EPIC OF FATES (RESTARTED) STORY OF STORIES

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0070(01)070: Of JADEKIN OF THE MAGEBORN: MORE HAPPENING; REVELATIONS

 

The flying expedition to the north, taking reinforcements and resources, had been attacked treacherously by what were supposed to be allies. The attackers were the Phanetollan Government of the Phanetollan Semiautonomous Union. Their crude electric biplanes were supposed to be escorting the air convoy but attacked it instead. The only good thing was that the defenders shot down most of them with powerful machineguns and quasimagical weapons. The other biplanes fled back the way that they had come from. Far from all Phanetollans had supported the attack and soon the PSU was embroiled in civil war. The air convoy landed at a rebel controlled area and was soon part of that civil war with out even starting to fight the main enemy to the north.

 

Jadekia stood looking at the map table with Nibby at her chest in a baby pouch. He was waving a small map flag, being contented that he was part of the action. “The Imperial Dominion must have existed secretly for years. The take over, the change in symbols, flags, even official letterheads, was too damned quick to be otherwise. The long term cunning, the planning, the preparations, must have been going on also for a very long time. The treacherous attacks on the FreeAlliance taking place in many areas, the sabotage of infrastructure networks, the assassinations of key members of the FreeAlliance and the Imperial Commonwealth, all have been happening in the few last hours.”

 

Shakira responded. “With out your efforts of sending out agents to find out what was really going on, to counter Imperial Dominion espionage plans, matters would now be far worse. Your efforts helped to save many thousands of lives. Also many ImpDom agents have been caught, have been questioned and some have given some valuable information. The MassTransduplicator is busy transduplicating weapons, tools, transports, warmachines and other mechanisms.”

 

The refugees had ceased coming through from the Waygate in one of the Imperial Undercities for the Empire there had occupied the site and had stopped anything from going through it. Many shaperfolk had fled through to Jadekinaria before this happened, including many Followers of Compassion. They were now serving the peoples of Jadekinaria as the same Order of Compassion. Shaperfolk made excellent secret agents, infiltrators, so many had been recruited to the Imperial Commonwealth cause.

 

The MentaCollective had also joined the Imperial Commonwealth. They would turn out to be of great usefulness to the ImpCom peoples but for the moment they were largely resting from the test-transforms they had gone through.

 

'ImpCom' and 'ImpDom' were the new titles for the major national forces in the struggle. The FreeAlliance was dominated by the ImpCom even with the ImpCom having so many problems. The ImpCom was the Imperial Commonwealth and the ImpDom was the Imperial Dominion.

 

Empress Jadekia frowned softly. “We need to send an envoy to talk with the False Emperor Uriel Septum VII. Perhaps we can form an alliance with the Empire there.”

 

Shaperfolk had created the false emperor to further their Constitutionalist Cause. They had somehow discovered that the Emperor would be assassinated by the Mythic Dawn, treacherous followers of the mad mortal Mankar Cameron and the Daedric Prince Mehrunes Dagon. When asked how they had learned this infiltration, or how to intervene to put the False Emperor in place, strangely enough they could not remember anything. It soon became evident that the shaperfolk had been manipulated by powerful, subtle forces and had been mere puppets in a scheme greater than their own plotting.

 

But what was the False Emperor being controlled to do? What was the secret project about that was being carried out in the Arcane University of that particular Alternate Tamriel? Was it too great a risk to approach the False Emperor?

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0071(01)071: Of JADEKIN OF THE MAGEBORN: IN THE CHAMBER OF THE 'BIG BONED MAN IN ARMOR'

 

The 'big boned man in armor' was a huge armored figure half melded into a rock wall by the blast of some kind of powerful weapon. Then the figure had become turned to stone-flesh. The great figure clutched a great broadsword of divine power. Indeed it radiated divine magic. Jadelegs noted that the goblinfolk kept well back away from the figure and could hardly blame them for that.

 

Jadelegs turned to Saggisnootik. “Your people must stay away from this place.”

 

Saggisnootik grinned mildly, goblin fashion. “Goblinfolk do not like this place. What is he?”

 

Jadelegs snorted softly. “He is a she! She is a DemiDivine, a Lesser Divine of semiautonomous nature serving one of the Divines. That is unlike SemiDivines or SubDivines that are advanced or basic, direct projections of the Divines. But I do not know her identity, the symbols are a mystery to me, or what Divine she is supposed to have been a serving avatar of. She still lives, in the fashion of DemiDivines, but is semiconscious at best.”

