The Last Revolution

Many moons ago, prophets fortold of a great breach from the plane of water, a breach that would flood the prime material and drown away all marks of civilization.
Many peoples dismissed these prophecies, insistent that the flood would never come, or that it wouldn’t cover the prime material entirely; that they would be fine.
One king, a sorcerer king, did not. The king believed the prophesy, and began work on a spell, a spell of great magic, unseen since the elemental chaos of the earlier times.
The king was not trusted amongst his people, they had never befor had a king that used magic, and the old monarch had not had a successor, making the sorcerer king only legitimized by a handful of oppertunistic nobles.
The sorcerer king had planned to complete his spell as the flood burst onto the prime material, and on the first night of the thousandth moon, he began his casting.
Rumours circled as to the reason of the king’s sudden and total seclusion, and quickly one of his political rivals siezed the opportunity to overthrow the king, spreading a rumour that the king was preparing a great spell to complete the prophecy he had feared so much, and flood the prime material.
This young politician was named Galter the Light, and on top of politics, he was a battle cleric and leader of armies, adored by the populace.
Galter made a call to arms, claiming that the king had gone mad and planned to wipe out the prime material. Many believed him, far more than he had expected. Soon Galter had an army to rival the king’s guard themselves.
And so, Galter marched on the capital, pillaging farms and looting to keep his army fed.
When they finally appeared at the city walls, a fierce battle ensued; war machines launched rocks and balls of metal towards the fortifications, burning oil poured down on the attacking revolutionaries, and arrows whistled day and night, some fired as many as 10 times by each side.
On the last day of the thousandth moon, Galter’s force breached the wall into the city, and placed an alchemical explosive on the thinner castle walls.
For 22 hours, the guard held that breach, loosing many, but killing more. Archers began to run low on arrows, as Galter’s forces had stopped firing back. Galter busied himself healing his men, but was losing more than he saved.
On the 23rd hour, the guard around the breach fell; Galter’s forces had finally moved their cannons, iron dragons of fire and shot, to the breach, and the guard fell in droves to the torrential downpour of steel shards.
50 minutes later, and Galter, with a force of 20 men, waited outside the throne room. The king could be heard inside, chanting along with 20 of his magic users.
After taking 5 more minutes to ready themselves and heal, they charged into the throne room with a clash, even as the tower began to shift around them and the thundering of water could be heard on the horizon.
Startled by this intrusion, the king looked up from his ritual circle towards Galter, breaking his concentration on the cell. His council died immediately, and the spell misfired.
While the tower had been successfully completed, the king’s secondary objective had not been successful. He had made a hundred hundred artifacts, in the form of small music boxes, and put them in place of each of his citizens hearts. The music boxes were only supposed to remove the necessity for food from the citezens, and ensure their survival, but the failure of the spell resulted in the music boxes becoming linked with the mind and memories of the citezens.
The music boxes rewind on the last day of every moon, at the end of which most of the populace lose the memories they had made since the casting of the king’s spell.
The king’s spell was mostly successful, and the castle was created. A towering mountain was made for the castle, with each building in the sorcerer’s kingdom piled on top of the mountain and coated with more stone from the kingdom. This castle ended up 100 feet above sea level in the end, and through the years has been swallowed up to 50 ft. above the sea level.
It is at this time that the player characters spot, on the horizon from the small boat that they called home, a small tower.

Start Date

2012/01/01

Ending Date

Still continuing