Waas created the elves, who shared her love of crafting beautiful works. However, the elves were too serious for her liking, and she asked if she could create once more. With her sisters’ aid, she created the halflings, a whimsical folk who better embodied her playful nature. The elves, a prideful people, felt betrayed by this, though she had meant no offense. Believing their god had spurned them, the elves turned their back on their mother and worshipped Assuine instead.
2024-02-19 12:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Riloth, with the help of his sisters, created the humans, who embodied the storms of Kaltis that Riloth created and loved. They had the capacity for great power but left destruction in the wake of their passions. Eager to see what else he could create, Riloth asked his sisters for another try and this time the orcs were born. Like humans, the orcs were a people ruled by their passion, but the orcs were not as covetous of wealth as their siblings. Instead, the orcs hungered for glory, driv...
2024-02-16 12:03:17 +0000 UTC
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With Aurial, deep in her waters, Assuine and Illunia created the race of seafolk. The seafolk were a people content, like their god. They did not long for wealth or power like the races that were to come after but lived simple lives beneath the sea, which provided for all their needs.
-Unnamed Dwarven Text
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WIZ 105, typically Kole's favorite class seemed to have chosen to pile on his difficulties. The class was a general study of first-tier w...
2024-02-12 12:30:01 +0000 UTC
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Trying once more, Torc created the gnomes. In them, Torc found the capacity for invention that the dwarves lacked. Where the dwarves were stout and strong, the gnomes were nimble and weak. The two races, ever pragmatic like their god, found they complemented each other and together filled Torc’s body with wonders of strength and cunning.
-Unnamed Dwarven Text
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“Ow!” Kole yelled as he got slapped on the head by Zale while he was running ...
2024-02-09 12:19:16 +0000 UTC
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Torc was happy with his creations and allowed them to reside within the earth he’d become, but he felt that something was missing. While the dwarves embodied his enduring nature and passion for building, Torc saw that they did not share his passion for progress. The dwarves could plan and build, but they never strove to innovate beyond improving their crafts.
-Unnamed Dwarven Text
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Kole didn’t let Tal escape with only one pointer. He show...
2024-02-05 12:39:23 +0000 UTC
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Learning that their involvement was required, Assuine and Illunia approached each of their siblings and, with them, created the Illusian races. The two goddesses worked with Torc, deep in his earthen shell, and created the race of dwarves. The dwarves were made to be a strong and enduring race, like their progenitor.
-Unnamed Dwarven Text
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Kole spent the remainder of that Friday holed away in his room, alone. With the time dilation of the dun...
2024-02-02 13:09:03 +0000 UTC
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For ages untold, the gods worked across Kaltis, creating wonders great and small. Even the presence of Faust’s creations, Erebog and Bilieth, was tolerated in those happy days following the battle. After Illunia and Assuine created the first dragons, the other gods desired to create a thinking race of their own, but they quickly found that without Illunia and Assuine’s aid, the creations failed. It was in these trials that many dangers that still roam Kaltis today were created.
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While ensouled artifacts can no longer be created, soul stones can be used to enhance and empower enchantments, but the secret to this process is closely guarded by enchanters, and this author will not risk their ire by publicizing their secrets.
-Deckard’s Compendium of Ensouled Artifacts
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With Doug’s help, Zale dragged the unconscious Rakin through the tunnel up to the inn. A crowd had formed there, people cowered in fear in the corner ...
2024-01-29 13:44:17 +0000 UTC
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It is said that the process of creating ensouled artifacts is lost, but that is not strictly true. Many accounts of creating ensouled artifacts still exist. It is simply that following those procedures today doesn’t result in the creation of an ensouled artifact.
-Deckard’s Compendium of Ensouled Artifacts
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Kole had to fight his way upstream of the villagers fleeing towards him through the tunnel. An icy wind blew down the caves, carrying...
2024-01-26 13:15:34 +0000 UTC
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Ensouled artifacts, for lack of a better word, choose whom they shall Bond. Those taken through murder rarely Bond with their new owns, unless the creator was of particularly unsavory character. It Is however common for items taken in battle to accept their new owners if the creator was martially inclined.
-Deckard’s Compendium of Ensouled Artifacts
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“This is the longest month of my life!” Rakin shouted to no one in particular sometime ...
