Grand Conflux

Stub-class article · First seen: pre-campaign brief · Last seen: pre-campaign brief

The Grand Conflux is Arcanthys’s reality-warping defence: the working the floating city unleashed against Aurelia’s Nullstone Constructs in the War of Fractured Heavens (582-589 A.I.), trapping entire battalions in mirrored illusions and shifting streets. Its heart is the Grand Conflux Spire, and its custodian is Archmagister Vylarine Thael. The war ended in a stalemate that became an uneasy peace. It is world-brief canon only; no session has named the Conflux, though the DM has twice described the standoff between Arcanthys and Aurelia [2][3].

Overview

The Grand Conflux is the working that gives Arcanthys its last line of defence. In the War of Fractured Heavens (582-589 A.I.), the world brief says, Aurelia launched a crusade and sent its Nullstone Constructs, colossal divine war machines forged from black-veined Nullstone, through Arcanthys’s arcane defences. The Constructs were immune to spells and unstoppable by force alone. Arcanthys answered by unleashing the Grand Conflux, “warping reality to trap entire battalions in mirrored illusions and shifting streets”.

It has not appeared in play, and nobody has named it at the table.

Known traits

  • What it does. It warps reality: battalions are trapped in mirrored illusions, and the streets of the city shift (world brief).
  • Where it centres. The brief calls the Grand Conflux Spire, a colossal nexus of crystal and adamantine, the heart of the city and its “final defence”: it anchors the floating platforms and bends reality (world brief).
  • How the war ended. In stalemate. Destroying the Constructs risked collapsing Arcanthys’s floating platforms, and Aurelia could not advance without devastating losses. Both cities have held an uneasy peace since, each knowing that war would mean mutual destruction (world brief).
  • Not stated. The brief gives no cost, limit or range for the working, records no use since the war, and does not say whether it could be unleashed again.

Relationships

  • Arcanthys and the Grand Conflux Spire. The city it defends and the tower at its heart.
  • Archmagister Vylarine Thael. The brief calls her “custodian of the Grand Conflux”.
  • Nullstone Constructs and Aurelia. The war machines it fought and their makers. In play the DM has twice touched the standoff: in session 14 he said the people of Arcanthys are the only ones who can use arcane magic near Aurelia, because of what lies between the two cities [2]; in session 23 he said they have been in “open confrontation” and that it is now “kind of a Cold War, sort of” [3].

Notable named figures

History in the campaign

Not yet seen in play.

Status

As of session 23. Presumed dormant: the brief records no use since the war. The Conflux has not been named at the table, and the party has not visited Arcanthys.

See also

References

  1. ^ : DM world brief only; not yet appeared in any recap.
  2. ^ Session 14, line 1616: Inline citation.
  3. ^ Session 23, line 1299: Inline citation.
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