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Rigan Retreat Do you crave that little extra? OUTLANDS - After five of the Rigans in dead-end Lands; we don’t get the chant Do you want an explosion continuous days of fierce canyons and in front of deep you bloods from Sigil do so this of taste and colour? fighting, the invading armies of caverns where they were really came as a shock to us. Rigus retreated from Tir Na Og quickly put in the dead-book. Within a few hours the fiends yesterday leaving several In a masterful stroke, Jehaad were all over us. It wasn’t until Then try Celtic towns in smouldering herself led a charge from this morning that I discovered ruins. The arrival of more than Westcote that caught a large what the sods had done to my Estavan’s Boomberries! three thousand Doomguard Baatezu-led battalion kip.” cutters, under the command of completely off guard, throwing [For a more detailed and A Boomberry is a small, green fruit, about the giantess Ales Jehaad, early them to the veritable mazes. personal account of the battle the size of a cherry. Swallow it whole, and in the third day of the fighting Jehaad’s warriors and mages from a Celt’s perspective, catch experience it expanding in your stomach - appeared to tip the scales in forced the Rigans down some culler Maija Intwood’s in- yes, Boomberries are almost a complete favour of the Celts and the slippery slopes into the Power depth interview with Brion meal in one! Lady’s Guardianship (a Sensate Morrigan’s Bloody Field Corwyn brought to you military organisation based out where nigh-invincible exclusively by SIGIS. - Ed.] Try them today - get them from of Sigil.) Together, the petitioners ripped them to Although the people of Tir Everything Unexpected - next to the Sensates, Sinkers and Celts pieces. (Witnesses say the Na Og suffered greatly from Tower of Light and Confusion,in loosened the Rigan’s hold of Bloody Field seemed the Rigan assault, there are Petitioners Square,. Lady’s Ward the Outland burgs, Delany and inordinately large as if the many signs that these hardy Gwyllach, and put thousands of conflict caused it to swell far bashers will make a quick DISTRIBUTED BY: Rigans in the dead-book. beyond its usual dimensions. recovery. “This isn’t the first Murkun and Samar Under License of the “I was pleasantly shocked at Some told SIGIS they felt time we’ve been hit by fiends Planar Trading Consortium the ease of which we [the Morrigan’s field “hungered” and it probably won’t be the Guardianship] were able to for the slaughter but this chant last,” said Kelron, Delany’s STATUTORY HARMONIUM WARNING: may just be barmy screed.) chieftain.“We’re a tough, We have been notified that Boomberries can coordinate with the adversely affect many races - indeed, they only seem Doomguard,” said Dach Although the Rigans were leatherheaded bunch of cutters to not harm . Any other being ingesting a Tchlorem a Sensate eventually repelled, they and, mark my words, we’ll Boomberry is in danger of having it swell up in their commander in the wreaked extraordinary have our kips and cases rebuilt throat (or comparable biology) and cause suffocation. Guardianship. “I trust my devastation on several Celtic well before the next harvest.” This matterwill be investigated further. Factol implicitly but I was more burgs. The towns of Delany - Maija Intwood, culler (sk) (jaw) than a little peery of allying my and Gwyllach on the edge of command with several hundred Loch Finn were hit the earliest violent cutters whose beliefs and the hardest of the lot. All of Second Attack on Court are such the antithesis of my the buildings and homes in both own. I thought for sure we’d be burgs were scorched to the paying the music but I couldn’t ground after being looted of have been more wrong. The every saleable item. The burgs Device Recovered Sinkers were magnificent of Muirshead and Donall also warriors - they planned suffered tremendous SIGIL — Another bomb attack also believed to be incendiary, known as the Cadre is behind exquisite strategy, executed devastation and few kips in rocked the City Court today failedtogooffandwas this incident. If any of them are brilliant tactics and really put either town stood after the killing ten, including a recovered by the Hardheads reading my quote, know this: the fear into the Rigans. A few fighting ceased. Harmonium officer named after a through search of the We are coming for you and of the Sinkers were a little too Brion Corwyn, a priest of Gullen Berkwitz. In a premises. No word yet on what there is no escape. You may flee bloodthirsty for my liking but Nuada living in Gwyllach, calculated move, the this device might yield to the to the deepest pits of the Abyss, the faction made an enormous returned only to find his case a perpetrators set off explosions investigation, but Captain and we will still scrag you. The difference in the battle.” pile of ashes. “The bloody on both sides of the City Court’s Havrm Ghex had this to say: law will be upheld, on this you According to sources within fiends bobbed everything not exterior courtyard. A third “With the death of one of our can count.” the Celtic militias, Doomguard bolted to the soddin’ walls. incendiary device detonated in officers, the Harmonium will Captain Ghex had no general Ales Jehaad used the When I heard the chant that the the centre of the courtyard, redouble its efforts to find these comment when asked how the natural and supernatural fiends were making for Delany, injuring those who attempted to cowards. The recovery of an Cadre managed to set the hazards of Tir Na Og against I sent as much of the temples flee the other blasts. intact explosive device, as well explosives while an entire the Rigans to deadly effect. The valuables as I could off to Twenty were treated for as some other lines of battalion of Hardheads guarded Sinkers, allied with the Celts, Muirshead with some of the burns, many severe, and investigation, have given us the Courts. used false retreats and parishioners. We’re pretty wounds from shrapnel. solid evidence to support the (pw) ambushes to trap large numbers isolated here in the [Out-] Amazingly, a fourth device, chant that the Anarchist group

