[Kereth]

"Late in the war the Priest thought of a way to try and end the fighting, to finally bring peace to the races. He found two beings that loved one another even though their families were on either side of the conflict. The Priest hoped that if he could hold a very public and honorable wedding between these two lovers, that the war would end and the races would be saved.

However, on the day of the wedding, disaster struck the church where the couple was about to exchange their vows. An extremely powerful fire ripped through the church, killing everyone involved except the Father. Somehow he was spared, though crippled and injured nearly mortally. All hope of peace, however, died within that fire and the war raged on, eventually forcing the races into hiding to recuperate and rebuild their societies. It was during this time that the new races of human and elves, dwarves and minotaur, dragons and dragonians were born and took over as the dominant species of the Retroverse.

The Priest waited for a millennium to try and reclaim the peace that he struggled so greatly for. One day he was given the opportunity to do so. A Demon Lord of the dead, Baal-Moloch, made the Priest a bargain. He would help the priest find the souls of the wedding party and bring them back to life in order to fulfill their destiny and go through with the marriage.

The Priest vowed that he would do all he could to make this happen and in his haste and over-zealousness created more than just a resurrection of the wedding, but succeeded in opening a tear in the Retroverse that lead to the realm where Moloch resided. This tear, this rift, opened above the cemetery of Suthnas where the wedding was to be held. The once peaceful burial ground became a home to a multitude of undead creatures and the chaos that they brought with it. Moloch knew this would happen and cackled with insane glee as he watched the horror on the Priest's face as he and the wedding party escaped inside the Church.

Determined to continue with his ultimate goal, the Priest kept on with the wedding plans, leaving the cemetery in the hands of the undead and Moloch.

Four crystal pillars were erected to magnify and regenerate the unearthly energies. Each pillar is guarded by three priests, representing the three forms of Moloch's domain.

When the Mayor of Suthnas received word that this had taken place in his beautiful and serene funerary grounds he was furious. He sent out a missive to Sultan Odie who responded back that it was the Mayor's problem, that he should simply hire mercenaries from his own coffers if he wanted this to end.

Furious, but none-the-less determined to end this reign Moloch had over his cemetery, he sent out word to all adventurers, offering a reward to any that could rid him and his city of this Demon Lord and the undead abominations, then remove the Priest and his party so this could never happen again..."

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