The Ordination of Elendir

Metaphysical / Paranormal event

The Lady of Pain was moved to shed a tear, which fell through the planes to Tergaith and was kept safe by the elves, who ordained Elendir as Baelnorn - immortal protector. Over the centuries his temple and the tear were buried and forgotten.

The Lady of Pain was moved to shed a tear, which fell through the planes to Tergaith and was kept safe by the elves, who ordained Elendir as Baelnorn - immortal protector. Over the centuries his temple and the tear were buried and forgotten, as was the purpose of the tear or what it was being protected from.   An ancient Drow Lich, Sylvanwroth, who claimed to have seen so many conjunctions in his time that he lost count, eventually pieced the story together from various sources and found the repository where Elendir still lived, in semi-torpor, his temple now several hundred feet underground from erosion and flooding in the span of two thousand years. Sylvanwroth and his minions carefully excavated the site and built his own lair over the place, ensuring its safety as he had no desire to thwart what he had learned Elendir would do - literally save the world from planetary catastrophe. As the years passed he was able to copy down the engraved texts he found inside the temple into book form, the Echo of Stars, and to strike up a sort of friendship with Elendir, albeit one based more and more on deceit as Sylvanworth never dared reveal his true undead nature, and through small incidents of gaslighting stacked up over a scale of centuries, convinced Elendir that the year was still 1A3.   As pieces began to fall into place and the catastrophe loomed, Sylvanwroth worked behind the scenes with the Sisters of the Wood also, who were themselves deceiving him; he considered them powerful but ultimately harmless Fey hag-maidens, when in fact they were - at least from time to time - the actual Three Sisters of the Planes: Titania, queen of the Fey; the Raven Queen of the Shadowfell; and the Lady of Pain at the center of the multiverse, who had shed the tear in the first place.   When an entire army of soldiers blundered into Sylvanwroth's wood - as he had known from prophecy they would - he had the power source in mortal souls to build a soul engine capable of completing not only the illusion to Elendir that time was passing much more slowly than he thought, but also completely hiding Elendir (and his own lair) from any divination, scrying, or interference from unwanted interested parties (Such as Orcus, who might otherwise have been interested in the sudden availability of 16,941 souls).    When the heroes finally came to take the tear and complete the prophetic cure, Sylvanwroth was shocked at how unlikely they seemed, but realized that even he had only been a pawn in a much larger game being played by the three sisters; where he had sought to turn the prophecy to his own interests, in fact he had done exactly what had been needed to fulfill it to the letter, and despite all his bluster and all his power, he was simply unable to be the one who could fulfil the prophecy or gain their favor, as abing such as himself could never enter or survive a simple trip through the Wonder-land, or off the edge of the Feywild.   The Scale Squad claimed the tear, and fulfilled the prophecy, 3333 years after this date, in the turn of time to Fourth Age.