The Valdic Imperium Collapses

Extinction

A demiplane with hundreds of thousands of residents suffered a mass extinction at the hands of the Black Robes. Only 3 individuals were saved by the fast acting council of White Robes, brought to Armea to begin their new lives.

The Valdic Imperium was an expansive demiplane created by five Red Robe High Mages. It was created as an experiment so that the Conclave Arcanum could observe how societies develop and grow, learn from their mistakes and their successes, and use them as a model in Armea with the hope that it could aid them in taming Norstir. They employed the Black Robes to capture people and cast them into the demiplane they had created, before vastly speeding up the demiplanes temporal balance compared to Armea so they need not wait for their results.   Once the experiment was established many of the High Mages from all three Orders became involved in the experiment and posed themselves as Gods, guiding the peoples indirectly in the ways they imagined the Gods of Armea must with the hope of garnering the most accurate results.   Once the dwarves of the Imperium began to develop black powder to counter the might of magic in their world, the Conclave Arcanum knew the experiment needed to come to a close. Without informing the White Robes, the Red Robes instructed the Black Robes to create an apocalypse upon the world. One of the Black Robes, a High Mage by the name of Shnell, attached an astral avatar of himself to a psychic medium in the world, allowing him to become extremely potent magically while remaining exterior to the world. One of the White Robes, a High Mage by the name of Bence, sensed this shift when the medium visited one of the temples to his ally, Volka, and sprang into action.   As Shnell opened portals all over the world, sending undead and all manner of apocalyptic monstrosities into the world, Bence assembled the available White Robed mages and opened a portal for the medium and his allies to come through. Though they attempted to save other citizens of the Valdic Imperium, Shnell's apocalypse was a devistating success. Satisfied, the Red Robes handed the desolate demiplane to Shnell for safekeeping, along with all the tortured souls that festered within.   Only three managed to escape the collapse of the Valdic Imperium; Klaus Pegason, the medium that heralded the apocalypse, Diane, a hedge wizard deeply tied to the Plane of Shadow, and Ganora, a half-orc paladin now without a God.