====== Recent World History (III:1090 to present) ======

//I like to maintain a one-to-one relationship between time in the real world
and time in my campaign world.  A rough approximation of this correlation can
be had by subtracting 10 from the last two digits of the campaign calendar
to obtain the last two digits of the real year.  Thus, 1090 corresponds to 1980;
and 1129 corresponds to 2019.//

//**NOTE:** This is an abbreviated version of the [[Good Party Calendar]] and
it lists events that predate [[The Great Retcon]] -- so some (many?) of these
events **never occurred**//

==== 1090 ====

The campaign begins.  The [[Good Party]] (consisting of [[Sorgul]], [[Sly]],
[[Rana]], and [[Ozzie]]) meet and kill the sorceress [[Elarion]].  They begin
the quest for the ten artifacts of [[Aurén Ilay]].

In a surprising assault, orcs under the leadership of [[Sardul]] attack the
kingdom of [[Backbone]] and deliver a serious blow to that nation's power.

==== 1091 ====

[[Sardul]]'s orcs march on [[Backbone]], the capital city.  [[Sardul]] calls in
assistance from the great dragon [[Kragnor]], whom the mage [[Edric]] chases away.
[[Edric]] then takes the battle to [[Sardul]] and the two wizards exchange powerful
spells of entrapment.  In the end, [[Sardul]] is imprisoned within [[Edric]]'s own
body and their two souls become entangled.  The orcs are driven off once
their leader is vanquished, but the kingdom is terribly weakened.

Controlled by the wizard [[Pelham]], the generals in neighboring [[Lowland]] stage a
military coup, imprison their president, and send their armies and navy to
attack [[Backbone]].  [[Rota]]'s navy comes to [[Backbone]]'s aid, though, and the
invaders are repulsed.

Meanwhile, the [[Good Party]] begins collecting the ten artifacts.  By the end of
the year, four of the artifacts have been recovered and [[Edric]] introduces
himself to the party.  His soul curse with [[Sardul]] can only be remedied with
the combined power of the ten artifacts.  As fate would have it, [[Karelia]],
acting independently, stumbles across the Demon Dagger, one of the ten
artifacts (though nobody yet realizes this).

==== 1092 ====

[[Karelia]] and [[Rana]] find two magical swords (they are gifts from their god,
Corellon).  The ladies explore an ancient keep, sunken beneath the surface of
a lake and accidentally release one of the [[Dark Mage]]'s twelve [[Demonwraiths]]
(imprisoned over a millennia ago).  The [[Good Party]], meanwhile, continue
tracking down the artifacts of Aurén Ilay.  By the end of the year, they have
found four more, leaving only one left (plus [[Karelia]]'s dagger).

While in [[teleme|the Southlands]], [[Wizard_pc|Wizard]] and [[Neville]] tangle
with a local influential magician and find themselves in jail.

In the political arena, [[Lowland]] withdraws in disgrace after losing the war
with [[Backbone]], and the country is torn by civil unrest.  The republic's
defenses are in shambles and an army of orcs stream in (left over from
[[Sardul]]'s failed invasion of [[Backbone]]).


==== 1093 ====

With their cousins in control in [[Lowland]], the orcs east of Larinday decide
now is the time to invade.  After a two-night siege, the city is nearly
defeated, but the orcs are forced to withdraw.

[[Karelia]] and [[Rana]] share a bizarre quest to retrieve the [[Gem of
Corellon]] from the clutches of the orc high-priest [[Qôc Lômé]].  With the help
of the immortal high elves [[Alatar Celebel]] and [[Celebsûl]], they defeat not
only the orc priest, but also the demons [[Kalagúrth]] and [[Gkîlarrzá]].
[[Karelia]] returns the [[gem of Corellon|gem]] to Corellon at the [[Throne of
Ilay]].

The [[Good Party]] find the ninth artifact and [[Karelia]] provides the tenth to
help free [[Edric]] of his soul-curse.  Instead of destroying
[[Sardul]], though, they free the imprisoned [[Melchar]] and imprison [[Sardul]]
in the artifacts.  [[Edric]] begins his quest to destroy the artifacts
and thus destroy [[Sardul]] forever.

