A Vengeance From The Past

When the Aerdi swept across the lands of the Great Kingdom, there were certain pockets of powerful, ancient magic which they despoiled and razed with fire and acid or drove down into shadows and twilight.

The sacred sites of the Ur-Flannae, the rare mystics of the Flan people (feared by the Flan far more than by the Aerdi), and the haunts of the Old Elves, were among them. Some of those magics, old beyond knowing, are not wholly lost to the world, but they tend now to take terri ble forms.

The most feared by far is the magical sword guarded by the gray elf remnant of the Grandwood. However, the wise and far-sighted see manifestations of this long repressed magic in the fate of the Great Kingdom. Estab lished by war, force, and brutality in many instances, the Kingdom is doomed to pass into chaos and suffering.

Istus knows, of course; Gwydiesin does; the tiny shriv elled elf known as The Spectre does; and, beyond them, perhaps Mordenkainen has some inkling, and it is surely written in Rillikandren's Book of Hours. But this is getting far ahead of the story.

Such is the history, the peoples, and the destinies of the lands of Aerdy. Its many powers and factions remain for us to understand.