 

Saggisnootik got closer to the great figure. “Would you wake it?”

 

“I do not know if I could even if I wanted to do so.” Jadelegs reached out and touched the sword. Nothing happened but she felt the divine power with her fingertips through her gloves. “The symbols nag at my mind. I should know of them but do not. The Divines are many but are One.”

 

The goblin shook her head. “I recommend goblinfolk beliefs. They are much simpler and straight forward. They make the head hurt less.”

 

Jadelegs looked around. “A wise suggestion and one that I will take into consideration. A great battle took place here between at least two very powerful entities. It takes a great deal of force to knock down a DemiDivine, to do to this one as has been done to this one.”

 

She took out an exotic looking device, a green blue beam projected from it and she swept it over the rocky chamber. As it swept over some walls symbols emerged on them that had been hidden away by strange magical means. They were dark and disturbing symbols but well enough known to her.

 

Saggisnootik shuddered. “Even goblinfolk know about the TwistedGod. Our ancestor gods-goddesses stay away from that one. Our totem-spirits build walls against him-it-her. Our shamans ever warn against the TwistedGod. Even craziest of goblinfolk will not serve him-it-her. No, not ever. Perhaps we should run away now.”

 

“Do not concern yourself, the TwistedDemigod that was here is long gone and there is only the very faintest of residues left behind. Question is, what was it doing here in the first place for in theory none such should be able to come into a domain such as this one; so much for the theory.”

 

Jadelegs then noted something else of interest. Across the chamber, diagonally, from where the DemiDivine was trapped as stone-flesh, was an area of melted rock wall that had long ago hardened. It pooled downwards and outwards, bulging outwards in the middle.

 

The woman took out a improved version of the WhirlaDetector, that she had given to Jadekin, and aimed it at the bulge. As soon as Jadelegs tapped some controls a pencil thin beam of energy spat out of the device and struck the rock bulge in its very center. She examined the data shown by the device and it told her nothing of any real value. There could be a WhirlaKey trapped inside the hard melted rock or it could be something else.

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0072(01)072: Of JADEKIN OF THE MAGEBORN: A PLACE THAT LOOKS RIGHT BUT FEELS WRONG

 

Jadelegs had gone to the 'big boned man' first because the site was closest to the more central part of TransGlobeShaiVaLand dome land, that had become known as ShaiVaLand for short. Many goblinfolk called it JadelegsLand, thinking to compliment her but she was not sure about that name. Now she faced a dilemma. Working on freeing up what ever was hidden beneath the melted rock would take time and effort, along with special care for she was facing the unknown and at least one powerful artifact.

 

Saggisnootik nodded. “We could go to where the tunnels, the chambers, seem all right but feel all wrong. That is not very far from here.”

 

The TransGlobeShaiVa had begun to create duplicants, replicants and simulicants. Now some of the quasiliving androids were brought to seal off the cave chamber and to guard it. It was a 13Platoon of one simulicant, three replicants and nine duplicants shaped as humans. That is except the simulicant had golden skin, the replicants had silvery skin and the duplicants had copperish skin while all were hairless. All wore power armor with the same color coding.

 

Jadelegs 'sensed' the 'wrongness', in the area that the nervous goblin led her to, almost instantly. Yet it was far from easy to pinpoint just what was somehow out of kilter, was somehow not quite real. She walked through tunnel after tunnel, with only Saggisnootik as a companion. The chambers, and hallway tunnels, seemed like typical ones of the domeland underground areas but evidently had not been used. There were basic utilities like pipes, terminals, power-doors, fluroslabs, power-ports and such like but much of it was inactive or only semiactive.

 

They came to a great hub chamber, a domechamber centered by a great cylinder shaped column. The floor was a gentle bowl and there did not seem to be any obvious rational purpose. Jadelegs felt the change began to happen and turned to the goblin. “Run as fast as you can! Leave here, now, for your own safety. I will be safe enough but I can not promise to protect both of us.”

 

Saggisnootik did not bother to say anything, for she had been growing ever more agitated, but vanished with impressive speed.

 

Long long after the goblin was gone from the chamber, a sparkling shimmer ran through the chamber and suddenly Jadelegs was in a chamber that was in some ways the same as it had been but, also, in some ways different.