The day after [[Edric]] is freed of [[Sardul]]'s curse, [[Pelham]]
uncovers a source of tremendous psionic energies and draws it forth, bringing a
dark [[storm cloud]] of evil down from the [[immenri|northern continent]] and
planting it over the city of [[Lowland]].

One of the [[Demonwraiths]] encounters [[Pelham]] while on a quest to recover his
hidden scepter and revive his eleven comrades.  [[Pelham]], with "encouragement"
from [[Hades]], offers to help, but [[ozzie|Lord Ozzie]] infiltrates their
operation to stop them.  Instead, [[Ozzie]] is captured and [[Pelham]] puts in
his mind a powerful suggestion to kill [[Edric]].  When the moment
comes, though, [[Ozzie]] resists the suggestion and [[Hades]] is forced to
intervene to see his plan succeed.  [[Sorgul]], not knowing who his opponent is,
psionically dominates the god, and forces him to release [[Ozzie]] from his
compulsion.  By the time [[Hades]] breaks free of [[Sorgul]]'s control,
[[Edric]]'s wife [[Tacey]] has appealed to the goddess [[Aphrodite]]
for assistance and [[Zeus]] steps in to stop the whole affair before real damage
is done.  The ensuing lightning bolt pierced a hole through several layers of
the castle and to this day, no mortar or stone will stay in place as a patch.

The heroic years of the [[Good Party]] end suddenly on July 21, when [[Sorgul]] is
trapped by a vengeful [[Hades]], slain in the god's underworld realm, and brought
back from the dead as the thirteenth [[Demonwraith]]: [[Solgar]].

//November// -- [[ozzie|Lord Ozzie]] disappears into the time stream with
[[Kwalish's Transport|Kwalish's Great Transport]].  He eventually encounters [[Parádoxa]] for the
first time and has a few adventures in the past before returning in 1104.

//December// -- [[Solgar]] recovers the [[Dark Mage]]'s scepter from the ruins of
the mage's castle in the center of the [[Dark Bay]] and unknowingly becomes the
mage's host, setting the stage for his eventual revival.

==== 1094 ====

//February// -- [[Sly]] marries [[Rana]] and the two retire to [[Lendore]]
Island.

//April// -- the orcs push the druids out of their grove west of [[Lowland]].
They migrate north to the island of [[Marshard]].

//May// -- [[Karelia]] and [[Norwood]] delve into the underworld on a quest for
"the crystal of Vakdra", which is actually a powerful artifact called the [[Eye of
Odin]].  In August, the two follow their quest to the adjacent world of [[Greyhawk]],
where time runs at a different rate.  They will not return until late in 1104.

==== 1095 ====

[[Pelham]] begins building the [[Storm Towers]] on the pretense that they are to be
used as watch towers.  Later that year, the [[Dark Mage]] emerges from [[Solgar]] for
the first time.

==== 1096 ====

The last and most powerful of the twelve [[demonwraiths]] is revived.

==== 1097 ====

[[carina|Queen Carina II]] of [[Rota]] confronts [[Solgar]] in an attempt to
destroy him.  The [[Dark Mage]] emerges once again and the queen is killed.  Her
son, [[Galin]], only nine years old, assumes the throne under the guidance of
his father, [[Vyner]].

==== 1098 ====

With the [[storm towers]] completed in [[Backbone]], [[Pelham]] expands the
[[storm cloud]] to engulf [[Backbone]].

As she is his greatest threat, the archmage of the [[council|Council of
Wizards]], [[Elsa]], is killed by the [[Dark Mage]], once again using [[Solgar]]
as his pawn.  [[Edric]] is elected by the [[council|Council of
Wizards]] to become the new archmage.

The dwarves of [[Blanan]] are sealed in their mines by an errant wizard who has
powers over elemental earth.

