Siege of the Whispering Tyrant
In 4719 AR, the lich king Tar-Baphon launched an unprecedented attack on Absalom using a doomsday device called the Radiant Fire. Only the sacrifice of brave heroes whose souls intertwined with the device thwarted the Whispering Tyrant’s siege and saved the city from destruction. Shortly thereafter, Watcher-Lord Ulthun II, of the fallen nation of Lastwall, arrived in Absalom with the news that the Tyrant had emerged from his failed surprise attack to gather an enormous undead army centered on the Isle of Terror, and that he would surely come for the Starstone once more. Citizens of Absalom view Ulthun and his retinue—including the self-styled “goblin king of Absalom,” Zusgut—as either heralds of Absalom’s imminent demise or vital sources of insight for its survival.
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