Blackshore's Dawn
Story Emits
After the sun sets in Arx, a bright shining light can be seen on the horizon, far to the east. It lasts for no longer than several minutes, but a mysterious bright light that almost resembles a second rising sun brightens the night before fading, as if some great explosion can be seen for miles and miles away.
The Barony of Blackshore is significant trading hub sitting between Darkwater Watch and Arx, a smaller but still significant island domain that's home to several thousand proud vassals of the Mourning Isles, boasting a thousand year history of fighting on behalf of House Thrax and Darkwater from the Reckoning to today. Or it was. Trading vessels coming to Arx are reporting that the Barony of Blackshore has been utterly destroyed. The entire island was reduced to a blacked ruin, with no hint of survivors at all to be found. The sandy beaches and verdant wood had been completely obliterated, and only black blasted rock remaining for miles around. The significant Blackshore Keep was leveled- it was difficult to even tell where it had once stood.
The isle is now a charred, blackened rock, where not a single person survived- and Count Maximilian Darkwater and his vassal, the Baron of Blackshore, had been dining in that keep the nights before. It is presumed their blackened skeletons are among those littering the island, or perhaps among the human shaped shadows that were left burned in stone.