Discover the five lost souls: the Scarlet Beetle, the Kopfloser Reiter, the Lich, the Dark Cleric, and the Nagetier, the horror of their final rite, and don their image.

In Temuair...
Baltasar said, "The library was especially cold. A dusty volume had just arrived. A volume excavated from House Macabre by an Aisling explorer, Bentic. It related the history of five previous occupants, the Scarlet Beetle, the Kopfloser Reiter, the Lich, the Dark Cleric, and the Nagetier.

One adventurer read in this tome of the ritual they had performed. It was a gruesome ritual. Yet, more gruesome when he realized some two hundred years passed between the account of a man's life and the account of the ritual.

He understood the ritual could be repeated. With a sick sense of dread, yet an interminable curiosity he sought out companions that would be necessary to complete the ritual: A monk, a wizard, a priest, a rogue, and himself, a warrior. Not any, but worldly-wise adventurers of at least three score insights.

When he found the other four, he made them swear to secrecy. Then he told them of the tale and the ritual. He pointed out the passages in the tome. He asked for their agreement to a pact. They made a pact of five, one of each of the Aisling classes."

Hauk piped, "What happened next?"

After a sly pause, Baltasar said, "Only those five Aislings know for sure."

((2000/10/27. Dark Ages: Your legend begins here. Read introduction carefully for participation requirements and starting point.))