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Message: <blockquote data-quote="chutup" data-source="post: 5930062" data-attributes="member: 6690844">A Vision of the Distant PastAdditional information about hex 29.14Long ago, before the gods went to war and the empire of Bergolast was torn asunder, there was an age of great peace and prosperity for this city. The Windows were not Shuttered but wide open, and travellers arrived in the bustling, smoking marketplace from across the world and beyond. The elves of the Kingswood and the troll-folk of Bergolast were considered locals by comparison with those who visited from distant lands - Naros and Grumluda and Zamorqy, a land so far across the ocean that none have ever sailed there, and nothing of that place has reached the Shrouded Lands since the Shutters were closed forever. Yet even these distances paled in comparison to those travelled by those who visited from the outer planes. In those days the ethereal realm was more permeable - it was possible to push through into other worlds, and for other worlds to push back. There were processions of Nephilium from Mount Celestia, gith voidsailers from Limbo, and occasionally even the mighty Galloons from the jungles of Arborea. The world has changed since then, though, and if the outer planes still exist, they are not reachable by any known means. Rumours abound that Severard of the Seven Chins is not dead and has found a way to travel the planes again, but this is nothing more than hearsay.In the heyday of the City of Many Windows, the peace was kept by a strange being, neither man nor god. Those who suffered his punishments gave him the name Lord of Pain. The only law that he enforced unwaveringly was that he should not be worshipped. Yet the faith of men difficult to control, and in time the people of the City began to pray to him, and gave him the name 'Alberon'. In doing so they made him a god, and this changed him to his very nature. Where he was once reserved and mysterious he became mighty and demanding. From there it was only a matter of time before the war began.By the time the war was over and the Shutters were closed, the people of the city were already beginning to forget that golden era. In time it drifted out of memory that the name 'City of Many Windows' was originally only an epithet, and that the first and true name of the city was Sigil.Hooks:- Are there any leftovers from that time? Descendants of Zamorqy, trapped planar travellers, that sort of thing?- Why was it inevitable that Alberon would go to war once he became a god?- Did Severard really escape to a different plane?(some of the extraplanar things mentioned here are lifted from <a href="http://monstermanualsewnfrompants.blogspot.co.nz/search/label/scrawling%20over%20the%20classics" target="_blank">Monster Manual Sewn From Pants: scrawling over the classics</a> - it's not really the same tone as the Shrouded Lands but it is very, very awesome.)</blockquote>

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