 

The great cylinder shaped column in the center of the chamber was now transparent and filled with softly glowing blue sparkling energies and what seemed like a blue-green mist. Inside it was a young woman, naked but lightly obscured by the mist. She was suspended standing but seemed relaxed, sleeping comfortably. She looked like a teenage version of Jadelegs except that her legs were normal. She could have been a younger version of Jadelegs, Jadekin or Jadekia. On her middle fingers were dull metallic rings, as there were bracelets on her arms and a headband on her head. Jadelegs stared in shock, knowing somehow that the one before her was linked intrinsically with herself, Jadekin and Jadekia but not how or why. It was just another nagging feeling that was more frustrating than anything else.

 

=-=That is you, your most ancient self, in all of your glory. You look like an older teenager there but you are ancient, are many thousands of years old. You, Jadekin and Jadekia are linked to her in a very fundamental fashion. You are now gaining three fategamecredit per second, 20 fategame-points per 100 seconds, 20 spinlings per 1,000 seconds and six wishlings per every 10,000 seconds. You are also gaining 1.5 pulseling per second, 1.5 phaseling per second, 1.5 summonling per second. Special bonus you have gained one wish, one chance, one challenge and one spin.

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0073(01)073: Of JADEKIN OF THE MAGEBORN: MEETING LADY SARAZATAVAE

 

Empress Jadekia and Jadekin combined their two fategame wishes and, with them, spent other resources to create a large, deep tunnel that ran from just outside of EvaLaketown to the edge of the Imperial Island. Jadekin led a large, well prepared group through the well ventilated, well lit and well sealed tunnel.

 

The group came out carefully onto the island, actually into a large underground chamber of ancient sturdy make. As Jadekin entered the tunnel, she was met by two simulicants in quasimagical armor, their golden skinned faces showing through open helmet areas. Each carried various quasimagical weapons. The two stood motionless.

 

A tall woman came and met Jadekin, a human in quasimagical armor but with only a quasimagical longknife for self defense. The woman bowed. “I am Lady SarazaTovae of the House of GoldenQua. Perhaps you would give a sound explanation to the vanishing of the Empress JadekinKia and the appearance of this rather impressive tunnel.”

 

Jadekin smiled. “Yes, it is a rather impressive tunnel gained by special means that I am unable to speak of. The Empress JadekinKia merged with one named Jadekin and became Empress Jadekia. She is in EvaLaketown at this moment helping to command the war against the Imperial Dominion. That is what was once the Imperial Commonwealth Central Government and Ashanburg.”

 

SarazaTovae studied Jadekin with a rather obscure expression on her face before she gave an odd little snorting noise. “One truly wonders at the ways of things. The varied Ladies, and few Lords, that are clones of the now merged Empress JadekinKia, have come to many refined conclusions as dictated by searches and researches seeking truths both desired and undesired. Our conclusions were that we really do not know what is going on, not a clue. Yet we have fought the demonic monsters as best we can with all of our abilities and other resources. We have killed most of the demonars that invaded the island though we do not know how they managed to get onto the island.”

 

The muffled sound of shooting came from outside of the big underground chamber. Outside was darkness and demonars could see in the dark. Something screamed and howled in rage and agony before the noise was abruptly cut off. The gun, a big powerful one, fired again but then ceased to do so.

 

SarazaTovae smiled. “Please follow me. The simulicants will remain here on guard. How wonderfully disciplined they are to remain so still.”

 

“Or dead!” Jadekin drew her longsword out and thrust the point of the blade against the woman's throat. “A name like SarazaTovae would never go with such as the House of GoldenQua. SarazaTovae, by tradition, goes only with the House of SilverQua.”

 

SarazaTovae looked very confused. She turned and looked at the androids carefully. “Dead? Really? Are they dead? Well, that is something...” She turned back to Jadekin. “I will put a formal complaint to the Council of Improper Forms of Death. Truth is I am Lady SarazaTovae of the House of SilverQua but I do so love gold more than silver.”

 

Jadekin slipped away her sword. “You came down here alone?”

 

SarazaTovae looked confused and then suddenly smiled. “Hi, how are you? My name is Lady SarazaTovae of the House of GoldenQua. I would love to show you my fine collection of pink bone-china vases. I have three of them and only three of them are slightly broken.”

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0074(01)074: Of JADEKIN OF THE MAGEBORN: THE IMPERIAL COMMONWEALTH CITY AND ISLAND?

