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Time rolls ever forward, raising mountains, drying up rivers, and changing
the seasons, in a long, fateful cycle back to where it began. For Serin,
this was the hour that time chose for Stryth and Burzuk to return. Change
inevitably had come upon the lands, and not all of it did the Overlord agree
was right. Thus the Return marked another change, a change of direction
for Serin, as the dutiful Avindus was relinquished of his responsibilities,
to make way for the prophet. Imbued with the power to reshape the realms
as he saw fit, Stryth left the realms in his hands.
The first tremors of Doom began within the heavens, as the immortals were
reconsidered. Free of the burden of knowledge of history, each immortal
was judged for who they were now, and what good they did. Maelthor and
Nikorin, chosen of Avindus for adminstering Warlord and Justice, were the
first to leave. Elimelech, the endearing bard immortal, found his purpose
was unnecessary and later followed them. New immortals rose to fill their
place, Jeradan of Justice, and Grimlak of Warlords, and Malenfaler took
control of the Mystics.
In his exploration of every part of Serin, to its smallest corners, the
assassin lord Davairus had uncovered a prophecy warned by Denadlyr, that
of the return of Emperor of the Material Abyss. Intertwined with much
of the fabric of Serin itself, the abyss is a place of horrific tortures,
an underworld that is the source of evil. It is often spoken of as the
prison for banished immortals, doomed to be found and killed by its ruler
Grazz't. Perhaps his finding was its cause, for without him knowing of
it, he would have never told the other immortals, and the power-hungry
Malenfaler would not have devised a way to open its long-closed entrance
for the first of the demon army to flow in.
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