Period: The Longest Night

The Longest Night

Period, Tone: Dark

Brief Description:
This period is the onset, duration, and aftermath of a 99-year-long solar eclipse. Nights were impossibly dark, the brightest days were no more than twilight. Farming was only possible through magic. The Safe Highways were civilization's torchlit veins, few and far between. Mankind learned to fear the dark.

Overview & Notes:
This period is a time when lots of astrological and light-oriented magic items were created. It also explains why Sanctuary is able to support as many people as it does on fairly limited farmland -- the magic and technologies that were developed during the Longest Night are still used to increase crop yields to this day. Perhaps they've been refined over the years. Or maybe they're not understood at all, and are kept running with voodoo and paperclips. It is a period of superstition and occultism, with people turning to dark powers and odd customs to keep themselves alive. Aberrations and demons are the monsters of the day. Blood sacrifice becomes unsettlingly common. Holy orders become perhaps too zealous in their inquisitions. It's a bummer of a period.

Events During this Period (in chronological order):
 * The Founding of the Aegis Council
 * The Darkness Hungers
 * Dirt-Cult Fortune Stolen
 * The Light of the Moon
 * White-Glove Paladin Appointed to the Aegis Council
 * The Founding of the House of Ushers
 * House of Ushers Labeled as a Cult
 * The Forest Awakens
 * Island of Trees
 * The Sunrise Coup