News of Avaria

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• Stormy Summer: For a place that doesn't normally see much rain in the summer, it's been an unusually stormy season in Omrazir. For a few weeks it seemed like a resounding thunderstorm would come up nearly every afternoon, pounding the normally dusty streets with torrents of rain and shaking even thick adobe buildings with thunder. Local pagans wonder if Nirzali is showering the city with her favor, or if she's thundering with displeasure. Just to be on the safe side, the High Priestess of the Temple of Storms conducts a propitiatory ritual to reassure the exiled goddess that she isn't forgotten.

Perhaps more worryingly, there are rumblings of trouble from the Adelantean as well. A few Yehani, returned to both St. Loomis and Omrazir from their customary hazardous pilgrimage to the vicinity of sunken Yashalen, tell of treacherous currents and dangerous storms beyond even the ordinary.. not to mention the ominous bubbles and foam skating and surging across the waves. It's all troubling, to say the least, but what can it mean?

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• A Bright New Year: 1 Pavana 797, City of Omrazir: A new year has arrived, and with the close of the holy weeks of Solitary, the formerly silent streets of Omrazir are now filled with lively talk about the resoundingly stormy end to the old year...
• A Hungry New Year: 1 Pavana 797, St. Loomis: Spring and a new year have come to Ensor, but in St. Loomis the slow ripening of winter-sown crops has done nothing to relieve the hunger stemming from the poor harvest of the autumn past...