Arc:The Obsidian Pool - The First Wave

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Background

The Headquarters of the Eldritch Cabal is ... well, some consider it evil, others some unnatural atrocity, a tear in the fabric of reality itself. In truth, the building is uninhabitable, the dire magics governing its creation spawned by Chaos itself, thereby making the cyclopean fortress a place that even the bravest warrior might dread.

In a moment of jealous fury, the necromancer Tenebrae had made an unwitting pact with the Lords of Chaos, swearing to serve them if they would destroy the erstwhile home of the one who'd hurt her, and in a single night plant on that blasted ground a fortress for her own people. These fell beings were not gods, by any means, but ancient entities rendered, via the nature of their magics, near-immortal; nevertheless during the millennia they'd striven to un-knit the fabric of Order, they had gained mastery over certain aspects of reality: the in-between places that separated the physical and spiritual planes, the great darknesses of the Void.

One such Lord, a vile shadow that had once been a vampire, before that a mage of exceptional necromantic and illusory talents, was (unbeknownst to Tenebrae) the source of her necromancy and vampirism alike. It was this creature who'd devised the plan to have his former charge tricked into allowing Chaos a foothold into the world of Form, via the eerily sentient and labyrinthine puzzle-box of a building that now has begun to exert its dark will over the hapless and unsuspecting inhabitants of Hollow.

Masters of illusions, lies and manipulation, these beings watch, and wait for their grand and Machiavellian plot to unfold...




NOTE: This RP dates back to 2006 and is part of the early history of The Eldritch Cabal. It is the first of the ongoing Obsidian Pool mega-arc RPs.




Chapters


  1. Renin and Caste - A Meeting
  2. Darkness Falls
  3. Dismay
  4. Danielle
  5. The Second Wave
  6. Schalk's Sacrifice
  7. Just A Shadow
  8. Enter the Rogue
  9. Castellian - Alone and Lost
  10. Imar & Renin Discover Leoxander
  11. The Found and The Lost
  12. Bliss
  13. Leoxander and Jayde Escape
  14. Imar's Return
  15. An Absence