After five centuries of cold war and false starts, the Nine Kingdoms ("New Order") and the Order of the Dark Gods ("Old Order") have finally done the inevitable. The Nine Kingdoms are throwing all of their resources behind a full-scale invasion of Drakazoriem, the Old Order's continent and stronghold. It is there that the battles are fought, on the burning plains and by the acidic lakes.
As the war rages on, the New Order's citizens are growing concerned. Their strongest defenders, the greatest wizards and noblest clergymen, are far from home. Any crisis on their native continent Alalsil would be disastrous. Vigilantes have risen in the last three years, and they have become more trusted than the soldiers that were left behind.
In Croppell, the sandy and most dangerous of the Nine Kingdoms, something ancient has been unearthed. An abandoned mine has been reopened, only for the miners to discover that the mines had not been empty after all. Undead creatures, older than the Nine Kingdoms, have been waiting in the darkness for the day when they could rise back to the surface-world.
Only a handful of people are in the area and able to stop the new threat . . .
A carefree noblewoman with Hand Magic...
A vigilante "technomancer"...
A newlywed couple from a wealthy line of magically-inclined merchants...
A married noble couple returned from the war but dying to charge back into it...
And a motley assortment of three Death Mages and ten soldiers that would rather be somewhere else. |
