Riddle's Keeper lore drops
Who are the Men of Aesir?
North of Cagliostro and east of the Yurukhan Steppes lay the Asgardian Fringe, a hinterland of ice and decay. The denizens of this wasteland call themselves the Men of Aesir, and each is a timeless warrior of several centuries. They appear to be unnaturally tall humans, around 8 to 10 feet at the shoulder, with frozen, decaying flesh and matted hair. While they are called Men of Aesir, women of similar qualities have been spotted in their ranks.
Legend has it that, long ago, an ancient city in the north called Hamelin once thrived. When vermin threatened to drag Hamelin down, the people of Hamelin each offered a piece of silver to any who could drive them out. A strange sorcerer with a fife appeared, and with his music, led the vermin into the tundra to freeze to death. The people of Hamelin, thinking little of the sorcerer, refused to pay him. Outraged, the sorcerer played a new and far more sinister tune. Thus were all of Hamelin's children led into the tundra, never to be seen again...
...Or so Hamelin's people thought. Decades later, the city began to wane in its glory, having been so deprived of its future. That's when a monstrous, one-eyed necromancer that came to be known as Ghaull arrived with an army of undead giants at his back. They ravaged Hamelin and annihilated its people, leaving the ruined shell of the city as a stark warning to those who don't pay their debts, be they great or small. Walking the ruined streets of Hamelin, one could swear they could hear a fife's droning...
Ghaull, now the Balor-King of the Aesir, has since turned his one eye towards the Vanir in their great forest on the other side of the Yurukhan Steppes. While the steppe-warriors have beaten his forces back each time they've ventured out, Ghaull seems determined to push through the steppes and face the Mab of the Vanir herself in battle, an event the Yurukhan see as the beginning of the end-times. Only time will tell whether Ghaull will succeed in having his war with the Vanir, or if he simply loses interest in the Vanir and turns his eye to the southern realms...
North of Cagliostro and east of the Yurukhan Steppes lay the Asgardian Fringe, a hinterland of ice and decay. The denizens of this wasteland call themselves the Men of Aesir, and each is a timeless warrior of several centuries. They appear to be unnaturally tall humans, around 8 to 10 feet at the shoulder, with frozen, decaying flesh and matted hair. While they are called Men of Aesir, women of similar qualities have been spotted in their ranks.
Legend has it that, long ago, an ancient city in the north called Hamelin once thrived. When vermin threatened to drag Hamelin down, the people of Hamelin each offered a piece of silver to any who could drive them out. A strange sorcerer with a fife appeared, and with his music, led the vermin into the tundra to freeze to death. The people of Hamelin, thinking little of the sorcerer, refused to pay him. Outraged, the sorcerer played a new and far more sinister tune. Thus were all of Hamelin's children led into the tundra, never to be seen again...
...Or so Hamelin's people thought. Decades later, the city began to wane in its glory, having been so deprived of its future. That's when a monstrous, one-eyed necromancer that came to be known as Ghaull arrived with an army of undead giants at his back. They ravaged Hamelin and annihilated its people, leaving the ruined shell of the city as a stark warning to those who don't pay their debts, be they great or small. Walking the ruined streets of Hamelin, one could swear they could hear a fife's droning...
Ghaull, now the Balor-King of the Aesir, has since turned his one eye towards the Vanir in their great forest on the other side of the Yurukhan Steppes. While the steppe-warriors have beaten his forces back each time they've ventured out, Ghaull seems determined to push through the steppes and face the Mab of the Vanir herself in battle, an event the Yurukhan see as the beginning of the end-times. Only time will tell whether Ghaull will succeed in having his war with the Vanir, or if he simply loses interest in the Vanir and turns his eye to the southern realms...
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Sep 16, 2020 12:02PM
ooo first lore drop of the series !! Ghaull aint got nothing on my girl Selene da ice queen tho 
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