For the first time online, the Dao Tyr classic, the Codexa Pseidwom is now available online. click here to download the 22 page book and discover the secrets of the Fifth Aepoch of the Raelfaen. Here in, you will discover the story of the Dragongods and the saga of Purdjion and the Gray Queen.
Ryrdren and Kathos, two ancient faederkin priests of the Raven Queen have recently returned to the world through the Fey Dark as Fey Liches known as the Keepers. No one knows exactly how many Keepers there are as reports of Keepers as far south as Issyleth and as far north as Eyrolia. This ancient nethermagic that they wield is somehow tied to the recent rise to divinity of the archfey, Alotha, the Dark Pana, the legendary younger sister of the Raven Queen. Arcane savants across the globe have been studying the at once novel, and truly ancient language known as the Shadow Script. It is in the Shadow Script, an alphabet of innate energy, that the Fey Dark expands darkens the shadows of the Fey Wilds and brightens the sun across the Shadowfel.
Eddison Drake encountered Ryrdren and Kathos outside of Farharrow. It was there that the first shade realized a core piece of his mystery, indeed an original perspective on the nature of Shadow magic and what its local and perhaps global implications may be.
When Stefan the Shadar Kai, a zealotous priest of the Raven Queen, conspired to steal the town of Farharrow back to its original home on the Shadowfel and away from its new place of power, the Feydark, he needed a vessel of innocence that had been tainted with shadow. The nethermancer chose Ithiri, a drow with no family, they had all been killed in the night of the Sever. Stefan was able to hide the town inside of one of the girl’s tears. It was not until the assassin Brynn Bobbin and her friend, the first shade Eddison Drake, lead by the voidmancers, another sect of the Raven Queen’s vast conspiratorial web, found the girl and drove Stefan back to Letherna.
Stefan the Shadar Kai nethermancer was defeated by the Shadow Heroes of Farharrow.
The Fatom queen of the City of Twilight in the ancient lands of Unon is Yrgana, the Shadow Queen. She has been married to King AlNayab for nearly one thousand years but does not suffer his presence or his influence over her walled city. Dinnae is hers to rule much to the courtly and acquiescent displeasure of her son, Prince Rolan. The modern city enjoys minimal civic unrest due to the fell-agreement the queen struck with the Keepers, the fey-lich lords of old city Dinnae. Fatom Yrgana is an archfey whose every pleasure is the business of an army of loyal consorts and whose every vice is the directive of a horde of obedient minions.
The City of Dinnae is based on the D&D campaign setting: Gloomwrought in the Shadowfell. Dinnae takes place in the Feydark, an amalgam of the Feywild and the Shadowfell.
The Heroes of Shadow, or as they are known in Gavin Wel, the Fugitives of Dark Port, are on their way to Dinnae aboard the Feydark galleon Amoria.
The Dark Mistress died years ago. Her dark spirit continues to linger in the dark feywilds around the mansion that was built by her lover before they were both betrayed. Salymira was her name. Once a shadar kai and then the mistress of Janulen of the Black Sword keep, now a tragic, cautionary tale of passion and shadow.
Janulen was an artificer of fantastic renown who specialized in thunder magic. Then living at Mantan, the Black Sword Keep atop Mountain Iredinn, in the days before the event known as the Gherivoninacht, the night the mountains crashed into the sea. Janulen was contracted by the Dark lord Maurphiun to create a device to be called the Gherivon, the thunder machine. Mauphriun, a thrall of the Shadow King Alnayab, chose Janulen for the job because of the remote location and his singular talent.
Janulen lived alone with his wife Ralyria and his assistant, the faederkin Thanataign. For many years Janulen struggled to construct the Gherivon for his dark employer. Maurphiun, a scholar of ancient history, moved to the mountain to aid and observe Janulen and his designs. IT became clear to Maurphiun that the building of the Gherivon would drive Janulen insane as the construction of the device might literally tear his mind apart. Maurphiun contracted the services of a Shadar Kai sorceress and consort, Salymira, to soothe and revitalize the exhausted Janulen. In those years, the ShadarKai were known to inhabit and consort with the Dark Elves of Baestelix, and this is where the two lovers began their triste, all to the betrayal of Ralyria.
In the year 1125, in the hours before the Gherivoninacht, in the last moments before the activation of the Gherivon, Ralyria learned of her betrayal. She found the mansion of Phytherios on the other side of the mountain peak and asertained its dark purpose. A legendary fury arose in her heart. A fury so great that an elemental daemon named Farthuriel from the FeyDark, heard her woeful heart beat and came to taste her rage. Farthuriel offered to take the heart of Janulen and cast it into the dark well, and in return, Ralyria would let him transform her rage into a mighty thing. “Anything! I will give you anything to condemn Janulen’s heart to the void!” Ralyria gladly screamed.
Thanataign, the faederkin, every faithful to Janulen, overheard this dark bargain and reported it to his lord. Maurphiun was there when Thanataign reported on Ralyria’s dark dargain. Maurphiun sensed that this daemon, this Fartheriel of the Black Well, might actually have the ability to stop the Gherivon from activating. To save his agenda, Maurphiun made a dark deal of his own with Farthuriel to become an undead demi-lich, trading a bit of his soul, so that the Gherivon might not be interrupted.
He did not know, however, that indeed Faruthiel had betrayed Ralyria too, and had transformed her into a black dragon to kill Janulen. As the Gherivon was activated, the dragon attacked and the incantation ritual to realize its full power was never manifest. For indeed the Gherivoninacht occured, reducing the Southrin Mountain range to the sea, but lo, the plan was to destroy all of Ethilistyr as well. Ralyria pierced Janulen’s heart with her vile tooth and sent the doomed artifacer to a unliving state of wraithdom. Maurphiun, in a blind need to fulfill a plan that was never fully realized, keeps trying to subdue the dragon, who still haunts the mist trail.
The Amoria, formerly known as the Gold Wing, was once a proud war galleon of Gavin Wel, the premier war vessel of the Raven Queen’s navy. Since then it has been retrofitted, painted and is now a derelict pirate-ghost ship, still under the command of Aeryn the Gold. The ship was built in 1115 and served in Penelius’ Navy during the Dragonkin Wars for the next five years. It was restored in 1130 by the necromancer of Dinnae, Athol the Red. It has 38 oars and is powered by team of 76 eladrin zombies whose souls have been retired to the Shadowfel. It is 135 feet long, 43 feet wide and weighs 220 tons. Its main mast is 85 feet tall.
Aeryn, the only captain the Amoria has ever known has gone from celebrated general to privateer in the age of the Feydark.
Dzjaran, a horsemaster of Hyth Anir, surrendered his three destriers when Netherdann relieved him of his head.
The Dark Bloom behind Bobbin’s Still in Farharrow appears from the outside to be a single overgrown bramble that stretches nearly forty feet in height and is the size of a city block. In truth though, it is a wilderness unto itself, much larger inside than out.
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