The Following are Links to previous Quests and Important RP plots completed by the Zog Cabal.

[http://www.atlanticcommunityboard.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7085&highlight= Cear Speaks of Chaos]

[http://www.atlanticcommunityboard.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7475&highlight= The Search for Sage Winslow]

[http://www.atlanticcommunityboard.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7524&highlight= The Second Search, New Find]

[http://www.atlanticcommunityboard.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7525&highlight= The Cabal Occupy Shame]

[http://www.atlanticcommunityboard.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7569&highlight= Lamento U'har Must Die]

[http://www.atlanticcommunityboard.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7872&highlight= War Breaks Out]

[http://www.atlanticcommunityboard.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7897&highlight= Ruckus at the Fair Grounds]

[http://www.atlanticcommunityboard.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8298&highlight= Jhelom is Sacked]

[http://www.atlanticcommunityboard.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8501&highlight= Cear is About to Die]

[http://www.atlanticcommunityboard.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8502&highlight= The Cabal Travel Thru Time]

[http://www.atlanticcommunityboard.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10129&highlight= Something Wicked This Way Comes]

[http://www.atlanticcommunityboard.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10543&highlight= Final Task]

[http://www.atlanticcommunityboard.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11927&highlight= The Cabal and Saint Gobain]

[http://www.atlanticcommunityboard.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11031&highlight= The Cabal go to Space]

[http://www.atlanticcommunityboard.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10766&highlight= Steels Funeral]

[http://www.clangroups.com/Guild.aspx?GuildID=53466&ForumID=306571&TabID=467493&TopicID=3925709 Malorn Gets Rescued]

[http://com5.runboard.com/batlanticguildforums.f5.t11455 Cabal Investigates Moonglow]

[http://com5.runboard.com/batlanticguildforums.f5.t11468 The Threat Grows and the Cabal Responds]

[http://com5.runboard.com/batlanticguildforums.f5.t11477 The Cabal Bring Judgment to the Virtues]

[http://www.atlanticcommunityboard.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15009= The Cabal Claims Their Daemon]

[http://www.atlanticcommunityboard.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15130 The Cabal Lays Justice on the Isle of Honesty]

[http://www.atlanticcommunityboard.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15324 Friends Moving Beds][Latest!!!]

Azalin

2007-12-01T04:07:41Z

Isk: New page: A page from the Tome: The Birth of an Old Evil As it is written in the diary of Nahman the Mad, a scholar long dead, this is the day a dreaded evil came to our land. In the guise of a lit...

A page from the Tome: The Birth of an Old Evil

As it is written in the diary of Nahman the Mad, a scholar long dead, this is the day a dreaded evil came to our land. In the guise of a little child, this one grew... and as time ravaged the weak fleshlings, he grew in power. He is called by many names, whispered about in bedtime stories but he is all too real. Only a few outside of his Order have looked upon his face and survived unscathed. I have been to the monster's inner sanctum and the darkness I found there still lingers in my soul... Fear him, for his power is unbound and his bony hands reap more and more souls. He is the horror among horrors... nameless to many, but you call him... Azalin, the Lich Lord.

the history of Azalin before he came to Sosaria is lost deep in the Mists of Antiquity. All that is known concerning his ancient past is that he came from a realm of utter evil from which he ruled with several other Dark Lords. Some speculate that this was a tainted shard that was lost to the Guardian, while others whisper that it was another place altogether, a separate plane of existence. Regardless, centuries ago, walking out from the Mists; Azalin found himself in Britannia. A place of light and beauty, a place ripe for the taking. He had seen such places before and knew that there were always seeds of darkness waiting to be harvested. And this place had been sown with many such seeds...

Upon arriving this plane, the Lichlord found himself extremely weakened. There was still incredible power within his ancient bones but it paled in comparison to his former might. The ability to walk among mortals was still within his means and this he did. Azalin found himself in Moonglow, the City of Mages. By joining this magical community, Azalin was able to learn about the realm of Britannia and its inhabitants.

