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[i]It did not look like an evil place. No dark tower with stormclouds or vultures watching overhead. There was no distant cackling or the flap of massive wings, no, it was just a ruin. The frightening part however, was the fact your little group found it. No amout of scrying by master wizards or searches by armies found this place, but somehow a group of children following nothing but varied chunks of story, found a ruin of legend that should not exist.

The first memories you can gather since the trouble started was around the fireplace of the tavern your group hid themselves in. The events of the past few days came flooding back to you all, some cried, some were silent, all wished it was a nightmare. 

It did not happen overnight, but over a week's time. Men and women alike were filled with greed and envy, hatred for all who had anything that could even vaugely be considered theirs. It was as if all the evil of thousands of years, once buried deep in the hearts of mortals, was now set free. War broke out across the entire world, not race against race or kingdom against kingdom, but everyone against anyone, a true madness that would bring a tear to any madgod's eye. 

You all could remember how it started, how could anybody forget. The madness seemed to cloud the minds of all but children, unfortunately not many children lasted the first few days. You remember how you met, frightened at the edges of civilization and, despite the hatred and bias your elders had for these other races, you all were everything to eachother now, there was nothing left. [/i]