That Obelisk wasn’t always shattered, or so the people who arrived in Aeternum before me report. The Ancient Guardians once slumbered, naught but piles of bones on the old stone floors of their monuments. It was the explosion of the Obelisk that awoke these old warriors, igniting blue flames around the island that cannot be extinguished by water or any natural means.\n\nWas there some sort of timer device? Did someone interfere where they should not have? Further research is required. \n\nWH

Heron’s Research Into the Shattered Obelisk

William Heron’s Account

I am not the sort to write down what I see, for one day on Aeternum is as strange as the next, but last night compelled me to put quill to parchment.\n\nOutside of my window was a blue glow, unmistakably the blue of azoth. It shone in and pressed itself upon me, stirring me from sleep entirely. When I approached the window the massive obelisk in the center of the towers was destroyed, chunks of rock floating in the air as if suspended by wires in a stage show.\n\nI know not what this means for the future of the settlement or the island, but I am sure this marks a new era with horrors yet untold. I cannot return to sleep. Every time I close my eyes I see azoth blue.\n\nNina Rebus

Woken in the Night

A Citizen’s Account

It brings me an odd peace to walk the Ancient ruins of Aeternum.\n\nAt least it did before the Night of the Blue Flames. \n\nThat’s what the citizens have been calling last night, the awakening of the skeletons that now guard the Ancient ruins. Blue flames went up all over the island I hear from the Magistrate of Weaver’s Fen who sent a runner this morning to report on the phenomenon.\n\nMy suspicion is that whatever happened to the Obelisk triggered a mass revival event for the bones we all ignored in our exploring. No longer will the coffers of the Ancients stand unguarded, free for looting. We must warn everyone.\n\nThere’s no telling what else the azoth explosion did to the land around us. We must remain vigilant now more than ever.\n\nClark\n

Night of the Blue Flames Chapter - NWGuide Database of Lore

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