The orcs from [[Lowland]], strengthened by the [[storm cloud]], attempt to invade
[[Backbone]].  The kingdom's champion, [[Lamar]], however, learns the secret of the
[[storm towers]] and removes a key tower from [[Pelham]]'s web of magic.  In
desperation, with his armies weakened from the sunlight and facing
annihilation, the [[Dark Mage]] imprisons [[Pelham]] himself in the key tower in
[[Lowland]].  [[Pelham]]'s psionic energies add to the clouds and it once again
reasserts itself over [[Backbone]].  Shortly thereafter, the [[Dark Mage]] fully
emerges from [[Solgar]].  As he is no longer needed, [[Solgar]] is released, but
warned not to interfere in any way.

Weakened by the [[storm cloud]]'s presence, and without the dwarves to aid them,
[[Backbone]] succumbs to the orc armies in November.  King [[Scardore]] and his
champion, [[Lamar]], are both killed.  [[Edric]] and [[Tacey]] flee
the kingdom to the safety of [[Rota]].

==== 1099 ====

With [[Backbone]] taken, the orcs concentrate on the elves in [[Pleven]].  By
mid summer, they have flushed the elves out of the forests and pushed them back
inside the city walls of [[Pleven]].  On July 24, when the orcs finally breech
the walls, they find only a handful of elves remaining.  The majority had
vanished!

==== 1100 ====

A half-orc named [[Uith]], with the aid of a masterful illusionist, succeeds in
a coup on [[Lendore]] isle.  [[Uith]] kills the king and appoints himself the
new monarch.  A month later, a rebellion against him is crushed.  [[Uith]] burns
the docks of the capital city and moves his center of command across the island
to [[Restenford]].

Late that year, [[Solgar]] inadvertently annoys the [[Dark Mage]] and is
imprisoned in a dimensionless void, but his mind is left free.  It is, in
effect, sensory deprivation that lasts nearly three years.

==== 1102 ====

The natives in [[teleme|the Southlands]] overthrow the imperialist government and
restore their traditional theocracy.  They revive their ancient rituals
involving human sacrifice and start with their previous rulers.

[[Galin]], the boy king of [[Rota]] is married at the age of fourteen.

==== 1103 ====

[[Galin]]'s advisor, his father [[Vyner]], is assassinated and the boy appoints an
unknown to take his place.  Many poor reforms follow and the great kingdom
begins to decline.

==== 1104 ====

//April 8// -- [[Galin]]'s advisor is found to have used magical influences on the boy
king.  He is executed and [[Galin]] is encouraged to appoint a known man as his
advisor.

//May 29// -- [[Rathwyn]], completing a ten-year quest, enlists the aid of
[[Edric]] and [[Sly]] to free [[Solgar]] from his imprisonment.  Once
out, they resurrect his undead corpse and do their best to restore his original
psyche.  It isn't until [[Bast]] herself draws his soul to her world that
[[Sorgul]] is fully healed, though.

//June 2// -- [[ozzie|Lord Ozzie]] returns from his time travels and begins his
quest for [[Great Map|The Great Map]].

//June 26// -- The [[Godslayer]] makes his first advance into the world and his
psychic attack kills every living creature in the kingdom of [[Resh]].

//August 2// -- [[ozzie|Lord Ozzie]] find the partially submerged ancient tower
called [[Minas Moriant]].  Inside, he travels a magical powder that allows him
to travel to the world called [[Xotei]], where he finds the last piece of
[[Great Map|the Great Map]].

//August 5// -- [[ozzie|Lord Ozzie]] completes his quest for [[Great Map|The
Great Map]], but draws the attention of the [[Dark Mage]].  The [[Good Party]]
rejoins after ten years and begins their conflict with the [[Dark Mage]].  That
same day, [[Tacey]] is attacked by one of the [[demonwraiths]].  She and
[[Edric]] had developed a spell which would destroy a [[demonwraith]],
but at the cost of the caster's life.  With no alternative, and facing death
anyway, [[Tacey]] casts the spell.  The [[Good Party]] and [[Edric]]
decide to store the corpse of the [[demonwraith]] in the basement for later
study.

