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Come, let us dance the Danse Macabre, hand in hand, sword to sword, while the night is young and the moon is bright.

As Thacean forces were driven ever north, the town of Jelrass found itself cut off from the legions and enclosed by the dead. Now its citizens huddle together in their homes, clinging to holy symbols and praying for death to pass them by, or if they must die that they might at least stay that way.

For 300 years before the rise of Deadhaus, Lord Zorin stalked the shadows of Malorum, making war with the Ustillian Empire and feasting on the blood of the living. His favorite prey were the templar, as he relished the way their screams echoed from within their armor. Choir boys, he called them, for how well they sung when he sank his claws into them.

Many are the planes of the multiverse, though few are the doorways between them. Influencing one realm from another requires tremendous power, and traveling across them an order of magnitude more. Yet on rare occasions, the veil of reality wears thin, and interlopers may pass between the planes with ease. When such events occur, it is never long before a demon forces its way through the breach.

Templars wear silver armor, not only to repel the dead, but to prevent themselves from being reanimated. Should they fall in battle, this armor would reduce their corpses to ash if they tried to rise again. And so N’Gaztak woke from death into smoke and white-hot fire, thrashing against his own cuirass as it seared into his flesh.

Though more than capable of traversing the seas between continents, dragons remain secluded in the eastern land of Atan. Whatever motivation hems them in the east is unknown, but they are deeply intelligent beings, capable of judgement and wisdom.

The Ruins of Os Kurrox conceal an eldritch artifact, an obelisk marked in cryptic symbols. Those that built the structures above hoped to control the artifact, but never learned the secrets of its power. Now their names are forgotten and their towers stand crumbling into dust. But the relic remains below, eons old, unscathed by time’s ablations.

The armor of the Ashen Ring bears the insignia of their order, which is itself a circle of divine ash, as well as an eclipse. These symbols of hope instill a deep sense of dread in those who witness them worn by a templar that has risen from the grave.