Many Meetings
Event I, July 2022. The Day of Mist had revealed the Annwyn, and settlers crowded into Gateway to cross the mists.
Writings
Eleven prologuesThe first run and nine of the ten events
This page holds eleven Eldritch prologues. Nine come from the ten events of the campaign, and two come from the first run.
The Prologues
A prologue set out the state of the Annwyn before an event, as the characters knew it. Each one was written as a document from inside the setting.
The Wrath
Event II, March 2023. The King had turned toward the Aurorym, and a great pilgrimage of the faithful had come to Gateway.
The Awakening
Event III, November 2023. Witchcraft had spread through the Annwyn, and only Mistvale had been spared.
The Sacrifice
Event IV, March 2024. House Laurent had held on through a hard winter, and the Richter army had taken Gateway.
The Trial
Event V, October 2024. House Laurent had fallen, and civil war had spread through the Sovereignlands.
The Tower
Event VI, April 2025. The Obans had been found guilty of the attack on Carran, and the Godslayers were arming.
The Unraveling
Event VII, October 2025. The King had died in the Annwyn, and four claimants had raised their banners.
The Precipice
Event VIII, April 2026. The King was dead, and four armies marched in the spring.
The Undercroft
Event IX, July 2026. No prologue for this event was found, and its story appears in the prologue to Event X.
The End
Event X, October 2026. King Leander was crowned, and Oblivion came for Mystvale.
The First Run
The first run began in 2018, and the staff restarted its story in 2021. These two prologues come from it.
The Annwyn
Event 0, 2018. King Giles II summoned the great houses of Arnesse to the Ruby Pavilion in Highcourt.
The Strangers
Event 1. The nobles of the Annwyn were called to a meeting at a site held in trust for the King.
How These Pages Were Edited
The prologues appear as they were written. Only obvious typing errors were fixed. Sections that repeated the earlier history of the Annwyn, or that gave travel, housing, and building rules or other instructions to players, were left out, and each page says what it leaves out. Where a prologue set rules for an event, a short note beside the text records them.
Older documents spell the town Mistvale, and later ones spell it Mystvale. Each prologue keeps its own spelling.
Staff posts from the campaign are on the Eldritch Workshop blog.