 

The demonars had come from the Alternate Tamriel where Emperor Sirius Sabtur VI ruled a very dark version of the Empire. His people were the mortal demonfolk, the damans or damanfolk. Long ago they had rebelled against the Ayleid and then had betrayed their human allies. Except that these demonars did not serve the Sabtur Empire but were mercenaries hired, with lots of golden finger-ingots, by a mysterious entity who went by the name of NecroTane.

 

As more FreeAlliance forces invaded the island through the tunnel, fighting moved away from it. The dead simulicants were sent to EvaLaketown, along with the poor suffering Lady SarazaTovae of the House of SilverQua. The fighting was carried out not just by the demonar mercenaries but by willingly possessed traitors who had joined their ranks only to find themselves being used as expendable cannon fodder.

 

Strange colored elemental entities flew through the air, helping to track down the demonic enemies. They were part of an ancient run down but still functioning defensive network-system of the island. There was the noise of bolt-action rifles being fired and then a hand cranked mechanical machinegun, or crankergun, with its six barrels. Such weapons were being replaced by self loading machineguns but they were still quite common through out Jadekinaria.

 

Jadekin fought demonar after demonar, slashing or stabbing or shooting pulses of energy from the tip of her sword. Sometimes she smashed her shield into her enemies or hurled fireballs from her gloved right hand. At times she did not fight as she made command decisions with simulicant or local commanders. They were winning the fight, were sending some forces into the actual city only to find the demonars had not gone there for they had felt repelled by the city proper.

 

When the dying, real, Lady SarazaTovae of the House of SilverQua was brought to her, Jadekin discovered that she had been tricked by a very skilful and cunning mind. The false Lady SarazaTovae had vanished by the time Jadekin sent any warnings to EvaLaketown. She did save the life of the real Lady SarazaTovae, who invited Jadekin to take a look at her wonderful collection of three pink bone-china vases, of which only three were damaged. Later on Jadekin was to fully repair the vases for Lady SarazaTovae but that was after some other changes had taken place.

 

When the last of the demonars was dead, when searches began to find clues of what had actually happened on the island, some appalling finds were made. The city was surprisingly intact, in general, but some Dwemer mechanisms had either been stolen, stripped of vital parts or vandalized. Then the first death chamber was found full of desiccated corpses of victims of NecroTane. Somehow the demonic vampiric entity, not a true undead vampire but a necrovire, had fed upon the life energies, blood and liquified flesh of the victims.

 

NecroTane had not been on the island just to feed. She had been avidly seeking something. When barely alive prisoners were found, they were saved but would take a good deal of healing. One spoke of being tortured and questioned about something called a WhirlaKey but also about other exotic artifacts. Strangely enough she had also asked about HizaSoulDevices be they HizaSoulbooks or HizaSoulkeys or HizaSoulgems but also some kinds that Jadekin had not known about being HizaSoulguns and HizaSoulswords. Were they weapons or did they just sound as if they were.

 

Jadekin found the city, and island, to be largely deserted and in various states of disrepair. Other areas were functioning to various degrees but most of the locals were struggling to survive. Various clones, of Empress JadekinKia, were wandering around; they were gently, but firmly, gathered up and sent of to EvaLaketown to be cared for. There was much to be done on the island and in the city that were soon being called the Imperial Commonwealth City and the Imperial Commonwealth Island.

Edited September 19, 2012 by Maharg67

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0075(01)075: Of JADEKIN OF THE MAGEBORN: HUB CHAMBER REVELATIONS AND PAINTED CAVES

 

The strange hub chamber changed to its old appearance and Jadelegs used summonling, and a wish, to bring forth permanent entities who would guard the area, stopping others from entering it including goblinfolk. Not that the goblinfolk really had to be warned away as they did not like going near the place. Large power-doors were fitted into tunnel mouths, turrets dotted ceilings, hulking humanoids of steel golems patrolled or stood on sentry duty. What Jadelegs feared, she did not know, but she followed her instincts in that matter.

 

Next came painted caves with an amazing range of ancient, primitive seeming paintings of exotic creatures. Some were dragons, others were dinosaurs, and there were reptilian looking humanoids, bizarre plant creatures and much else to wonder at. She declared them to be the Painted Cave Maze, so many painted cave tunnels and chambers were there.

