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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sagiro" data-source="post: 6010162" data-attributes="member: 726">Brief refresher for you and anyone who's losing track of things:Way back when, Emperor Naradawk managed to slip three elite red-armored agents through the planar boundary:  Restimar, Octesian and Meledien.  Restimar's job was to impersonate humanoid Gods/leaders and whip the orcs, gnolls, etc. of the world into attacking the more civilized peoples.  Meledien was tasked with breaking open boxes full of hidden monsters that Naradawk's father, Naloric, had left behind.  Both of these tasks were geared toward the greater goal of distracting the Archmagi, who were the ones keeping Naradawk locked out of Abernia.  Octesian had a similar goal; scout out the Dreamscape, and prepare for a dream-assault on Semek's tower that would be timed with Naradawk's battering down of the planar portal at Verdshane.  (Semek's tower, and Semek himself, were critical to keeping the portal sealed.)Restimar was killed by the Company, while he was impersonating a legendary orcish warlord known as the Chun Aggrat.  Meledien was driven away from Verdshane by Cencerra and her adventuring group, but escaped.  Octesian was driven out of the Dreamscape by Morningstar and her Ellish sisters during the Battle of Verdshane, but he also escaped.  Eventually Octesian decided to try traveling through Ava Dormo to the Far Realms prison where the Adversary was imprisoned.  He planned on trying a rescue, but failed, and his brush with the Far Realms drove him mad.  Now he's come back to seek revenge on Morningstar for her past transgressions, and is apparently killing people in their sleep.  That's something the party will have to deal with, and soon.Tarsos is another one of Naradawk's red-armored cadre.  He was one of the soldiers who made it through the planar portal at Verdshane before Aravis closed it again.  He eventually joined up with the missing Meledien and infected/"blessed" her with Essence (Adversary blood). The two of them then went to Naslund to steal Wards of Drosh, which allow mortals to survive in the immediate presence of Gods. While they were there, they killed Cencerra and her party, and also stole two powerful artifacts from the tombs of dead Gods.  (One of these is the Spear of Caba, which destroys the souls of victims whose hearts are burned out with it.)Finally there is Seven Dark Words.  He was an immensely powerful Black Circle wizard and the architect of Het Branoi, an experiment originally intended to be a beacon to the imprisoned Adversary.  Seven Dark Words and his Black Circle team made two critical errors: they thought the Adversary was trapped in the Abyss (and not the Far Realms), and they tried powering Het Branoi with an Eye of Moirel.  As you may recall, the Eye went haywire, ripping away numerous pockets of other planes and stringing them together in an enormous web.  Seven Dark Words was driven mad, and wandered through Het Branoi, carving little statues of Kibi, who, a part of 7DW's brain prophesied, would be the one to "fix" his experiment.When Het Branoi was shut down, all the bits of planes -- and the people trapped inside them -- were returned to their original worlds.  Seven Dark Words eventually recovered his sanity and plane shifted back to Abernia, where he joined up with Meledien and Tarsos.  The three of them, infused with Adversary Blood, have apparently broken through Yulan's Iron Barrier that separates the surface world from the underground world of the Depths.  That was about six months ago. They're probably not up to any good.</blockquote>

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