Mourning of a New Day - OOC



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In attempting to resync the different campaigns it was decided that the 2nd mourning happened on the same day Zergiot was crowned Lhesh of Darguun. Afterwards the DM told us The 2nd mournland covered all the territory controlled by Breland at the time it happened. It moved north covering Wroat, and stopped near the The Dragonwood which Droaam controlled. It also didn't pass the border with Zilargo. While the Brelish army still technically controlled the area south of Lake Brey the mournbomb didn't "jump" the territory controlled by Droaam.

The army coming towards Vathirond was from Thrane. After the fall of The Lurching tower, the people of Vathirond had realized they were cut off and sent delegates to Arythawn Keep requesting assistance. Thrane had already sent and army to destroy The Lurching Tower to eliminate "The Great Destroyer", so after doing so the army turned East towards Vathirond.

The ghosts in the lab were custom brewed variants of ghosts. They took complete damage from magical attacks, not the usual 50% to miss.

The mournbomb created a "new mournland" that covered all the territory Breland controlled when it went off. This includes everything east of the Dagger River to the border with Zilargo and from the ocean on the south through The Bears Wood to the north. Although Breland technically controlled the area around Dragons Crown where the Brelish army was located the mournbomb did not "jump" over the territory controlled by Droamm so this area remained unaffected.

The DM also told us that the "shifter" encountered by Blade was actually a Rakshasa from The Demon Wastes. He used telepathy to discover Blade didn't really know what a Rakshasa is and that Blade assumed he was a shifter so didn't bother to disguise himself. The Rakshasa's goal is to unite all of the nations under one banner, doesn't matter which one, and then detonate the final mournbomb so it covers the entire continent. Sadly none of the characters know anything about it and can't legally act on this information.

Members of the Carrion Tribes have begun coming over the mountains to raid the Eldeen Reaches in greater numbers then they ever have before. What happened to the Ghaash'kala and why they're not stopping them is unknown.

At this time Lii Marde hadn't actually been named yet and so was informally called "ratty" by some of the players. At the time this was played as if he was insane and simply didn't remember his own name.

The GM said that the machine behind the large iron door with the goop at the bottom was an "organic forge" used in experiments to create true living beings and eventually replace full humans lost in the war, rather then just creating warforged. The animals in the cages were the results of attempts at using the organic forge. The mournbombs were hyper-concentrated containers of the energy used in the organic forge and were never meant to be a weapon. The original Day of Mourning was an accident when one of the orbs was damaged and the energy released. The only people who both knew the truth about the Day of Mourning and survived it was Merrix D'Cannith, Zorlan D'Cannith, and Jorlanna D'Cannith. This is why House Cannith was divided after the Day of Mourning and why none of the three leaders of House Cannith ever took full control of the entire house. Each leader knew that whoever became patriarch or matriarch of House Cannith would be accused by the other two of being responsible for the Day of Mourning and so a stalemate occurred between them.


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