 

Then she found the chamber with the big, very realistic, great quality mural running along one great wall. They were nine very attractive young humans, unnaturally attractive as if genetically engineered to be so, in dark, dull silvery metallic skinsuits immodestly tight against their slimly muscular bodies. All the humans had dark, dull silvery metallic rings on their middle fingers, bracelets and headbands. There were six women and three men. There were also three exotic animals, again hinting strongly at genetic engineering, of a dolphin-lizard hybrid, of a winged monkey creature and what could be called a cat-dog hybrid. These had dull silvery metallic neckbands. The last entity was an exotic floating orb of what seemed to be some kind of robot. It was a dull, dark silvery metallic sphere but orbiting it was a smaller floating sphere of otherwise identical appearance.

 

One of the young women looked like a younger version of herself, looked like the one floating in the vertical cylinder in the mysterious hub chamber.

 

She the noticed something surprising. Next to one of the young men, the humans were all standing in a row, was a group of humans but they were very small compared to the nine, the exotic animals and the robotic thing of two orbs. The teenagers were giants, were at least nine metres tall, and the exotic animals were huge as was the floating orb thing.

 

Saggisnootik crept into the big chamber and looked around carefully before walking up to stand next to the taller Jadelegs. She spoke. “They are very tall, including the one that looks much like you do but lesser of years. Would they be giants?”

 

“I do not know! I should know but I simply do not know!” She shook her head in wonder. “Any more paintings of great interest, like this one?”

 

Saggisnootik nodded. “Yes, in the same cave where the waters bubble strangely for they are very cold but behave as if very hot enough to boil madly. A silly goblin fell in and almost froze to death before we could get him out. Only healing serums stopped him losing fingers and toes. Before we get there, though, we need must go through scary picture caves.”

 

The scary picture bath showed nine human children, the giants, in a great bath filled with bubbly, soapy water. The goblin pointed to the bubble bath bubbles and shivered. “That is soap stuff, is it not. Oh, horrible perfumes, most horrible. How brave those children must be to withstand such so much that they laugh.”

 

“I remember now, we were Skylanders, Living GodGoddesses, giants striding amongst much smaller mortal, and lesser immortals, who served us. I remember only in general and only impressions. The bubble bath there was very wonderful and we were very good friends back then.”

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0076(01)076: Of JADEKIN OF THE MAGEBORN: OF A FREEZING BOILING WATER, A FACELESS MAN AND A FLOATING NON GHOST OF A WOMAN

 

The freezing cold bubbling water was inside a round metallic pool sunken into a raised level of rock at the edge of the big glowcrystal well lit, lightly warmed, cavern chamber. The chamber was vast. The wall painting showed the nine children but they now wore exotic armor and each carried a great staff of elaborate make. The animals wore armor also, but not all over, and the robotic sphere was just the same except that moving around it, at a wider orbit, were now some exotic orbs showing glittering, fancy surfaces and devices.

 

In that same chamber was the man with no face, a huge elaborate electrum metallic golem, slender for a golem but nine metres tall and holding a great electrum metallic staff.

 

Then there was the naked woman, all silvery, that floated in the air but was no ghost. She was beautiful, of lightly shiny hair and skin. Her eyes were closed and her body was partly curled up as if she was sleeping.

 

Saggisnootik shivered. “One 'feels' bad sadness here as one did in the hub chamber where you saw the naked woman, like you, sleeping inside the column. You going to lock up all these places, put big golem things to guard them?”

 

“Yes but only because there is much here that could be dangerous to goblinfolk. Did goblinfolk vanish here while you used the cold bubbling pool to make things cold for drinking or froze dead cave rats to take home with you?” She smiled at Saggisnootik. “The goblinfolk coins and trinkets you made, by charging for the use of the pool, will of course go to the Goblinfolk Care Centre.”

 

Saggisnootik gave a graceful bow, for a goblin, and spoke while trying to hide her chagrin. “Oh, of course, Jadelegs of the wondrous legs. Oh, just one thing, can you try to save some frozen goblinfolk. There was a bit of a disagreement about my prices and who was in front of the line.”

 

Jadelegs jumped into the pool and brought up the snap frozen goblinfolk being five goblems, two goblins and one hoblin in a law enforcement jerkin. Hoblins tended to have such jobs because they were smarter than goblems and calmer than goblins. She returned them to life, with the use of wishlings and fategame-points. She was visibly annoyed and the goblinfolk were all embarrassed by their antics.