//August 6// -- The [[Good Party]] find that one of the [[Demonwraiths]] has
built what he calls The [[Slaughterhouse Device]] to drain the life essence from
a person and store it in liquid form in a jar.  In his hideout, they find
thousands of jars of essence from all manner of creatures, including a Deva.
[[Sorgul]] dominates the [[demonwraith]] and forces him to sit in his own
creation, thus destroying a second [[demonwraith]].  They remove the Deva
essence from the building in the hopes that they can someday restore the spirit
of good to life.

//August 7// -- Captured by the [[Dark Mage]], the [[Good Party]] face
extinction.  But, in a shocking move, [[ozzie|Lord Ozzie]] throws the essence of
Deva on the [[Dark Mage]], thus imbuing him with the elemental goodness of the
Deva.  The resulting shock instantly kills the mage.  Shortly after, though, the
mage returns to "life", but the shock of his disparate personalities is such
that he splits into two separate beings: The [[Dark Mage]], now more evil than
ever, and [[Nakam Alkat]], the good man whom the [[Dark Mage]] once was.

//November 13// -- The [[Dark Mage]] seeks out the challenge of the Dragon
[[Arral]] so that he may learn how to find an ancient evil power: The [[evil
trio|Evil trio of might]].

//November 23// -- While travelling through the astral plane, the [[Good Party]]
finds an odd "crystal" of pure chaos nearly 100 feet across.  Without knowing
what it truly is, [[Sorgul]] casts his most powerful magical analysis spells on
it and promptly goes catatonic.

//November 28// -- Back at home, [[Sorgul]] recovers and finds that his psionic
powers have been scrambled.

//December 2// -- [[Uith]], who is secretly allied with the orcs on [[Lendore]],
allows the orcs to take over.

//December 4// -- The [[Good Party]] and the mage [[Griswold Gildersleeve]]
confront The [[Dark Mage]] just as he is about to imprison [[Uith]] in the
[[storm tower]] on [[Lendore]] island.  Never one to pass up an ideal
opportunity, the [[Dark Mage]] grabs [[Griswold Gildersleeve|Griswold]] for the
tower and the cloud crosses the ocean to engulf the entire chain.  In the
battle, [[ozzie|Lord Ozzie]] sacrifices his great sword to destroy its nemesis,
[[Alakir Lubar]].  As punishment, The [[Dark Mage]] takes [[Ozzie]] captive as
he leaves the battle.

//December 7// -- The [[Good Party]] stage a daring raid into the [[Dark Mage]]'s
castle to rescue [[ozzie|Lord Ozzie]].  In the process, they find The
[[Sympathetic Search Device]], a magic item capable of locating items similar to
its key item at a great range.  It's current key item turns out to be the elven
bow, [[Mancu Rilmaeg]].  They take the two magic items with them as they leave.

//December 21// -- [[Karelia]] and [[Norwood]] return from [[Greyhawk]] with the
[[Eye of Odin]] and [[Kelva]], the sword of command.

//December 22// -- The [[Dark Mage]], following clues given by the great dragon
[[Arral]], uncovers the evil Scepter of Might.  Aware of its tremendous power,
he immediately travels to [[Edric]]'s castle to do battle.  The
archmage, not knowing of the scepter, casts the final spell that he and
[[Tacey]] developed. The [[Dark Mage]], though, deflects the spell with the
scepter and [[Edric]] dies in vain.  A young girl named [[Erin]], with
a powerful magical gift of sound, is able to stun the mage and he is forced to
flee to his castle.

//December 23// -- the [[Good Party]] travel to the plane of Fire, battle
[[Imix]], the evil prince of Fire and recover the Evil Orb of Might so that it
won't be found by the [[Dark Mage]].

//December 27// -- "[[wacarnelian|Wak]]" find the great axe of the dwarves, 
[[Rûklik]].

//December 29// -- The [[Good Party]] are summoned by [[Claira|Claira, the 
Master Summoner]], under control by a revenge-seeking [[Imix]].  In the ensuing 
battle, [[Claira]] uses the [[Eye of Odin]] to enhance her powers and pluck 
[[tarialai|Tarialaî Thoranna]] out of the time stream.

//December 30// -- A fleet of warships manned by undead attacks [[teleme|the
Southlands]]. The fleet was assembled in secret by the [[Dark Mage]].

