AKHURAS, the name of the world we are currently in, is haunted by undead, hoardes of the undead in every city. Ellethia is where it all began.
There was something in the air in Ellethia that made the life cycle accellerate for animals and for us, so we had to be brought in with special suits. We spent time exploring the sunken parts of the city, and trying to determine what exactly had happened to such a bustling metropolis to bring it to such ruin.
Eventually, we were in a lighthouse with the apparent last survivors of Ellethia. I remember mirrors, and that access into parts of the lighthouse was granted based on making wishes. Some people (Eleven, Moiraine, Yennefer) experienced dreamwalking - walking through people's dreams. (Eleven walked through mine.)
The survivors in question were called Sleepers - former scientists/wizards who were working for the Institute of Technology (what remained was the lighthouse); they were all asleep, trapped in dreams and undying, with a man named Zenobius caring for them.
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Ellethia was trying to outdo the feats of the Attaryl witches, to extend lifetimes. The MERCHANT is from Ellethia, and knew the Sleepers - he was upset with the decision made by some members of our party to euthanise them, understandably. Regardless, the Sleepers were technicians who were overseeing experimentations with mirrors, and they used civilians for trials.
Zenobius used to work with them, but some events seem to have driven him mad. He once gifted a doll to fellow technician Matthias Lemaitre — a ‘pale man,’ newly returned from mourning. - THIS NAME WILL BE IMPORTANT, WE KEEP HEARING OF HIM.
MATTHIAS was the lead technician when the undead appeared at the institute. He pushed Zenobius into a well while fleeing; the Sleepers engaged with a mirror on the 10th floor and went into a deep slumber.
Like I said, three of us managed to enter their dreams, and thought they wanted to be released from life - there being no death in Ellethia. They took the Sleepers' lives, and we had to flee the lighthouse by sea. We took Zenobius with us.
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There was something in the air in Ellethia that made the life cycle accellerate for animals and for us, so we had to be brought in with special suits. We spent time exploring the sunken parts of the city, and trying to determine what exactly had happened to such a bustling metropolis to bring it to such ruin.
Eventually, we were in a lighthouse with the apparent last survivors of Ellethia. I remember mirrors, and that access into parts of the lighthouse was granted based on making wishes. Some people (Eleven, Moiraine, Yennefer) experienced dreamwalking - walking through people's dreams. (Eleven walked through mine.)
The survivors in question were called Sleepers - former scientists/wizards who were working for the Institute of Technology (what remained was the lighthouse); they were all asleep, trapped in dreams and undying, with a man named Zenobius caring for them.
MORE CONTEXT:
Ellethia was trying to outdo the feats of the Attaryl witches, to extend lifetimes. The MERCHANT is from Ellethia, and knew the Sleepers - he was upset with the decision made by some members of our party to euthanise them, understandably. Regardless, the Sleepers were technicians who were overseeing experimentations with mirrors, and they used civilians for trials.
Zenobius used to work with them, but some events seem to have driven him mad. He once gifted a doll to fellow technician Matthias Lemaitre — a ‘pale man,’ newly returned from mourning. - THIS NAME WILL BE IMPORTANT, WE KEEP HEARING OF HIM.
MATTHIAS was the lead technician when the undead appeared at the institute. He pushed Zenobius into a well while fleeing; the Sleepers engaged with a mirror on the 10th floor and went into a deep slumber.
Like I said, three of us managed to enter their dreams, and thought they wanted to be released from life - there being no death in Ellethia. They took the Sleepers' lives, and we had to flee the lighthouse by sea. We took Zenobius with us.