Late Spring
While She was imprisoned the land suffered from a devastating curse. The fall of the Pantokrator and the vast arcane energies released at that time must have affected her along with the prison of the Pantokrators making. Misfortune haunts the land and She can feel it in Herself as a taint. Hopefully it will go away when she breaks free of this poisoned prison.
The population seem to have survived the taint remarkably well though. Fortunetellers divine the near future to avert disastrous events. She would have need of this woundrous ability.
As She in Her divine wisdom foresaw the false gods of the lizardmen and the humans of Jomon seem manifest and active in the politics of their subjects. Divination and unusual signs in the sky indicate that these nations were aided in their magical research by divine hands. At least two cowardly gosd then. Perhaps better that way. She could remember the vast powers of the Imprisoned Ones.
An old and vaguely familiar precense is making itself known in Vault. A false faith is spreading. Albert, the Member of the Second Tier of the Illuminated Ones will have to explore the matter and find the source of the malign precense.
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Thorismund felt stupid. The irresistible Voice had told him to follow the army of Witterich up to the Tintalan Mesa and lead the soldiers to victory. He knew Witterich. He was a a no nonsense kind of Commander and would not let go of his army, just because some drunken ranger claimed the Virtue had spoken to him. Thorismund decided to tag along and avoid direct confrontation with the captain. His headache subsided considerably.
For a moment he had thought about following a strangely robed man named Albert to Vault, the City Isle in the east, to escape the will of Malkuth, but the Unforgiving Princess blessed him with an Unforgiving Headache and he went to the garrison to find Witterich. In the shadows of the gate he stopped dead in his steps. Three ghastly apparitions in ancient armors stared at him with hungry eyes.
The Unforgiving Princess obviously were about to reshape his home in her image. Whatever thet image was. In his visions She was beautiful, but bringing the cursed Ghoul Guardians into the capital was everything but beautiful. Falling to the temptation of the malediction they were cursed with unsatiable hunger for human flesh. What they were doing in the garrison he prefered not to think about. He quickly walked past the apparitions to find Witterich.
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I sent Witterich with his army to Tintalan Mesa together with Thorismund.
Albert is sent to Vault to find the source of the enemy faith. The gray movement arrow indicates he is sneaking.
A fortuneteller is recruited along with more Ghoul Guardians and another ranger.