Within the echoing halls of the Lycaeum, the Lichlord found evidence that proved the existence of Necromancy. From where he had come from, Necromancy was rife throughout the land. Here it had a very secretive following. He read the tale of the incestuous siblings, Lathiari and Kyrnia who had been the first to discover the Dark Art. Being banished for their sins, the two necromancers fled humanity and experimented in earnest. At one point they had achieved the exalted state of Lichdom, just as Azalin had.

these two had also spoke of powerful artifacts known as Shrine Stones. According the undead pair, one of these stones existed on an island of ice. Azalin had read about such a place in his studies, a place not far at all from Moonglow. Visiting the local graveyard, the Lichlord found several of the lesser undead wandering aimlessly. Forcing a sense of direction in their unlives, Azalin led them to the coast. There they found a lone boat with a few drunken, singing men. There were some who were not even aware that they had died until they felt their corpse move against their own violation. As Azalin's entourage grew he made way to Ice Island.

Once setting foot on the wretched landscape, Azalin knew that he had found his new home. There wasn't a sign of greenery anywhere on the island. Wolves howled in the distance and the numbing cold almost matched the void that was his heart. For many a day and night the Lichlord and this minions scourged the land, searching for the Shrine Stone mentioned in the journals of Kyrnia and Lathiari. In a local dungeon known as Deceit, powerful undead roamed. There Azalin made a few allies but they did not reveal the location of the stone, and so he searched anew.

Finally, after some time on the northern tip of the island, the small undead army found an ankh. The ankh continually bled a crimson stream that formed into a bloody pool set in the middle of a mound of bones. Extremely charmed by the local, Azalin searched the area for the stone and found a marble pedestal surrounded by hanging skeletons. Upon the pedestal rested a skull, black as pitch, darker than midnight this grinning artifact greedily asorbed the very light that fell upon it.

Approaching the ebon skull, Azalin felt an incredible aura of power emanating from it and actually felt humbled a bit by its raw strength. The skull spoke to Azalin, telling him many a dark thing. This Ebon Skull was a focal point of the powers of Entropy in the realm of Britannia. Its purpose was to oppose both Order and Chaos, its purpose was to devour their champions and send them screaming into the maw of Oblivion. The Skull told him of others who followed it and served the cause of Entropy. Lathiari, Kyrnia, Zog and the Black Lich were but a few who had answered its call.

The Artifact requested a service from Azalin, in return for the restoration of his former power. The Lichlord, forever seeking more power, agreed to this service. He was to gather more of his kind under him, to serve the powers of Oblivion, to unleash the power of Necromancy upon the innocents and to slay the very land itself. Using his restored power, Azalin called forth the earth itself and the bones of the unliving to form into a spiraling tower. This he dubbed Golgotha, the Tower of Skulls. Here would reside the new found Order of the Ebon Skull. An order of Necromancers and Undead alike who heard the calling of decay, who longed for the world to be a darker place.

Moments later the very first to answer his call came shuffling from the dungeon Deceit. Skeletal knights, zombies, ghouls and ghosts made way to the beacon of darkness that was Golgotha. the Order of the Ebon Skull had been born and the world quaked and knew real terror.

The Scholomance History

2007-12-01T04:06:39Z

Isk: New page: This is a crystal transcript of a speech given on the opening day of the Scholomance Greetings magi, scholars, kindred, dead, undead and all who wish to learn, welcome to the grand openin...

This is a crystal transcript of a speech given on the opening day of the Scholomance

Greetings magi, scholars, kindred, dead, undead and all who wish to learn, welcome to the grand opening of the Scholomance, Academy of Dark Arts. This academy has been an ongoing project for over 30 Sosarian years. And thanks to the immortal will of the Lich Lord Azalin and the work of countless slaves the Scholomance is now open to teach the dark arts in our realm.

Tonight you will hear a little history of the Scholomance, you will hear why this school is important and how it can help you. And to finish the evening, we will conduct a small ritual to seek the continued dark blessing upon this establishment.

In the time before the defeat of Mondain, possibly in a time before Zog had cast the Armageddon spell, the frozen wasteland that you see outside was the Stygian Empire.

It is believed by some that during the height of the empire, dungeon Deceit extended across the whole island and was a place of dark arts where all the evil of the land congregated much like the modern day Caina. There is some debate as to whether the Ebon Skull ruled from somewhere in Deceit or whether Golgotha was always it's purposed seat of power, but the important fact remains that everything from the Well of Souls on the northern tip of Dagger Island to the southern tip where Wintermoor now stands was once the Stygian Empire.

