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<blockquote data-quote="Gilladian" data-source="post: 6680020" data-attributes="member: 2093"><p>I'm creating a region of the campaign world that was blasted (think nuked) by an evil wizard/priest 400 years earlier, in a failed attempt to destroy the world. He's still alive, now a lich, and has tried, repeatedly over the last 30-40 years, to conquer the Kingdom most of my campaigns are set near/in. Umade is completely evil and insane - he just wants to rule the world, and sees dominating Greenvale as the necessary first step. Recently, he managed to magic jar himself into the body of the heir to the throne, and is happily planning to conquer from within. The Prince's brother is the only one who could stop him, possibly, but he's trapped in the body of a parrot (by the lich, of course) and can't really function properly. Certainly, he can't RULE Greenvale that way. So the future of Greenvale looks kind of grim.</p><p></p><p>The blasted region still exists, and there's an artifact at the core of it; in fact, the reason the blasted region actually exists is different than most people believe; the evil lich didn't create it - HIS ritual was designed to create a zombie apocalypse via disease - he created a spell that would spread a horrible disease that turned folks into zombies, and they would then further spread the "virus" by touch. So St. Iylyria cast a huge ritual of her own using her artifact-staff (and her own soul) to blast anything and everything that had already been infected. SHE created the blasted region known as the Barrens, sacrificing her life to do so, and killed hundreds of thousands of people, but saved the world from zombification. Now, an evil wizard named Jiacopo el Estucia de Guadabraz from the far-off Pirate Isles, has come to the region to steal the artifact-staff that Iylyria left planted at the heart of the Barrens. His goal is immortality. If/when he succeeds, he will tear a hole in the fabric of the Prime Material plane; where that hole leads, I haven't decided yet. But he'd either better be stopped, or someone had better learn how to heal tears in reality PDQ!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gilladian, post: 6680020, member: 2093"] I'm creating a region of the campaign world that was blasted (think nuked) by an evil wizard/priest 400 years earlier, in a failed attempt to destroy the world. He's still alive, now a lich, and has tried, repeatedly over the last 30-40 years, to conquer the Kingdom most of my campaigns are set near/in. Umade is completely evil and insane - he just wants to rule the world, and sees dominating Greenvale as the necessary first step. Recently, he managed to magic jar himself into the body of the heir to the throne, and is happily planning to conquer from within. The Prince's brother is the only one who could stop him, possibly, but he's trapped in the body of a parrot (by the lich, of course) and can't really function properly. Certainly, he can't RULE Greenvale that way. So the future of Greenvale looks kind of grim. The blasted region still exists, and there's an artifact at the core of it; in fact, the reason the blasted region actually exists is different than most people believe; the evil lich didn't create it - HIS ritual was designed to create a zombie apocalypse via disease - he created a spell that would spread a horrible disease that turned folks into zombies, and they would then further spread the "virus" by touch. So St. Iylyria cast a huge ritual of her own using her artifact-staff (and her own soul) to blast anything and everything that had already been infected. SHE created the blasted region known as the Barrens, sacrificing her life to do so, and killed hundreds of thousands of people, but saved the world from zombification. Now, an evil wizard named Jiacopo el Estucia de Guadabraz from the far-off Pirate Isles, has come to the region to steal the artifact-staff that Iylyria left planted at the heart of the Barrens. His goal is immortality. If/when he succeeds, he will tear a hole in the fabric of the Prime Material plane; where that hole leads, I haven't decided yet. But he'd either better be stopped, or someone had better learn how to heal tears in reality PDQ! [/QUOTE]
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