Event - The Invoked Devastation Falls Upon the Bakluni

Event - The Invoked Devastation Falls Upon the Bakluni

Once the Bakluni were a single nation and places like Ket, Zeif, Ekbir were just provinces within this vast land. This was a land of sun and earth dried orange brown, but also a land of vast oasis, waterways carved across the land to feed the hungry green of farms and bring life to villages, towns and cities.

The God-King Ardashir ruled this last dynasty of the Bakluni. He it was who warred with the Suel Emperor and saw the power of the Suel lay waste to his people and the land. The Invoked Devastation came upon the Bakluni as a cloud and many were reduced to dust in its passing. The sands spread, the green plains became harsh steppes, the people died as did the land. 

No magic however powerful could harm Adrashir, worshipped by his people he was half-devine though time would consume in its course as it consumed his ancestors and he would pass the mantle of his rulership to his children his own body laid to rest in a hidden tomb, but it was not to be.

Even as the power of the Suel descended upon the land Adrashir and his Magi fought against, saved perhaps one in ten of his people, saved what green lands and lifegiving water they could. Then as his power waned the devstation came to his wife, his children, all those of the sacred blood. Only Adrashir survived.

Holding the body of his oldest child Adrashir raged. Here his protection of the Bakluni lands failed and his Magi died. Adrashir summoned their power, drew upon his near divinity and he looked upon the Suel in their homeland. Adrashir was the Sun and his tears fell like fire upon the land of the Suel. Where the fell, they burned and what burned became ash. The great mountain-walled homeland of the Suel died and as his tears ceased Adrashir faded, his near divinity was as smoke that the wind dispersed and the Sun was the Sun once more, but the great land of the Bakluni was broken and choked with sand, and the homeland of the Suel was dust and ash, or so it is spoken of by the old scholars in Zeif, and Ekbir and Ket.