This map REQUIRES Ziggurat Mod to function, as it uses modded-in Lava teleporters among other things.
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LORE:
The fires of the Glimmerflame Lake enlivened the land, sustaining rich farmland and a wealthy people. Over long centuries this power dimmed. Famine and chaos tore through the great cities. Demons stalk the ruins around the Lake's glowing shores.
Necromancy is the art most practised by the wizards of this late age. In this last era of the Lake, the Glimmerflame has been polluted with Death, and even efforts to repair structures of metal and wood are thwarted by the pall of chaotic magic. The petty warlords who squabble among the remaining settlements fear the encroaching shadelands and wish to escape this doomed realm before the last harvest fails.
Yet it is through precisely this black magic that the mages of this time have divined a path to an unmerited salvation. The power of Death is linked to the powers of Memory, and is linked to the Earth by the aspect of the Grave. As the sages of the Glimmerflame Lake have discerned, the past does not disappear. It merely fades and perishes, while its bones remain buried. The dwellers of the dark future only had to dig deep enough, and the paths by which to return to the golden and vibrant fields of centuries past became apparent.
This violation of the natural order has been detected in the Halls of Heaven and will be opposed by the Highmen, but only a Theurg and a Valkyrie could be spared for the task.
Posted on 02/10/23 @ 06:56 AM