{{ ::affril.png?nolink&300|}} ====== Affril: Plane of Knowledge ====== An interplanar world of [[purplestone|purplestone]] archways surrounded by the gray sea where the [[klynoks|Klynoks]] and [[giant_bat|Giant Bats]] hail. Affril is covered by a massive gray sea with pockets of huge purplestone arches and the origin of [[purplestone|purplestone]]. It is also the home of the [[klynoks|Klynoks]] and [[grayfolk|Grayfolk]]. The night sky features two red moons. ---- ===== Denizens ===== * [[creet|Creet]] * [[Giant Bat|Giant Bats]] * [[grayfolk|Grayfolk]] * [[Klynoks|Klynoks]] * [[qualzar|Qualzar]] * [[sentry|Sentry]] * [[tarik_nowlin|Tarik Nowlin]] * [[umin_ulthano|Umin Ulthano]] * [[zalic|Zalic]] ---- ===== Points of Interest ===== * Corroded Colossus * Crystal Orchard * [[Endless Stacks|Endless Stacks]] * [[homeward rift|Homeward Rift]] * [[Klynoks Archives|Klynoks Archives]] * Monument Grove * Purplestone Structure ---- ===== Literary References ===== ==== Rhyme of the Planes==== >//If your face is in [[nebblis|Nebblis]], you’ll burn off your nose.// >//If your feet are in [[iktel|Iktel]] you’ll freeze off your toes.// >//Affril has numbered the hairs on your head,// >//But if you’re in [[mikto|Mikto]], it’s secret instead.// >//In [[hoshek|Hoshek]] I’ll grow up as strong as a tree,// >//‘Til the creatures of [[moti|Moti]] come looking for me.// - Children's verse - Eye of Ulos (RPA-ADV4) ---- ===== References ===== {{ :tgc_cartographers_lore_cover.png?400|}} ==== Battle at Blacklake (RPA-ADV1) ==== As you open the [[durgolium_box|durgolium chest]], the earth quakes and the sky crackles with strange purple energy. You hear the screech of [[giant_bat|bats]] and smell a briny sea. Inside the chest you find a jar of [[gray_matter|gray material]] and quickly place it into the [[durgolium|durgolium]] sack that [[tarik_nowlin|Tarik Nowlin]] is holding. ==== Gate of Brizoor Waal (RPA-ADVF) ==== >//Giant pillars support a high, domed ceiling over a polished marble floor. As you step into this strange building, you notice the ceiling is punctured with a circular opening at its zenith. Red sunlight falls through this hole onto a massive pink crystal on a pedestal in the exact center of the space. The crystal sends pulses of light through thick pink veins that run downward, into cracks in the floor.// - Gate of Brizoor Waal (RPA-ADVF) [[orc|Orc]] [[hognar_grik|Hognar Grik]] of the[[king_s_guard| King's Guard]], [[dragonkin|Dragonkin]] [[masik|Masik]] of the [[starlit_door|Starlit Door]], and the [[dragon|Dragon]] [[vyrandore|Vyrandore]] of the [[dragul|Dragul]] all battle inside a temple in Affril, Plane of Knowledge, at the final battle of [[brizoor_waal|Brizoor Waal]]: * Depending on which faction you side with, you will join the fray with their representative: * If you defeat the opposition and are favored by the character, they will greet you warmly. You claim the site, and find a purple rune. * If you defeat the opposition and are disfavored by the character, you will claim the site, finding a purple rune. * If you fall to the opposition, you stumble through a rift back to [[elsifor_s_tent|Elsifor's Tent]] at [[brizoor_waal|Brizoor Waal]] in defeat. >//As you crawl back toward the rift, a beam of black energy shoots skyward from the now darkening crystal. The gray sea roils, shifting in hue to match the energy. The massive crystal slowly sinks into the earth as the marble floor cracks open below. You hear the cry of [[giant_bat|giant bats]] approaching as [[klynoks|Klynoks]] arrive to investigate. Dozens of the [[klynoks|crystal-faced folk]] arrive in a panic. They approach their sinking crystal, only to be struck by its beam of energy. The crystals in their faces change from pink to black, detach, and float away from their lifeless rubber bodies.// - Gate of Brizoor Waal (RPA-ADVF) ==== Cartographers Heroes (CH-MP2)==== >//When a rift opened and strange creatures rode through on their [[giant_bat|bat-like steeds]], you knew you’d only have one chance to map this [[planes|plane]]. You leapt through, finding yourself standing on a network of [[purplestone|purplestone]] archways, rising from a vast, gray sea. Now, you pull out your level and compass and begin what surely is the greatest challenge of your career as a royal cartographer.// ---- ===== Backstory Appearances ===== ==== Chosen One ==== A [[klynoks|Klynoks]] at the Klynoks Archives gestures that it can project part of your strength across the many planes and create others like you: * Allow him to extract your power and deliver the imbued golden crystals to the other worlds. * Keep your power for yourself and whatever fate may have in store for you. ==== Chronologist ==== At the Klynoks Archives in Affril, Plane of Knowledge, Qualzar will review your past choices, and offer you one more regarding the Klynoks invasion of Ulos: * Give up your [[chronometer|chronometer]] and join him in bringing in a new dawn of everlasting peace, gained first by violence. * Refuse him and smash your [[chronometer|chronometer]] in defiance.