'A wicked cycle of cataclysmic destruction and rebirth...' in the words of the Ascendant Vecna on the Infinite Continuum.
Established within the prominent sultanate city of Shariz, the Emris Adventuring guild seeks exploration into the furthest reaches of Osira. Aiming to explore what was once lost to the sands of time, and uncover the mysteries surrounding Osiras clouded history, the guild has explored The Sarranid Desert and beyond... Founded by the eccentric Headmaster Altair Emris, the guild flourished with an influx of new adventuring talent from across The Sarranid Desert, establishing strong relations to the Sarranid Sultanate in the process. The guild itself is broken into three separate adventuring schools, being the School of The Phoenix, School of The Owl, and School of The Snake, with each tailoring to the specific strengths of the adventurers which reside within it. In order to join the guild, one must undertake the Trials of The Sun, a set of three challenging quests to prove ones mettle as an adventurer.
The Sunsations were a legendary band of adventurers hailing from the Emris Adventuring Guild, with untold exploits across the far reaches of the The Sarranid Desert, The Badlands, Burned Woods, The Shadowfell, and Feywild Jungles. Exploring under the late Headmaster Altair Emris' guidance, the group aided in defeating the risen Primarchs of The Sun, crumbled the The Ebony Tower, defeated the Crimson Hand with the aid of the Ascendant Vecna, and captured Primarch Prometheus, among many other heroic achievements. Although many different heroes would join the band over the course of time, the founding members were composed of Professor Henry Endsworth, Losk the Wanderer, Kairus the Brass, May Bellsprout, Talyen, and Josu. Other notable members included Urs Salbatic, Cendis Eclipse, Obadiah Clay, Saren, Guy the Grateful, Haellae Colaerth, Simmeon, Ramiel, Galahad Wargrym, Ralex, J-A-W, Garnic Hivroth, and Jean Moncrief.
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As one of the only Ice Titans remaining in existence, Skald has roamed the frozen plains of Norsca for thousands of years, destroying entire mountain ranges and re-shaping the landscape in his gargantuan wake. Wherever Skald roamed, so followed immense maelstroms of ice and devastating cold-fronts which has rendered the lands of Norsca nearly inhospitable.
Despite the destruction Skald has caused, it is believed that during the Twilight of Creation, Skald gave life to the Unknown, which fell from his frozen flesh as icicle-shaped sentient creatures. These creatures of ice eventually created offshoot races such as the Yeti and Unknowns which were naturally acclimated to the brutal winters of the northernmost hemispheres of the world.
Although not a deity himself, Skald rivals even the gods in power, having taken part in the ancient war between gods and titans which lasted millennia. Defeated near the end of the war, Skald was imprisoned under glacial sheets of ice, with vengeance brewing within his ice-covered heart, thinning the veil between the Realm of Chaos and Norsca as his vitality weakens over the decades.
Handful of fanatical Unknowns, or Norsemen, actively devote themselves to his worship as their forefather, hoping that one day he will rise again from the glacial mountains and fell the pantheon of false-gods which rule the world in the new ages. In a vain attempt to kill the progenitor of the chaos wastes of Norsca, Heran Lightfall attempted to wield the chained gods power before he was encased in ice by the primordial titan for attempting to steal his divine essence.
Upon the enactment of the prophecy of Lightfall, Heran Lightfall was released and gained control over the titan for only a short time before the Chosen of Chaos and their ruinous hordes feasted upon the chained god.