The Great History Race...THREE!

Uh-oh, the Lorekeeper fell asleep. Again! She's gone and missed (quickly checking notes) almost three whole years of Origin history! Well, that won't do - we need to help her update her books so that new Gembound know what's been going on since we all started Awakening! Will you help us out?

What she's looking for:
Please post with links to threads containing events that are crucial to Origin's history. These should be:

- Quest relevant threads
- Group relevant threads (formations, meetings, leadership changes, events)
- Deaths
- Important events affecting a large number of Gembound

She's only looking for events that occurred after September 2020.

When you post, please use the following form:

Thread Name & Link: link us to the thread!
Date: the date the thread was made
Month & Year: the month and year this thread occurred
Brief Summary: give us a brief summary of the thread's events!

Code:

<b>Thread Name & Link:</b>
<b>Date:</b>
<b>Month & Year:</b>
<b>Brief Summary:</b>

Of course, we'll definitely be offering rewards to the people that can bring us the most stories! The player that submits the most threads by the end of the race will receive ʡ500! The player that brings in the second and third most submissions will receive ʡ200 and ʡ100 magicka respectively. We will only be counting stories that will be added to the Site History portion of the Guidebook - make sure you're not including repeats and are only adding threads you think are a significant part of Origin History!

Thanks for the help and may the best storyteller win!

The deadline for this contest is April 21st.

Thread Name & Link: LISTEN TO ME
Date: Jan 07, 2021
Month & Year: January 2021
Brief Summary: The Master Farina summons the Blacksmith for an unknown task.

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Thread Name & Link: The Black City - Part I
Date: Jan 07, 2021
Month & Year: January 2021
Brief Summary: The Blacksmith calls for Gembound who can enchant and those who can use water magic to aid him in the creation of water-breathing trinkets.

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Thread Name & Link: The Black City - Part II
Date: Mar 12, 2021
Month & Year: March 2021
Brief Summary: The Blacksmith tasks the Gembound to dive deep into Fornax's waters to retrieve the stone of the Master Artio for Master Farina. He also explains some of the history behind Artio and Farina's relationship.

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Thread Name & Link: The Black City - Part III
Date: April 28, 2021
Month & Year: April 2021
Brief Summary: The Gembound dive deep into Fornax's waters to find the Black City. They fight and kill a kraken and successfully retrieve Artio's stone. Farina rewards those who helped with mutations based on aquatic Lessers.

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Thread Name & Link: Is It Lore or Is It Bullshit
Date: Dec 01, 2021
Month & Year: December 2021
Brief Summary: Master Nemean holds a totally normal gameshow where nothing bad happens. :) The Creator appears, afflicting those in attendance with large amounts of Chaos radiation.

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[deep breath]



Thread Name & Link: [RAID] [Winter in Polaris] FROM YOUR COLD GRASP
Date: Aug 23 2020
Month & Year: August 2020 (I don't see this one on the list, oddly? Maybe I missed it)
Brief Summary: Gembounds, assisted by Astraea, battle an Order-controlled stone golem and unseal the Northeastern and Northwestern Quadrants of the caves, including Pegasus, Draco and Ursa.

Thread Name & Link: The Beachcomber
Date: January 15th, 2022
Month & Year: January 2022
Brief Summary: The Blacksmith asks for aid finding the pieces of an old spear, and rewards the Metal Sense spell.

Thread Name & Link: [TCS] A New Leaf
Date:Jan 28 2022
Month & Year: January 2022
Brief Summary: Artio summons the Gembounds to help her free the Divine. Takes place in three parts. Part Two takes place here, and Part Three, here.

Thread Name & Link: [TCS] Dust of Dreams
Date: Jun 25 2022
Month & Year: June 2022
Brief Summary: After navigating an eerie dreamscape at a shrine in Canis, Gembounds awaken the NPC Teosar, and reveal the spell Dream Dust.

Thread Name & Link: [TCS] THE CREATOR'S TEST
Date: Aug 03 2022
Month & Year: August 2022
Brief Summary: The Chaos Forge fights a magic-leeching Black Serpent sent to them as a test, revealing the spell Leech.

Thread Name & Link: [Quest] Life Finds A Way
Date: Jun 14 2022
Month & Year: June 2022
Brief Summary: Gembounds uncover the secret path to Lacerta in Fornax, revealing a hidden volcanic island and its enormous inhabitants.

Thread Name & Link: [Event] Firing Up The Forge
Date: Jun 17 2022
Month & Year: June 2022
Brief Summary: The Blacksmith guides a number of Gembounds in learning how to forge and repair metal weapons, tools and armor.

Thread Name & Link: [EVENT] Reading Rainbow - First Lessons
Date: Nov 28 2021
Month & Year: November 2021
Brief Summary: Astraea guides the Gembounds in their first lesson in reading and writing.

Thread Name & Link: [Quest] Spun Silk
Date: Jan 24 2023
Month & Year: January 2023
Brief Summary: The Tailor, Mimosa (a new NPC) emerges from hibernation and requests aid in restocking their tailoring shop.

