EP1: Gold, Green, and Red

In a moment that will echo across the entire campaign, Marcus channels golden healing light for the first time — the first manifestation of this divine power upon Terra in over two hundred winters.

Gold, Green, and Red. The campaign opens upon Pulex, a small fishing village along the Kogi River, where the Fellowship arrives to find a community under siege. The Utini have terrorized the settlement for three days, leaving sheep with cracked chests and missing hearts — a systematic brutality that speaks to ritual rather than predation. Marcus, a pig farmer and father, has watched helplessly from the western edge with nothing but prayer and a wooden cudgel. Upon the Fellowship's arrival, Lord Titus confronts the corrupt magistrate Sextus the Elder, whose cruelty and ties to Leptis Regium have left the village defenseless. In a moment that will echo across the entire campaign, Marcus channels golden healing light for the first time — the first manifestation of this divine power upon Terra in over two hundred winters. Neither Marcus nor anyone present comprehends what has occurred. The Fellowship departs northward with approximately thirty refugees, beginning the long trek toward Juramentum. Among their number walks Nilishli, a divine construct of Tezcatli who erupted fully grown from Aurelius Field a mere two winters prior. Catryn, ward of the archmage Figulus Gnaeus, observes Brother Adrian — a man with distinctive gray eyes whom she recognizes from childhood dreams. The centurion Merick, who once walked this very road barefoot as a slave at fifteen winters, now leads the column as a free Kithgi warrior. The foundations of every relationship that will define the campaign are laid upon this road.