MASK OF THE HARBOR
No one knows how many Nameless are in the Abyss outside the Sphere. But many shamans are sure that they all want to break into this world and enslave it. In fact, only some Nameless are trying to influence this world, while others want to build their own kingdom, like Vran.
Vran did not participate in the creation of the Sphere, but only observed and learned. Having gained knowledge, he created his own Sphere, in which cold and darkness reign, and it is inhabited by ice giants who feed on living creatures.
Vran spent all his power on their creation, and he decided to look for food for his children in other worlds. For this, he created the Mask of the Harbinger - an unusual artifact that turned the owner into the Harbinger of Vran's will. The Nameless One managed to send it to the Sphere. A person, elf, dwarf or demon who put on this mask became an executor of Vran's will. If he destroyed a creature, it was transferred to a harsh kingdom of cold and darkness.
The demons were not going to helplessly watch someone take away their brothers, and challenged Vran's servant. They gathered the most powerful shamans and removed the cursed mask from the Harbinger. After that, they hid this cursed artifact. But even this did not save the Sphere from Vran's treachery.
THE HARBOR'S PUNISHMENT
After the demons defeated the first Harbinger, Vran realized that he needed to act more decisively. He spent a lot of effort to contact the remains of his first servant. But he still managed to turn his bones into a powerful weapon - the Harbinger's Punishment.
The weapon was discovered by one of the elves and, as soon as he took it in his hands, Vran enslaved his mind. He sent the new Harbinger to the demon lands to return the Mask. The servant was successful. With the mask and the punishment, the new harbinger became almost invulnerable.
But the people managed to stop him. Trogvar Thistle, a distant ancestor of Agvar, gathered the most powerful mages and together they destroyed the Harbinger, and hid the Raven artifacts. And no one alive now knows where to look for them.
THE WISDOM OF THE HARBOR
Despite the fact that there were only two Raven artifacts in the Sphere, the Nameless One created something else: an assistant in the form of a raven for his Harbinger.
The bird stored the knowledge of the Raven within itself, and could also speak with the voice of the Nameless One. She accompanied the Harbinger in the Sphere, helped him avoid the traps that demons and humans set, and also supplied magical energy to the world of Vran.
Fortunately, Trogvar Thistle wove a powerful spell that captured the raven. This saved the Sphere and helped get rid of the Harbinger. But after the defeat of Vran's servant, the raven was freed from captivity, and no one has seen it since. Surely the bird is hiding somewhere and waiting for the appearance of a new Harbinger.
THE DEATH OF THE HARBOR
Nobody remembers Trogvar Thistle today, but this man did the most important thing for the entire Sphere - he stopped the Harbinger in time. If he had not done this, then all living things would have been transferred to the cold world of Vran.
Not long before his death, the second Harbinger, using the wise raven, found a way to transfer an entire city at once to the kingdom of cold and darkness. To do this, he subjugated a rat to his will, infected it with a dangerous plague, and sent it to the city of Ar'Kaliat.
The elves who lived there quickly began to die and after death were transferred to the kingdom of Vran. Trogvar learned of this incident and realized that the Harbinger needed to be stopped immediately. Fortunately for the entire Sphere, he and other mages succeeded. But Agvar Thistle's ancestor was afraid that the plague would spread, so he sealed the passage to the lands where the beautiful city of Ar'Kaliath stood for many centuries. Only hundreds of years later was the passage reopened and people saw what this place had become.
HARBOR'S COMPANION
The animal that accompanied both Harbingers was the cursed hyena. It was made by the first of Vran's wards in order to move around the Sphere as quickly as possible.
The Harbinger's companion was a very dangerous animal. Created by the magic of the Nameless One, the hyena did not know fatigue, quickly covered huge distances and could survive not only the cold, but also the heat emanating from the Sulfur Heart volcano.
As soon as the demon shamans defeated the first Harbinger and removed his mask, the hyena disappeared. Some tried to revive it, because it was an inexhaustible source of knowledge, but to no avail.
After the death of the second Harbinger, humans also intended to study the unusual hyena. The then human king ordered to put the Mask on one of his servants so that the hyena would appear, but Trogvar stopped him. He believed that the secret of the Harbinger's Companion was not worth the troubles it would bring to the Sphere. The king was furious that some mage would contradict his order, so he banished Trogvar.
The wizard left, but took the Mask and Scourge of the Harbinger with him. Today, no one, not even Agvar Thistle himself, knows where the Harbinger's artifacts rest.
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