Lundar's Library

Day 98, Year 548

Portentous Portals

At around 3:30pm today, exiles with Ethereal Amulets sensed a
disturbance in the third sphere of the Ethereal Plane. Shortly
thereafter, Puddleby was rocked by an Ethereal phenomena later
described as an “Ethereal Storm” by the mystic Drablak, one of
Puddleby’s top ether experts.

The onset of the “Storm” was marked by the openning of an
Ethereal Portal on the western beaches, and gradually more and more
portals began openning, slowly making their way eastwards, towards
Puddleby. As the Storm progressed east, it spawned dozens of Ethereal
denizens both on the beach and on the ocean.

Battling the Ether Creatures

As we battled against wave after wave of Ethereal creatures, the
Storm was apparently deflected by the town’s walls, and began pooling
in the northern most portion of the wall, where the wall meet the
mountains.

The Ether builds up

More and more portals began to accumulate in the corner of the wall,
and we gathered around the portals to ponder at the strange phenomena.
Several expeditions were made into the portals, but unfortunately they
were all failures, resulting in a massive number of departs from the
Ethereal Plane.

The portals themselves seemed harmless enough, except for their
unfortunate tendancy to pop up right in front of unsuspecting exiles.
However, when we least expected it, the collection of Ethereal Portals
released a massive expultion of ether that left all of us that were
even remotely near the portal fallen.

The after effects of the expultion

Afterwards, the Storm seemed to dissipate, and the Ethereal Portals
gradually disapeared, leaving only a long trail of ashes from the beach
to the western wall. I’ve created a sketch which shows the path that the Ethereal portals took.

It seems that the reprecussions of Tenebrion’s experiments with the 3rd
sphere of the Ethereal Plane are only getting worse. We really must
mount another expedition to the Ethereal Plane with our top ether
experts, and figure out what is going on in EP, once and for all.