The Awakening of the Living College
Geological / environmental event
Once, many years ago the struggling druidic college extended a fellowship to three eccentric druids. Each of them prodigies in not only druidcraft but other fields as well.
- Nuvian Ibo was a self-taught alchemist with great success working for the Dwarven Kings of his time and was said to nearly be close to a synthetic Everore; though his work in the area was never completed.
- Koben Gandermaul was a fine artificer who was known as a reliable tinkerer capable of building contraptions that could harness nearly unlimited power.
- Pantarquin Obeks was a top-level spell crafter, said to have designed a number of wild shape and transmogrification spells that rivaled the premiere spells released by the Gnomish Council.
They were nearly inseparable, their courseload was maximized with the goal of one day establishing their own school, where not only druids were welcomed by crafters and casters from every corner of Espen could study. On more than one occasion their capabilities outstripped their professors leading to frequent disciplinary action by the Druidic College. Though they were undeterred in their goals, their most secretive of which was said to be a spell that harnessed the powers of Ashenvale herself.
Combining each of their druidic knowledge along with the other specialties they were said to have created the Ichor of Presence. A substance that if activated could create a life where there was none, though they thought they had found the key to immortal life what they'd found was far more dangerous. The Ichor was said to have the will to live to imbue and so it did. Imbuing the very grounds of the Druidic College itself, bringing its entire campus to life. To commemorate its awakening the sign that had been posted above the main gate was crushed under the weight of growing vines, and in its place a bloom of flowers spelling out the word
Ibekobek.
From that day on, the student no longer chose the school. The school now chose its students. Those it deemed worthy prospered on its ground, those it did not...seemed to disappear.
