626 BC

Events

• August or September (The Great Kingdom) Sir Kendall dies, leaving room for Alexi Shadowborn to fill his slot in the Paladins of the Circle.
• September Vandals begin defiling the tombs and graves in the city of Brimstadt.
• October The desecration of graves in Brimstadt warrant the intervention of Alexi Shadowborn. He investigates and ambushes the desecraters. He discovers the desecraters are to be ghouls marked with a death's head emblem, (unknown to Alexi at the time) the symbol of Ebonbane. Alexi narrowly survives the encounter.
• The Darkening shows Belenus's disfavor of Alexi Shadowborn joining the Circle, causing him to fail his Rite of Ascension. On the way home, he meets Lysander Greylocks for the first time.
• In the company of Ferran Shadowborn (then Alexi's squire), Dasmaria Eveningstar, and Lysander, Alexi Shadowborn leaves the Great Kingdom for the Southern Empire, hoping to root out the killer of his mother, Kateri Shadowborn. Instead, Alexi and his friends are brought into the Phantasmal Forest. They encounter and destroy two of the Dark Triad, though at the cost of Dasmaria's life, before entering Shadowborn Manor. Lysander's existence is ended. Kateri's spirit can no longer contain Ebonbane, and the sword that held him is shattered in combat with Alexi. Although Ebonbane is briefly freed, Alexi absorbs the fiend into his body, serving as Ebonband's new prison.
• Now bound to Shadowborn Manor, Alexi sends Ferran, along with their mounts, back to Shadowfast. Ferran arrives back home safely. In the years to follow, Ferran will join the Circle and become an influential hero in his own right. Meanwhile, Alexi remains within the Demiplane of Dread with the intention of starting a new incarnation of the Circle, which will eventually become the Knights of the Shadows.
• The first gathering of the Scions of Irul.