 

Then, to their surprise, after she told them to remain there and touch nothing, Jadelegs leapt back into the pool and after a while began to bring up other bodies along with various artifacts. These she made vanish, teleporting them to her main area.

 

The 'creatures that are unlike any we have found before' turned out to be very accurate, realistic carved statues of dinosaurs of various kinds and other prehistoric creatures. There were also strange creatures that Jadelegs could not identify.

 

All nine goblinfolk came with Jadelegs, except that the five goblems were soon being carried by others so as to allow the group to move quicker. Saggisnootik led Jadelegs to the big caves full of treasures that the goblinfolk had taken none of, amazingly enough. Not because they had not wanted to but because of the invisible barriers that stopped all such sneakiness.

 

Saggisnootik nodded, with a mild grin. “Perhaps you could open the barriers, oh Jadelegs of the wondrous legs, and we could possibly 'borrow' some stuff.”

 

Jadelegs sighed. “Perhaps goblinfolk could just not bother to 'borrow' any such stuff because I have a horrible 'sense' of what this treasure is and it is cursed.”

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0077(01)077: Of JADEKIN OF THE MAGEBORN: SOME BIG EVENTS IN JADEKINERIA

 

Empress Jadekia would establish her power base in the Imperial Commonwealth City but much work was to be done in order to have this happen properly. On top of this the war with the Imperial Dominion continued and the Imperial Commonwealth had to deal with the rogue Citystate of Mechanicoto. Resources were gathered, sorted and utilized. Repair and construction work began in the city and on the island. The tunnel between the Imperial Commonwealth Island and EvaLaketown was still very important but ferry services began to be established between other Laketowns and the island. Cargo and passenger air services also opened up between them and other places in the area.

 

Chambers full of ancient artifacts had to be carefully investigated, sorted and utilized. Old treasuries of coinage were used or altered and used as new Imperial Commonwealth currencies. The creation of the Imperial Commonwealth Defense Force began while freefighter units continued to do the actual fighting. Freefighter units were given more resources of many kinds. The MassTransduplicator kept transduplicating items, of many useful kinds, at Castle Jade Estate. A secondary command had been set up at the fortified estate and military forces were building up there to strike northwards. There was no real attempt to keep this fact secret.

 

It was decided that the Empress would focus on the Imperial Commonwealth City, and its island, while Jadekin would gain the title of Imperial Warlord and would be supreme commander of the war effort against the Imperial Dominion and other threats.

 

Then a new event changed matters greatly. People began to flood through from the Imperial Undercity of the False Emperor. Amongst them were not just Undercityfolk but people from the Overcity including soldiers, merchants, mages, semiskilled workers, artisans and many others. They brought as much with them, as that could, in the way of resources, livestock and such as items to be rescued of cultural value. Not just humans came there being lizardfolk, orcs, catfolk and even goblinfolk.

 

Why were they fleeing from that version of the Imperial City of that Alternate Tamriel? Because a horde of monstrous demonic creatures had come blasting, howling and shrieking out of the Arcane University, boiling out from beneath the main part of the university. They had come from the secret research complex beneath the Arcane University where False Emperor had ordered the experiments to be done with a Secondary WhirlaKey as the foundation of that project. Had the project caused the invasion of demonic monsters and what were the demonic monsters, where had they come from? Nobody seemed to know.

 

As more a steady stream of people continued to come through, they were diverted out of EvaLaketown proper and into a great grassy clearing where the annual festivals and sporting carnivals were held. Jadekin materialized a mass of resources, using the whole broadened list but mostly bringing forth just a shorter list of very needed items; they were tents, food rations, concentrated serums, blankets along with some others.

 

Then came the Blades and with them Jauffre and the False Emperor. The False Emperor was rejuvenated now and free from mind control. He was confused, angry but he remembered some valuable information. Demonar leaders had grabbed him away from the control of the naive shaperfolk, with the help of demonar sorcerers and alchemists. This was assisted also by some shaperfolk traitors who had been seduced by demonar promises. The traitors had all been rewarded with quick, merciful deaths. The project beneath the Arcane University proper, had been officially to understand the nature of the WhirlaKey; the true, unofficial reason, as driven by Imperial traitors, had been to open a transdimensional gateway to allow demonic invasion. The invaders were from the Alternate Tamriel where Emperor Sirius Sabtur VI ruled the Empire there; the evil emperor directed the invasion and the reason was basic enough; the Sabtur Empire was trying to escape from the Great Freezing.