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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thol" data-source="post: 1270331" data-attributes="member: 6365">The Seven Tombs of BokobokIn the early days after the Sarcon War, amongst the chaos of refugees, famine, and plague, things that were once important became trivial. Adventure gave way to survival, purpose to tedium, and worship to aversion. The gods were nothing more than unreliable and unfeeling beings who gave no care to the suffering of humanity, concerned only with there petty godly schemes. With worshipers almost nonexistant, many clerics abandoned their churches, and paladins of lesser mettle forgot their duties, trading their fight for righteousness in favor of a fight for life. For a few such individuals, however, this was far from the case. They were the last of the Sepulchre Knights.The Sepulchre Knights were a small, but devoted group charged with but one task: to defend the locations of the Tombs of Bokobok from those who would seek to use their evil for their own ends. The times were grim for the Knights, as the war had claimed most of their number. Many who died did so defending the Tomb of Cupidity against the Horde of Kayle, and the rest were lost while saving the Tomb of Saturnalia from capture at the hands of Eyle the Conqueror. Scattered across the lands, the Seven Tombs of Bokobok were little known in the Time of the Hundred Kings. Long ago forgotten to all but the most studious sages and venerable elves, the Knights were the keepers of both their safety and their legacy. The Tombs held the key to the return of the Corrupter, and those who would wish him return were to be thwarted and destroyed. Their tasks were not just martial, and much of their work was subterfuge and intelligence. To keep the Tombs safe was not only to physically defend them or to conceal their locations, but to keep their very existance secret. Each Tomb held one piece of the Corrupter's essence, each one itself a powerful, evil relic. If they were to be brought together, the return of the very definition of evil was assured. This was something the gods could not let occur, and entrusted the Knights with their task so many eons past. Still they exist, ever vigilant, but their numbers and power to carry out their task waning.Now, twenty years after the War, their darkest hour is upon them. Word has come to the remaining Knights that the Tomb of Slaughter has fallen, the Knights defending it slain, their souls consumed by the Blade of Entropy kept there, wielded in the hands of one known only as the Reclaimer.Next: The Grey Lake of Ostermoor</blockquote>

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