Winter Runes

Nulak, bent on his task, failed to heed the Priestess Nectanebo's warning. Instead, he called upon his dark sorceries to weave his great spell. The Incantations of the Paths of Umbra spilled from his mouth and hands until they lay like thick dew upon the floors of the Emperor's room. The pooled and congealed, spreading from room to room until the halls and rooms were mired in their eldritch and foul stink. Nulak bent his powers to summon a great horror from the Void. Sebastian Oliver, last of the House of Aenoch, used his own sorcery learned from the Wizard Aristobulus, to aid Nulak. And even Nectanebo lent her considerable weight to the spell’s undertaking. The Paths of Umbra,
the Winter Runes, a spell of Ondluche the Goblin’s of old, split the Wall of the World, opening a gate to the beyond. It opened the world to the horrors of the Great Empty, the Void.

And Unklar, the horned god, wrapped in shrouds of the substance of creation, stepped into the world of Erde. Thus began the ending of the Age of Man for many long years.