Thread Name & Link: [Quest] The Hole Pt. II
Date: April 06, 2022 (another one that seems to be missing?)
Month & Year: April 2022
Brief Summary: The Hole in Tunnel K, with its Dark Altar, is discovered.

Thread Name & Link: [Quest] Dungeons & Dragons P2
Date: Oct 13 2018 ye it's old
Month & Year: October 2018
Brief Summary: Nemean's idea of a cool little dungeon crawl winds up with a Gembound dead, and a lot of sad trombones and confetti.

Thread Name & Link: [Quest] The Trial of Hydra - Blinding White
Date: Jan 31 2020
Month & Year: January 2020
Brief Summary: Another Trial of Hydra, this time steeped in winter snow and ice, ends with at least one death, and a number of new Gembounds created via the diamond stone of the Giant Ice Worm.

Thread Name & Link: [Order vs Chaos] THE BATTLE FOR CANIS
Date: Feb 02 2023
Month & Year: February 2023
Brief Summary: Order's Hive takes Canis in a blitz attack that comes with no warning.

Thread Name & Link: [Order vs Chaos] THE DISTRACTION
Date: Feb 02 2023
Month & Year: February 2023
Brief Summary: Order's Hive takes Eridanus in a distraction operation.

Thread Name & Link: [Event] Holiday BASH 2021
Date: Dec 01 2021
Month & Year: December 2021
Brief Summary: Naskital--with a new friend, Peppermince--returns to the caves to offer out holiday gifts, in the form of spell-teaching cookies.

Thread Name & Link: THE GIFTENING (Holiday Event 2022)
Date: Dec 19 2022
Month & Year: December 2022
Brief Summary: Naskital returns with holiday gifts, granted to those exchanging their own.

Thread Name & Link: [Event] DEATHMATCH!
Date: Jul 17 2021
Month & Year: July 2021
Brief Summary: An enormous tournament is held in Orion's Forum, resulting in a large number of deaths and a whole lot of loud entertainment.

Thread Name & Link: Love Conquers All
Date: Jan 29 2021
Month & Year: January 2021
Brief Summary: Momma Bolormaa opens bonding ceremonies again at the Union Pillars, including helping to teach Sensorial Link to the bonded.

Thread Name & Link: [Event] The Wishing Stone
Date: May 01 2022
Month & Year: May 2022
Brief Summary: A mysterious glowing gemstone appears in Polaris, granting astonishing wishes to anyone who visits it.

Thread Name & Link: [Event] My Sweet!
Date: Feb 14, 2023
Month & Year: February 2023
Brief Summary: Mysterious chocolates appear in Polaris, placed by Momma Bolormaa, granting those who eat them a number of love-themed boons.

Thread Name & Link: [Event] Entirely Harmless Gifts!
Date: Dec 19 2020
Month & Year: December 2020
Brief Summary: Mother leaves out some entirely harmless and technologically fascinating gifts, like clockwork creatures, kaleidescopes and astrolabes!

Thread Name & Link: [Event] Achievement Unlocked
Date: May 09 2020
Month & Year: May 2020 (another one missing?)
Brief Summary: The Collector attempts to bestow multitudes of knowledge and technological advancement upon the Gembounds, with mixed success.

Thread Name & Link: Spy vs Spy
Date: Nov 30 2019
Month & Year: November 2019
Brief Summary: Groups are given opposing missions that span several caves and a few cycles, putting them into conflict.

Thread Name & Link: Book Club [Archives of Light Formation]
Date: Dec 05 2021
Month & Year: December 2021 (why are these repeated help)
Brief Summary: The Archives of Light is formed by Menkheperre, Bentley, Forgraves, and Nico.

Additionally: Monoceros Lair mostly moves to Leo, the dragons renaming themselves simply The Lair. - October? 2020

Hey I'm just gonna nudge a couple of Elsewhere threads in here at the last minute

Thread Name & Link: GOD OF THE SEA
Month & Year: Nov 30th, 2021
Brief Summary: After 4 cycles of growing in the caves, Baokrish is at last unleashed upon the fishing village of Kaiale on the surface of Let.

Thread Name & Link: BITE OF THE BLACK WOLF
Month & Year: Jan 12, 2022
Brief Summary: Wilder is accidentally pulled to the surface by the ruthless Prince of the Verinen Empire, but is saved by witches and sent to Tamulus, who tells her of the surface world.

Thread Name & Link: WE ARE MASTERS OF GRAVITY
Month & Year: July 8th, 2021
Brief Summary: Lord Dhracia takes Master Vargas to the surface to show him the destructive nature of the Empire.


Thread Name & Link: HUNGER OF THE HUNDRED
Month & Year: June 19th, 2021
Brief Summary: A starving tribe accidentally summons Whale to the surface where she is rescued and returned by Tamulus after a brief conversation about the world outside the nest