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EPRESSA
Shadows bend and break under the moonlight, taking shape and form to wander and search. A spell gone wrong, and the shadows come to claim.
Shadows bend and break under the moonlight, taking shape and form to wander and search. A spell gone wrong, and the shadows come to claim.
Stories of shadowed figures making their way towards Alliria have been surfacing, and it isn't until such whispers and fear reach the small settlement of Tearan, a few hours journey from the large city, that something needed to be done. A plague of darkness that travels quickest in the night, blessed with the clear skies to allow the moons' light cast the heaviest of pits of darkness for the shadows to coax more numbers.
Only six shades reach Tearan, met with a force gathered to fight and defend. Having heard that the number of creatures had been higher, it spreads hope that they could be defeated, but none braced against the oncoming darkness know how it could be achieved, besides the mage that came to warn Tearan of the shadow's approach. Exhausted and wounded, the mage had collapsed, but you only need to hold off the creatures of shadow for a couple of hours before rousing the recovering harbinger.
The gates around Tearan have been barricaded, but the six shades outside prowl the perimeter, looking for ways to get in and feed on more strength before they continue on to Alliria.
Will you stand and fight against creatures born of darkness and shadow?
LIADAIN
A lullaby to keep you from peaceful slumber, a cry to unsettle. Death is close, looming, and the spirits are dwindling in wait.
A lullaby to keep you from peaceful slumber, a cry to unsettle. Death is close, looming, and the spirits are dwindling in wait.
A trading town between the lands of the Aberrasai Savannah and the Falwood have sent word with travellers and merchants brave enough to take the trade route to spread their pleas for help. Near a week of the incessant wailing and keening of a banshee, the people of Satriya put out a call to help drive away the banshee so that whomever's death nears may know peace.
The presence of a banshee has also scared away business, and now supplies and trade through Satriya has slowed and disrupted the everyday life of those that dwell in the town. Efforts to ignore, to block out the sounds of the banshee, have left them irritable and unsettled.
To help keep their minds off from the omen of death, every night when the wailing grows loudest, music, dancing, and drinking is put on so that they may fill their days with happy memories rather than succumbing to the impending death of someone residing in their community. Those that answer their call must gather their wits and brave the unsettling vision of the banshee. So beautiful, so real, but all strange and feral in her message, many warriors and heroes lose their nerve before crossing the river to chase her away.
Will you be brave and put an end to Satriya's haunting omen, or will you join them and pick up their spirits as one of them nears their death?
Restless spirits of departed souls gravitate to carrion, inhabiting and nesting in the flesh and infect predators that feast on these kills. Whether it be fresh or old, it will find a home. Only through the act of digesting the infested, the spirit slowly takes over the predator like a parasite.
It is common for this to happen in the Valley of Decay, and a cautionary tale for those traveling in the area take care to not eat any meat. Such a possession has turned feast into famine, and in some cases the Carrion parasite grows sentient enough to kill living beings and feast on their flesh.
Ravaryn is under threat. An adventurer had hauled back to the desert city a large cut of meat from a kill with the intention of selling it for meat and pelt, but a scent trail leading straight to the city catches the attention of a large bird commonly found in the Valley of Decay. Hunting, the Carrion-infested creature looms above. The city is on lockdown. No one in, and no one out.
Will you be amongst women and men to kill this parasite, or will you succumb to a fate of misfortune?
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