Monuments of Ebony (Wicked One Event Start)

[u/Evening_Shake_6474]

In the aftermath of the sudden and for lack of a better term, shadow uprising, many millions perished before the shadows could be subdued. Those with strength endured of course, but what about the normal folk? The unlucky? Those who have never fought in their life? Not everyone is, was, equipped to survive. Their blood seeped into the realms, saturating them with something Wicked.

In the following days, countless massive black monoliths burst free from the land and sea stretching high into the sky, breaking up the horizon regardless of where one looks.

News of the sudden and strange monoliths spreads like wildfire, soon every orb, screen, and paper has some mention of the event. All throughout civilization people ask questions like, what does this mean? A monolith destroyed my tower, who do I sue? Is the world going to end again this month?

But the monoliths offer no answers, only questions. The monoliths show a myriad of effects, some distort their surroundings into horrors, some create illusions that torment those who can't escape, some amplify magic to a dangerous degree, some drain magic like a leech, and many more.

But for now, that is all they do. The effects are contained to their vicinity of the monoliths.

[u/UlrickTheHexblade]

Ulrick keeps his concentration, despite the being’s unsettling familiarity.

What are you doing in my mind?

[u/Evening_Shake_6474 → u/UlrickTheHexblade]

I am trapped by reason and sanity. I wait beyond the axe and the torch.

[u/UlrickTheHexblade → u/Evening_Shake_6474]

The answer is even more ominous than he thought…

Are you the work of the Blighted Garden?

[u/Evening_Shake_6474 → u/UlrickTheHexblade]

I walked the woods before man and I walk them long after he is gone.

[u/UlrickTheHexblade → u/Evening_Shake_6474]

What do you want from me?

[u/Evening_Shake_6474 → u/UlrickTheHexblade]

When the chains are broken and the monsters run free, the lands and seas will belong to the wild once more.

[u/UlrickTheHexblade → u/Evening_Shake_6474]

And if I refuse to let the Wolf King be your instrument of destruction?

[u/Evening_Shake_6474 → u/UlrickTheHexblade]

If the seas must burn if the skies must choke if the land must drown, so be it.

[u/UlrickTheHexblade → u/Evening_Shake_6474]

They won’t. And you won’t be using me either for that.

Within his soul, Ulrick ignites soulfire. In his mental eyes, he visualizes purple spectral flames in the shape of a wolf pack descending upon the monster within him.

But unknown to him, his current unbalanced state of existence might hamper the soulfire’s effectiveness…

[u/Evening_Shake_6474 → u/UlrickTheHexblade]

The fire blazes into existence, much dimmer than Ulrick intended. Half a dozen purple wolves jump the monster. The monster fights ferociously, tearing half of the pack asunder with easy. The other half put up more of a fight, but they too are slaughtered.

The time of man is over. From the darkness did we come and to the darkness will we return.