//December 31// -- The [[Dark Mage]] uncovers the evil crown of Might and uses
its power to make a telepathic broadcast to the entire population of [[Rota]].
Widespread suicides are reported.

==== 1105 ====

//January 1// -- The [[Dark Mage]]'s fleet sets sail North, along the coast of
the [[thentao|main continent]].

//January 2// -- The [[Good Party]], using The [[Sympathetic Search Device]],
built by the [[Dark Mage]], discover the location of the Good Orb of Might.
Before they can act on the information, though, the [[Dark Mage]] uses the power
of the crown and scepter to revive the [[demonwraith]] that [[Tacey]] killed.
Since it is already inside [[Edric]]'s castle, the [[demonwraith]]
takes advantage of his situation and steals the evil orb of might before
returning to the [[Dark Mage]].

//January 4// -- The [[Good Party]] finds the Good Orb of Might after a strange
underwater adventure.  Meanwhile, the [[Dark Mage]]'s [[storm cloud]] suddenly
expands to engulf [[Rota]] and most of the rest of the world.

//January 5// -- The [[Good Party]] travel to the [[storm tower]] on [[Lendore]]
to retrieve a magical ring from the [[storm tower zombie|tower zombie]] that was
once [[Griswold Gildersleeve]].  Once there, though, they find that the [[Dark
Mage]] has planted the evil scepter of might in the tower to fuel his [[storm
cloud]].  In his haste to spread the cloud, the [[Dark Mage]] neglected even the
most basic magical protections.  The [[Good Party]] remove the scepter and the
global [[storm cloud]] collapses.  Using the Good Orb, the [[Good Party]] then
locates both the crown and the scepter of good.  As a test of their worthiness,
they are forced to fight and kill the demon lord [[Kost]].  Meanwhile, just one
day away from [[Rota]], the [[Dark Mage]]'s fleet takes a sudden turn west along
the northern coast of the [[thentao|main continent]].

//January 6// -- The precognitive psionicist [[Sandra Middleham]] senses that the
[[Dark Mage]]'s fleet is going to make a swift and decisive attack on [[Rota]].
She tries to warn the generals in the city to prepare for attack, but she is
successful only after convincing the heroes [[Cale & Strachan]].

//January 8// -- The [[Dark Mage]], his [[Demonwraiths]], and the fleet arrive in
the ruins of [[Resh]], where one of the great portals lies.  They prepare to
open the portal wide and flood their army directly into the city of [[Rota]].
The waiting armies in [[Rota]], though, beat them to the draw and step through
the portal first.  A tremendous battle follows and the combined might of the
world's greatest heroes defeats the [[Dark Mage]] and his [[demonwraiths]].
Also, The [[Godslayer]] was using the opportunity of the battle to push his way
into this world through the portal when [[ozzie|Lord Ozzie]] broke [[Great
Map|the Great Map]], disrupting the portal, and sending it back to its world.

//January 10// -- Feeling his job is done, [[Ozzie]] takes a sabbatical and heads
south.

//February 8// -- Lord [[Norwood]] casts out the corrupt leadership in the
[[Spindrift]] Isles and declares himself King.

//March 23// -- [[Rathwyn]], funded by the King of [[Rota]], leads the first of
several assaults to retake the orc-held city of [[Backbone]].

//May 24// -- [[Norwood]], unable to hold [[spindrift|the Islands]] together
politically, reluctantly agrees to a de-centralization of power.  The
independent states of [[Midore]] and [[Aldore]] are created.

//June 1// -- The [[Good Party]] briefly re-unite ([[Ozzie]] reluctantly) in
order to rescue an old friend, [[Tillinghast]], that they were forced to leave
in the Nine Hells.  The demons in charge lay out a trap for the heroes by
imbuing [[Tillinghast]] and several others with incredible powers of evil, which
will only manifest themselves on return to the material world.  When they do,
though, [[Sorgul]] uses his one-time-only wish power to restore them to their
rightful minds.  When completed, the five rescued men retain their incredible
powers and dedicate themselves to fighting evil.  They are [[Tillinghast]],
[[The Captain]], [[The Engineer]], [[Shea]], and [[Wassom]].