Even in those distant days, this building stood as a dark beacon to those who wished to learn the dark arts. The Scholomance was the center of Necromantic power in Stygia. Used for centuries for research and experimentation, the Scholomance has much dark history behind it that those of us in the archeological circles are excited about.

Not all scholars agree as to why Stygia fell but most agree it was some sort of curse upon the followers of Oblivion by Oblivion itself for their own arrogance towards their master. Hopefully, thanks to the lives of many slaves, Caina will uncover more about those last days of Stygia to avoid it's fate.

For upon the curse or soon after, most of the buildings that once existed on Dagger Island were either destroyed or buried in a mixture of rock and ice, to be rediscovered only in our time.

The Scholomance, the building you see around you today is one of those buildings that survived for millennia under ice and snow. About 40 Sosarian years ago, our slaves dug up what turned out to be the necromancers tower and excavation of the entire building finished a few years latter. Very quickly it became clear that because of the ancient dark blessings upon this structure of blood and stone that it would ideally serve as a central point for spreading dark teachings in Sosaria once again.

The first Head Dean, Morthond, discovered the principle of the Spheres of Knowledge, a mystical system of learning to help students learn more quickly then the norm.

But apparently it was not Oblivion's will for the Scholomance to be used yet. Events and crisis seemed to cause the Scholomance to be abandoned, until recently.

A few years ago, this building called to me to be used for it's purpose. And upon seeking the permission of the Lich Lord, the work of Morthond and those before him was handed to me. A call was sent out and those you see before you tonight and others answered.

More are and shall be added with time all with the glorious purpose of teaching the Dark Arts in our land.

Now some of you maybe wondering why the Scholomance should be important to us. Or some of you maybe concerned that teaching the Dark Arts to the public will endanger our dark causes. And some of you are maybe wondering what this ancient building has to do with them. These and other questions will now be answered.

Though true that most of the Shadow Conclave guilds have grown in the past centuries, the sad fact remains that even in Felucca, the "dark facet" we are greatly outnumbered by the forces of light. Each guild in the Shadow Conclave has dealt with this problem in their own way. But now, there is a tool at your disposal to increase the spread of your dark ways.

First, the Scholomance shall provide an appropriate base to teach your newer members the ways of darkness. Time that many masters now waste teaching their initiates how to conjure a fireball can now be used for deeper and darker research.

Secondly, the Scholomance will focus on training up the young ones of our land presenting to them early in their lives the different paths of darkness in our land. For we all know that many do not choose a path of darkness simply out of ignorance of simple truths. It is our hope that upon graduation, most students choose to continue along a path of darkness in one of the Shadow Conclave guilds.

And finally the Scholomance shall give a common rallying point for all members of the Shadow Conclave, encouraging communication between the various guilds and increasing our strength in numbers ten fold.

Now some of you are concerned that spreading these dark teachings will increase the power of our enemies. But the fact remains that one cannot pursue the ways of virtue while using the ways of darkness. By spreading the dark ways in our land, we shall increase the spread of Oblivion's will like a dark cancer upon the land.

The Scholomance will help us grow stronger. The Scholomance will help us spread our influence. And the Scholomance will help all serve our dark masters more fully.

Walk in Darkness,

Speech given at the Scholomance opening in the 337th year after the defeat of Mondain by Lady Jadis Sruentus, Second Head Dean of the Scholomance (or April 28th, 2002)

Constitution of the Regency

2007-12-01T04:03:32Z

Isk: New page: Preamble In the name of the Virtues, from which comes our inspiration and our conviction, as the guide for our humanity and the path of the Lightbringer, concepts that direct all actions ...

Preamble

In the name of the Virtues, from which comes our inspiration and our conviction, as the guide for our humanity and the path of the Lightbringer, concepts that direct all actions both of woman, of man and of States, We, the people of Britania, Humbly acknowledging all our obligations to our Liege Lord, Lord British, seeking to promote the common good, with due observance of Courage, Truth and Love, so that the dignity and freedom of the individual may be assured, true social order attained, the unity of our lands restored, and concord established with other nations, Do hereby adopt, enact, and give to ourselves this Constitution.

Article 1.

The Government of Britannia hereby affirms its inalienable, indefeasible, and sovereign right to choose its own form of Government, to determine its relations with other nations, and to develop its life, political, economic and cultural, in accordance with its own genius and traditions.

Article 2.

