To the Nameless Lands

Long before the snowbeast, long before the wardens imprisoned the bearer of the light sword, a noble knight assisted a noble queen in her efforts to unlock the powers of the original psionics. Some… an ignorant few… called this power “magic”.

The name didn’t matter, its power was real… What is called psionics today is but a shadow… a glimmer, a torch light in the dark, of the true power of the primal essence of mental energy.

The queen? you know her… we all know her… she betrayed her mate and fled to the lands beyond the rift to perfect her art.

The knight? … well, now that’s the twist. Rumor has it that the knight (the ruler of this new land), may be far more than meets the eye. A servant of the queen? A practitioner of forbidden arts? That’s certainly what some believe.

So what’s new? A tear… a small one… as opened in the borderlands (between nork and the lands beyond the rift)… Why? Now there is a question. Random cosmic event? Or is someone dabbling with powers they can’t possibly understand.

Graine has disappeared.. His clan claims he is going to rid the new borderlands of evil… But now that begs the question… what is evil?

I fear the average adventurer, sheltered for centuries from the consequences of psionics, is going to dive head on and join Graine in this insane quest to prove right from wrong. To rush in and confront this… “Nameless” lord… in the hopes that their finely tuned infantile abilities has a chance of overcoming a being infused with primal psionics.

But, what choice do we have? Who knows, Graine may be right. I even hear Dornar Dungeon was found there. And I hear akronium has been found there. I shudder to think what these neonates will do with akronium. But you and I know that’s not the real issue.

I’m just one bard, I can’t keep the psionic streams of Nork, Aleria, and Cobrahn in check and deal with this. If it’s a hoax… fine… but…

…sigh…

If it really is Arcturus…

…

We’re all gonna die.