Lore

The Imarel Timeline - by T.A. Saunders ©2009 v1.5
Updates by S. Robles, B. Kellestine, D. Schneider.

The Oruthun Incident - Present Day

1364 AC --The liquidated North Reach Company would be reformed again under the banner of Hope Company in Thereen, where they would be forced to deal with a series of consecutive and overlapping incidents all stemming from the awakening of a Helid of immense power known as Oruthun, whose corruptive influence easily tempted and subverted the minds of countless innocents, both dead and alive. The Smoldering Dead, a more malign and volatile subtype of Burning Dead, wreaked havoc across Ishaela while a blackhearted man took advantage of bubbling discontent in the rapidly changing nation of Sengaard to sow an attempted coup of the newly established Barony of Sengaard. By the time Oruthun was near resurrection, two provinces -- one in Sengaard and the other in Quivyn -- had been wiped off the map, and millions were displaced by the destruction. A tentative allegiance between the remaining members of the Shiver Blood Five and Hope Company saw the fall of an evil pirate lord who fell under the sway of Oruthun to raise an armada of vile Smoldering Dead, while solving a mystery long-held by the Kaal`Kor as a secret revealed the means to purify both a tainted Burning Dead Xinntu serving the raging Vakunah, and the ancient Vocorian himself. While the truth behind Oruthun's ultimate defeat is obscure and cited differently depending on who is asked, it is known for certain that Vakunah allied with the Song of the Sea, Esmarwrath, to drive the evil Helid from Adanum forever—quite possibly with the unsung support of Hope Company.

1365 AC - Perhaps as a ripple-effect due to the events of the Oruthun Incident in 1364, many of the Vocorians begin to stir once again. This disruption of the power-balance on the supercontinent forces a great number of the Vocori Zissah and their slave-races to be forced out of their conquered lands. The Zissah began to push out towards Albadosia and Taijun; this conflict stirred up the relative peace between the Human nations, resulting in a three-way war in the west. This conflict is known as the Slave War, as much of the fighting between the Zissah and Albadosians was fought by slaves.

1370 AC - An unknown benefactor finances an expedition to the outer edges of the Burning Lands, using Ometta Outpost, a popular trade center in the Tashrani Desert, as a base of operations. In the West, the Warlock-King dispatches Ahemsherat agents and their captured Vocori slaves to the Burning Lands to capture a relic known as the Wellspring of Hate. This led to a conflict between the archeological expedition, and the Heroes who protected them.

During the conflict where the Heroes defeated the Ahemsherat agents and acquired the Wellspring of Hate, one of the archeologists and some of his friends were lost, abducted by a mysterious race of insectoids known as the X`jaani. Instead of merely being killed or assimilated by the hive-mind, the unique physiology of Sentis made him an appropriate vessel for the will of the long forgotten Spirit of Hate and Corruption, Klet`Isenel. The vessel and his X`jaati began to assimilate nearby settlements into their hive-mind, but were eventually defeated by the Heroes of Ometta, led by the Crusader-Princess Naiselle Blackthorne.

At the same time, the Reaver of Tashalasheeri, Dame Shivar, headed a party of heroes to cleanse the Wellspring of Hate, which turned out to be a corrupted symbol of affection between Tashalasheeri and Hazad. Once cleansed, Shivar carried the chalice to the Draconic enclave and to Hazad, who presented the chalice personally to Kaal.

Zorah, however, felt that this was not where the chalice belonged, as it was rightfully Tasha’s. So, as Kaal drank from the chalice, Zorah, in her infinite wisdom, clipped a piece of Kaal’s beard, stirred the beer in the chalice, then tossed it into Mirdhal within eyesight of Tasha’s dream, so that it might ever remind the sleeping Dragon Goddess of the bond between her and Hazad. A being formed and rose from the froth - Iridi, the God of Love. The androgynous deity declared themself Kaal and Zorah’s youngest, and possibly last child, but also claimed themself as the god-child of Tashalasheeri and Hazad, and remained in Mirdhal.