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While Dolina was still recovering from Realm War I, the Second Draconic Crusades began with the [[The Ten Heralds of Tiamat|re-emergence of dragons]]. From all across Amusa and beyond dragonborn and other types of dragonkin fled to Dolina for refuge and safety. The natural swamplands made it easy to disappear and made it difficult for crusaders to pursue. As refugees flooded into Dolina from the surrounding lands, Tiamat's influence over the land began to falter. In this moment of weakness a being only known by his title, "He Who Knocks" rose to purge her from the land. No one knows where this strange deity came from, but many believe it is of the land itself and was a direct response to Tiamat's poisoning of their lands. | While Dolina was still recovering from Realm War I, the Second Draconic Crusades began with the [[The Ten Heralds of Tiamat|re-emergence of dragons]]. From all across Amusa and beyond dragonborn and other types of dragonkin fled to Dolina for refuge and safety. The natural swamplands made it easy to disappear and made it difficult for crusaders to pursue. As refugees flooded into Dolina from the surrounding lands, Tiamat's influence over the land began to falter. In this moment of weakness a being only known by his title, "He Who Knocks" rose to purge her from the land. No one knows where this strange deity came from, but many believe it is of the land itself and was a direct response to Tiamat's poisoning of their lands. | ||
Stories say this being would travel door to door and knock on the doors of worshipers of Tiamat. This knock would invoke three curses, | Stories say this being would travel door to door and knock on the doors of worshipers of Tiamat. This knock would invoke three curses, which would be preceded with a knock on the family's door. First was ''Curse of Reclamation''. In the following days, all of the family's property would rot and decay, returning to the land. The Second was the ''Curse of Hunger''. In the following weeks the family would be beset by and endless hunger never to be sated no matter how much they would eat or drink. Then their was the ''Curse of Retribution'' which would fall on the seventh second of the seventh minute of the seventh hour of the seventh day of the seventh week after the first knock. First, the patriarch of the family would combust into flames that could not be dossed by any means. Then, the matriarch would be beset by the birds and beasts of the land, to be torn apart until their was not but bones. All of the sons would jump into the water and drown themselves while all of the daughters would run into the forest where their skin would turn to bark, their feet to roots, and their fingers to leaves. | ||
The following weeks and months in Dolina were stained with death and suffering, but also came with the hope for a better future. A druidic cult called the Grove of Voiceless Whispers formed to worship this being who after its purge faded back into the swamplands, only ever appearing again to their cult or when the land of Dolina was again at threat of destruction. | The following weeks and months in Dolina were stained with death and suffering, but also came with the hope for a better future. A druidic cult called the Grove of Voiceless Whispers formed to worship this being who after its purge faded back into the swamplands, only ever appearing again to their cult or when the land of Dolina was again at threat of destruction. | ||
