Terror from the deep

In the period of Late - Antiquity, the Skandian High Command was informed of a popular rumour spreading between the crewmen of the 1st Royal Wolfship Fleet after a pair of yellow lights, travelling unexplainably fast, passed the fleet when they were returning from a classified mercenary assignment.

Upon hearing this news, Oberjarl Hallong set out to the Village of Aslaga. Notations and ancient documents have been recovered, mentioning that Hallong came here to converse with Skandian sailors who claimed to have reached an uncharted island prior to following yellow lights matching the description set by previous witnesses.

The following is a word to word transcript, translated from the report of Oberjarl Hallong's bodyguard.

Oberjarl Hallong walks to a trio of sailors, preparing their fishing boat at the villages dock

Hallong: Don't recognise your Oberjarl, do you?

Fishermen: Sorry my oberjarl, we were focusd in da job

Hallong: I only jest, I do not expect you to remember my face.

Hallong: Now, I have heard that one of you has discovered something unusual in our blessed oceans? The oldest fisherman nods silently

Fishermen: "With respect, my oberjarl, dis man is crazy. He speks of sea serpents.

Hallong: Silence, I wish to hear him speak The oldest fisherman falls into silence, immense sadness on his face

Hallong: Proceed

Fisherman: I'm from the south island, between Domiluvie and Skandia, we got a rumor that in the south there was huge fishes, the tripulation accepted the challenge, we were 27 including me, during days we fished few fishes, one day, we waked up in the middle of the fog, then something clashed against the hull, we prepared the arpoons, then we say, a huge serpent moving towards us, we shoot it and tied the rope to the ship, the beast started moving making crawling us, we were lost in the fog and suddenly the rope break, after some hours maybe days we to a abandoned city" he says while remembering the confusion of that time "we disembarked there, we needed food, however the streets made of stone were empty also the houses, some of us didnt wanted to go further that place was dammed, statues made of gold in every street, the city was made fully of stone somenthing i never saw in my life, then the fog dissapeared suddenly and we saw a inmense dome made of gold in a top of a hill, some of my friends wanted to go, i wasnt that brave i already was feeling that something was out of place, do you understand ?

Hallong: I do, did all your friends leave to loot the dome?

Fisherman: no no no, some of us stayed in the main square of the city, the others went to the palace of the hill Fisherman: "our friends didnt returned after some long time, and then a scream in the hill, then we saw it, a monster of the high of two grown men ripping Olse by the half with his bare hands, then more of them started to get out of the palace, we were in danger so we run to the ship as far as we could, we run away, only 11 of us survived, the ones that stayed in the square and some that stayed in the ship, we get the paddles and started to paddle as fast as we could, the a misterious wind like if the same Pothidions wanted to help us got us out of that place, after that we spent days in the open sea, while a yellow light in the deeps of the sea followed us, however whatever it was didnt dare to attack us, Pothidios protected us, then when we arrived home we tried to say what happened but they thought we were crazy"

He stutters over the last part of the story, and looks down to the planks after finishing

Hallong: I am grateful for the opportunity to talk to you, and sorry for your friends. He beckons over a bodyguard Hallong: Make sure this man and his village are excused from taxes this month, and receive extra food from our storages.

Fisherman: I am thankful, my oberjarl. Please remember, the yellow is the snake, only pothidios can fight it

Hallong nods, and walks away

Throughout the rest of the event, the monsters completed minor attacks on land with alarming successfulness in The Federation of Tarkyren, taking over one town before being pushed back by Kaltrian Reinforcements.

The Monsters also attacked a Domivilian village, however they were easily repelled.

Skandian, Domivilian, and Kaltrian leaders met together to discuss the problem at the capital of Kaltria. After a short conversation it was concluded that no assault would be made due to lack of information, Angel I (the Kaltrian Emperor at the time), later went on to attempt to contact his gods to consult about this problem unfortunately failing and dying in the process.

The event was considered concluded when the monsters did not attack for 3 months, and were not seen again by Skandian Sailors in the area