Quests/interactions/events have been running for about 3 realtime weeks now. In order to make future events more accessable to characters that haven't yet been involved and somewhat mitigate the tendency of some players to delete and take quest knowledge forever with them to their graves, I'm going to declare the following things "common knowledge" about current events that any character could have picked up. Obviously, any of the many PCs involved in some way will still know many things that aren't on this list, so seeking information IC is still recommended for interested parties.

A group of mages styling themselves the Eldritch Consortium has been conducting arcane research. They are known to have hired many adventurers for a variety of errands, generally paying them with magical rewards rather than coin. Known members of the Consortium include:

Destanin, one of its founders, a male human mage professing a special interest in the ancient magics of Order,

Festpath, its other founder, a male human mage professing a special interest in the ancient magics of Chaos,

Myshrai Ar'tinuilin, a benevolent male elven transmuter,

Simshipple Fligliveryshins, a portly female gnome invoker, and

Ssriel Llibani, an unbalanced male dark-elven necromancer.


One of the Consortium's recent acquisitions was an initially-incomprehensible ancient tome. Its secret contents have, at last, been deciphered, and the Consortium and their allies begin to follow where it leads...