Until the Black Plague

Kings Austin and Ian, the Sorcerer's Council, and the time before the end of the world.

Claire:

So what was the Sorcerer's Coucil?

Stranger:

You might have heard from the members of the Council: Ploog, Greil, Aureil and many more. The Sorcerer's Council was fighting the King-

Cassandra:

The King? Is Galandir so old? *frowns*

Stranger:

*laughs* Not Galandir was King back then. King Austin reigned over the fair Kingdom Oberin. His castle was in Oberin City. He had a son from his first wife, Prince Ian. Later he married Lyrel and as new Queen she gave him two children: Prince Ceril and Princess Sofie.

Claire:

Ooooh! A queen!

Stranger:

*nods* But Queen Lyrel was quite power-hungry, she wanted to be the sole monarch. When Sam II slayed King Austin in his sleep, Queen Lyrel dismissed the Royal Mage Seth and the Royal Cleric Clarisa. In their place she put the wizard Dominus and the Cleric Grenton. Dark times followed for Oberin Kingdom was no longer a safe place.

Cassandra:

What happened to Prince Ian?

Stranger:

Prince Ian grew up. He was old enough to become King, but whoever would support him was jailed. In the end, Seth freed the prisoners and so began the revolution. Seth would steal the Book of Dead from Dominus to gain skills and knowledge in Black Magic.
In the same moment Seth summoned Dominus to fight him, Bane came in with hordes of Ice Dracos. Bane killed everyone around and took Dominus with him. With that, there was no one who could have stopped Prince Ian. The Ian faction stormed the castle and forced the Queen to surrender. The new King banished the Queen. Ian was King of Oberin Kingdom. The last one.

Claire:

The last one? How comes?

Stranger:

Oh, I believe Seth wrote a tome about the end of Ian and Oberin Kingdom. Ploog was defeated, but his soul was called back by failure of the Necromancer. That is how Lich Ploog emerged. The Bane Cult started fighting Lich Ploog but failed again and again. In the end, Lich Ploog defeated the Bane Cult.
While Seth was killing Aureil, the founder of the Sorcerer's Council was just beside the King. The traitor, Fool Coco managed to kill King Ian with a ruse. Fool Coco stole the King's ring, which let him command Black Dragons.

Claire:

No! Seth wouldn't let him!!

Stranger:

He wouldn't. But even Seth cannot defeat an army of Black Dragons. This was the Black Plague, also known as the End of the world.

Cassandra:

Nonsense! How can this be the end? We are still here after all!

[Most informations are from...

...Ragnarok
...leo's strange site that is mostly broken
...oioi's amazing report about the Ian's Revolution
You might also like to read this quite-hard-to-find textlog]

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A Stranger talks about a young girl

The story of Elara, and how she faced the Black Plague.

"Are you, ladies, going to stay here for much longer?"

Both mages turned at once to the corner from where a voice had come. They could not tell, amongst the shadows, to whom the voice belonged. It was, nonetheless, a warm sound, that did not terrify them, despite the surprise."Knowledge must be gained," said Claire, putting on her best Bone Lordish accent. "We are looking for all the clues we can gather about the past," added Cassandra.

"I see. And what do you expect to find here, exactly?"

"Anything! Do you happen to know about History?"

"Maybe. Well... You know... There used to be a big library, much better than this one. Unfortunately, all that is lost."

Claire nodded slowly. "Yes, Brigobaen. We managed to find the few scrolls saved before the pillage. One of them is about Elara and the foundation of Mirith..."

The Stranger murmured an assent. "Elara. Such a young girl. You know that she stopped the Black Plague, right? No? Hmm. When the world was being destroyed by Black Dragons, a few humans hid in the Volcano. Elara was among them. It is known that the Goddess chose her, and gave her the power to leave the volcano and fetch a fragment of the moon that had fallen on Oberin."

"The Curio?" asked one of the girls tentatively.

"Yes," continued the Stranger, "with the power of the Goddess, and the Curio, Elara managed to send the Dragons back to sleeping under the earth. Where they still sleep..."

"And after that, she founded Mirith?" asked Cassandra.

"After that humans emerged and cities were built. Yes, she founded Mirith; her statue is still there. Her ultimate fate is told in an old scroll... Maybe you should ask Cecil about that; I've heard he is back."

"Oh, but wait a second," interrupted Claire, "I still don't understand completely what happened before the Black Plague, much less what happened to Elara!"

"Before the Plague? Before the Plague we were all fighting the Sorcerer Council."

Cassandra turned a page of her notebook and wrote "Sorcerer Council" in big red letters.



[Thanks to Stefan for chatting with us on a Saturday afternoon. Some of the Stranger's lines, in this post as in the others to come, reproduce word by word what Stefan told us. We couldn't possibly phrase it better!]

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