Introduction (Session 1)

Welcome, all, to the town Sevan's Folly. A bustling locale, though not as harried as the major ports and cities of the continent, the town is alive during day, but settles down for the most part at night. For the most part the city itself is humdrum, with a few notable exceptions:

First, and most pertinent to you, the venerable Cognitus University. Comprised of eight schools, one for each school of magic, the university is where some of the best and brightest magical minds come to get trained, at least on this continent.

Second is the Rockdriller Company's electrum mine, founded by Sevan Rockdriller, the town's namesake. Located on the north eastern edge of town, here a veritable beehive of laborers work to unearth the electrum that keeps the town's economy running.

Third is the Roughneck Quarter, not so much a landmark as it is a section of the south east of town where the miners drown away their nights in a cornucopia of taverns. Beware however as the criminal underground has taken residence, preying off the miners' income and anyone else that may be an easy mark.

Here, each of you has found yourselves hired by the famous Captain Emanuel Ironsides to comprise the Circle Guard at Cognitus University. Making your way to your new point of employment, you've learned something they definitely didn't tell you during recruitment: 5 years ago a great tragedy occurred at the university, something the town's people call the Hollow Night. The tales say the morning after that fateful night, the town's folk woke up to find that all people within a quarter mile of the center of the university campus had simply put disappeared. Of course, this included every student at professor at the University, but also a fair few town's people. The town for it's part decided the income and prestige of the University was too valuable to give up, so they spent the intervening years recruiting new staff to reopen the school, which is why you have been hired on. The town however decided it best not to repopulate the area of town where the disappearances happened around the school, and as such empty buildings stand, waiting to succumb to the ravages of time.

Gnomes: Herath and Borath Slendfast