Asherons Call: Queen Elysa Needs Your Help - Updated

Elysa smiles broadly to the people.

Elysa Strathelar says, "We live in a time of adversity, a time that is filled with strife and sorrow at every corner."

Elysa Strathelar says, "Through it all we stand united in the common cause of making our home a place that is secure for future generations."

Elysa Strathelar says, "Here we make our peace. Here we recognize the unity of the houses of Dereth, those joined by blood and those bound by oath alone."

Asheron says, "This stone shall signify that unity and those bonds. It shall be a beacon for the wayward and the lost. It shall be the light in the darkness."

Elysa raises her hands.

Elysa pauses and scans the crowd for reactions.

Elysa Strathelar says, "Derethians. We must speak now of the matter at hand. We are faced with a most frightening foe. One who once was like us."

Elysa Strathelar says, "This same group has grown to become an offshoot of both my own Royal Guard and the Arcanum."

Elysa Strathelar says, "Candeth Martine was once one of us. He came from Ispar like all of you and adventured across these lands as a member of the Explorer Society."

Elysa Strathelar says, "But he was lost to us, taken by the Virindi."

Elysa Strathelar says, "Asheron has returned to help us stop the atrocities that Martine has begun. We have seen the destruction that has been wrought upon the world. "

Elysa Strathelar says, "At the Menhir, magic itself has revolted against the natural order and destroyed the Essences. "

Elysa Strathelar says, "But now it is threatened."

Elysa Strathelar says, "And though, with aid from Asheron, the Arcanum has concentrated components necessary for the casting of magic, mages have become concerned over oddities in workings of magic, a lessening in its strength and power."

Elysa Strathelar says, "The world that we know here hangs in a tenuous balance, an order that must be maintained. That order has until now remained untouched, in balance, complete."

Asheron says, "The balance Elysa speaks of was threatened only once before,in a time not documented well by my people."

Asheron says, "It was a time when war spread across this world, and the victors consumed and destroyed the history of the conquered."

Asheron says, "My ancestors were the victors and the civilization of the Gelid dissolved."

Asheron says, "The Gelid hid well for a time but a group amongst them...broke free. They were eventually slain, as you may have learned, but they left a mark upon the world."

Asheron says, "These marks remain in the form of Elementals, beings created from the very essence of magic itself, given form and sentience by those that once commanded them."

Asheron says, "The goals and machinations of this offshoot coalition were thwarted by the Gelid of Frore."

Asheron says, "Their tomes and halls were lost to time, hidden from even my sight beneath the weight of a history written victors who did not wish these secrets known."

Asheron says, "When my people held this land, no one studied the arts of elemental control."

Asheron says, "The elementals were assailants even then, but they were...less aggressive. In time they became tools of the undead, the Dericost, who have roots that stretch back to a history that we are all better off forgetting,lest we let their power grow anew."

Asheron sighs heavily.

Asheron says, "But I fear that over time even the greatest magic fails if not fueled. It is by this avenue that I fear Martine came by his knowledge."

Asheron says, "He duped Nuhmudira into aiding him in his acquisition of raw power, in the collection of the invisible river's power, tapping into what you call ley lines."

Asheron says, "The essences' destruction was the first of much to come. What Martine has set in motion...is beyond even my capacity to fully understand."

Asheron says, "Magic in its rawest form is unpredictable. It is only through temperance and understanding that we can give it the forms of defense, enhancement and destruction."

Asheron looks to Elysa.

Asheron says, "We must all band together and stave off his hand. Stop him, before the actions that he has begun have irreversible consequences."

Asheron says, "To that end, I will be assisting Elysa and the Arcanum in researching the way to curb Martine's plans."

Elysa nods to Asheron and then turns her attention back to the crowd.

Elysa Strathelar says, "We will not fail, my people. We shall succeed as we have so many times before when facing a foe bent upon our demise. This world is ours now."

Elysa Strathelar says, "We shall not stand by and see it ruined."

Elysa Strathelar says, "I shall be lighting three more stones over the course of this cycle of the moons, and in that time, much more will be explained."

Elysa Strathelar says, "I thank you for attending."

High Queen Elysa Strathelar and Asheron have returned to his castle.