It is the entitlement and birthright of every person born in this realm, which includes its islands and seas, to be part of the Britannian nation. That is also the entitlement of all persons otherwise qualified in accordance with law to be citizens of Britain. Furthermore, the Britain nation cherishes its special affinity with people of all walks of life, and celebrates the diversity of our realm as a resource for those loyal to the King and his Regent.

Article 3.

It is the firm will of the Britannian Government, in harmony and friendship, to unite all the people who share the territories of Sosaria, in all the diversity of their identities and traditions, recognizing that a united Britain shall be brought about only by peaceful means with the consent of the majority of the people, in all jurisdictions. Laws enacted by the Parliament established by this Constitution and ratified by the Regent shall have the like area and extent of application as the laws enacted by governmental institutions that existed immediately before the coming into operation of this Constitution.

Institutions with executive powers and functions that are shared between those jurisdictions may be established by their respective responsible authorities for stated purposes and may exercise powers and functions in respect of all or any part of the realm.

Article 4.

The name of the realm shall be referred known and referred to as Britannia on the world of Sosaria.

Article 5.

Britannian citizens pledge their fealty to the King of Britannia, Lord British, and his Regent and representatives.

Article 6.

All powers of government, legislative, executive and judicial, derive, from the King of Britannia, Lord British, and his Regents and representatives whose right it is to designate the rulers of the State and, in final appeal, to decide all questions of national policy, according to the requirements of the common good.

These powers of government are exercisable only by or on the authority of the organs of State established by this Constitution.

Article 7.

On the coming into operation of this Constitution any person who was a citizen of Britannia, immediately before the coming into operation of this Constitution, shall be recognized as a citizen of Britania.

The future acquisition and loss of Britannian nationality and citizenship shall be determined in accordance with law. No person may be excluded from Britannian nationality and citizenship by reason of the sex of such person.

Fidelity to the nation and loyalty to the King are fundamental political duties of all citizens.

Article 8.

Provision will be made for the management and naming of the property which belongs to the nation by virtue of this Article and for the control of the alienation, whether temporary or permanent, of that property.

Provision may also be made by law for the management of land, mines, minerals and waters acquired by the State after the coming into operation of this Constitution and for the control of the alienation, whether temporary or permanent, of the land, mines, minerals and waters so acquired.

Article 9.

All revenues of the State from whatever source arising shall, subject to such exception as may be provided by law, form one fund, and shall be appropriated for the purposes and in the manner and subject to the charges and liabilities determined and imposed by law.

Article 10.

There shall be a Regent of Britania, hereinafter called the Regent, who shall take precedence over all other persons in the State and who shall exercise and perform the powers and functions conferred on by our King, Lord British.

The regent shall be appointed by our King Lord British, and recognized by members of the House Grand Parliament.

The Regent shall hold office until death, unless before that period they resign, or are removed from office, or becomes permanently incapacitated, such incapacity being established to the satisfaction of the Grand Parliament.

The Regent shall enter upon his office by taking and subscribing publicly, in the presence of members of the Parliament, and other public personages, the following declaration:

"In the presence of these individuals, I do solemnly and sincerely promise and declare that I will maintain the Constitution of Britannia and uphold its laws, that I will fulfill my duties faithfully and conscientiously in accordance with the Constitution and the law, and that I will dedicate my abilities to the service and welfare of the people of Britania. May Virtue direct and sustain me."

Article 11.

The Regent shall appoint the Chancellor and the Chamberlain, and in concert, shall appoint and recognize all vassals who hold directly from the Crown.

The Regent is granted the power to accept or refuse, in their absolute discretion, the appointments any member of the Government of Britannia.

The Regent shall promulgate every law made by the House of the Grand Council.

The supreme command of the Defense Forces is hereby vested in the Regent.

The exercise of the supreme command of the Defense Forces shall be vested in the Lord Chancellor and his appointed Military Commanders.

All commissioned officers of the Defense Forces shall hold their commissions from the Regent.

The right of pardon and the power to commute or remit punishment imposed by any court exercising criminal jurisdiction are hereby vested in the Regent, but such power of commutation or remission may, except in capital cases, also be conferred by law on other authorities.

The Regent may communicate with the Grand Parliament by message or address on any matter of national or public importance. The Regent may address a message to the Nation at any time on any such matter.

The Regent shall not be answerable to the Grand Parliament or to any court for the exercise and performance of the powers and functions of his office or for any act done or purporting to be done by him in the exercise and performance of these powers and functions.

