Aether Storms swell and fade, usually causing minor or no damage. But every century or so, Great Storms shake the realm, ripping apart continents and laying waste to where there was once life. Fire and lava break through the ground, crops are destroyed, and land is lost or at least forever shaped. And it has now been almost exactly a hundred years since The Verek Charade, when the Wizard Royal Verek of Cheliax predicted the coming of the last Great Aether Storm and was rebuked by Chelax Emperor Melchior IV before vanishing from the Empire altogether. In its wake, that Great Storm smashed the Empire to ruins, leaving the broken, divided nations of Thelestane, Fionn, Varisia and Golarion.
Greenaere - the name given to these collective nation states - has traded the oppressive rule and the order that it begrudgingly kept for freedom and the uncertainty that comes with it. In Fionn, the arrival of the dwarves in The Easterly only a year before the fall of the Empire did little to prepare the Fianna for independence... and the loss of almost half of the new dwarven lands to the Hordlings they drove before them in their Quest For Sky only made it worse. Today, just ten years after aiding the Fianna in fending off an invasion by powerful Thelestane, the dwarves and humans have learned of a great evil coming from below their lands that threatens them all. Something old and hungry is coming, and it wants something valuable... something that, to all the races, nations and denizens of youthful Greenaere, just may be the keys to the kingdom.
Dramatis Personae
Fionna MacPherson - a serious, tough and responsible fighter, the eldest child of the Lord of Clan MacPherson strives to serve her people well.
Anarion Baranor - a Thelestane hostage of the last war raised as a son by The MacPherson, this adopted brother of Fionna and Finn possesses strange powers of sorcery that run through his blood.
Thoglan Belgrin - a young dwarf deemed an outcast by his own kind, he prefers to speak more with his poleaxe than his mouth as an emissary for the dwarves of the Easterly.
Addler - a Thelestane man of mystery, skill and wit, he is as sharp in mind and tongue as the blades he carries.
Finnegan "Mad Finn" MacPherson - an unlikely cleric and Fionna's twin, possessing a gleam of mischief in his eye, a wild streak in his heart, and one hell of a mean left hook.
