The Wadepaign

### Discovery

* The Old Empire discovered the island of Poenas Dare as they explored off the coast of the Northern Peninsula.
* The name of the island was given by General Damus Naerve when he suggested it be used as a prison island.
	+ The original prison complex, Dignitas was too expensive for the Empire to maintain. As funding began being pulled from the prison, the guards were slowly overrun and the entire island was just turned into a cage.

### Pre-Nightfall

* After the island fell out of use, the overall condition stabilized as small prisoner societies began to form. Villages popped up across Poenas Dare, each intertwined by a rudimentary economy mostly made up of bartering. Attempts to unite the island under one central government were ultimately fruitless.
* Due to the lack of advanced civilization, deaths from disease and famine were common. Feeding off of this energy, Typhore constructed a monster from the souls of the dead. He named this monster Apertus. Apertus was incubated in a large cave beneath the Agaran Twin Lakes.

### Nightfall

* During the Nightfall, monsters took hold of the island en masse. The small, largely unfortified villages could not fend off attackers and fell quickly. What few prisoners remained had become more monster than man.

### Post-Nightfall, Pre-Refugees

* After the Nightfall’s end, a religious sect worshipping Domine made a pilgrimage to the island in order to purify it of its evil past. Among these pilgrims were John Callimus and his mentor, Grand Warden Atreus. The group, numbering nearly 200, set up a central monastery within the plains region.
* As their numbers grew, they moved further into the jungle to the southwest. Their new, larger monastery had multiple levels and underground chambers. John Callimus had now earned the title of Father, becoming the second-in-command to the Grand Warden.
	+ With this, Callimus began to lose himself in his thirst for power. He began to carry out unholy acts in secret, up to and including murder.
* Callimus began to grow more and more confident in his delusions of grandeur, his mind was warped by Typhore. Typhore started by whispering demands into the back of Callimus’ mind.
	+ From there, Callimus began to act more irrationally and erratically. One night, in a hysterical rage,
* Callimus attacked Grand Warden Atreus. He was banished from the monastery and sent to fend for himself.
	+ He returned to the original monastery and began to practice dark magic to bring about the return of Typhore to the mortal plane. However, his efforts were held off by the purifying magic of his colleagues.
	+ Multiple attempts on Callimus’ life were made, though he proved to be far too powerful to be stopped.

### Arrival of Refugees

* Following the banishment of the La’tryn Lich, the giants of the North began to reclaim their homelands from monsters. The monsters were forced South onto the Northern Peninsula to find nearby bountiful raiding land.
* Four notable refugees arrived very early on in the evacuation efforts: a Drow named Alabaster, a Catfolk named Holtzcat, an Aasimar named Gubson, and a young half-elf named Arnette.
* Alabaster and Arnette met shortly after arriving, arranging a friendship and business partnership in the town square. After setting up a shop near the lodge, the younger Arnette is approached by a slaver. Hearing a scuffle, Alabaster goes outside to protect her. The slaver is struck down in combat by one of the slaves, Holtzcat, who remains to adventure with Alabaster.
* The group meets a newcomer in the lodge that night, a priest named Borneby Gubson. That night they hear whispers of a quest from the captain of the Jodge militia. They go to see John Callimus to receive instruction.
* Callimus offers a bountiful payment in exchange for the group defeating his adversaries, the religious order led by Grand Warden Atreus.
* On the journey towards the new monastery, the group is assaulted by zombies. Holtzcat’s soul is corrupted by dark magic in a near-death experience. He begins to experience unexplainable phenomena.
* At the edge of the jungle, an adventurer named Ledil joins the party. He uses his knowledge of adventuring and exploring to guide everyone into the jungle if they help him find his friend Davey.
* The group travels into the jungle, where they are attacked by the last remaining bugbears on the island.
* The group enters the monastery to find it ruined and dilapidated. They descend into the building to find numerous zombies. At the bottom they find Grand Warden Atreus, who they engage in combat. Holtzcat turns against them, siding with Atreus. A battle ensues in which Holtzcat is purified and it is discovered that Ledil’s name is actually Davey, however he pretends to be Ledil to cope with the death of his friend. Davey dies.
* Atreus dies, but not before relaying that Callimus is the real villain. He was using dark magic to create the illusion that Atreus and his followers were demons, when in fact they were just regular people.
* They exit the monastery to find even more zombies. Time has been frozen and the sky is warped.
* The group heads to the north, finding an exceedingly rare neat hat in the Junan Wastes.
* They travel east to the Agaras Sanctuary. It appears that one of the lakes is water, while the other is missing entirely. Gubson attempts to take a sip from the water, which appears to have been replaced with a monster. He is sucked in and barely survives.
* They meet a fisherman named Thorvald, who agrees to come with them to restore order.
* In the Agaras Sanctuary, the group visits a shop and comes across a horrifically cursed artifact. It is an amulet that meows incessantly. They throw it into the hole.
* The ground begins to shake and the monster Apertus rises from the hole. He destroys the entire sanctuary in a mere moment.
* The group escapes back to Jodge to find melted, deflated corpses. The only survivors are Arnette, Rodge, and Raj. They gather supplies and devise a plan to escape the island by boat. However, when they reached the only boat in the port, they discovered it was a mimic.