The History

(From the Microscope Game)

The Great Empire Collapses and things are in Chaos (Dark) [Start]

• Zen Lobo and his entire family are evicted from his small home, and when his daughter dies of illness he vows to get back at the government and turns to Domecus (Dark)
• The Death of the Grand Emperor, Arium the Eternal (human), as well as the death of the entire Imperial Court, leaves the Empire’s government in disarray. (Dark)
  • Scene: How did Arium the Eternal meet his mortal end? (Dark)
    • Zen Lobo, as a mission for his patron Domecus, god of regicide, attempts to assassinate Arium, but is killed by a stroke of luck on Arium’s part. However, Domecus’s will was carried out anyway, as Arium dies as a result of a heart attack from overexertion.
  • Dozens of Domecus's more competent assassin/followers poison the wine before a meeting, the court of hundreds drop dead. (Dark)
• The Eternal Obelisk, a hollowed-out shrine which was made into a tower during the Age of Arium the Eternal, is abandoned and the area around it becomes overgrown. (Dark)
• The Grand Library, home to the knowledge gathered in all the Great Empire's history, is burned to ash. (Dark)
• Remnants of the empire’s royal lords and knights form The Foundation, aiming to re-establish the empire under their own rule (Dark)
• The gnolls, once pushed back into the deepest wildernesses by the forces of of Great Empire, are able to thrive again. (Dark)
• The Orcs, after the empire falls, come out of their caves and begin to establish themselves, killing humans in the process. They create a state known as Orchian. (Dark)
  • With the Empire’s army dissolved, an Orc Chief named Blanchmin challenges nearby Orc Chief’s to duels, to grow his horde. (Dark)
  • The other Orc chiefs are no match for Blanchmin, and he challenges all three of the major Orc chiefs to duel him at the same time. How does Blanchmin show off that he is the mightiest?

Other Orc Chiefs: Clanchmin (twin brother of Blanchmin), Pog the Princess (a very fat orc), Gerbashino Mawquiz’ddy (Goblin who climbed to the top)

• Blanchmin kills them all, but loses an arm and has a broken face, and he also refuses Gerbashino’s pledge of allegiance, killing him too. (Dark)

• The holy independent nation of Zarkhin is founded by followers of Domecus with the sole intent of moving past the empire by controlling the nation’s people. They cover up the nation's true purpose by hiding behind the front of a new religion: Corrus, Egg of the World. All of Zarkhin is ignorant of this fact. (Dark)

The Era of New Nations (Light)

• The Islands of Moray unite as the Moray Kingdom (Light)
  • Taog Tulach (human) is voted King of the Islands by the various noble families. (Light)
  • A request by the Foundation for Moray to return to the empire was declined, furthering hostilities between the groups. (Light)
  • The Denmer Code, the theology/philosophy of Arium the Eternal, makes its way into the newly established College of Moray. (Light)
• The Warlord Aggriph (human) the Vulture and his band of reavers (The Scavengers) form a “nation” and pillage nearby territories. (Dark)
• The Foundation grants permission to The Knights of Zorn, led by their Grandmaster, Pontium Robasak (elf), full control of the Green Highlands, with the intention to push back the Orcs. (Light)
  • The knights catch the scattered orcs by surprise and decisively take back plenty of land, however they fall into a bloody stalemate, with little land being traded back and forth. (Light)

A horrible plague/curse breaks out which causes people to wander around at night with white eyes, then die in the nearby woods. The afflicted are dubbed “Dusk Driven”. (Dark)

