Chronicles of Faeheim ~ Fate of The Unknown

[The Midgard Times]

Just hours ago, a team lead by Agent Selene Winterfield from the International Peacekeeper Task Force arrived on the southwest shores of the old Faeheim Archipelago. Their mission: To rescue Pixie and Lucretia from the spirit of their father, King Farmond.

Past a makeshift camp where the two women were suspected to have stayed, and several scuffles with the wildlife later, they found Pixie, who explained they had calmed down Farmond and planned to put him to rest when distracted. According to some, it would have proven a foolish and deadly decision, judging from the team's last fight with the old king.

As the team conversed with Pixie, Lucretia and a confused King Farmond arrived, the latter of which was quickly calmed down by his daughters, fearing a fit of overprotective rage towards the rescue party. But, the tranquility was fleeting, as Selene, uncharacteristically hostile, wanted to put Farmond to rest there and then, claiming he was a serious threat to Faeheim and the world.

She revealed to have found files and blueprints for a weapon that Former Queen Pima feared Farmond would use on The Unknown to destroy them once and for all. And so, a third secret from Faeheim Government was revealed, this one called "Last Resort", with a chilling story behind it.

Centuries ago, at the height of the war between the fairies, humans and The Unknown, the latter's forces were overwhelming the fae's forces, and slowly approaching the capital. Their defeat seemed imminent, and far more terrifying than a simple loss against the humans, so King Farmond came up with a plan to end the war and save his people. He left with Pima a functional prototype and blueprints of an invetion of his called "Last Resort", and set out for the battlefield. Farmond fought fiercely against the unknown as a diversion, as Pima began carrying out the plan, evacuating the remaining fairies out of Faeheim. The King ultimately fell as expected, to none other than Altjyhra, and so Pima became queen. With the Unknown now overly confident, they marched for the capital, unwary that Pima had sealed their fate. Once the Faeheim ships loaded with refugees were at a safe distance, Last Resort was set off on Faeheim.

An enormous bright light, followed by a massive magical blast wiped out nearly all of The Unknown, the human troops, and Faeheim itself. Those who survived became sick, and died later on as well. The land was rendered uninhabitable, contaminated by a dense magical aura. The war ended with little agreements between humans and fae, The Unknown retreated for centuries, and what really happened was covered up by Queen Pima as a "catastrophic failure at a laboratory". She kept the files and blueprints on last resort hidden so that no nation, human, fae or otherwise, could use it, or that if another was built, it could be brought down.

Now, Farmond wanted to use it again to lay waste to The Unknown and their hiding place.

Pixie, Lucretia and the adventurers attempted to diffuse the situation to avoid fighting the king again, but to no avail. Selene stubbornly insisted that the king must be put down before he could build another last resort, while Farmond argued The Unknown must be completely destroyed before he could be put to rest. Seeing the futility of the discussion, Farmond's daughters yielded, and sided with Selene: The King must be put to rest. At his request, Pixie and Lucretia watched from afar, and a grueling battle ensued between Farmond and Selene's team.

The outcome looked bleak. Fueled by hatred, the king only unleashed stronger attacks as the battle went on. The tema did not let up either, but they had their limits. An hour into the fight, however, the fighters received unexpected help. Altjyhra appeared to assist in the fight, but even he was no match. In the end, he teleported everyone away to a nearby island to recover, where he broke out some bad news: The Unknown plan to launch a full force attack on Faeheim in the next few days. Their new leader's plan is to take the dreamstone core, not to flee into the realm of dreams, but to consume the stored energies and remain in Midgard. Much like Farmond, they could no longer be reasoned with and just given the core.

Now, two deadly forces are set to converge in full force: The Unknown, lead by their previous, more violent leader, threatening to ravage Faeheim to take the Dreamstone Core, and King Farmond, who, with or without the files on Last Resort, plans to build it. Should he succeed, The Unknown's hideout, wherever it may be, will be utterly blasted to hell, as will everything in a large radius. Should he fail to properly rebuild Last Resort, he might blow himself to hell, but everything nearby as well.

After returning to Carandel and hosting an extensive press conference explaining the situation, Queen Pixie has assigned certain officials the duty of protecting a particular town during the upcoming attacks from The Unknown, while Amaria has been strengthening the golem security systems to better protect the region. Additionally, Selene has informed us that both the International Peacekeeper Task Force and the usual adventurers she employs, will be ready to fight to defend the nation. When asked about the recent revokation of her security clearance by Pixie, she expressed there are "no hard feelings" over the matter, as she was only doing her duty to keep the peace.

Every individual involved in this latest story have taken their own path, and it has, for better or worse, brought them all to this point. With the experience of past crises similar to this, and the threat of new destruction looming over Faeheim once more, we can only hope all decisions taken leads the nation into peace once again.

We are in the endgame now! The next event will happen on Saturday December 8, at 7:00 PM EST! It will take place in all four towns of Faeheim, which will be invaded by The Unknown! Your mission is to protect the towns by keeping the following characters alive from monsters that will spawn near the coordinates below:

• Cynbel - Fortuna 161, 100 (Terrace, Upper Area)
  
• Selene - Marasmius 39 367 (Top Left, Near Warpers)
  
• Lucretia - Tessera 154 171 (South of Town, Near Entrance)
  
• Pixie - Carandel 152 153 (North of Town Square, Near Palace)

These characters will be autotrading on GM accounts using Buying Stores. They have all stats at 1, approximately 100k HP, 35% damage reduction from all sources, 10% long range reduction, cannot be knocked back, cannot be resurrected, but can be healed, buffed, etc.

The four characters must survive for a set time, which is to be announced. Be warned that chiefs of The Unknown will personally descend upon the towns to participate in battle at some point. In the battle's chaos, anything may happen, so be prepared and listen to announcements during the time of the event.

There's several parts to this event, which I'll keep a surprise for you, but expect this event to last at least 3 hours in total. Players are free to join in as they please by warping to one of the 4 towns to participate at any time while the event is taking place on them.

Images from the previous event can be found below!