The behaviour of the Regent may, however, be brought under review for the purposes of this Constitution, or by any court, tribunal or body appointed or designated by the Grand Parliament for the investigation of a charge.

The powers and functions conferred on the Regent by this Constitution shall be exercisable and performable by him only on the advice of the Government, save where it is provided by this Constitution that he shall act in his absolute discretion or after consultation with or in relation to the Council of State, or on the advice or nomination of, or on receipt of any other communication from, any other person or body.

Subject to this Constitution, additional powers and functions may be conferred on the Regent by law.

Article 12.

In the event of the absence of the Regent, or his temporary incapacity, or his permanent incapacity established as provided or in the event of his death, resignation, removal from office, or failure to exercise and perform the powers and functions of his office or any of them, or at any time at which the office of Regent may be vacant, the powers and functions conferred on the Regent by or under this Constitution shall be exercised and performed by a Commission.

The Commission shall consist of the following persons, namely, the Lord/Lady Chancellor, the Lord/Lady Chamberlain and the Chairperson of the Grand Parliament. The Commission may act by any two of their number and may act notwithstanding a vacancy in their membership.

In the event of the failure of the Regent to exercise or perform any power or function which the Regent is by or under this Constitution required to exercise or perform within a specified time, the said power or function shall be exercised or performed under this Article, as soon as may be after the expiration of the time so specified.

Article 13

Grand Parliament and Powers

The National Parliament shall be called and known, and is in this Constitution generally referred to, as the Grand Parliament.

The Grand Parliament shall consist of the Chairperson and Deputy Chairperson, and Representatives from Entities that have sworn fealty to Britannia and our Liege.

The House of the Grand Parliament shall sit in or near the City of Britain or in such other place as they may from time to time determine.

The sole and exclusive power of making laws for the Realm is hereby vested in the Grand Parliament:

Provision may however be made by law for the creation or recognition of subordinate legislatures and for the powers and functions of these legislatures.

The Grand Parliament may provide for the establishment or recognition of functional or vocational councils representing branches of the social and economic life of the people.

A law establishing or recognizing any such council shall determine its rights, powers and duties, and its relation to the Grand Parliament and to the Government.

The Grand Parliament shall not enact any law which is in any respect repugnant to this Constitution or any provision thereof.

Every law enacted by the Grand Parliament which is in any respect repugnant to this Constitution or to any provision thereof, shall, but to the extent only of such repugnancy, be invalid by direct order of the Regent.

The Grand Parliament shall not declare acts to be infringements of the law which were not so at the date of their commission.

The Grand Parliament shall hold at least one session every year.

Sittings of the House of the Grand Parliament shall be public.

In cases of special emergency, however, the House may hold a private sitting.

The House of the Grand Parliament shall elect from its members its own Chairman and Deputy Chairman, and shall prescribe their powers and duties.

The House of the Grand Parliament shall make its own rules and standing orders, with power to attach penalties for their infringement, and shall have power to ensure freedom of debate, to protect its official documents and the private papers of its members, and to protect itself and its members against any person or persons interfering with, molesting or attempting to corrupt its members in the exercise of their duties.

All questions in each House shall, save as otherwise provided by this Constitution, be determined by a majority of the votes of the members present.

The number of members necessary to constitute a meeting of the House of the Grand Parliament for the exercise of its powers shall be no less than half of the total active membership.

All official reports and publications of the House of the Grand Parliament shall be shared in a public document, for all citizens to read and understand.

The members of the Grand Parliament shall, except in case of treason, felony or breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest in going to and returning from, and while within the precincts of, the House of the Grand Parliament, and shall not, in respect of any utterance in the House of the Grand Parliament , be amenable to any court or any authority other than the House itself.

No member of the Small Council may hold a position on the Grand Parliament, though they may, and are encouraged to, attend a sitting. However, in cases where the Grand Parliament has an even number of members and a deadlocked vote has occurred, the Lord/Lady Chamberlain will be expected to sit in on the meetings and, if necessary, cast a deciding vote.

If any person who is already a member the House of the grand Parliament becomes a member of the Small Council, he shall forthwith be deemed to have vacated his first seat.

Every Bill initiated in and passed by the Grand Parliament shall be a matter of public record, and implemented after ratification by the Regent.