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On the Eighth day of the Third month in the year 8482, a woman named Ethir appeared in Sicherer Hafen, seeking audience with the King. She was patient for a while, remaining in a small room of the Dug Inn. She didn't really talk to the other patrons and kept almost exclusively to herself, except when approached by others. However, around Noon that day, she began to panic. She spoke of how "He" was hunting her and how "He" was here to collect an Artifact and her. She was taken to the Castle Dungeon for attempting to cause a panic.

Archwizard Sajor then arrived in Sicherer Hafen. He blotted out the sun with thick storm clouds and threw bolts of lightning down to gather the attention of the citizens of Sicherer. He asked them if anyone had seen a mysterious woman with Bright Pink eyes. When some of the citizens tried to joke about it, he made it clear he was not about games. A woman stepped forward by the name of Arryn Liatoris and told Sajor exactly where he could find her. He thanked her and entered the castle, ready to take his prey.

The citizens, unsure of what to do as of yet, went back to drinking and hiding from the torrential downpour. Then, however, they heard more lightning and explosions blasting all around them. They went outside to see Sajor and Ethir flying around, hurling magical attacks at one another. The citizens had to escape, and quickly. The ones with the wit to survive headed to the Sicherer Trading Company, with the missed spells from the battle rained around them.

The Survivors piled onto an airship, moored to a tower of the Sicherer Trading Company. There was one problem, though: the ship was tied and would not fly away until the rigging was free. Because of this, a man named Farlo Intsly stayed in the tower and untied the ropes, letting the ship free. He looked into Arryn's eyes, as if to say "goodbye" for one last time. With that, he cut the ropes from the tower side and waved as the airship flew away.




After flying for hours, the storm cleared. The Survivors took stock and began assigning blame to Arryn for selling out Ethir, ready to throw her off into the cold ocean below where she would certainly die. It was at this time that Ethir herself appeared and told them that enough people had died that day, surprising everyone. She spoke of how she failed once more, but thinks that with the help of these Survivors, she would finally be able to defeat Sajor. They reluctantly agreed, and the ship continued to fly.

Ten days later, they arrived at an unclaimed area. They began to rebuild and named the new town "Fableston," where they would lick their wounds before going out and taking on Sajor once more. It was here that Arryn's ex-lover, Charles Richardson, was ready to have her killed. Instead, the other citizens protected her through the "clean slate" law, passed by popular vote, to forget any misdeeds of a person's past, and looking only at the present and future.

Even so, Arryn, wrought with grief and regret, built herself a lonely shack relatively far from the others. A surviving Guard from Sicherer, Lewis Whitley, was named Mayor, and the other surviving Guard was named the new Head of the Guard in Fableston. It is here that they began again, waiting to fight back...

–Excerpt from The Artifacts, by Historian Xandre III, written 8490