• Torin the Ripper (Human Knight) is relieved of his position. (Dark)
  • Sir Orleus Vlanir (Half-elf) is suspected of conspiring with Torin, and he is banished from the Crownlands by The Foundation (Dark)
  • Orleus Vlanir claims that Torin was a noble Knight and doesn’t deserve his demotion; Lord Vroc states that Torin assaulted his daughter and no longer deserves to be a knight. He is fabricating this charge. (Dark)
  • After losing his title, Torin the Ripper leaves the safety of the crownlands and enters the wilderness (Light)
  • Torin reaches the Graven Bogs and encounters a witch; at first he is ready for battle, but then he decides to make a deal with her. He is granted with abilities he can use to take his revenge on the Foundation, but at a cost… (Light)
  • Torin asked the witch for power to change the Foundation, ending its corruption; the witch gave him “immortality”, but only if he consumes the souls of other people. Thus, the “Dusken Curse” begins. (Dark)
• The hole which was left by Torin's absence in the Royal Police leads to great corruption in the Royal Police (Dark)
• Ilios Vlanir (Half-elf) establishes the Knights of Dusk, scholars researching the cause and the cure to the Dusk Driven (Light)
• The Sisterhood of Ghosts is formed (Dark)
  • The Sisterhood begins its involvement with the War for the Foundation by supplying new magical technologies to the True Foundation (Dark)
• The Dusk driven curse starts to activate without Torin’s knowledge, causing men to wander into the wilderness and be slaughtered by beasts. (Dark)
  • Torin begins to lose control of his curse ability: dozens of villagers walk, cursed, into the nearby wood. A large bipedal creature with greyish-white hair and glowing eyes follows some of them out. Kruss, a villager, saw the creature and calls it the “Wilderman”. (Dark)
  • To combat this, the Hunters Organization Against the Wilderness (HOAW) is formed as an independent force of adventurers to combat the evils of the wilderness. (Light)
• The True Foundation begins leaking information about the remaining leaders of the Foundation to Torin, in order to let Torin kill them and take the blame. They do this disguised as commoners. (Dark)
  • Torin kills all of the leaders of the Foundation, causing it to fall apart with no leaders (Light)
  • Torin gets a chance to speak with Lord Vroc before he kills him; what does he say? (Dark)
    • “I stopped being human the day you exiled me”
• After the Foundation falls, the True Foundation tortures the witch until she ends the spell on Torin. After the spell ends, he dies. (Light)
  • The True Foundation, wearing wooden masks with the faces of woodland animals on them, find the witch in the Graven Bog, and her attempts to curse them are thwarted. They get ahold of her and take her prisoner. (Dark)
• Attempts at finding a cure for the Dusk Plague were in vain, but the Plague naturally dies down with time. However, the studies of the Knights of Dusk proved to be useful still; the Citadel of Vlanir was established in the Gardens of Yawn. (Light)
• The True Foundation disperses throughout the land, with groups of members heading to outer states. (Dark)
• The sisterhood of ghosts assassinates Taog Tulach by sinking his ship as he is leaving the Crownlands after a mysterious visit to the Gardens of Yawn (Dark)
• The Citadel of Vlanir is raided by an unknown group of draconic warriors and all information about the Dusk Driven Curse is lost. The information about the Dusk Driven Curse pertains to how living creatures can become undead that eventually is used to create the Blight.(Dark)
  • The draconic warriors learn of the location of the Silent Tower in the information. They travel to the location and enter the tower, what do they see? Krimblack Dextravorius (black dragonborn), Donaleustopher Aristopholestipheles XVI (rainbow DRAGONBORN), Drozak (Green Dragonborn), Grezel Fizpeddlegrubber (brown)
    • Drozak and Donaleustopher are killed by traps, the dragonborn find out that the Silent Tower is the tomb of Arium the Eternal, also, they find a large clear vat of glowing beige liquid, holding small bugs.

An age of isolation occurs due to the wilderness spreading, forcing Countries and cities to remain within their small domain (Dark)

• Gnolls gather in strength and number and harass roads and unprotected villages. (Dark) [Legacy M: The Gnolls]
• Groups known as druid groves are formed as a halfway between wilderness and civilization (Light)
  • Scene: the druid circle of Jin’cale help a traveler named Bay Halfear visit his family in the village of Gardenroot (Dark)
    • The worshippers of Jin’cale, a deity(?) offer assistance to Bay Halfear (halfling), who respectfully declines
• Goblin tribes begin to split apart, some believing they should depart and grow their own towns and villages, while others choose to embrace their wild origin and become savage monsters (Light).
  • Bathorn (Goblin), the tribe leader of the ghost grave, leaves with some members of his tribe to start their own druid grove; the ghost grove (Light)
  • The Ghost Grove declares war on the Gnolls (in general) (Light)
  • Trade between villages begins to become easier due to the battles between the Ghost Grove and the Gnolls (Light)
• A large tower is found in the wilderness, and the residents of it bar entry to all. The tower was later nicknamed the silent tower (Dark)
• The Knights of Zorn are all but destroyed in a raid on the Green Highlands by an army of Illithid and their vile abominations leaving the Green Highlands in disarray. (Dark)
  • An elderly Pontium Robasak seals himself in one of the many hidden Zorn crypts. (Light)

