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Selcius the Astronomer stood next to his telescope Looking like some prophet of Doom dispensing his tales of Rifts.

We First became aware of him Via John the Mage a guard of the Duchy who on advice from decardo of the shadow court was doing his best to hunt down the rifts the one decardo had found was in the far north of sosoria on the ice island, in the land of felluca.
John took myself Baroness Morraine and Kaelyn a guard of trinsic to see this rift and to give advice on it.
It looked like a very poor attemp at a spell gone wrong. I was allmost laughing at John thinking how hes been fooled into thinking this was some kind of great event underway. we left this spot and tavel to moonglow to see
Selcius as soon as we mention the words Rift he was off and running

" Ahh you've seen it? The new rifts? It is exciting and terrifying at the same time "

Exciting How so !
"These rifts have to Happen from time to time in the past. Most scolars do not know this"

Scholars do not know what? i ask him
"Yes, i beleave and can prove thought my research, that these rifts are cyclical"

Cyclical what do you mean!

"Similar to a comets orbit of a sun, yet.. thats not entirely an accurate description"

We all ask him how we can help

" Excellent ! We will be LOcating and Cataloging these Newly formed rifts"

Cataloging them how we ask

" You will need a sextant. I'll need you to stand on the rifts, and get its coordinates."

Seem simple enoght to me. I ask him what made the rifts so terrifing to him.

" truly terrifying. you have no idea what could be on the other side of the rifts."


At this point Morraine had hear enoght and ask us to help Selcius as much as we can.

So with John we Have undertaken the task of Tracking down the rifts.

Me having been ! well how do i put this not seen eye to eye with the way the duchy guards have been acting of late I have taken a long leave of absents from my guard dutys So i have taken it apond myself to do the wandering about to look for rifts.

It's not an easy task as first of i was thinking the rifts were crater holes so i began searching for Holes. this turn out to be a fools task as a trip to the lost land found me stareing at another field like the one john show me in Felluca.
And on touching it a robed figure did appear out of no were? i had found my first rift.
So collecting John we went back to Felluca to look once again at the first rift again the Robed Figure. So now we know what the rifts are.

But how many are we looking for and were are the others!

Well today i can report that from a conversation in a tavern i found a 3rd Rift again in felluca and allso from that conversation seems to be 8 rifts!

8 rifts for 8 virtues or 8 rifts for 8 levels of magic or 8 rifts for 8 major citys and towns.

I dont know but 8 does seem a very powerfull number.

But i do know this we must find the other or Selcius warning of terror from the other side might be more then a warning.