The War that Never Was
For some time now, the brave fools risking it all to try and preserve the past have noticed one figure absent from their recent hikes through history; the Eastlander Archmage at the center of all this. Her terse, at times frantic, at times self-assured person was missing from the past and present alike, and in her absence the group had also noticed certain unwholesome developments in their present.
Goblings, an horrific cross of Goblins and Halflings created in the darkest days of the Defiler Wars in ages past, were seen again, and in growing numbers, their cannibalistic fervour as unsettling as their presence in a time far removed from when they and their corrupting Master were defeated and destroyed. The strange arcane anomalies that hinted at temporal disturbances which previously had snapped themselves back to normality were now more inclined to linger.
Finally, the group uncovered where the reckless arcanist had been sequestered; a particularly virulent timeline in which the servants of that ancient menace, the Defiler, had learned of the Archmage's strange powers, and were seeking to use them to defy their own historical fates - after all if some mere Eastlander could do so, why not the great Vinessa Redoran?
The great adventurers of Narfell's past have perished in the Battle of Norwick, and now the Dark Enchantress Vinessa and her greatest ally Selron the Deceiver command the terrible forces of a corrupted Rawlinswood, and conduct gruesome and catastrophic experiments upon their prisoners and the Wild Magic of Norwick's Well.
Norwick itself lies besieged by the Eastland Maurader Chief Garrick, as the Archmage is forced to fight a long and costly war to destroy Vinessa and the Defiler, lest their corruption escape to the future anew or worse yet, corrupt Time itself and potentially force the most severe of interventions from the Powers who protect such things.
