WHAT CASSIUS KNOWS:

Refuge :: Helovia Threshold

• Meets Tilney Moon Doctor of the World's Edge, Kiada filly of the World's Edge and her companion Khairi, Merlin an outcast intending to go to the Dragon's Throat, and Tiamat of the Aurora Basin with her companion Nimue
  
• Learns of the WORLD'S EDGE
  • west of the realm, magnificent forests and lakes, towering sea cliffs. Luna’s Butterflies – ‘You have not seen true beauty until you have visited the World’s Edge!’ - Tilney
    
• Learns of the AURORA BASIN
  • located in the north, tucked away in a beautiful valley. Every clear night there are northern lights, cold temperatures, mountains
    

Breathing in Snowflakes :: Aurora Basin - Cassius is led to his new home

• Meets Eldala Aurora Basin Weaver and her companion Capro the goat
  
• Sentinels :: used to protect the borders – those not of the Basin or accompanied, would be stopped – no one left with magic to care for them, thus they have deteriorated; they mark the entrance, honor a piece of Basin history
  

Restoration of Fortune :: Aurora Basin – Hotaru the Valkyrie hosts a meeting with Diemos the Reaper

• Hotaru ::
  • points out the herd’s complacency, ‘I ask you, IS THIS WHAT YOU EXPECT FROM YOUR HERD?’ // ‘This herd is family. We fight, we bleed, we rally againt one another like squabbling foals because that is what families do. But families do not quit. I am not giving up on you. We are not giving up.’
    
  • in need of a General and Corporal
    
  • mention of a god that has arrived from the deep southern lands, by the name Kisamoa
    
  • mentions of solidifying herd alliances: World’s Edge
    
  • mentions of Eldala using fibrous leather for armor
    
  • Ends with: ‘but we will burn slow and steady, and when spring comes again, may the Aurora Basin become a fire once more.’ – Hotaru
    
• Deimos ::
  • ‘How do you want to be remembered?’
    
• Frost Fyre the Aurora Basin Haruspeax ::
  • suggests to visit each herd, to ask their wise ones what they know of Kisamoa and request their knowledge on the great threats of the past – gathering info on how to handle gods
    
• Major Changes ::
  • Erebos is elevated to Aurora Basin General
    
  • in need of soldiers
    
  • Albrecht to rank of Impersonator
    
  • At Frost Fyre’s suggestions: on neutral terms with the other lands for a polite conversation at the borders – promotes Cassius to Disciple
    
• Deimos ::
  • - 'The Basin will become what you wish to make of it.’
    

Earth and Ice :: Hidden Falls; before it was disbanded, Frostfall Yr.8

• Frost Fyre ::
  • The Fall’s the Earth God’s patron land; leadership has been tumultuous lately – leaders known as the Mountain that Knows and the GoldenShade
    
  • Border patrols are common in the herdlands
    
  • Gods of Helovia :: God of the Earth, Sun, Moon and Spark (the Aurora Basin patron god)
    
  • Each god symbolizes one of the herds, rules over their elements – only four gods known to existence
    
  • The problem of KISAMOA
    
  • Meets Syrena the Hidden Fall’s Storyteller (wise one), who agrees to take them further in to talk
    

SWP :: And So It Begins – Kisamoa has tasked the Helovians to clear the area of bones and bring them to him, as well as branches/trees and dead things

• Task ::
  • Collect as many bones as you can, pile them in an area
    
  • Claims that the Earth God knows of his existence, and that has a plan in store (that he’s helping the Earth God by doing this) – ‘There is a plan for these bones as well! Not a thing will go to waste!’
    
  • Claims he cannot do this on his own
    
  • Clear the trees that are dead and fallen, blocking out the sun, where the water is dammed, and where mold thrives – territories along the ‘deadlands’ :: Endless Blue, Ancient Rotunda, Veins of the Gods
    

[Meeting] Now is The Time :: Aurora Basin – the God of the Spark calls upon the Basin

• Claims that the Earth God has left to protect us from Kaos
  
• Threatens to disband the Basin due to inactivity
  
• Places it upon everyone’s shoulders to determine the Basin’s fate // mentions a HERD QUEST that was started years ago
  
• Sparky – ‘Do better, or you’ll all be homeless. I’m not like my brothers. I am not here to hold your hands and purr words of reassurance into your ears. This is the ‘goddamned Basin.’”
  
• Demotes Hotaru, Promotes Tiamat to Lead, along with Aisling
  
• INFO ON KAOS:
  • Kaos accuses of the GODS annexing his lands and killing the Gods that he is now composed of
    
  • Warns them of him – the RIFT GODS were oppressive dictators and their lands were dying // HELOVIAN GODS took them and killed those gods – so they thought
    
  • Admits they don’t know what he WANTS, Helovian Gods cannot sense or touch him there, warns to be watchful and wary
    
  • Find out anything you can // Main priority is keeping the Basin afloat