//June 24// -- [[Rathwyn]] declares herself Queen and renames her capital city to
"[[Edric_city|Edric]]".

//August 2// -- [[Rathwyn]], in a controversial move, institutes a bounty of one
silver piece for each orc killed in the kingdom.  In addition to ridding the
region of orcs, the plan also gives the mercenaries something to do other than
kill each other.

//September 11// -- [[ozzie|Lord Ozzie]] finds the secretive [[dumaka|"Asian"
society]] in the south-east of the [[thentao|main continent]].

//October 16// -- [[Ozzie]] meets the [[Rune-Mage]] and learns that it is
actually "[[Wizard_pc|Wizard]]", though [[Ozzie]] does not know the significance
of this.

==== 1106 ====

//Spring// -- Several adventurers stumble into the sealed dwarven mines and
disrupt the spell that had held the dwarven kingdom in stasis since 1098.

//Spring// -- [[Katrina]], under the authority of Queen [[Rathwyn]], establishes an
outpost on the [[King's Island]].

//May 17// -- The heroes of the final battle are now scattered around the world,
living their own lives.  Suddenly, though, they each are presented with a
projected image of the [[Dark Mage]], declaring his return.  [[Rathwyn]] is
first to see it and so immediately locates [[Sorgul]].  He agrees to help, even
though he has taken a vow of non-magic.  While visiting [[Norwood]], [[Karelia]]
also learns of the trouble and is "invited" to help out.  The assembled heroes
fight a series of real, quasi-real, and fully illusory opponents before finally
defeating the [[Dark Mage]].  As it turns out, the "[[Dark Mage]]" was [[Nakam
Alkat]], the good half of the mage's soul, who had gone insane.  The heroes are
forced to kill him.  [[Wizard_pc|Wizard]] meets with the [[Good Party]] and
[[Karelia]] whom he had not seen in many years.  He talks to [[Karelia]] about
[[rune magic]] (and a little about [[voice magic]]) and she becomes very
interested.

//May 20// -- [[Pelham]] calls for a meeting of the [[council|Council of
Wizards]] and suggests that all the heroes attend.  [[Karelia]] refuses to go.

//May 25// -- The [[council|Council of Wizards]] convenes and [[Pelham]] unveils
his new creation: the re-shaped body and mind of the evil wizard [[Sardul]] in
the form of "[[Sardul|Sardula]]."  Upon seeing [[Pelham]], [[claira|Mary]] freaks out
and teleports away (presumably through time).  Shortly after the conference,
[[Ozzie]] is summoned away by [[claira|Mary]] to the year 1090.  Back then, he
sees that [[claira|Mary]] is only about eighteen years old and is battling
[[Pelham]].  [[Ozzie]] defeats [[Pelham]], but [[Parádoxa]] shows up and
restores [[Pelham]].  As punishment, [[Parádoxa]] strips [[claira|Mary]] of her
memory and real name ([[Claira]]) and then sends [[Ozzie]] back to when he
should be, although at [[Sly]] and [[Rana]]'s castle.

//May 26// -- [[claira|Mary]] shows up at [[Sly]] and [[Rana]]'s castle and
[[Ozzie]] casually calls her [[Claira]].  In flood of memories, she realizes
everything that had happened to her.

//July 8// -- [[Ozzie]] travels to [[Cale & Strachan]]'s castle to ask them to
teleport him to [[Minas Moriant]].  They do so, complete with a boat.  [[Ozzie]]
dives into the submerged tower, finds the bowl of magical powder at its top and
tries to use it to travel to the plane of time, where [[Parádoxa]] lives.  He
ends up on the ethereal plane, far from the prime material.

