Infestial

A Shrouded druid who was heavily involved in the Clash of the Cabals.

## Key Events

546BE: Infestial was known as Infestial and an acknowledged druid.

472BE: Infestial was hooded and became a Shrouded in a ritual in Deadwood.

402BE: Infestial arrived in Weatherdark in part to help safeguard it against the new nation of Armakania. The elves had been driven from Tor Armakan and the Ark-Tower by Arkadius Secondsight and his mages. The nearest elven nation in the human city-states area was Weatherdark and the remnants of the elven forces fled there. Infestial and his fellow Shrouded and Shadeborn were instrumental in stopping the Armakanian border spreading further.

366BE: The Dragon's Eye cabal went north when it fled the civil war in Tor Armakan to Infestial's home of Weatherdark. There the cabal attempted to control the elven settlement and seize control of its magical forces and treasures. Their most powerful members were in direct league with dragons. Some elves in Weatherdark joined the Dragon's Eye cabal including one of Infestial's one time allies a harsh wizard who had occasionally assisted the Shadeborn in thier strikes.

Infestial openly opposed the cabal and threatened any elf treacherous enough to side with them. The fear and blended respect the elves held for the Shrouded druid held things in the balance. Eventually this descended into outright conflict with deaths on both sides. Infestial and his Shadeborn forming the core of the elven resistance.

365BE: Eventually, Infestial found a more paletable leader for the elves in the archmage Silvernial. Infestial knowing that the Shrouded were not suited to lead the elves of Weatherdark in this conflict. With Silvernial, he was able to step out of the direct line of leadership and concentrate only on destorying the Dragon's Eye cabal. The most important part of the plan the two elves devised was the killing of any wizards linked to dragons.

Infestial with a compelled group of fey and four Shadeborn warriors killed one of the dragon-linked wizards in the middle of the night. This death was not noticed until hours after it had taken place. His underlings found him and his guardians dead pierced by the thinnest of cuts. It is still uncertain how this was done but all sources agree on Infestial as the source. He was seen as the blade whereas Silvernial was seen as the crown of the elven forces.

364BE: Infestial wrought kill after kill among the wizards and was held in great awe and fear even among the elves his own people. Silvernial, though less feared caused perhaps the most important upset for the guild in this year. He engaged the wizard Dranic Felbrow in a wizards duel and simply outmatched him openly and utterly.

Silvernial was content to leave the cabal broken but Infestial was not. He ordered his broken fey and Shadeborn allies to kill as many of the cabal as possible and any who sympathised with them before they were able to get clear of elven territory. Importantly this included the killing of three elven 'traitors' about which the poem 'Darkest Dreaming' was written. One of these was the elven mage who had been Infestial's ally, some would even claim friend before he joined the Dragon's Eye.

122PE: Infestial may have died in this year. If he had it would have been 668 years old.