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Greetings, Travelers, and welcome to Stella Fortuna!
State of the World

The Travelers' hard work has resulted in the stone gate keys being assembled, and on October 1st, a low rumbling from the ruins will tell everyone that the way towards upper Dragonspine is now clear. Perhaps what you find there will answer some of your questions about the world.

System Updates

Applications are permanently open! Bring your friends! +1s are accepted as well! You need to be in the game for at least one month before you can +1 a friend. You can also get invited by the mod team!

Submit your AC! If you are on hiatus, you still need to check in.

We have new players and characters! Feel free to say hi to Hu Tao, Shirou, Sooga and Roxas!

Discoveries

➤ Entombed City

Trekking up from Second Camp towards the ruined gate will shelter you from the cold wind, but once you pass through the gate, you find yourself assaulted by the freezing weather once again.

The gate conceals a ruined city made from stone and partially built into caves on the mountainside. The buildings have all been severely weathered by the elements, but some still stand and can be entered. These are ancient houses, and what remains of their damaged furniture tells you that people lived here. In the buildings, you may find something long covered by a brittle cloth. Be careful with that cloth, because it quickly disintegrates if you touch it. Underneath that cloth is a frozen corpse.

The inhabitants of this city have been laid to rest with simple rites and pale flowers placed around their bodies. All of them are dead.

Some golden boxes have been placed in conspicuous places around the town. Approaching them will cause them to open, and the octahedral crystal within begins to shine with a soft blue light. If you continue to stay in their vicinity, a holographic image of a man in a tunic will appear, and he will begin to narrate a message. Even though he speaks in a language that you've never heard before, you can somehow understand him.

"I leave this message for any future visitors that may come to our city. You stand in Vindagnyr, once a land of greenery and life. The winter came to our home ten years ago, and it has never left. The cold pervades the mountain and all that is below it. We pray to the gods for salvation, but they do not answer us anymore.

The priests have decided that we are to barricade ourselves in the city. We wait until one of our scouts return with news of a land yet untouched by the snow. I leave this message for any of our lost brethren who may one day return. If you are watching this, then the end has already come for us."

The recording ends, and the box closes itself. It can be replayed by pressing a button on the outside of the box. Similar boxes can be recovered from the ruins, describing records of life in Vindagnyr during the blizzard. Relics and weapons can also be recovered from the Entombed City. It's probably not grave robbing... probably?

If your character decides to explore an area or open a recording box, please comment to the top-level below and we can give you some clues or scavenged items to thread out!

➤ The Skyfrost Nail

One building stands out amongst the ruins - the highest one, built with evident care as a temple. The ruin conceals a Domain entrance, but you'll definitely need to be well-prepared before going in. As soon as the Domain's doors open, a blustering wind blows out of its interior, and the cold is unlike anything you've ever seen.

Inside the Domain is a tree with white bark. Something has fallen through the ceiling of the Domain onto the tree, splintering its branches. The Skyfrost Nail emits vast quantities of sheer cold - perhaps, it is the source of the misfortune that has befallen this city. The very top of the Nail glows with a bright white light, a beacon that is visible even from Mondstadt.

The white tree had been grown with care on a pedestal. Below the pedestal is a sunken area. It's hard to guess at what it had been used for. However, the pit is filled with ice, and inside the ice are the clear forms of a dozen priests kneeling down in prayer. All of them wear a circlet of white branches, visible through the ice.

What will you do?

➤ Choices

Returning to Forneus will elicit some answers. The Travelers can choose to try and destroy the Skyfrost Nail, thus breaking Vindagnyr and thus all of Dragonspine from a prison of eternal ice. However, doing so would also defrost that strange object on the slopes of the mountain. They will also have to decide if they will tell the Adventurers' Guild about the entombed city of Vindagnyr.

There are many options, and Forneus will not make any decisions for you. The Travelers will need to come to a consensus themselves.

Plotting

Feel free to use this post as a plotting post for all your CR and threading needs! A quick form is provided for your use:

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