//July 12// -- [[Ozzie]], having spent four days exploring the ethereal plane and
its connections to the elemental plane, finally stumbles across the plane of
shadow and goes there.  Once there, he asks to see someone important, and is
taken to [[shadowlord|the Shadowlord]].  [[Ozzie]] asks to be shown the way to
the time plane, and [[shadowlord|the Shadowlord]] sends him back to the ethereal
plane near a window to the time plane, after [[Ozzie]] agrees to be in the
shadow lord's debt.  On the plane of time, he meets with [[Parádoxa]] and the
[[Parádoxa|time lord]] shows [[Ozzie]] a possible future, including an aged
[[Sorgul]] and a strange man with a metal patch over one eye, flying inside a
noisy, metal machine.  The three are battling at least two towering creatures
who have no physical bodies and who are hard to look at directly.

//November// -- [[StarHawk]], [[Top]], [[Shale]], [[Syl]], and [[Duncan]] meet
and begin their adventures.  They free [[Ashby]], the [[storm tower]] [[storm
tower zombie|zombie]] on [[Midore]] Island and his spirit tells them of the
[[storm towers]] and the curse of the storm crystals.

==== 1107 ====

//March// -- [[Shale]], [[StarHawk]], [[Top]], [[Syl]], and [[Duncan]] travel to
the [[King's Island]] where they meet [[Katrina]].  From there, the six travel
to [[Edric_city|Edric]] and speak to the Queen about the storm crystals.  After
that, they hire [[major|The Major]] as a guide and set out overland to get to
[[Lowland]]. On the way, they meet [[Brandy]], and then rescue [[Arundel]].

//April 2// -- The group meets the wizard [[Reglet]] in his flying castle.  He brings
them closer to [[Lowland]], but will not approach too close because of [[Pelham]].

//April 3// -- Late at night, the group has infiltrated [[Lowland]], a city
crawling with orcs and undead.  They are challenged by [[Sardul|Sardula]] and some of
[[Pelham]]'s servants.  [[Sardul|Sardula]] is decapitated in the ensuing battle.

//April 4// -- The group makes it into [[Pelham]]'s castle and inadvertently give
[[Pelham]] what he needs to lift the [[Dark Mage]]'s curse of unlife.

//September// -- The [[King's Island]] adventurers meet [[ozzie|Lord Ozzie]] and
(briefly) [[Sorgul]].

//November 14// -- The [[Good Party]] begin investigating the disappearance of
the elves and in the city of [[Pleven]], they find a broken magical statue of
Corellon with arms folded.  Since it has something to with teleportation, they
take the pieces back to [[Sly]]'s castle for more experimentation.

//November 20// -- As the statue's magic is related to [[Rune Magic]], they
enlist the aid of [[Wizard_pc|Wizard]] to repair it.

//November 22// -- The statue is brought down south to [[Wizard_pc|Wizard]]'s
castle.

//November 23// -- As an experiment, [[Wizard_pc|Wizard]] draws the transport
rune on the repaired statue and is sucked through an unexpected portal.  All
attempts to locate him and bring him back fail.

//November 30// -- After a week of careful experimentation, the only way to
activate the statue is to spread the arms wide.  With various stone shaping
spells and telekinesis, they successfully open a portal to the [[Godslayer]]'s
world!  Since the atmosphere on this world in inhospitable, the [[Good Party]]
collapses immediately on stepping through the portal.  They are rescued, though,
by men from Earth who live in a crashed spaceship named [[Aquila]].

==== 1108 ====

//30 January// -- [[Sorgul]] discovers that [[ozzie|Lord Ozzie]] has a hidden
power relating to the combination of positive and negative energy.  While the
combination normally produces an uncontrolled, violent explosion, when
channelled into [[ozzie|Lord Ozzie]], it imbues him with tremendous powers.
[[Sorgul]] carefully opens pinprick portals to the two energy planes and
[[Ozzie]] gains modicum of cosmic power.  Once he can control the reaction
himself, [[ozzie|Lord Ozzie]] begins draining the energies from the energy
planes at a tremendous rate.  The [[Godslayer]]'s attention is drawn, and while
it battles [[ozzie|Lord Ozzie]], the rest hurriedly get the people from
[[Aquila]] through the portal to safety (including the computer core from the
spacecraft itself).  Before they can return to help [[Ozzie]], the portal comes
crashing down for good.  The Gods immediately summon the [[Good Party]] to
[[Godsland]] to debrief them.  As it turns out, the portal linking the
[[Godslayer]]'s world into the [[twenty worlds]] has been destroyed and no life
remains on the world. [[ozzie|Lord Ozzie]] is dead.  In addition,
[[shadowlord|the Shadowlord]] has taken over all six of the elemental planes and
now shadow is supreme over both the physical and spiritual elements.  As a by-
product, magic is irrevocably changed throughout the [[twenty worlds]].

