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conversations.value: Asherion: The Orb of Thrall   
   PC Roster: 
   
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   Ryan Blackstone - Fighter/Cleric 
   Rumel - Rogue/Ranger 
   
  
   Link to Original Recruitment Thread 
   Link to OOC Thread 
   Recent Events in the Town of Fisure: 
   
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  The Bandit/Pirate Lord Quinn has been ravaging these shores for a long while, but recently his crew burned the small port town of Visure to the ground, then retreating his ship to moor at a couple of miles out to sea - where it has sat for several days now.
  
  The town's seer, Jishun, forewarned of a grave disaster that would befall the town, and ultimately if unchecked, all of Rukan, only beginning with the antics of a pirate lord, and prophesied that there would be a pair of citizens of this town that would be able to stop Quinn, as well as prevent the pending disaster.
  
  Rumor is that Quinn, and others of his ilk, are searching this remote area for the ruins of the Tower of the Orb, the tower of an old and very powerful wizard who built a tower here to hold the legendary artifact the Orb of Thrall, an item of great evil, at bay from the world. Someone must stop the evil marauders, or others worse than they who will come after, from retrieving it and selling it to the highest bidder. The only way to do this may be to get to it first.
  
  All of this, of course, sounded like nonsense, until the marauders attacked and burned the town. And now they sit moored at a strange protrusion of rock out at sea...
   
  
   Recent Events / Info on the Land of Rukan: 
   
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   Demographics: 
  The Major nations are as follows:
  - The Woodland Realm, in the northeast, formerly ruled the continent. Elves.
  - The Kingdom of Westeron, in the northwest. Largest Kingdom of Humans and the 'High Kingdom'
  - The Kingdom of the Vale, Northeast. Humans mostly, half elves, etc. Rural, hills, valleys.
  - The Kingdom of the Sea, Eastern shoreline, aquatic elves.
  - The Fraust Directorate - Gnomes, North eastern mountain ranges
  - The Ragged Mountain / Stonehall Dwarves - a united Dwarven clan in the south central mountain range.
  - Flarent, the lands of the halflings, occupied territory re: orc invasions
  
  Other places/races of note are the Drow of the Underdark and Rasten Forest, the Adamant Hammer dwarves, a rebellious offshoot of the Stonehall Clan, the Dragonsworn, mortal races sworn to the Dragonqueen, and the Free Cities, capital at Mindel, nominally the captal of the continent - realistically, edicts from Mindel carry little weight in individual kingdoms.
  
  
   Recent History: 
  The Imperial Dragons have been released from hibernation on the island Malice Rock, and have begun to sweep over Rukan, terrorizing, pillaging, and destroying. The Dragonqueen Tiamat was summoned to the plane, and her archenemy, Bahamut, has revealed upon her return to have been himself to have been among us for decades, masquerading as a marauding bardic hero. Now the nations are paralyzed, scrambling to protect themselves, separate, without cooperation on any major scale.
   
  
  
  
  
  An initial IC post will follow whenever work/time permits.