2024-01-25 13:03:16 +0000 UTC
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When the owner of an ensouled artifact dies, the item can be Bound only by someone who has a kinship of some type with the creator. Famously the Sword of Igan has been passed down by the Chosen of Waas.
-Deckard’s Compendium of Ensouled Artifacts
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Over the next week, the white-out conditions became so bad, that they could hardly tell if it were night or day, only the innkeeper’s clock letting them know the true passage of time. The inn, t...
2024-01-24 13:22:27 +0000 UTC
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Reports from before the Flood tell us that ensouled artifacts grow in power alongside their creators. With this magical growth, come physical growth as the item becomes more magnificent in the eyes of its creator.
-Deckard’s Compendium of Ensouled Artifacts
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Everyone donned their coats and cloaks—except for Rakin who instead began to take off the thick woolen clothes he’d been wearing, returning to his normal loose-fitting robe.
2024-01-23 14:32:09 +0000 UTC
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While the specifics of their creation are lost to the waves, we know that to make an ensouled artifact, the creator must use their own soul stone in its construction.
-Deckard’s Compendium of Ensouled Artifacts
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After departing dinner on Wednesday night, Kole fell into a fugue state of narrow-minded focus. He worked late into the night on his wizardry. He started with Magic Missile, piecing together the pieces of a dozen spells to rebuild the next v...
2024-01-23 14:31:55 +0000 UTC
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Ensouled artifacts are the rarest and most powerful of all magic items. While they were once prolific and the most common of all magical items, the secrets of their creation were lost during the Flood.
-Deckard’s Compendium of Ensouled Artifacts
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Minus the changes to Zale's complexion, things mostly returned to how they were before the eventful weekend, with of course the addition of Doug.
Doug joined their martial class and practice...
2024-01-22 13:10:16 +0000 UTC
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Once the gods had left, the races spread across the world, and men and dragons met and interacted once more. By then, the dragons had learned to rein in their hunger. However, the relationship was not the peaceful, cooperative one it had once been, and there existed a distance between men and dragons from then on.
-Unnamed Dwarven Text
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Kole escorted Amara back to her dorm elsewhere on the crafting college’s part of campus. He asked a femal...
2024-01-21 17:32:05 +0000 UTC
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The gods eventually fled Kaltis to the newly created Celestial Realm. They learned that their presence thinned the barrier between the Realms, allowing Faust’s minions to flood the Material Realm from the Realm of Fauell, which Faust had created in secret with the aid of Bilieth and Erebog.
-Unnamed Dwarven Text
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While the mood between Kole and Zale had improved slightly, they didn’t hang out after history class. She made a weak exc...
2024-01-20 11:28:07 +0000 UTC
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Eventually, this led to strife amongst themselves and between the dragons and men. The dragons did not seek to do harm, but they could not remain with the mortal races without doing so. With heavy hearts, they retreated to the far reaches of Kaltis to live in isolation and conquer these strange new urges.
-Unnamed Dwarven Text
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The rest of the night after the ambush went by in a blur. The city watch showed up, the screams of the thugs having drawn the...
2024-01-19 11:43:18 +0000 UTC
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As the races grew and prospered, the dragons grew in knowledge and power alongside them. Like their mother Illunia, the dragons had an innate hunger, a remnant of their connection to Faust through her. Some hungered for knowledge, like her, others for power or wealth.
-Unnamed Dwarven Text
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The conversation hadn’t gone as terribly as Kole had feared—it had been an abject failure as far as getting a mentor went, but as far as general conve...
2024-01-17 12:11:09 +0000 UTC
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The dragons spread out over the world, exploring the wonders the gods had made, and when the gods followed the creation of dragons with the creation of the Illusian races, the dragons acted as shepherds and guides.
-Unnamed Dwarven Text
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Kole and Zale bought a meat-stuffed bread roll from a cart and ate in a park while they killed time. Once they were done, they sat in the grass, watching some children play a game of hardball.
Well, Za...
2024-01-16 14:21:51 +0000 UTC
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What was meant to be a simple but beautiful beast grew to be what we now call a dragon. Instead of being distraught by her mistake and loss of power, as small as it was, she was thrilled. For the creatures she had helped create had something that no others save the gods yet possessed. The dragons had intelligence and could speak.
This breakthrough showed the gods the key to the creation of sapient races, and they continued on to create the Illusian races, including humans, ...
