Penumbral Post - November

Hear ye, hear ye Citizens of the Palace. A news update is brought forth from the darkest corners of the world to your front door. As always, we encourage our readers to steer clear of high-conflict zones. Our spies risk their lives so you don’t have to, and this is their report:

Mesdev

A hidden laboratory was discovered underneath the Verdeaux Estates. Changelings and Ulceore were both found at the site in what appears to be an underground extension of the Devland labs. The Verdeaux family is hard at work scrubbing away the history beneath their feet as Xerxes and his mechaniman forces squeeze their grip around the region ever tighter. The perpetrators who caused unparalleled damage to the Chateau Pressentiment have mysteriously vanished into the wind without any trace of discovery or motive…

Losamyn

A previous report concerning the murder of Romani Ga-rote appears to have been falsified, as he was recently seen parading the streets of Mashatown on his electoral campaign trail. 

Early investigations claim the people of Reva-Tiran are not safe in their own homes. A strange disturbance from planar entities have invaded private spaces to murder and destroy even in broad daylight. At the sites citizens have reported structural damage, ritual sites, and a curiously broad stroke of music, frivolity, and raised emotions amongst the local population. 

Sa-Fire, and the adventurers she had hired to bring her home a second time, daringly walked into the fires of Perdition at the heart of the Affliction. Whether they will emerge alive remains to be seen, since the realm has already begun to swallow them up once more. 

Oetien

The Lord of Misfortune was summoned for the first time since his gambit to divorce himself from his sister, the Lady of Fortune, failed in the Shattered Realm of Fate. Upon arrival into the city of Booriopolis he was greeted by a street performance that brought him no love or passion. All he could think of was the manner of manifestation that brought him into the city of wrecked ships in the hand of another goddess…perhaps one more willing to help him divorce from his sister, or maybe the city itself could be divorced from her…

Auryx'nam

A section of the Great Subjacent was cleaved clean of most living creatures after a brutal battle between an army of spectral drow servants of the Raven Queen and a horde of spiders in the heart of their webs raged without control. In the final moments, a beloved Summer Moon mercenary fell from grace down into the abyss below. In our memories, and the immortal life that awaits in the Eight Infinities, our friend continues to live on. 

Serdna, once the goddess of cold, sickness, and confusion, attempted to resurrect into a new body after being killed in her divine form. Her own creation, a sobek whose life was guided up to this moment refused to embrace the cold divinity of the goddess even in her own frozen heart, however. She was cornered into her mortal form and killed for the final time by the person she entrusted most to bring her back into a position of power. 

The small strike force continued their journey ever deeper into the memories of Varul’s past. There they managed to seal away the terrible corrupting presence of the Lusos just as Aerin had done so many years ago to set free Varul’s memories. A witness claims that two more heroic souls, back from the dead, joined with the strike force in leaving the memory realm. The Crow and her favorite star Lu’sanna have reportedly returned to Syddril safe and sound. 

Umbrage Isles

A dark manifestation of the corrupted Seilie Realm was given life to pursue its deathly goals across Raigizan, drastically magnifying the problem of the wights plaguing the road between Ochiru and the rest of the island. Rumors suggest the border of Gizan was invaded by a small team that overpowered a guard station, but no authorities can corroborate that story. It’s as if the combatants have completely gone to ground for the time being.