Danica Timeline Update

[Darkniciad]

I just added a new data point to the Danica timeline that wasn't a new story for the first time in a long time.
 
868: Cantel Bellows, known as Dark Obsidian, breaks his magical staff in Obsidian tower as a last act of defiance against heroes come to end his reign of power. The resulting magical explosion creates the Great Crater.

 

I needed to pin this down before writing the last scene of "Facing Destiny".

 

What's not on the timeline yet, and won't be unless I decide to delve deeper into Dark Obsidian's history than I plan, is that he was well over 100 years old at the time of his death.  I'm thinking around 120.  For close to a hundred years, he was a force of terror and near unlimited power in what would become Egoria, Draxnia, Freeland, The Western Baronies, and other surrounding lands.

 

Little did the heroes who took him down know that they were paving the path for Draxnog to rise.

 

There are significant changes to the PnP history of the character.  In that continuity, he was Darkni's grandfather.  Now, he's a many times great grandfather because it makes sense for the crater to have been there far longer.

 

He also originally carried the same surname, but I decided to have the family change it to Softspake for the stories.  I thought Bellows was a nice counterpoint to Softspake.

 

I've also sketched out the details of what made him go off the rails to become Dark Obsidian.  Some of that will be revealed in another Darkni history story.

 

Darkni is about 20 years older than the rest of the companions, by the way.  So because Destiny is an early story in his life, it's going to be way up the timeline from everyone else's history stories.

 

Okay.  Now that I'm done with that, back to writing