Significant Historical Events

The Final Mercy

Serin the Twice Cursed ascended into the heavens during the last Planar Alignment to enter battle with the gods themselves and bring an end to the thousand year blight. During the battle Serin chose to sever the Tendrils of the Void that connected our Material Realm to the Divine and Infernal Realms. In order to accomplish this Serin made a sacrifice of her seemingly limitless magical energy. As the Void Web recoiled from the impact, reality itself expanded and contracted. After the initial shockwave fell upon the world, those left standing would see a blinding point of light falling from the heavens, plummeting back down towards the planet Finn. As the scriptures tell the story, this light was Serin The Ascended. After falling through the warping, rippling folds of reality eventually that point of light collided with the planet like an asteroid. Coming down in the middle of the central seas. In the years that followed this event, The Shards of Serin (immensely powerful magical crystals) began to wash up on all the shores of the mainlands.




Historical Heroes

Serin the Twice Cursed

Serin the Twice Cursed Ascended into the heavens during the last Planar Alignment to enter battle with the Gods themselves and bring an end to the thousand year blight once and for all. During the battle, Serin would discover that the only way to truly end the blight would be to sever the Tendrils of the Void that connected our Material Realm to the Divine and Infernal Realms. If the denizens of either could continue to exert their influence on the Material Realm the blight would always be assured to return before long.

In order to cut through the Tendrils, Serin made a sacrifice of her seemingly limitless magical energy. Focusing every ounce of power she could muster from her fragile connection to the Spirit of Finn into a single, unimaginably powerful beam of pure mana. She directed the beam through the now overlapping layers of reality, aiming directly for the connections between our world and theirs. When the beam struck the Tendrils the entire Void Web recoiled from the impact, reality itself expanded and contracted as the shockwave rippled out across all Realms and Worlds.

After the initial shockwave fell upon our World, those left standing would see a blinding point of light falling from the heavens, plummeting towards the planet. As the scriptures tell us, this light was Serin The Ascended. After falling through the warping, rippling folds of reality as time itself began to stretch and wobble, eventually that point of light collided with the planet like an asteroid. Coming down in the middle of the central seas.


The Locke’s & The Key

During the last Planar Alignment, after helping his ward Serin the Twice Cursed achieve ascendancy and rise to fight the Gods in the battle of the Final Mercy, Agent Locke rushed to the aid of Braeden, the last living Frost Giant and leader of the Ordo Jotun. Braeden had stayed behind at the ancient Frost Giant Temple, to assist Avery, (former holder of the title Locke and currently still alive due to a form of Lichdom) in keeping the blight-bitten Frost Giants frozen in time, both for their safety and for the safety of the entire Realm.

During the ensuing battle against the Divine forces Braeden held back the rallying Angels as Locke and Avery worked to seal the Frost Giants in their time bubbles once and for all. The two finally completed their rituals and deployed the last known vial of Liquid Time, then sealing themselves inside the temple on Braeden’s orders. When the last of the ancient alchemical substance had finally dissolved weeks later the two emerged to discover Braeden frozen in time at the vanguard of his brethren. Holding high his mighty shotgun, in defiance of the gods themselves.

Locke mourned deeply at the loss of Braeden. He was his commander in the order but more than that, he was like a father. As Locke openly wept at the loss of his friend the demon Key took advantage of Locke’s emotional state and began forcing herself to the forefront of Locke’s consciousness. Since the walls between realities were so thin Key, who had been imprisoned and bound to Locke when he joined the Ordo Jotun, was able to break through from the Mirror Realm and split away from Locke’s mental binding once and for all.

After finally escaping Locke’s grasp Key attempted to steal his very Life Force in order to cement her place in the Material Realm and avoid being sucked back into the Mirror Realm as the Planets came out of alignment. As Locke’s Life Force quickly drained, Avery, realising that if his Living Phylactery were to be robbed of all Life Force so too would he perish, made the snap decision to bind himself to Key. Avery’s body withered as his essence merged with Key and he was sucked into the Mirror Realm.

Locke, swearing himself to the cause of saving as many of his friends as possible, descended into Avery’s tomb to gather the knowledge and materials he knew to be within that would allow him to live forever in undeath. His mission would be a long one. And no longer could he allow the small distractions like eating, sleeping or getting old to distract him from his purpose.


Braeden, Master of the Ordo Jotun

Having fought tooth and nail for over 600 years to end the blight and cure his people of its affliction Braeden was not about to let the Armies of Heaven ruin everything he had worked so hard for. The ancient Frost Giant Temple would be the site of his final stand against all that Heaven had wrought upon him and his people. A fitting battleground, since it was where the blight was first brought into existence, and where Braeden, Avery and their friends had stopped it in its tracks so long ago.

As the Planets were brought into alignment and the walls between Realms thinned, Braeden stood firm against hundreds of Angels as they rallied outside the Temple. With each thunderous boom of his mighty shotgun another warrior of Heaven was laid low. Before the end, Braeden had slain so many Angels, and so much Divine blood had soaked the grounds that the area hundreds of miles around the temple would forever more be lush, fertile and green instead of the frozen wasteland that it had been for a millennia.

Braeden trusted in his friends. He knew Locke would be able to activate the Liquid Time just as he knew Serin would be able to turn the tides in the war against Heaven, wherever she was now. His job was only to save his brethren, hoping that one day Locke or whomever else survived might be able to bring the Frost Giants back into the natural order.

In his last moments Braeden felt the shockwave blasting over the Temple from the war in the Heavens and knew that Serin had succeeded. And as he felt that moment stretching out on into infinity he knew that Lock had as well. A broad smile crept upon his haggard face as he raised his mighty shotgun in victory. His was a face that had not known the feeling of a smile for hundreds of years. He knew that if no one else survived he may wear this one for an eternity. And he would wear it proudly.




TODO - Acquire write-ups for this history of the other PCs from the old campaign:

Thelkor - Shadow Assassin

Livi - Pirate Queen

Reiliegh

Arathir - Magus, Holder of Brombar Higgleby’s soul with his BlackBlade