Crisis Upon Raetun
Crisis Upon Raetun is the multi-front catastrophe gripping the continent in the late First Century After Firestorm, the convergence of pressures from the west, the southeast, and the deep north that has brought Raetun to the brink of unraveling.
The Western Front
From Mok, the Drakhullic Dominion under the Great Tyrant Viedskavn prepares an invasion of Raetun on a scale unmatched in living memory. Viedskavn’s legions assemble for the sacred month of Telroth, twenty-one days of conquest mirroring the prophecy of Sudoclor’s invasion of Nurrheim, and prepare to cross the Sea of Garðwin.
The fortified shoreline of Yyimaer, the western kingdom under Garðwin’s grandson Prince Bæurn, embroiled in a low-burning conflict with the ever-resistant Northern Isles, stands as the first line of defense.
The Southeastern Front
From the cursed isle south of Telnon, the Tollorn and their ruling caste of necromancers seek the reconquest of the coastline and the ancient vaults beneath it. Their forces, hurled at the fortified shore by the Council of Archnecromancers in the wake of one of their own going rogue, occupy the attention of the Telnonian military at the fortress-city of Ankellilog.
The rogue, the necromancer Nighetterix, has established a foothold in the marshlands of southern Antygnorn from which a purpose of his own can be pursued.
The Northeastern Front
In the steppes, the warlord Yyod I, son of Jargsnek and grandson of Þordil the Great, has rallied the tribes of the Agorian steppe and established the city of Yllantros. His campaigns have driven his brother Maelar and a feral warband of Skakorn north into the worst winter of living memory.
Maelar’s warband, battered and broken, prepares to act swiftly.
The Heartlands
The fertile heartlands of Verronis under the venerated Kael the Rich and his sons Þadgar and Ketil remain, for the moment, the still center of a continent in motion. How long they will remain so is the open question.
The Stakes
Above and through all three fronts, the gods themselves fight at micro-scale, visible to the mortals beneath them as figures one could almost mistake for very large warriors, until one casually bisects a stone fortress. The patron gods of the threatened kingdoms, Sketzuum of Yyimaer, Exar of Antygnorn, find their interventions opposed in ways the open chronicles do not yet explain.
What the Crisis is truly about, and whose hand orchestrates the timing of its convergence, is not openly recorded.