Long Night

A Long Night was a major magical manifestation which, when invoked by ritual, stopped time. As long as the 'Long Night' was in effect: ambient temperatures plummeted; the stars did not twinkle, but shone with a "strange, dull light"; the moon neither rose nor set; fires were heatless and their flames were "frozen" in place above their embers; and the "vigour of life" was suspended. This suspension of time of a 'Long Night' could encompass an area as large as a plain, or a space as small as that enclosing a single individual. A not uncommon, non-magical form of the 'Long Night' - known simply as a long night - could take place during a dying person's final night. This long night would be co-terminous with the actual night, and dawn would find that death had arrived and had claimed the dying.Fall of Light, Chapter 23, US HC p.703-704
==In Fall of Light==
A 'Long Night' was invoked by Hood by accessing the Jaghut magic of Omtose Phellack and the new magic initiated by K'rul, in order to open a Warren's gate into the realm of the dead, thus allowing Hood's army to wage war on their avowed enemy, Death.Fall of Light, Chapter 13, US HC p.394-395Fall of Light, Chapter 22, US HC p.698Fall of Light, Chapter 23, US HC p.702-704 Those who passed through this gate left behind the mundane world and were "dead...or as good as".Fall of Light, Chapter 23, US HC p.718
==Notes and references==
Category:Events
Category:Magic
Category:Omtose Phellack
Category:Warrens
Category:Hood's Path