The Great Descent

On 29 September 2020, a terrible scream filled the ancient tunnels below Tvear. Assurdirapal, the oldest of Abyss Mystics, was meditating in his secret sanctum, when dreadful vision appeared in front of his eyes. Behind the Veil, he saw Kuba_Kubek, the Adel of Hju Ottyar, who was falling from the top of horrific fortress into the flaming lake of molten rock. Wasting no time, Assurdirapal used his obscure arts to save him, however chaotic nature of the Nether warped the spell and trapped Kuba_Kubek between the realms.

Realizing his mistake, Abyss Mystic went to the deepest chamber, where among the bones of antediluvian creatures, rested strange monolith of pure obsidian. Words of power filled the still air of the cave, and soon an eerie passage opened. Assurdirapal stepped through the purple flames and found himself in the blackened wastes of the underworld. In this realm Barghash has his dominion, it is the world of ever-changing isles of flames, overgrown spores of corruption and lifeless fields of lost souls. On his way the Mystic encountered many strange creatures, some too terrible to mention their names. He fought bestial abominations, beings of pure greed and even living flames swirling above the fiery oceans like burning moths. Finally, after much struggle, Assurdirapal reached the blood-red halls and cyclopean pillars rising from the magma like fangs of some monstrous god. He began singing the arctic hymns of his frigid homeland, and unnatural cold started solidifying molten rock before him. Then he reached through the Abyss and brought back Kuba_Kubek from the timeless realms of beyond. However, none of them expected that such alien magic may catch attention of fortress’ dwellers. One by one, black skeletons of some titanic monsters of yore, began crawling in their direction. The gods must have really watched over them in that hour, because the undead were stopped, and from their charred corpses Abyss Mystic extracted priceless skulls, vessels of great and forbidden power.

Later, thanks to Kuba_Kubek’s courage and new insights about the nature of infernal realm, the Adels left hell and again beheld the stars.