New Life & New Hope

Shortly after the arrival of the refugees in Belynar, a mixed contingent of Desnian and Janieal scholars arrived to look into fluctuations of the Royal Road that had been detected weeks before. The Desnian and Janieal Arali have arrived to find that the Gryphons and Rhona are already present and working to aid the newly arrived refugees.

To everyone’s surprise, a dwarvish contingent arrived through the Royal Road portal only a few short days after the refugees. And finally, representatives of the calm and civilized Nagazi arrived, seeking to aid and learn more about the refugees and the events now unfolding here in Belynar.

With such a diverse group, the Rhona elders decided to try the Ritual of Estrousal one more time in honor of the meeting of so many different races in one location. Thus a small group, comprised of all the races present ascended to the very top of the volcano upon which Belynar was built to perform this ritual. It took half the night, and at its conclusion the focus of the ritual, one of the famed Tears of Life exploded in a pulse of energy, something that had never happened before in all the years that the Rhona had been performing the ritual.

The following morning, as the sun rose over the distant peaks of the Mountains of Morning, many noticed the change that had taken place over Belynar and its surrounding area. Where once there was nothing but the blasted red sand of the Devastation, there was now grass and trees, animals and even crops growing in fields! The Ritual of Estrousal has restored the land to the way it was before the Devastation, including the plants and some wildlife!

However, this was only a temporary respite; the ritual had restored only a small portion of the Devastation to life, a portion that would eventually erode away again in but a few short years, a decade or two at most. For the healing to become permanent, even more of the Devastation must be healed, enough so that the land is once again strong enough to fight off the corrupting influence of the Devastation. The land needs to be restored fully. The land needs heroes to save it.

#4300 Cyradon, page 10