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THE STORY THUS FAR
June - 2024
First Wave
The first wave of Visitors arrives in Caldera. They are introduced to the three regions of the world and directed to the Questboard to begin aiding the locals.
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July - 2024
Heaven's Bow Falls
The locals host a tri-city festival to properly celebrate the arrival of the Visitors. Unfortunately, given the world's current state of decay, a piece of Heaven's Bow falls, causing tidal waves and tremors below the sea and creating a crater in the land. Hundreds die, but many are saved by intervening Visitors.
August - 2024
Clean Up Efforts / Second Wave
Another wave of Visitors arrives just in time to aid in the continued clean up after the Heaven's Bow disaster. The crater outside Grey Ward has opened up rivers of molten rock and revealed creatures called Salamanders living within the lava.
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September - 2024
The Queen's Arrival
Queen Cordelia makes an appearance, announcing her desire for transparency and offering an olive branch to the Visitors in the Undine faction. She allows them the chance to peruse her private library, revealing a handful of secrets hidden to the public. Elsewhere, the queen's statue shudders, the magic light within it dims, and shadowy tendrils begin to protrude from the stone. Investigation makes Visitors dizzy and disoriented.
Rumors spread around Heaven's Bow about the goings on around Caldera. Scholars in the Soot Spire request the previously unearthed Salamanders be captured for experimentation.
October - 2024
Third Wave / Veilwalkers
More Visitors arrive. The world, for the most part, seems to have begun healing, noted by a bountiful harvest. Below the sea, the Ghost Tours of one Princess Harriett are disturbed by shadowy tendrils in the deep. And on the surface, a hag drags Visitors into a nightmare they can barely manage to escape. A farmer and his wife host an Escape Room with, thankfully, no further chaos ensuing.
During the middle of the month, the rumored Veilwalkers arrive to escort wayward souls through the veil. Visitors learn that a single touch from them could result in a state of paralysis, wherein some of them glimpse into the veil itself.
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November - 2024
Black Waters
Admiral Aella speaks out, suggesting that Cordelia's earlier gesture of opening her library to her Undine might have not offered much in the way of truths about the world, and in turn offered her own advice. Much of which was just as cryptic as what was found in the Queen's library.
Meanwhile, Visitors are encouraged to catch and exchange enchanted leaves during a special Calderan event. Stories are exchanged down in Salt Spire in a yearly celebration, but the festivities are disrupted when shadows from the depths suddenly begin to engulf and attack the bubble surrounding the city. For three days those down below are trapped, while those above attempt to aid them. All the while the lava pools within the crater outside of Grey Ward begin to stir with the disturbances from the sea.
December - 2024
Fourth Wave / Season of Light
Yet more Visitors arrive. In an attempt to make the best of a bad situation, the Calderans continue their traditions similar to the earthen year-end holidays. A grand masquerade is held where Visitors are encouraged to partake in various events themed around the land, sea, and sky, and everyone is trying desperately not to think about the odd, seemingly alive lava pools taking shape in dryad territory.
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January - 2025
THE VOLCANO RISES
The crater outside of Grey Ward rose to reveal a massive volcano. Terra encouraged the Visitors to venture forth and explore. She believed the volcano held not only answers but hidden treasures. In her mind, it was not an omen of doom, but a sign of the world’s slow, steady healing.
Multiple trials awaited the Visitors inside the volcano, and at the end they were met with a woman made of molten rock sitting upon a throne, ready to receive and congratulate them for their efforts. The woman, Ignacia, claimed their hard work aiding Caldera was paying off, and that they must continue to press on, together.
February 2025
Fifth Wave / Radiant Sun & Jealous Moon
Visitors arrive. The city of Ignacia's Cradle appears to have formed around the volcano. Within its boundaries are magical hot springs that show glimpses of people's memories, their potential futures, and can even heal minor wounds.
The Radiant Sun rises, bringing warmth and joy in abundance to the people of Caldera. Bonds are mended, love blooms, but as the Jealous Moon takes the sun's place, the world is cast into chaos. People act on baser instincts and with violence towards those they were so truly in love with hours before in the sun's light. The Visitors find a way to resolve the issue with physical touch and affection.
Aella and Terra claim this was a one-off anomaly and assure everyone all is well. Cordelia is not seen.
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March - 2025
Rise of Vesper
Cordelia, after having not been spotted for weeks, calls for aid, begging the Visitors to help her in summoning Vesper, the new Star God meant to fight against a being simply known as Triton. She asks for precious memories, works of art from the soul, or items held dear that they are willing to sacrifice. Both Salt Spire and Grey Ward suffer massive damage and casualties in the wake of the destructive wave of dark magic rolling through the sea and land. Heaven's Bow remains untouched.
April 2025
Sixth Wave / Astral Echoes
Visitors arrive.In the aftermath of chaos, the people of Caldera unite in gratitude for the Visitors whose sacrifices summoned Vesper, a new star god born of both light and lingering darkness. Celebrations erupt across the three cities—Salt Spire, Grey Ward, and Heaven’s Bow—each offering their own unique tributes in a moment of unity and shared hope. Yet, beneath the joy lies the looming shadow of Triton’s enduring influence. As Vesper quietly watches the revelry from the edge of Salt Spire, he addresses the crowd with a solemn vow: their battle is far from over. The darkness that birthed him still festers, and he will need their continued strength and trust to stand against what lies ahead.
Thus begins the special quest for the Astral Echoes—violet shards containing memories of Triton’s rise, fall, and the secrets that shaped
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