wraith the oblivion has had six major storms that have permanently altered the lands of the dead
today i'm going to tell you what happened with each of those storms what led up to them
and we'll talk about the last one hello everyone welcome to the table my name's nathaniel
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there were six great storms that happened that shaped the world of the dead the shadow lands as
well as the skin lands this would be what the wraith called earth or the the physical realm
the fall of rome was the first major storm to happen in raid the oblivion the black plague
followed second the conquest of north americas was the third you then had world war one and
the spanish flu as the fourth maelstrom world war ii was the fifth and number six
is basically happening right now the fall of rome happened in 476 ce rome was supposed to
represent the height of human thought of the nature of what humanity could achieve
however the rapid decline of rome and the amount of death that happened there caused
a massive storm in the tempest and not only the tempest but it also caused the labyrinth
both of these areas to create and spit out more specters than they normally would have and these
specters that were released they possessed the barbarians who were attacking rome and continued
doing so it with a with a much stronger vigor and this kept the death toll going and even when their
host had died the specters would then travel back to the shadow lands and upon seeing stygia which
was formed at this point they found a new place to attack and so they also did this in the shadow
lands stygia was not prepared for this storm the city was raised buildings were demolished
the onyx tower was even damaged during this first storm many wraiths who were living in the city at
the time were unprepared for the storm and they did not have the proper shelter and they ended
up being destroyed of the surviving rates their faith in Charon who had actually built stygia at
least from the wraith perspective their faith in him as a protector was completely destroyed
and he had to work very very hard with the fairy men to rebuild that image after this storm Charon
formed his death lords and essentially took power and crowned himself emperor of stygia
the second storm happened in 1347. this was basically the black plague it was ravaging
Europe it was killing millions of people now the black plague in the spiritual sense was destroying
the land it was diseasing it as well as the people and wraiths began falling into the shadow lands
at such an alarming rate and the storm that came from this was from the death toll and the
the suffering the emotional suffering that came with this it roiled up the sea some of the wraiths
that came through even still had the marks of the plague itself this time however stygia held strong
its sea wall was reinforced and it held back the beating waves of the tempest the army that was
formed was able to fight back these specters and not only fight back the specters but gather the
new wraiths and bring them into the fold or bring them into the city and give them a new purpose
with all his new subjects charon began taking a census of everyone who was living in stygia
and he also started collecting tithes from some of the guilds and this will become important later i
have covered this in my video on the onyx tower so if you'd like to take a look at that please check
that out up here the third great maelstrom was the conquest of the Americas and this happened in
around 1605. the destruction of the flayed lands from the renegade spirits and the heretic spirits
and this all was happening in the new world the loss of life that was happening there was
also unprecedented the flayed lands were an entire kingdom in the shadow lands and when this fell it
caused the labyrinth to just erupt with specters the response was so violent that the sea
of shadows which was mostly calm at this point turned into the tempest and it never settled down
this caused many problems for stygia it effectively cut it off from the rest of
the shadowlands the storm was so bad that even the fairy men just stopped transporting people
the event of this effectively solidified the three factions of rates you had the heretics the
renegades and then you had Charons free rates and he basically started arming everybody in the free
rates to prevent the other groups from getting in the fourth great maelstrom happened July 1st 1916.
this was basically world war one just enormous loss of life in this particular area called the
psalm river it was a battlefield and a just an awful horrific place to be it caused a portal to
open into the shadow lands called a nhile and it basically stayed open until the end of the war now
what's important about the nhile portals is that they connect to a very specific spot either in the
tempest or in the labyrinth and from these portals specters just began pouring out of these portals
specters were taking over European cities or European necropolis and building their own their
own forges their own places to take rates and turn them into resources and they kept attacking
the European cities both in the skin lands and in the shadow lands this was the most powerful
storm on record to date the tempest was in such a frenzy that nobody wanted to travel it even the
well-known byways the areas that typically you could still use when the when the sea was in
a fuss or a tizzy if you will no one wanted to go anywhere or travel anywhere trade shut down
and again stygia suffered for this some wraith even lost their fetters because they were stuck
on another continent which they couldn't get to now the fifth maelstrom happened in 1945.
this was at the end of world war ii this was when basically the bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki this great maelstrom was very different to the ones that came before it there was usually
a buildup that happened but for the fifth maelstrom there was essentially no warning
it was just a extreme event that happened all at once the underworld was already
struggling with the sheer loss of life and the atrocities that were committed during world war
ii the power of the bombs were able to pierce the shroud and the light and the power from these
particular devices they were felt throughout the shadow lands and this caused the labyrinth to just
explode with specters the violence of it but it released more than just specters now in world of
darkness there's also some other events from other characters who were tied into this specific event
i will have a link to a video up here for Black-Tooth who basically looked into oblivion
when these bombs went off and it caused him to go quite mad now what these bombs also did in terms
of wraith there was a massive giant monster called gruel he was sleeping in the labyrinth until the
bombs woke him up he was so powerful that any army that tried to attack him or stand against
him was essentially wiped out with some strategies and some clever distractions Charon was able to
take up a sacred blade of his and fight gruel and he was able to send him back to oblivion
this also cost Charon his life and with the loss of its ruler stygia the hierarchy the death lords
they all fell to infighting once this great maelstrom had passed the sixth great maelstrom
which we are technically living in right now has uh actually been started from a different
source all of the other maelstroms that happened came from events that happened in the skin lands
the sixth great maelstrom happened from something specifically in the shadow lands as a quick side
note i also view this sixth maelstrom as kind of the apocalypse event no matter what game you're
playing if you're playing wraith or if you're playing werewolf vampire this is the end of
times this is what the sixth maelstrom represents in 1999 stygia was attacked it was attacked by
the yellow springs it was attacked by the kingdom of jade as well as the smiling lord who betrayed
stygia the stygian defenders were barely able to hang on and fend off the attackers but they did
and to further compound things while this was happening while this attack was happening
on stygia there was a void engineer in the labyrinth who set off a relic nuclear device
and he set it off at the mouth of oblivion massive spiritual and physical destruction happened
in the underworld the carnage that was happening in the labyrinth caused all of the armies in
the labyrinth to leave and they poured out they attacked the stygians they attacked the
yellow springs they attacked the kingdom of jade anybody that they could hit they basically did
Charon who had been absent since 1945 ends up making a reappearance and fights off
the attackers and while all of this was happening some very powerful risen and Persephone were able
to go through the shroud into the skin lands now the original intent for this particular
storm was supposed to be the last great maelstrom of the wraith the oblivion line
that was at least with it being in white wolves hands we'll see what onyx path does with this
i know onyx path has done a game that sort of picks up after all of these events have happened
i just haven't really played or looked too much into it yet what did you think of the great
maelstroms and how they affected all of the world of darkness not just wraith the oblivion tell
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