Thorn King Era

Random Ideas from Lara

• The Kingdom of Midrvegr has a long term shift in power which results in a renewal of an earlier religion while new historical discoveries brings a fascination with Midvegr culture and history into popular fashion.
• As the power of Emlyn begins to dissipate, the practice of witchcraft, along with other forms of spiritual and nature-based worship asserts itself, along with the romanticism of occult practices.
• So 1914 to 1945, Lets call it the 30 year war, or something based on that which sounds niftier, and we can claim what made it so unique was the discovery of spell weaving!! We can say that the practice of spell weaving had started a century or so earlier (industrial revolution), but it would be a cabal of Kraestrat magicians that would find a way to advance the art so far that it threatened the existence of the dragons, (nuclear weapons) and the dragons took every one of those grimoires away from us.
• Don't forget to include some world weather events, which might be the reason why we see such a return to nature-based worship!

A sound unheard like any other, and loud enough to drown out the voice of the elder dragons ripped through the sky from far beyond the sea, sending shockwaves throughout the land, and causing massive tidal waves that even engulfed smaller fishing villages and some major cities along the shores of every kingdom. The sound ripped through the skies shredding clouds, killing hundreds of thousands of birds knocked senseless from the skies, and then followed by a rain of ash and darkness. The rain of ashes lasted for 7 days and 7 nights. At the end of the 7th night when the sun rose, the sky was tainted red, and the day is remembered as The Red Dawn. For two years no crops would grow on the land drowned in ashes, (inspiration drawn from the volcanic eruptions of Krakatoa, and Tambora, and bible verses Revelation 16:18 "And there were flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder; and there was a great earthquake, such as there had not been since man came to be upon the earth, so great an earthquake was it, and so mighty."). Farmers pleaded with the scholars of the great cities pleading for answers and aid. Across the realms the affected From these events the first scholars of earth-based magic emerged, as they searched crumbling records of old in tombs and crypts in forgotten places, seeking answers on how to restore the land and end the famine. Progress was slow, and the wounds of Mother Earth were slow to heal.

What makes these events so unique, was the discovery of spell weaving. Nearly a century before the events of The Red Dawn, unknown forces near the shores of Kraestrat caused a disturbance in the oceans. Many sailors and captains believed this to be the works of the angry Sea God Neptune (change name as seen fit) lashing out at humans for having killed one of his mermaid servants whom he cared for deeply. The wrath of the angry sea god was followed by sightings of the Kraken and Whales the size of 20 ships strung together plowing through helpless vessels. When the mortals of the land challenged the God by calling him out with their gathered armies on the shores of (INSERT SHORE OF COUNTRY NAME) and angry god would only roar in anger and clap his hands together with such might that 50 foot tsunami waves shot up from the ocean carving their way toward the shores and the fleeing soldiers. Yet, resilience showed that mortals we're not going to give up so easily and as every single mage gathered on the shores gathered their strength their voices amplified by magic roared even louder than the raging sea itself, and as they thrust their staves into the ground the earth began to tremble and suddenly shot up from the ground in front of the armies creating an earthen barrier that bore the brunt of the mad gods wrath. Thus the first record of Spell Weaving was recorded. However, centuries later, it would be a cabal of Kraestrat magicians that would find a way to advance the art so far that it threatened the existence of the dragons, (nuclear weapons) and the dragons took every one of those grimoires away from us.