Introduction: Something Wicked This Way Comes

Plot points/Scenes

There sits a man adorned in noble attire---his ink black hair disheveled, dark circles rim his dark brown eyes. His face is long set and his nose is large though narrow and pointed. A sea of journals lay strewn across his desk, along with a very peculiar device. It was a small brass colored mass of gears and mechanisms, square in shape yet rounded at the same time. Dimly lit green runes scattered across the surface of the item.

The man reads aloud from the journal in his pale hands,

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men. A time will come-but I must not and cannot think! Let me pray that, if I do not survive this manuscript, my executors may put caution before audacity and see that it meets no other eye. For there are twists of time and space, of vision and reality, which only a dreamer can divine.

From the writings of H.P. Lovecraft

For only a Dreamer can divine? He was ever elusive, that man..

He sighed in frustration.

Little did he know that other forces were at work that very same evening. That night, these forces sought to strangle fate, twist boundaries unseen. Deep within the shadows were whisperers in the dark. Manipulations were made and prophecies foretold. A woman screams, black feathers rustle, lives are changed in but a moment. One single moment and you can change the tides of fate. Alter the course of destiny.

So our story begins.

Plot type

Introduction: Something Wicked This Way Comes

Subplots

• Chapter 1: Arrival to Shadowfell
• Chapter 2: Better Late than Never