Children of the Restless Earth: Poisoned Pages for Shadow of the Demon Lord

Creating the universe drove the genies mad. From the vaulted heights as makers of all things they fell, becoming less than their creations, slaves to those with the knowledge and power to compel them. Their collapse left their children to fend for themselves. The salamanders retreated to the volcanic Firepeaks, the undines fled to the depths of the Auroral Ocean, and the sylphs took to their palaces in the sky. The gnomes buried themselves under the mountains and remained in the caves and grottos for thousands of years.

The spread of the Demon Lord’s shadow has triggered calamities and catastrophes that have upset the natural order of things, such that havens have become tombs, cities are awash with blood, and monsters run loose in the countryside. No longer can people huddle in the dark; the time for hiding has come to an end, for the Demon Lord will devour all as it destroys the world. So, as the salamanders have begun to descend from their fiery peaks, so have the gnomes been dislodged from their cavernous homes to emerge blinking into the world they abandoned long ago.

This entry in the Poisoned Pages series, Children of the Restless Earth, reveals second of the elemental ancestries–gnomes– for play in Shadow of the Demon Lord.

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