> GlobalOmens begin to pile up. Creatures scurry and migrate far from home in great swarms. Tremors grow more frequent. Rumors crisscross the nations of water flowing upstream, of strange cults and beasts that walk on two legs. The winds of mana swirl and billow, some flowing up into the sky, others down to the earth. Perhaps most concerningly is the sight of the divine empress of Loluna staring up at the night sky, face stricken with worry, though she will not say to what end.
>>6327453>Vone II, King of the VenksThe fledgling chemist’s department of the College of Notables is a curious place of imported glassware and odd at arms length experiments as Venks do their best to sort out the mundane from the magical and which requires the six foot poles and which can be handled more leisurely. The first task at hand is a pesticide, something to manage the ceaseless mass of Skrit drones, especially those of the red variety. To this end a distillation of Aefnung is found quite effective, doubly so if it is mixed with the rind of a rust gourd. It is a concerning thing to need though, with the Skrit seemingly becoming more feral by the day.
Settlers to the far north have long relied on dwarven contraptions to help heat their homes, digging heating pits in their homes to house the magical devices far from Venkish auras. Still, one yearns for the embrace of a close fire, though such a thing is often a luxury this far north where there is more snow than trees, and finding a dry patch of wood is a hassle. To say nothing of the need for hot fires to run forges! The new supplies of charcoal will be greatly appreciated by these communities.
The files and documents are sealed, the prisoners are ordered executed. Two of them are dispatched easily enough, but the last bursts from his cell in a great conflagration, cackling madly and launching himself into the air on great bursts of fire, causing a great spectacle as he left to the rooftops. A twisted sense of luck was with him however, for moments later he misjudged a step and tumbled to his death, breaking his neck on the hard stones below.
