The Neutral gods step in to broker a peace between the Dark Gods and the Gods of Light, putting an end to the large scale battles fought by their followers and embedding in the mountains a wonderous artefact- 'The Link'- that requires a representative from all humanoid races currently living on the island to join together every 10 years without violence to perform a ceremony, or it will unleash death on all humanoids anywhere within the land
History of the Link
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524 PS
Kythorn
The creation of the Link
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The Link is taken
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Kythorn
The Bonded Ones
ExpeditionThe Bonded Ones, an adventuring party balanced between all humanoid races, manage to recover the artefact just in time to prevent it triggering. It is taken back to the mountains, and this time The Bonded Ones mount a permanent guard
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614 PS
Tarsakh
Hag-ridden
Military actionA hag infiltrates The Bonded Ones, in an attempt to gain control of the Link, but is defeated in battle
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835 PS
Kythorn845 PS
Kythorn
The Dark Silence
Religious eventAll of the temples of the Dark Gods simultaneously go quiet- unnervingly in the same day and hour. Nothing is heard from them for 10 years
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845 PS
Kythorn
King Kentric becomes Linked
Life, Achievement/ WinKing Kentric takes part personally in the Link, having had reports that half of the Bonded Ones have mysteriously passed away. Within a day of the ceremony being completed, the temples of the Dark Gods resume service as if nothing had ever happened
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898 PS
The Missing Link
Criminal ActivityThe Link is once again stolen by unknown hands. King Godric III, realising he is too old to deal with the issue himself, sends his daughter, Mage-Princess Jessamine, to seek it out. She is not heard from again
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Kythorn
The Secret Link
Religious eventPrincess Jessamine does not appear, but nor does death sweep the island. No-one now knows the location of the Link, but it is assumed to have been either disabled or secretly activated
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Ches
The Link Located
ExpeditionA party of adventurers find the Link and the Bonded Ones still guarding it, held in some form of suspended animation. The lost Mage-Princess Jessamine is one of them. They report in secret to Queen Marguerith III, who elects to keep the knowledge within the royal family only
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1105 PS
Kythorn
The Link resounds
Religious eventIt has been 200 years since the disappearance of the Link, and most have forgotten it exists other than the Adventurer's Society. It comes as a shock, then, when at midnight on the summer solstice a bell like sound rings across the entire island and an earthquake shakes every inch of it. Frantic research suggests the most likely cause is the severing of the Link due to the ceremony not being completed. Everyone waits anxiously to see what the result will be
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The Temple Pleas
Religious eventThe temples are in disarray, and petition the Queen for help in maintaining faith and peace. Some were predicting plague, others armies of celestial or fiendish beings, yet others uncontrollable civil war. None of these seem to be coming to pass, and now the common consensus is that the Link was a half-millennia long practical joke
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1110 PS
Highsun
The Monsters Unchained
Military actionFive years after the severing, the true cost has become clear. Monsters are no longer mostly staying in the deep woods and mountains of the island. Raids and attacks have been increasing, especially in the soft heartlands of the west. The death that will cover the island comes in the form of an increasing madness among the beasts and brutes of the kingdom. It comes to a head when the Queen's uncle, Prince Lovil, is killed by a fearsome manticore- a monster that hasn't been seen in over 600 years
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1112 PS
Uktar
East Bour destroyed
Disaster / DestructionEast Bour is destroyed by a horde of monsters almost overnight. Many hope it was only it's isolated location and proximity to the Bour Forest that made it a target
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Present Day
MiscellaneousPresent day. The Adventurer's Society has been out looking for the Link for the last 4 years, hoping that by finding it and performing the ceremony they can cease the flow of monsters. However, they are also much in demand to protect settlements and subjects from the monsters, so resources are spread thin