Notices and Summary:
TURNS:
(Note: summary later, hopefully.)
WORLD STATE:
The Dwarves of formerly Vanishmountain have continued on their sky-island building.
The Construcion of the Observatory has progressed.
Dorathian Kingdom and Hamsterfolk Shamans have grown into their Weak Territories.
RollsEightstone walks into Dalai1d20=16
When sentries reported Eightstone approaching the Free Cities of Dalai from the east, those living on the shores of the sea began migrating southward in droves. Eightstone, as if directed by something, approached the very northern tip of the territories, turning it to sand and then when it reached the shore, turning straight south and marching all the way down along the shoreline.
A frightening theory has sprung up among the idle, that when the Black Sky-Legion originally attacked the Sandstone Qhanganate, somehow, a seed of corruption might have been planted within Eightstone, perhaps it got hit by a Chaos Flame blast from a Chaos Dragon and it has resisted the corruption, until now?
Impact of the meteorite impact1d20=8
The Magi in the University are somehow unable to find the crater caused by the impact or even the fracture, despite the latter supposedly being massive. As such those in the University could only speculate what the effects of such an impact might have been. The records are there, but the thing itself just isn't.
Regardless, it doesn't even matter, because all attempts at figuring out how the impact might have affected the approaching calamity arrive at the same conclusion: The Meteorite impact would not or has not significantly accelerated the continent's fracturing or may have possibly even slowed it down somewhat.
((Not that i could have made it happen right now anyway, the map isn't finished, yet.))
The Expedition to find the altar to Eightstone1d20=16
With the rule of the Black Qhanganate, much of the old Sandstone Qhanganate had been left to ruin or outright destroyed. Finding the altar was not easy, with so much of the old land in ruins, most of the landmarks mentioned on paper, long gone. After piecing together what little information they could, the archaeologists figured out that the altar was built in a city near where once was the border of the First Crusader State, and then the Red Court.
A city long reclaimed by the sands, now nearly buried beneath it, the Lost City. Once a jewel of the Sandstone Qhanganate, destroyed by Hagatai's Black Sky-Legion and left to the sands, now rediscovered. It was a truly depressing sight, a place full of destroyed buildings, from homes to large temples.
Now, after months of arduous digging, they managed to find the old altar, abandoned and forgotten and falling apart, like the rest of the city. Hagatai and his Sky-Legion when they swept through this land, seemingly paid no mind to it.
The prototype Liani Great Bombard1d20=6
During a test fire of the current design of the prototype Great Bombard, it suffered a catastrophic failure. The barrel of the weapon was completely torn up by the amount of powder that had to be loaded to fire the massive cannonball. Nobody was hurt in the accident, but the prototype is beyond repair. In the aftermath, it was figured out that the wall of the barrel was far far too thin to withstand the explosion. However, making the walls of the bombard thicker would substantially increase the weight, requiring the rest of the cannon to be reinforced to compensate, making it even heavier. All this would cumulate in a truly great bombard, that is a nightmare to build, requiring large, powerful creatures or cranes to assemble on-site and a massive, reinforced wagon to transport the parts alone.
And mounting it to any vessel short of a Sky-Ship would be a fool's errand.
The Crystal Egg1d20=20!
With the Crystal Egg already cracking, the hatching of the little creature within cant be far off. It looks like that the Eclipse somehow triggered it to start its development again. And with how close the egg is to hatching already, the world wont need to wait for another eclipse for it to hatch thankfully, as eclipses like the one in the Year 336, only come about once in three hundred and thirty six and a half years, or so.
Irahan, meanwhile is running around utterly clueless as to what's he going to do once the egg actually hatches.
Sha'Ndara attempts to establish trade with Jahtari Sultanate1d20=10
The Jahtari Sultanated is largely willing to trade with anyone and trade anything, but there was a bit of confusion regarding a statement by the Jahtari diplomat asserting that other nations do not establish trade with them, they establish trade with other nations. What the Griffons think it means is that the Jahtari Sultanate wont buy goods resold to them from other nations.
The Jahtari Sultanate is the hub of trade on Dragolia, nations such as the Avarrian Empire that dont trade with the Sultanate, are largely cut off from trade on Dragolia. With the approaching threat of the continent shattering, the Jahtari Sultanate has been recruiting dragons in increasing numbers to aid in hauling goods, continuing and solidifying their trade empire should the continent indeed break apart.
Sha'Ndara attempts to establish magic schools1d20=4
With so many different schools established over such a short timespan, there is a shortage of Griffons to actually run and staff these schools. It takes a certain amount of education to actually be suitable for the job and that goes doubly for magic, as one needs to actually have a knowledge of magic to teach it to others. Most Griffons are simple laborers who wouldn't know magic even if it hit them in the face. The only truly good Griffon magi are the ones that were sent to the University, but even they are nowhere close to Archmagi. For now, for the Griffons looking to learn magic, the University branch in Refugio Guerra remains the best way to do so.
YEAR 342.1
In order to make trade with their new trading partners, the Griffons go more smoothly, the Jahtari Sultanate has expanded southward to establish a trading outpost on the outcropping closest to Hope's Claw.
In the same vein, they have claimed the lands to their northwest, those close to Refugio Guerra, and the two nations are in talks of a joint effort to establish a new way onto South Dragolia from Refugio Guerra.
The Elysian Nomads have continued their travel south, and have come in contact with the northern territories of the Avarrian Empire. It has been discovered by the Avarians that Elysians love eating Dreamites, this has resulted in several instances of break-ins at night by Elysians, looking for the dream-eating arachnid-like creatures. It should be noted that although Dreamites resemble mites, they are much much larger, being roughly the size of large tarantulas, with the size and the brightness of their glowing abdomens corresponding to how well "fed" they are.
Sandpond is getting quite full nowadays, and resources are starting to run scarce, and with the Dorathian Kingdom quickly expanding, they are set to take Sandpond's primary source of food and clean water and deny it to them, as such they have decided to send out a group of settlers to their old but still operating outpost and establish a new village around it, securing it as source of food and water for themselves.
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