, Elwin of Zinwel (grandfather) made an alliance with the banished first son of Liodan, Elyon
  • Elyon was dissatisfied with the limits of Elven traditions and rites, including his demand to be the keeper of Sapphire crown - vigorously denied by the rest of Liodan, as it was a position given not taken and would require the death of those in front of him in the order of succession
  • Denied influence from within, he sought greater and greater power outside, including turning to the patronage of the Nine Hells.
  • When this was uncovered, he fled and was banished in absentia, leading him to trade with the Witch Queen of the Aphotic, who offered to place him as the head of the Western Liodan in return for securing her vault during the time of the Ardreth discontinuance (named after the Elven magician who foresaw its coming)
  • Their grandfather and uncles had squandered their position of influence
  • Their father had been ruthless over the past 100 years in dominating and destroying those who he deemed responsible for laying low their clan, but required the help of Elyon to slowly madden the First among the First, allowing their father to claim the position of the First
  • Their father optioned his debt to his first born - Essen, but his brother discovered this when he came of age and took on the blood debt to Elyon and was sent to use his skills in training the Wolf Trolls and other forest beasts of the Ojasi, and serve at the whim of Elyon.

Grundark

• The many dwarves of the Saturn Mountains have outposts in Solis Major
  • “You are not alone
  • Sless will reunite the last of your tribe.

Dolg Catar

• The Blue Cathari and Northern Cathari are the last steppe tribes that recall Dolg Catar facing the rage of the twin armies of the Undying and the Shapeless
• All the great fortresses of the Khans fell one by one to the the advance of Twin Armies

Blue Host Helegu

• Pretenders to the Khanate have thrown their lot in with the Silver Host
• The Silver Host have used this as a pretext for invasion, citing the softness and weakness of the Blue Host and their betrayal of the Helegu way
• Vassal states and territories include:
  • Northern Barbranid States
  • Chalcoli Territory
  • Kingdom of Lengyel
  • Yamnaya Dynasty
  • Cotofeni Republic
  • Cernavoda Principalities
  • Kurgan City-States
  • Tiszan Holds
  • The Badens
  • Steelhold States
  • Stone
  • Elves of Volodar
  • Elves of Tarathiel
  • The Sundamar Elves
  • Slave Cities of Jydengiss (Gnome)
  • Torromel Clans (Dwarves)
  • Uthoc-Longreach Kingdom (Dwarves)

Arrival

• The last stand between the Alin and the Dolg Catar took place on the Red Fields where the Carkade assailed the last Dolg Catar fortress that contained the final wormhole to the 12 Alin worlds
• With the commencement of the discontinuance event, parts of the Alin Advance are reaching this world
• Cosmic horrors trail in the wake of the Alin Advance and are entering the mortal world
• The Arrival that sent the Sundials Warden, Korjay Scuben into comatose was his mind brushing with Great Old One Karsus Tchella

Alin

• The Alin who have survived for the last 6,000 years trapped on their 12 worlds have existed in a state of total war with undead, white wasps and other cosmic horrors.
• To survive their many enemies the surviving non-undead Alin made a pact of servitude with the Great Old One Karsus Tchella
• The Alin subscribe to the Dark Forest theory
• The few who "survived" the fall of Alin and were left behind were turned undead and are now answer the clarion call of the Carkade and Ammutseba.

Karsus Tchella

• A Great Old One who draws its power from the Horned God
• Is served by Titans