Lurisia forms from an unclaimed, isolated (and dangerous) piece of the great Empire; Alice Vandran (elf) is made Queen. (Dark)

• The Descendant of Aggriph the Vulture, Alphonse Ulvick, the leader of House Ulvick (sigil is a vulture) wants to make it known to Queen Vandran that the Ulvicks are their most loyal supporters. He orders for his trusted Knight Hogman Billows to find the wreckage of Taog Tulach’s schooner and get his head. (It is not widely known that he was killed). (Dark)
  • At the wreckage site (the Yawnish Strand), where remnants of the schooner ended up, Ser Billows finds the Sisterhood of Ghosts. His squire, Chapman, gets the head of Tulach in exchange for the head of Ser Billows. (Dark)
• Taog Tulach’s head is the first gift to the queen (Dark)
• Alice Vandran gathers many wizards and arcane users, and forces them to conduct experiments and research for her (Dark)
  • One wizard, Avery Trebbles, forced into service to Lurisia, discovered something he wants to keep hidden: what was it? How does he hide it?
    • He discovered strange bugs of some sort, spontaneously spawning in potions. The assistants died, and a vial holding the insects was kept safe and hidden. FOR NOW…(Dark)
• Alice Vandran orders for the death of Yaggmartokk the Eye of Orc, the chieftan of Orchian. (Dark)
  • Scene: four of Lurisia’s finest Knights try to prove which one is up for the task: who is chosen? Knights:
    • Sir Pepipan “the Spice Knight” Chirole, Lady Gretchen Ash “The Sunday Knight”, Hylus Jonden, Sir Dalotmag “Knight of Maggots” Umfloir (dwarf). Alice Vandran secretly asks for Gretchen Ash to eliminate the other three as well as the Orc King. (Dark)
  • Hylus Jonden and Sir Pepipan escape together from the Orchian stronghold after the failed assassination attempt. What happened with the assassination attempt? (Dark)
    • The knights enter the camp and due to unfortunate events, Yaggmartokk’s son Balmon is killed instead. Dalotmag is captured (because of Gretchin’s sleep dart) and Gretchin remains in the camp secretly.
  • Yaggmartokk requests the aid of Ranchmin and his horde to declare war on Lurisia. Many other hordes join this army. (Dark) [Legacy D: Yaggmartokk]
• The few remaining Knights of Zorn steal away to a mountain (Greth Summit) and create the Holy Chain of Zornacles, who rediscover Zorn, Deity of preservation and tradition. (Light)
  • Chapman (halfling) joins the order of Zorn in the mountains, has visions revealing that the order was originally created to serve the deity Zorn, and helps reforms the order. (Light)

The “Wilderman” sends the silent tower crashing to the ground with his army of beasts, bringing an age of destruction to the land. (Dark)

• Out of the Tower emerges the Blight, a force that spreads like a rolling shockwave across the ground, killing life of every kind and turning the land a dead and dismal grey for miles in every direction. All living creatures in the area become Dustwalkers, but the Wilderman is unharmed. (Dark)
• Brother Chapman, a monk from the Holy Chain of Zornacles embarks with his other Brothers of Zorn to find the old crypts of Zorn. In an expedition, they find the body of Pontium Robasak, and bury with a lavish funeral. (Light)
• The HOAW formally declares war on the beasts, recruiting any able bodied fighter instead of just adventurers (Light).
• The Wilderman discovers the bones of Pontium Robasak, and resurrects him to lead an army of dustwalkers to aid him in foreign battles (Dark). [Legacy B: The Wilderman]
• An encampment of Lurisian Knights are all killed by the Wilderman and the Dustwalkers (skeletons) on the eve of battle against Ranchmin’s orcs. (Dark)

A Great Leader begins to form the largest nation since the Empire. (Light) [End]

• The three most prominent druid groves (Ghost Grove, Shadowroot Grove, and the grove of Jin’cale) vanish, leaving empty camps behind (Dark)
• The wilderness resists the silent towers blight by growing a thorny bog around it. (Light) [Legacy A: Thorny bog]
• Kuo-Toa are at war with bullywugs in Heibach Mire. (Dark)