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User:Aerukai

2016-07-16T00:52:17Z

Aerukai: Grammatical fix and specified some information.

Commonly referred to as Ssschah or Aerukai on many forums, though he tends to be more of a lurker. He has been playing Spiderweb games since his childhood, and adopted the name "Ssschah" after the default Slithzerikai character from Avernum 3.

User:Aerukai

2016-03-29T01:25:13Z

Aerukai:

Commonly referred to on Ssschah or Aerukai on many forums, though he tends to be more of a lurker. He has been playing Spiderweb games since his childhood, and adopted the name "Ssschah" after the default Slithzerikai character in later Avernum games.

Bahssikava

2016-03-29T01:21:44Z

Aerukai:

Bahssikava is the fabled subterranean empire of the [[Slithzerikai]]. It has been briefly visited by [[humans]] only once, and never explored. Nothing but myths passed down by the exiled Sliths tell us about it.

==Factbook==

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Lost Bahssikava is the [[Slithzerikai]] entrance to [[Avernum]]. It is to be sealed until the [[Slithzerikai]] learned to live in peace.

[[Slithzerikai]] were banished from their lands to [[Avernum]] because of [[Sss-Thss]], who was disturbing peace in [[Slithzerikai]] lands, causing a civil war. Most, if not all, of the followers of Sss-Thoss were originally involved in demon-worshipping to some extent. However, when they became exiled, some were shocked, and began to feel regret for their actions, and thus departed from Sss-Thoss' group of Darklings, then establishing Basshikava in hopes of achieving the virtue and peace necessary in someday returning to Slithzerikai civilization.

When the banished [[Slithzerikai]] learn how to live in peace, they can return to their homeland by entering the caves below Lost Bahssikava and open the room that is leading to sealed gates by placing six metal triangles on the wall to make a six-edged star.

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Bahssikava

2016-03-29T01:20:10Z

Aerukai: I made some grammatical fixes

Bahssikava is the fabled subterranean empire of the [[Slithzerikai]]. It has been briefly visited by [[humans]] only once, and never explored. Nothing but myths passed down by the exiled Sliths tell us about it.

==Factbook==

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Lost Bahssikava is the [[Slithzerikai]] entrance to [[Avernum]]. It is to be sealed until the [[Slithzerikai]] learned to live in peace.

[[Slithzerikai]] were banished from their lands to [[Avernum]] because of [[Sss-Thss]], who was disturbing peace in [[Slithzerikai]] lands, causing a civil war. Most, if not all, of the followers of Sss-Thoss were originally involved in demon-worshipping to some extent. However, when they became exiled, some were shocked, and began to feel regret for their actions, and thus departed from Sss-Thoss' group of Darklings, then establishing Basshikava in hopes of achieving the virtue and peace.

When the banished [[Slithzerikai]] learn how to live in peace, they can return to their homeland by entering the caves below Lost Bahssikava and open the room that is leading to sealed gates by placing six metal triangles on the wall to make a six-edged star.

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Reconciliation

2015-05-07T02:31:43Z

Aerukai:

{{account|name=The Reconciliation of The [[Empire]] and [[Avernum]]|author=[[Dorn Kaytar]]|start=832 IE|end=843 IE|before=[[Empire-Avernum War]]|after=[[Retribution]]}}

After Empress [[Prazac I|Prazac]] tasked the [[Surface Explorers]] from [[Unspecified Services]] with the mission to destroy the monster plagues in [[Valorim]], [[Avernum]] was rewarded with a peace treaty and a substantial area of land in Southeastern [[Valorim]] (near [[Karnold Province]]). Many Avernites settled in that area, founding the city called [[City of Dawn|Dawn]], and traffic between [[Avernum]] and the [[Empire]] began in earnest.

==Period of Silence==

After the Empire withdrew from the [[caves]], having failed in its retaliatory [[Empire Invasion|attack]] on the [[Kingdom of Avernum]] late in 823 [[IE]], there began a long time through which there was no contact between the surface and the caves.

The Kingdom was busy rebuilding its devastated cities and cleaning up the debris that the invasion had brought. The Empire, then ruled by the young [[Prazac I]], was busy expanding the infrastructure of [[Valorim]], whose [[Discovery and Conquest of Valorim|settlement]] had been somewhat interrupted by the mass exiling and the war. The two nations left each other alone throughout a period of almost seven years.

