The Revening and its Aftermath

It was the end of the Seventh Age; or rather, it was supposed to have been. The heroes of Concordia had halted the Daean quest for world domination. Along the perilous path, they succeeded in gathering the Ancient and Revered Artifacts from their ancestral caches as had been prophesied, had faced down those who would have opened the gateway to Oblivion, and made the great stand against the Evil One, the Aeternal Blinn Empress Feathryn. With her terrible Blinn horde halted, her plans to dominate all magicks of the world torn asunder, and her hopes for a humanity-free Nycos obliterated, she had, in the end, failed to destroy the world, or to even halt the rise of the Middle Kingdoms to prosperity. It seemed therefore quite likely that the Iteration would, for this first time in three thousand years, result in a second Golden Age, where Men and Eldrin, Grundim, and the myriad of new Races would make war no more.   Even as the Magi of Chrys, capital of Concordia worked to repair the defenses the Blinn and Daean armies had devastated, the other nations of the world likewise began the arduous task of repairing their own damaged and compromised keeps, holds, and cities. The virtually global war had ravaged for the better part of two decades, and to a man, the world no longer had a taste for it. It seemed the rest had finally come to a weary world. Yet in the long years hence, when this, the burgeoning Eighth Iteration was in its infancy, an unexpected thing happened. The Champions of Concordia devised a conclusion no one could have imagined for the Planet of the Prism. Seated on itting on thrones constructed on the very sight of the greatest, most bloody conflict the world had ever known, the decision was made. No more would the World suffer from the seemingly unending cycle of devastation and rebirth. Robin of the Red Band, The Dragon-blooded Sorceror Lorothol and Rae Sunborne, heart's fire of the team spent long days in the ancient Ling-Ling library poring over the colorful, terrible histories. Subject 216, the Cyborg-hybrid from Mantara, Nym of Nyx, exiled for his efforts, and Kit, Master of the Elements and Lorothol, the dragon-blood Sorceror spent months in exploration, discovering what could be known and bringing back the grist for the mill of those great minds.   At last, they discovered that which they needed to bring their plan