==== 1109 ====

//22 March// -- The [[Voyager]] crew ventures into the [[Underdark]] on a quest
that eventually leads them to the Elemental Plane of Fire, where they disrupt
[[shadowlord|the Shadowlord]]'s plans and free [[Kossuth]], the imprisoned Lord
of Fire.

At the same time, the [[council|Council of Wizards]] meet on [[Lendore]] Island
to finally discuss the change in the magic.  However, the meeting's agenda is
thrown out when [[Kevin Arcana]] reveals that he has taken control over the
[[Twenty Portals]], but will allow their use for anybody willing to cough up 150
gold pieces per trip.

==== 1111 ====

The [[V2]] campaign begins...

==== 1113 ====

In May, the [[V2]] crew helped [[Kevin Arcana]] release [[Gkîlarzzá|his inner 
demon]] to thwart the Yuan-Ti's plans to release the demon lord [[Sertrous]] on 
the world.

==== 1119 ====

The [[V3]] campaign begins...

==== 1125 ====

The [[Backbone campaign]] begins...

==== 1129 ====

The [[Cheraî Campaign]] begins...

====== The State of the World ======

Throughout the world, magic was supreme before 1108.  The rulers of nearly every
country owed their power to magic.  Some were wizards in their own right, while
others were merely allied with wizards.  Armies existed, of course, but at the
head of most divisions were sorcerers of one sort or another.  Power was defined
in many cases not by how many soldiers one had, but in how many magic items one
had and in how many wizards one could command.  In [[Backbone]], shortly after
the wars, the orcs outnumbered the humans by orders of magnitude.  Yet, when
[[Rathwyn]] led her troops in to retake the city, they defeated the orc masses
using, among other things, the [[good trio|Good Trio of Might]].  Similar
circumstances existed around the world.  In [[Rota]], several prominent barons
held power because of their magic, both covert and overt.

When the magic changed overnight, wizards around the world were forced to
retreat to safe havens.  Some who had both enemies and no safe place to go were
slain outright, though this was rare since wizards tend to collect enemies who
are other wizards.  By the summer of 1108, a level of equilibrium had been
attained in the magical community.  Certain people who had been prominent were
suddenly powerless and others who were better at research leapt to the
forefront.  In the latter category is an enterprising man named [[Kevin
Arcana]].  Shortly after the magic changed, he was able to fathom the inner
workings of the [[twenty_portals|twenty intra-world portals]] and now has
established a seemingly unbreakable control over them.  To his credit, though,
he has revealed the locations of all [[twenty_portals|portals]] at the [[council|Council
of Wizards]] meeting in March, 1109 and allows for their use (for a mere 150
gp).

In [[Backbone]], magic played a minor role in day-to-day life.  [[Rathwyn]]'s
[[good trio|Good Trio of Might]] seems to have been weakened, but still remain a
most formidable obstacle to any would-be usurper.  One interesting side-effect
of the conversion of positive energy is that the [[good trio|trio]] now
seems to be "non-aligned". While before they were distinctly "good" artifacts,
they are now simply powerful artifacts!

In [[Spindrift]], the situation is similar to [[Backbone]].  [[Norwood]]'s sword
remains unaffected, but since he rarely uses its power, the political arena
remains as it was.  One exception to this is that a rather prominent family in
[[Restenford]] has suddenly become very quiet, while before they were vocal
critics of [[Norwood]].

The most dramatic changes seem to be taking place in [[Rota]].  King [[Galin]]
is facing more and more challenges to his authority and some are coming from
surprising sources.  In the summer of 1108, several small clashes between
neighboring baronies erupted.  At the end of the campaign season, there appeared
to be no end in sight.  It is believed that full scale war could erupt by the
summer of 1109.