Persevera

Intro Over 400 years ago, the Truce at the Gates of Dawn has brought peace to the world of mortals - peace, at least, from hordes of demons and angels devastating battlefields the size of kingdoms, eventually drawing in all the lesser races, ever closer to extinction. Not that dwarves, elves, men, or orcs wouldn't know how to wage war on their own, after a millennium of bloodshed in the name of devils and gods. Nay - for in a world where all truly good and truly bad has receded into the shadows of doubt, all good that mortals find lies in themselves, and all evil with others. Cynical and embittered, kings and villains turn to foreign faiths, looking for the stability and purpose the Church of the Silver Flame, once sundered into competing schools of thought, no longer offered, while warlocks and conjurers, bereft of the retreating Mana, seek *alternative* means to gain the powers they crave. Small wonder then, that artifacts from the Eternal War, still imbued with the pure powers of Light or Dark, have become the most valuable treasures in the world. You are a relic-hunter, and after a year-long search, you and your penniless friar companion found a forgotten fortress of Light, ruined over 1000 years ago during the campaign of Invidia against Operatio. If Operatio was, as legend has it, slain here, you may find great conduits of the divine - perhaps even his Chalice of Happiness itself! Its broken towers still rise from the frost-covered ravine at a bizarre angles, as if they had got stuck to prevent the ground from swallowing the fortress whole, instead of half. Scanning the mounds of rubble for some sort of entrance, your friar friend walks up beside you...