Will of the Helm, Part III: The Auric Crusade

As woe continued to plague the Free City, the Council of Five concluded that they must turn to the nation-states of Sapience for assistance. With a dreaming plague afflicting the masses, an untimely famine driving civil unrest, a war waged by the Shil’tok, and mysterious deaths all around the city, the beleaguered councilors divided the…

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Will of the Helm, Part II: Woes Four

Following the demise of Aiillassa, unrest continued to wrack the Free City of Delve throughout the early days of Lleian. Rumors of sleepwalking citizens began to circulate throughout the city, with some reports of one woman from the Docklands stumbling off a pier into the waters to her demise. To make matters worse for the…

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Will of the Helm, Part I: Unrest in the Underbelly

In the early days of Midsummer in 506MA, the Free City of Delve experienced the beginnings of great unrest. Caught in conflict with three rival gangs, the Brass Jackals were beset on all sides by territorial aggression. This chaos within the Underbelly did not go unnoticed by citizens of Sapience’s city-states, individuals from all across…

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The Fall of the Temple of Ati

While the Third Son of Ohlsana stood in chains beneath Bloodloch’s banners, Runecarver Rhydderch of Duiran turned his attention to the Temple of Ati, long a plague staining the Western Itzatl. From the midst of so much horror, reasoned the Runecarver, had come an opportunity: to bring the foul temple, a blight upon the landscape,…

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Fleeting Legends: Tetchta, the Adherent of Memory

One of the first followers of Lexadhra in Her nascent revival, Tetchta Mesis can rarely be described as modest, timorous, or prone to bouts of regret or shame. The Tick – a moniker given to them by was-Varo – found themself called to the Indelible’s Temple in the Memoryscape, where a cofhenya – a vessel…

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The Fall of the Republic

Founded in the early days of the Second Immortal Epoch, the citadel of Spinesreach commands a provenance unmatched by any city on Sapience still standing today. This storied history, while tumultuous and turbulent over the years, has always retained a singular constant: Artifice reigns eternal, and the will of Severn is absolute. In the modern…

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Bards Come to Aetolia!

After the tumultuous Revelations brought about during the epic Shattered Souls event that concluded in March, Sapience enjoyed a relative period of quiet, with no resurrected Gods or world-ending threats rising to the fore. Yet while most thought the Elders dead and gone, a cult to Nalibhtavi, the Replete, revealed themselves, bombarding adventurers with propaganda…

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Fragments of Time: Part Eight

Following His summit with Bamathis, the Hunter began formulating His trap to ensnare the rampaging Yvalamon. From His halls in the Temple of Thorns He set to work, brooding over the final components that lay in a place no one wanted to go. Creeping rot infests Dendara, an unending onslaught of encroaching filth that slowly…

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Fragments of Time: Part Seven

While Sapience celebrated the defeat of the Haekathi and took a moment to relax, Copperhead had other things on its mind. Arriving in the City of Spinesreach, the Cogger commenced what would be a weeks-long search for the ‘non functional remnant’ to which it had been earlier alerted. Spirean reactions were a mix of alarm…

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Stockings!

December has arrived and that means it’s time for stockings! As always, they can be obtained from the Aetolia website at www.aetolia.com/credits under ‘artifact packages.’ Per my previous post (Announce #3271), stockings have been majorly overhauled from previous years in order to make them significantly more rewarding. Take a look over that post or check…

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