History of the Zog Cabal
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Once long ago a group fine men made a home in halls delved into the moutains near the Shrine of Honesty. These scholars were the Zog Cabal, but have since been called the Followers of Armageddon, since the other inhabitants of Ilshenar have long ceased to think of themselves as such. They were scholars and turned their study away from the facets to the many planes of existence beyond Sosaria. These planes, they found, were not copied within the Gem, but were outside the Gem and in contact with all of them. One of these planes was the source of the wisps, and the scholars learned many things from them. The wisps offered any knowledge for answers to the many questions of the wisps' own. One important thing the scholars learned was that Xorinia was not the sole in- habitant of its dimension.
There were others, and one of these was the dark wisps. The scholars questioned the dark wisps for answers their lighter brethren could not answer, but what they learned and what they did with that knowledge are difficult to determine. It is clear though that it lead to the downfall of human civilization in Ilshenar. A timeline cannot be constructed, but it seems that the dark wisps revealed a new interpretation of the significance of Mondain's non-existence in Ilshenar. Whereas to the scholars of Terort Skitas, Mondain's failure to appear was the undoing of their plans, the Zog Cabal be- lieved that Mondain's non-existence was necessary for maintaining some inscru- table "balance." Based on this, the scholars accepted the dark wisps' urging to summon... something. There is no surviving record of what they summoned, nor a better explanation of why. In the records available from Terort Skitas, this being is called only "bal-lem," meaning "evil one." Apparently, the other humans achieved a limited victory and imprisoned this being. Four leaders of the Zog Cabal, whose names were Martoo Saul, Junin Pince, Zendella Kxriss, scratches#####, and the few, were banished to another facet as punishment for their involvement. However, for some unknown reason, the people of Terort Skitas and Mistas felt that there was still great evil at work in Ilshenar. They evacuated their people and sealed the facet gates, to protect the other facets from whatever evil lingered in Ilshenar.
After the evacuation, growing numbers of monsters encroached ever further on the few remaining civilized inhabitants, until after many years Gilforn the mage of Britannia opened the facet gates again. The Britannians tentatively explored ilshenar and began piecing together the facts of what had recently transpired there. Yet, the situation became complicated by ghosts of Ilshenar's most distant past. Exodus and the Juka had ended their time travel to arrive in our present, and with them the Meer emerged from their hibernation to renew their war. The affairs of Ilshenar and Britannia are by this time fully intertwined, and so our tale will rejoin the war of the Juka and Meer after the histories of our own facets have been told.