Apostles of Doom

• Approximately 100 years ago, Bess aligned with the archdemons Ramses and Exador; they began researching legends of a book containing information that would enable them to depose Lilith and Sammael, the Cofactors of the Abyss.

• Approximately ten years ago, Lenamare the Great learned of this same book and its contents.

• A few years ago, Lenamare ascertained a very likely location for the book and hired a band of interdimensional rogues and bounty hunters to retrieve the book from ruins inside of Oorstemoth.

• Lenamare’s agents acquired the book but were captured; Lenamare, however, had planted magic items on his agents that caused them to blame Exador for the robbery.

• Exador spent nearly a year clearing himself of the charges, and determined that Lenamare had the book that he and his allies wanted.

• Exador and his allies plotted to seize Lenamare’s Academy of Wizardry and more specifically, the book. Lenamare discovered the plot by Exador and began planning his defense.

• On Cyclos 7^th 440 PV, during a training session with students, Lenamare and his partner Jehenna discovered what they thought was an unbound lesser demon. Upon trying to summon the demon for the first time, they realized it was actually a Greater Demon. With great risk to themselves and the students, Lenamare succeeded in binding the demon to his will.

○ Cyclos 7, 440 PV is Day Zero for the events detailed here. It is the day that the Demon Tom is first summoned.

• Fourteen days later (DZ +14), Lenamare blew up his own school, taking out the majority of Exador’s forces.

• The following evening (DZ +15), Verigas, the High Priest of Tiernon in Gizzor Del, had his own demon summoning hijacked by a Demon Lord in possession of a party of humans. This began the Rod’s involvement.

• A few days later, an Oorstemothian ship attempted to apprehend a smuggler and was illegally destroyed by one Lord Edwyrd, a powerful animage that also controlled demons. This began Oorstemoth’s involvement.

• Within a week, both the Rod of Tiernon and Oorstemothian forces surrounded the city of Freehold, home of the Council of Wizardry and capitol of the Council States. They both demanded independently that the Council turn over the individuals they were pursuing.

• The Council reacted by raising the city’s incredibly powerful wards of protection, shielding the city from both magical and physical intrusion.

• Talarius, Knight Rampant of Tiernon, while patrolling the city from above, discovered that the city was infested with at least a thousand demons, as well as several Archdemons.

• Thirty days after Day Zero, on Electh 17^th 440 PV, the Council managed to expel the demon infestation along with the Arch Demons and Lenamare’s Greater Demon. The demon Tom battled Talarius, Knight Rampant of Tiernon, and Tom defeated Talarius by subverting the mana links between Tiernon and his priests, using the mana to take control of the Rod of Tiernon, the holy army. Further, he reversed the blade used to kill Orcus and tossed Talarius “Into the Abyss.”

○ DZ + 30: Electh 17^th 440 PV is known as the “Day of Fight” or DOF.

• One day later, Saint Hilda of Rivenrock arrived as part of a scouting party for the Host of Tiernon’s arrival; she quickly determined that things were very odd, and the Archons of Tiernon decided to abort the Hosts' appearance and proceed more surreptitiously.

• In the Abyss, the members of the Courts of Chaos celebrate Tom’s victory and try to figure out who and where he is.

• The incubus Reggie is summoned by Merit-Ptah as part of a plot to secretly repopulate Astlan with followers of the Nyjyr Ennead.

• An expedition to investigate a vision of an orc uprising and the nature of the demon Bess was launched by the Council of Wizardry and the Grove, led by Trevin D’Vils, Enchantress of the Grove.

• Within a few days, as the expedition left the Grove in the cloudship Nimbus, it was attacked by a contingent of Storm Lords of Nysegard, undead liches on ice dragons.

• Shortly thereafter, the wizard Exador was exposed as an archdemon. In anger he attacked those that witnessed his unmasking. He was driven from Astlan by Randolf, Exador, Gandros, Lenamare, Jehenna, Tureledor and Davron. In the process, Exador launched an unprovoked attack on the djinn, Crispin, thus unleashing the wrath of the djinn upon himself.

• Ten days after absconding with the knight Talarius, the D’Orcs of Mount Doom swore allegiance to the Dark Lord Tommus. This day is known as the Day of Allegiance or DOA: Demoni 7^th, 54,760 MDT (Mount Doom Time) (DZ + 40).

• The following day, the D’Orcs, Lord Tommus and Sekhmekt, the Nyjyr Ennead Goddess of War, defeated two thousand-plus demons sent by Lilith and more spectacularly, destroyed twenty-three Knights of Chaos that arrived at Mount Doom in a Chaos Maelstrom.

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