Cooperative Storytelling Experiment

It's an era of change and chaos in Divus. The Empress is dead, Long Live the Emperor. Yet all that is new is not welcome in the mountain empire - revolution fosters in the cold south, and border trouble brews to the wild north. These are dark, cruel times, and an iron talon clenches the land.

One runaway soldier. One dedicated revolutionary. One master spy. One crazed inventor. One renegade ranger. One desperate knight. One mystery-seeking sage. And one stoic queen. Forced together by a net of words and a dance of shadows, these and many more find themselves beneath broken skies and between long knives.

Life is, as they say, normal for Andrew Arnes. His father's a farmer, his mother's a doctor, his siblings and he are due a life of commonplace labor and little excitement. And, like every storybook farm boy, he dreams of something more. Then a girl, a knight, and a sorceress show up at his doorstep in the middle of the night, unintentionally pulling him into a chase that spans the length and breadth of Stormwind.

In his travels he'll see distant cities, vast desert plains, towering mountains, frigid depths, island revels, and places, people, creatures, and magic beyond his wildest dreams, as he's dragged through a wild ride of adventure, betrayal, mystery, sorcery, and temptation.

The life of a soldier can be rough. Still, it's not every day that you wake up in a prison. Separated from the rest of your squad. In what you thought was friendly country. And without much clear memory of how you got here.

Sergeant Rinne Laurel is not having the best of days, and from the looks of things it's only going to get worse. There's trouble brewing in the Vanguard of Olorunium, and she and her unit are at the forefront and simultaneously behind enemy lines. Treason and strange magic are in the air, and it all seems to come back to a trio of wandering witches, who seem all too eager to get involved in the lives of normal people in inconvenient ways.

Which all would be enough trouble without having to figure out how she got here in the first place.

"The time of the human is at an end; the time of the goblin has come." This was the battlecry of the warlord of Lake Miiabrie, Ratach of Pale Keep, hobgoblin commander. Far from his distant homeland, this Teremvori expatriate plans to carve out his own kingdom in the heartland of Olympia, and nothing will stand in his way.

... except perhaps a small group of adventurers making a name for themselves in the Free Kingdom, starting from the very town where Ratach's name first reached the ears of men. Living from day to day for the thrill of adventure and the wonders of travel, these six strangers are not yet aware of their fate, to be Heroes known and remembered by all.

The call goes out from the forest village of Rybalka - trouble in the woods, villagers going missing, a monster on the loose! Adventurers from afar answer the call, gathering in the little village to deal with its troubles, for good, for glory, or for gold.

Yet the stirrings in Rybalka are but a symptom of a greater evil that lurks in the northern lands of Olympia. From the depths of Darkwood to the heights of the Titans, from the parched streets of Dustpawn to the sprawling alleys of Olympia, something is lurking - a series of sinister events all connected by an invisible web of an ancient evil, a desperate curse, and a long-forgotten seal that binds even the Aspects.

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