War of Shadows is the name I give to the longest running campaign I have ever been part of.  All counted, a little under four years of actual active time.  About once every week or two during most of that, but things really speeded up during the summer.  Sometimes (in the summer of '99) we'd play as many as three or four days in a row, up to six hours.  After that, yours truly was quite drained, but such is the way of things.

            Provided below is a short account of the War of Shadows, including the major characters, the magicks, and the setting.  The short account is still rather long, even though it's still missing the latter parts of the campaign.

PCs - Wehn
NPCs - Vile
Lay of the  Land
Map (Color / B&W)
Races
Deities
Thread Magic
New Spells
New Magical Items

In the Beginning...
        Backstory- what came before
        Discovery- the first adventures, before they figured out the actual threat.
        Opening Volley - When they begin actively working against Oroth's plans
        Good turns against itself - The parties involvement in the beginning of the war between the Elven Empire and Milandar.
        Box of Shadows - How the party managed to loose the same artifact three times through their own flub-ups.

Second Age
        The Lake of Dreams - Solo adventures delving into the nature of magic and the world  (warning: strange and disjoint)
        The Second City - A mythic quest, slaying a boatful of unprepared PCs and rewarding those who were worthy

The War Proper
        Acquisition of Means - relic hunting and friend making
        Battles Against Oroth - twin battles against the dark god
        Civil war in the Elven Wood - destruction reigns as Malix becomes increasingly desperate

The Age of Prophecy
        A Welcome Rest - The party hangs back out of affairs, tending to their own personal intrests long enough to regain sanity.
        Building and Rebuilding - A new order is forged where the old one fell.

Cameos
        Cameo #1 - The Shadowknife
        Cameo #2 - Cydwin's Droogs
        Cameo #3 - Powers beyond their means
 

Special Thanks to the Dread Pirate Mike (for T'lann, One-Eye, and Stormbringer) and David Eddings for writing really cool books.
 
 

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