2024-01-15 22:21:01 +0000 UTC
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Intrigued by the creatures that Assuine created on Kaltis, Illunia asked if she could assist in birthing more. While Assuine had created the plants and animals of Kaltis all on her own, with the aid of Illunia, she was able to create something great and more powerful. Illunia was new to creation and, in her excitement, put a portion of herself into the creature.
-Unnamed Dwarven Text
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Kole looked from the two wooden women to his surroundings in ...
2024-01-15 13:05:27 +0000 UTC
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At her birth, Illunia knew little but possessed a burning desire to learn. Knowledge became her domain, and she sought to experience all that existed. While the other gods were born into the void that became the Arcane Realm, Illunia was born into a world rich with wonders to explore. She traveled throughout the Realm, exploring planets, stars, and moon before returning to Kaltis, for here the gods still labored, creating new wonders each day as they kept the Wardens company.
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Riloth and Assuine created with love, while Erebog and Bilieth were born of deciete.
Illunia the last was born out of Faust’s defeat.
Bild came far later to help in the fight, and sealed the foul brother as his siblings took flight.
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Amara, Zale, and Kole were eating a light lunch Zale put together with what they had in the kitchen—which was very little—as they discussed less historically significant events.
“I...
2024-01-14 11:09:21 +0000 UTC
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Oan came and created, leaving four behind.
The four would grow to know what it meant to be divine.
Waas, the nimble, the greatest artist out of these.
Aurial the contented, strong and deep like her seas.
Torc the steadfast, enduring, and strong
Faust with passions that would lead him to do wrong.
-Children’s Poem
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“Did you know she could do that?” Amara asked when t...
2024-01-14 01:10:17 +0000 UTC
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Wizards have been eager to devise spells for these new Fonts, seeing the potential to simplify the high-tiered multi-Font spells. Progress has been slowed by the difficulty in finding gates to the Arcane Realm in proximity to the new Fonts.
-Tallen Elmheart, Secondary Fonts
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Kole scrambled to his feet and dove behind a counter just as a tongue of fire flew past him.
"Rakin! It’s me! Kole! Stop!" He pleaded.
No response c...
2024-01-13 06:00:02 +0000 UTC
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These new Fonts are of a different class from the originals and have some notable differences. The Primordials that arise on the Material Realm for these new Fonts are much less destructive. Creatures living in proximity to these Fonts also develop into Primals at a much faster rate.
-Tallen Elmheart, Secondary Fonts
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Kole’s light had followed him behind the shelves and revealed a long hall spotted with doors. The floor was the same white stone a...
2024-01-12 14:55:53 +0000 UTC
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While it is still not known exactly how, it is now clear that new Fonts are now being formed. While the gods created the originals by pulling more granular concepts from the all-encompassing Font of Creation, these new Fonts are formed from the combining of Fonts. Some examples include Understand, formed of Bonds, Mind, and Identity; Wind, formed of Force and Air; Illusions, formed of Mind, Light, and Sound.
-Tallen Elmheart, Secondary Fonts
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2024-01-11 13:36:57 +0000 UTC
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By the time of the Flood, no new Font had been discovered in hundreds of years. Lidian Oakcrest’s discovery of the Font of Understanding (dubbed the Community at the time) after the Flood was the beginning of a new era.
-Tallen Elmheart, Secondary Fonts
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Saturday at breakfast as he, Zale, and Rakin met, Kole finally got around to asking Zale about the specifics of her silence aura. Amara hadn’t shown, and they’d forgotten to invite D...
2024-01-10 17:54:45 +0000 UTC
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Early exploration of the Arcane Realm by the Illusian races was fraught, and hundreds of mages lost their lives. Over time, methods were developed, such as entering the Arcane Realm in the proximity of a Primordial. The early rate of Font discovery was rapid.
-Tallen Elmheart, Secondary Fonts
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Everyone but Amara was waiting for Kole as he arrived at the meeting place.
“Sorry!” he apologized. “I didn’t mean to sleep so long. Will dr...
2024-01-09 16:41:02 +0000 UTC
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The Font were created in the void, but through their creation, the gods built something within the nothing. The void around the Fonts became the Arcane Realm, and ceased to be the void at all.
-Tallen Elmheart, Secondary Fonts
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Doug joined the group for lunch and they headed over together discussing the possibilities of their next week’s mission.
“Did you know that about the dungeon?” Kole asked Zale.
“Sort of?”...
2024-01-08 16:10:00 +0000 UTC
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