The First Age: THe long darkįollowing the altheryan exodus, millennia passed: Ice-ages came and went and continents shifted. * * The reticulum is also the source of all Imperial magic as we know it. * Alygon of Yrr was driven quite mad by the experience and we must be careful in placing too much trust in her accounts. She also tells of how, when the writhing mass of chaos fell upon the High King, his death unleashed so much energy that it lay the mountains low and created the reticulum itself: An intricate, magical lacework that enveloped the world and drove the titans back into the voids **. She claimed to have seen with her own inner-eye how the altheryn retreated through great gateways to lands beyond the stars and how the High King of the starstriders remained behind to seal the gateways from the titans. Behemoths of pure chaos that tore down their white cities, ground their bones to dust and feasted on their souls.Īlygon of Yrr* once claimed to have preformed a ritual so powerful, it tore her mind out of time. I have seen them myself: They show the altheryn, tall, ivory-skinned beings with terrible black eyes, waging war with beasts too grotesque for words. Check out the Cthulhu tablet by The Vaults of McTavish ! But there are other sources as well: Certain tablets of immeasurable age, found on the plains of Vahari, that are covered in images both fascinating and terrifying. Perhaps the oracles had grown addled by their love of the poppy. Whatever the name, it was chaos incarnate and it had come for the altheryn across gulfs of space and time. How, in their folly, they drew the attention of nightmares and madness given form: The Hashitan Titans, the Sleeping Old Ones, the Ur-Dragons. How they bent the very fabric of space and time to their will. How they constructed their marvelous, white towers. The oracles talk of visions of how the altheryn were already ancient when they found our world. The dreaming oracles of Shaddu-Wa tell of beings that sometimes whisper in their dreams: Ancient beings who the oracles call the altheryn*. Empires have risen and fallen before and they will do so again. In fact, it can be said that our Empire is but a flicker in the great fire of history.
Much older that they would have you believe.
Principal Scholar of History, Imperial College at Vaaul The Dawn of History Make of it what you will, and burn the notes afterwards lest they fall into the wrong hands. Have tried as best I can to give an accurate outline but I find I do not even trust my own mind anymore. The dreams are worse than ever and my thoughts don’t feel like my own anymore.Įnclosed are my notes on the subjects you requested. And he asks questions no man should know to ask.īaldwin, I am not well. Nay – a fool! And you would think of him as such with that moronic, terrible grin. The “smiling man” came to me again! Dressed as a beggar. However, things are now afoot that makes me realize I must share what I know lest they be lost forever. Some things are simply too terrible to bear, yet too dangerous to speak off. In this age, truth itself has become a precious commodity, and even an Imperial scholar such as myself, must be wary. Please forgive me: I acted only with regards to your safety and health. The last time we spoke you implored me to assist you in your study of pre-Imperial history. You might also want to check out the article on Freymark if you’re interested in the SKALD setting. The following is an attempt to explore some of the history of the setting for “SKALD: Against the Black Priory” (currently on Indiegogo).
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