When Avernum's economy was for the most part functioning again, and its population was rising in spite of the lack of new [[Avernites]], the Kingdom began looking for new frontiers. Several caverns had been collapsed, both through the use of excessive combat magic and through deliberate destruction on both sides. Scryings revealed further cavers toward the south and the west, but Avernum had another ambition. They wished to see daylight once more.

Perhaps their victory had made them overbold, but after years had passed and the Empire had neither launched another invasion nor resumed sending down Exiles, they grew curious as to the state of affairs above ground.

==Upper Avernum==

The end of [[Exile]]'s function as a prison, however, had done nothing to ease the difficulty of reaching the surface from below. The war had depleted much power (and destroyed a lot of the [[magic|magical]] facilities), thus [[Teleportation|teleporting]] was beyond the realm of the practical, if not outright impossible. Instead, the [[wizards]] confined themselves to scrying the heavy rock layers above the caverns for any tunnels or weak places that might be excavated.

Instead of a tunnel, they eventually found a series of caverns so close beneath the surface that they were hardly a part of Exile proper, lying far above it. These caverns were extensive, to be sure, they apparently held a large underground lake, and would be eminently habitable once the various [[artificial plants]] of Avernum were introduced to them. But what was most interesting about them was that it was connected to the surface world above.

In 831, finally, this discovery was acted upon. With the help of the [[Vahnatai]], Avernum's ally in the war, a [[Teleportation|portal]] was built in the [[Tower of Magi]], which connected with a counterpart in the southwestern corner of [[Upper Avernum]], as the cave came to be called. Upper Avernum was settled and several cities were built along its lake. Of note were the move of archmage [[Erika Redmark]], who had dwelled in the [[Abyss]] previously, and of several Vahnatai who built the tower of [[Ghikra]].

==The First Party==

Across the tunnel that opened out to the surface, a fort was constructed both as a defense against any invading Empire troops and to serve as a base for surface exploration. For there was now no doubt that explorers were going to be sent. To mark this eventual return to the surface, the fort was named [[Fort Emergence]].

In 832 IE, a party of [[adventurers]] was recruited into [[Unspecified Services]], the covert branch of the Avernite military. This party consisted of [[Erin]], [[Elsner]], [[Gwost]] and [[Tucker]]. They were trained briefly, equipped with powerful magical items by the wizard [[X]], and teleported to Upper Avernum, where they left the caves through Fort Emergence.

Unfortunately, their mission was doomed to fail. What exactly happened to the party after it left is not entirely clear, but it appears they separated almost immediately. They never reported back.

==The Second Party==
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Failing to receive any results, and eventually having to acknowledge the likely failure of the mission, [[Anaximander]] of Unspecified Services was under enormous pressure. As soon as the surface exploration was widely admitted as a failure, both public sentiment and his superiors would be so turned against further exploration, that he needed to either immediately launch a new mission or abandon the plan altogether for the next few years.

Under such time pressure, Anaximander was left no choice but to post advertisements for another party of adventurers, take the first half-way competent ones who responded, and send them on their way.

Here is where the reports vary. Some claim that this second party numbered four, and their names were [[Aldous]], [[Ssschah]], [[Cordelia]] and [[Mycroft]]. Other reports name six adventurers: [[Jenneke]], [[Thissa]], [[Frrr]], [[Adrianna]], [[Feodoric]] and [[Michael]], and that the earlier four were actually the third party to be sent. As the files concerning this mission are still classified, no definite answer can be given.
It is known, however, that the four were eventually the ones to be credited with defeating the [[plagues]] on [[Valorim]], while the whereabouts of the six are presently unknown. There are scarcely credible rumors that they either deserted, betrayed, or were discharged from Unspecified Services.

==The Plagues of Valorim==

The final party of surface explorers discovered that the surface was no longer the idyllic homeland they had dreamed about. Six [[plagues]] of monsters roamed the surface, terrorizing the people of Valorim. The [[Surface Explorers]] were tasked with eliminating the plagues and currying favor with the [[Empire]]. They began with the [[slimes]] in [[Krizsan Province]], where they came across the seal of [[Erika Redmark]] in the back chambers of the [[Slime Pit]]. From there they moved to the [[Isle of Bigail]] and their disease-carrying [[cockroaches]], which were produced in the aptly named [[Filth Factory]]. After destroying the factory with a [[Phoenix Egg]] and finding suspicious [[dragon]] scales on the ground, they had their second suspect. However, both Erika and the dragons agreed to aid the [[adventurers]], providing them with a protective amulet and the [[Beastslayer Blade]], respectively.

