Prologue

**Real World Date: n/a**

**In Game Dates: September 10th, 5000 M.E. - September 18th, 5000 M.E.**

**XP: 0**

## Erevan Siannodel

Living a life of luxury, moving from village to village in the Veryd Forest, Erevan Siannodel awoke to a rude awakening when he awoke to a shoe in the face. Everyone around him, including the woman he took to bed the night before, has seemingly gone crazy and are obsessed suddenly with praising Luontu.

Fleeing the forest, he encountered four Elves: Theren, Peren, Ivellios, and Aelar who are seemingly unaffected by the chaos. They join forces and attempt to flee the forest together. Theren is hit with a poison dart and stays behind to give the rest a head start. The rest run into a patrol of Elves and fight them. The defeat them, but the rest of the Elves had caught up, slaying Ivellios and Aelar.

Erevan and Peren escape the forest. They are met outside the trees by a patrol of soldiers from the nation of Marta. The patrol sends them to a refugee camp nearby where he is told to report to Randal Buckman to provide his eyewitness account.

## Rhagnar Frostbreaker and Thorgrim Thunderhammer

Needing to leave his church, Thorgrim Thunderhammer means to leave town for a while since a man that hates him, Arom Stonebreaker, has recently taken over. He asks if Rhagnar Frostbreaker has any jobs that would take him out of the city, and he just happened to have been assigned protection detail of an Ambassador heading to Sanye. Thorgrim volunteers himself and the both head out of the city.

On the road, they are attacked by a roaming group of Verydian Elves who have become sort of bandits. They quickly dispatch them, but they are disconcerted by this and the rumors of the entire Veryd Forest going crazy. They soon reach the city of Sanye and check into and Inn. The Ambassador gives them a letter to them and tells them an old friend has requested he send capable skilled warriors to help him with a small undertaking.

Armed with a note from the Ambassador, the pair head to the house of Randal Buckman.

## Arkul Wrax

Having made a horrible deal with a fiend (**Korbeth**), Arkul Wrax has been seeking out divine artifacts and items so that one day he might slay the demon and free himself of the deal he made with it. He arrives at **Valya** seeking out a sage known as Aratha Stormbrand. Upon arriving he realizes that she is blind, but that doesn't stop her from seeing what Wrax is and why he is here.

She heard word of a location in the Eres Wasteland where ancient divine items might be buried, undisturbed for centuries. She will part with this information if she helps one of her old friends, Randal Buckman. She gives him a letter and sends him to the city of Sanye.

Wrax heads east to meet with the noble Randal Buckman.

## Aust Nailo

Living on a farm run by his Uncle, Gorstag Hornwood, Aust is returning home from delivering some crops to the marketplace. He approaches some local farmers being harassed by some Verydian Elves on the road. He asks them to leave, then they decide to target him instead. His Uncle approaches and after a brief battle, the Elves are dispatched.

His Uncle then realizes that the situation with the Verydian Elves is getting worse, and he recently received a request for aid from his old acquaintance Randal Buckman, now a noble in **Sanye**. Realizing that Randal may need help, he sends Aust Nailo with a letter to meet with him.

Aust heads northwest to the city of Sanye. Upon reaching the city, he sees that the racial tension has reached a fever pitch as he stops some men from assaulting a random Elf on the street. Realizing that war might be imminent, he heads to the house of Randal Buckman.