The Conflict
Prelude
The Spectre spoke out against the Inquisitors and their practises... believing their actions were intended to sow discord and that tensions building between the inquisitors, elected settlements and the Aist mages could be disastrous in the long run. The Inquisitors banished and exiled the Spectre for this reason and, to this day, the Spectre is the only inquisitor to be fired/banished from the order.
Two months later, the inquisitors rooted out a group of aist mages attempting a new form of magic. When they interrogated the characters they revealed that an individual that called themselves 'Spectre' told them. The Inquisitors tracked this figure to their moving mansion that was momentarily in Fallrock and decided to apprehend or kill the Spectre.
14 Inquisitors were sent to deal with the Spectre in their mansion.
The Spectre's Mansion in Fallrock
It was mid Enlightenment. Snow season in Alturis and Fallrock was fully iced over with the creatures lying beneath the ground. The Inquisitors hoped this would dull the power and influence of the Spectre as they were known to be a skilled fire evoker.
It was a good tactic that did not work.
The Inquisitors found Spectre waiting outside of the mansion and in the centre of fallrock. In a fair fight, they would have won. But the Spectre exploited a major weakness of the Inquisitors, their over reliance on being able to 'smell' an aist mage. Using mixtures of invisibility, foggy conditions and masked magicka. During the fight one of the inquisitors managed to leave a lasting wound, removing one of the Spectre's hand. The Spectre killed every inquisitor that was sent and took their remains into the mansion.
1 week later the inquisitor's corpses were sent to Elmdale to be buried in the night.
The Spectre hasn't been seen since and has largely become a myth... though there is regular rumour that in the most inhospitable regions in the north there resides a being with a heavily designed china mask and 1 hand that is gloved and another hand fashioned entirely from arcane energy.
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