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- General Background
- The known history of Theldrow stretches back to the
- beginning of the Age of Magic, starting after what
- is commonly called the Devastation. No one really
- knows exactly what cataclysmic event took place
- then, other than the name. All that is know is that
- two centuries of darkness followed this event.
- From that world sprang a new one, one rich in
- magic. Though the Age of Magic is long since past,
- (it too ended cataclysmically), another age, the
- present one, has since arose from the dust.
- Of the Age of Magic, much is known, but of the Age
- before it, little is know. It was referred to as the
- Age of Might, and it ended very abruptly. Some
- speculate that Good and Evil sought control and the
- result was the terrible waste of a world. There are
- a few other, however, that suggest that this was
- not the case. They suggest that some other force
- was to blame, and that Good and Evil joined forces
- to stop this force, and in the end decided that the
- world would be better to perish rather than
- succumb to this unknown power. All this is a matter
- for speculation, for almost nothing remains of that
- age long ago.
- Player Background
- You remember little of your father, the scholar
- Leoric, mostly just that he was often up late at
- night scouring through ancient books. You
- remember his telling your mother that he would be
- off, researching a lead, and would be home in a few
- days. You were seven then. You are now
- seventeen. He has never returned.
- Some time after this, you and your mother had to
- leave your family house, and live in a monastery.
- There you learned the ways of the cleric.
- Recently, your mother passed and, you choose to
- find out what happened to your father. From the
- few books of his that remain, you know that he was
- researching remnant from the Age of Might, and
- found a lead. In the ten years since he left, time
- has been hard on those old books of his, and about
- the only things that you can figure out from them
- are the word 'portal', and a reference to
- 'Cravenshaw overlooking Boden'.
- Boden is a trading city, far from your farm, in the
- Duchy of Arapos. Of Cravenshaw you know nothing,
- although you seem to remember that "Crav" means
- castle, and there is an old castle, south across the
- river from Boden - perhaps this is Cravenshaw?
- You have left the monastery, and learned the ways
- of combat and magic since then. With you, you have
- an old dagger, a family heirloom, and a small sack
- of gold. You have set out to find what happened to
- your father, and so have arrived outside of Boden.
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