It was not until the [[troglodytes]] of [[Karnold Province]] and the [[giants]] terrorizing [[Midori Province]] were dealt with that another group was under suspicion. When the adventurers broke down the barriers separating the natural enemies and let them eliminate each other, they grabbed some of the crystal shards left behind and had them analyzed by [[Berra]], the [[wizard]] of [[Fort Emergence]]. He suspected that they were of [[Vahnatai]] origin, and when confronted in [[Ghikra]], [[Rentar-Ihrno]] only offered vague warnings. After destroying the source of the [[golems]] in the [[Tower of Shifting Floors]] in [[Monroe Province]], more crystal shards found their way to Berra, who this time confirmed that the Vahnatai had made the golems and were behind the plagues. This was verified beyond the shadow of a doubt when Ghikra was found completely empty when the adventurers sought out Rentar a second time.

==A Deal Between Nations==

When [[Anaximander]], head of [[Unspecified Services]], heard this, he sent the Surface Explorers to negotiate a deal with [[Prazac I|Empress Prazac]]. If the adventurers rid [[Valorim]] of the plagues, the Exiles would be allowed to return to the [[surface]]. Prazac reluctantly agreed, and let the adventurers into [[Footracer Province]] to seek out the source of the devastation. After navigating their way to the [[Keep of Tinraya]] through treacherous, [[alien beasts|alien beast]]-filled terrain, they went underground again to Rentar-Ihrno's fortress, which they valiantly destroyed after an epic battle which saw [[Erika Redmark]] sacrifice her life to save the [[Empire]] which cast her away. Before the fortress could collapse on the brave [[Avernites]], Prazac had them teleported out to [[Blackcrag Fortress]], where she showed her admiration for them by naming them all honorary Empire [[dervishes]]. As part of the deal between the nations, Prazac granted [[Avernum]] the territory of [[Provincial Avernum]], located in southeastern Valorim.

Since that day, free traffic between the Empire and Avernum has occurred, with many merchants relishing the opportunity to offer their goods underground or on the surface. However, for a year the [[Surface Portal]] was inoperable as Rentar's [[retribution]], combined with the tension of the [[Darkside Loyalists]], brought new isolation and fear to Avernum. But with Rentar's demise, relations between the nations have returned to normal.

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Demonslayer

2015-02-15T20:28:17Z

Aerukai: One too many ]'s after Hawthorne's Assassins.

[[Demonslayer]] is a famed two-handed sword, its primary function as clear as its name. It was brought down to [[Exile]] in the [[First Expedition]], wielded by [[Karzoth]] (whose name literally means "Demon-Slayer" in a debased version of [[Soruharva]]). When the First Visitation failed, Karzoth was slain by a [[Haakai]], and Demonslayer broke into three parts. The hilt was taken by the [[Nepharim]], the blade by the Dark [[Slithzerikai]], and the tip by the [[lich]] [[Drath]] to his crypt in the west. After the [[Kingdom of Avernum]] was established, the three pieces were eventually found again by [[Hawthorne's Assassins]] and reforged by [[Boutell]]. It was used by adventurers to defeat [[Adze-Haakai]] and to finally banish the power of [[Grah-Hoth]]. It also figured in a prominent role in both the assault on [[Garzahd]] during the [[Empire-Avernum War]] and the assault on [[Rentar-Ihrno]] during the [[Vahnatai]] [[retribution]].

In the first Avernum game, [[Efram]] in [[Silvar]] (Or, alternatively, his wife, [[Anastasia]], who will tell you to speak to him about it), will tell you about the existance of this sword, and how it was taken by a group of adventurers, and that noone knows the location of this sword anymore.

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User:Aerukai

2015-01-22T04:26:55Z

Aerukai: Created page with "Shaves with an enchanted obsidian slith spear."

Shaves with an enchanted obsidian slith spear.