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Paul Wolfe [email protected] Jamie Walker [email protected] Truls Rostrup [email protected] The original SIGIS is in HTML format and is hosted at http://www.mimir.net/ a site maintained by Jon Winter. Jason Ng The SIGIS in RTF is hosted at http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Arcade/6827/ a Hofbauer Heinz’s site. Sigil’s Independent Global Information Service NewsChant Senator Fiquesh Spellslingersand Assassinated!!! Swordswingers RIBCAGE - Senator Fiquesh Senatorial caste one by one, Paracs has taken a special was murdered late last night by and are quite willing to die to interest: wanted for long term employment. a member of the Sable Star achieve their goals. The purge “We must work to ensure the shortly after entering his ordered by Lord Paracs, continuity of the ruling class at Cutters must to be wise to the ways private bath. The Senator had though it will slow our all costs,” Lord Paracs told just joined his most recent investigation into the recent Lord Stelton. “The search for of surviving and fighting in the mistress, Gretchen Edelburg, rash of missing slaves, is the the Band of the Sable Star will in the heated spa when a bolt of only way to ensure the safety of be successful but you must Astral. lightning arced down through the Senatorial families.” exercise patience. Until we the bath’s impluvium. Senator The purge alluded to by find them, we must ensure the Healthy jink will be offered to Fiquesh and Gretchen were Commander Willhelm is but survival of our heirs. I have cutters who’re tough enough. electrocuted instantly. one of the measures taken by taken the liberty of ordering Members of the deceased’s Lord Paracs to ensure the your son escorted to my Enquire at theRed Lantern in the bodyguard stormed the roof continuity of the bloodlines of stronghold, Lord Stelton. I Lower Ward, and ask for Grax , a only to find the assassin dead the elite families of Ribcage. In think you’ll agree that such an from poison. Pinned beneath addition to ordering a arrangement is safest for . Clueless, githyanki and the body was a blank scroll and “comprehensive sweep of the everyone, and you do have but the assailant’s hand clutched an city” by the Blackguard for a single heir. I assure you that empty vial of poison. He was “the purpose of discovering with such precautions and the identified as a member of the and eliminating any members efforts of the Blackguard, we Sable Star by a tattoo of that of the infamous Band of the will bring an end to the threat, NewsChant order he had on his left Sable Star”, Lord Paracs has andweallwantsuch shoulder. graciously offered the assassination attempts to cease, “There really is no need for protection of his personal do we not Lord Stelton? I know Signers Quarantined an investigation,” stated fortress to a number of I can count on your full support Willhelm von Erfurt, the Senatorial heirs. The most and understanding in this as Death Toll Rises Commander of the Baron’s notable of these wards is the matter.” Secret Service. “It is quite only son of Lord Stelton von - Gustav Torun, AS ANOTHER 28 DEAD investigating the case selected obvious that these fanatics are Graz, the successor to Senator culler were announced today (half of several hundred factioneers to attempting to eliminate the Fiquesh, in whose safety Lord (rm) them Signers in the guard the Council Chambers, Harmonium’s custody), the and specified that the least Harmonium mysteriously imaginative members of the sealed off the entire Signer faction were the first to be Verdant Guild faction headquarters, chosen. imprisoning as many faction The Harmonium has also members as they could find called for any non-Signer inside the walls. Nobody is wizards who know the forget being allowed inside or out - spell to come forward. A flat Attacks Loggers one of SIGIS’ cullers (herself a rate of 100 jinx per day has member of the Sign of One) is been offered to any and all such FAUNEL - Loggers employed are commonly believed to be arrow stuck in me shoulder and inside, and has not been cutters, though strangely, by Spireward Trading Co. reprisals for Spireward’s I got time ta think ‘they’s an allowed to send word to us. priests and healers offering were driven from their labours recent culling of the forests arrow in me shoulder’ and then According to sources in the poison neutralising services for earlier today by a rain of around Faunel. Master the pain hits. The next un gets Harmonium, the high-ups free have been turned away. arrows as members of the Whytcote, Spireward’s high- me in the hip, and I’m down, Verdant Guild struck at logging up, publicly offered a bounty the world twistin’ crazy like, Announcements crews around Faunel. The on both Greenleaf and and then they’s on me, kickin’ attackers, lead by the druid Forrester amounting to 3,000 me, beatin’ me with me own Errol Greenleaf and Jonathan jinx a head and has promised to axe. Ekart, he tried ta stop ’em, “No Reason to Panic” Forrester, fell upon surprised hire guards to defend the and they wrote him into the labourers, killing one and workers. Most workers have dead book. Saw him catch one Says Factol Sarin wounding several others. agreed to continue logging if in the groin I did, bloody The wounded were carried to guards are provided, but all bastards, then they done stuck FACTOL SARIN of the away,” he said, enigmatically. the Dancing Bear, a local were clearly shaken by the him again’ in the chest ta shut Harmonium this morning The Factol also stated that “the tavern converted hastily into a encounter. him up but good. His screams I announced that there was no threat to safety has been field hospital by its ursinal “It was awful,” recalled be hearin’ still. I want ta beat reason to panic over the recent neutralised.” owner, William Barr. As of Talen Marnek, a worker them bastards. Stick ’em with spate of assassinations, and Factol Sarin has been heavily this time, only attacks on the wounded in the fighting, “It some arrows, see how they be dismissed reports of the ever- criticised by both the Sensates loggers were confirmed, was like one o’ them dreams liken’ it. Master Whycote, I increasing number of dead as and the Xaositects in a rare joint though a number of trappers where time goes real slow, hopes he done find us someone exaggerated and irresponsible’. statement as “covering the true are missing and presumed lost. like. One second, I’m raising good ta do it, too.” “The sooner this fuss dies situation with a tapestry of The assaults by the “Guilder’s” up me axe, the next I got’s an - Donald Kyng, culler (rm) down, the sooner it will go lies.” (jw) Cullers and Artists Wanted For Must be literate and on the case We are in search for interior artists for upcoming, recent and previous versions Applicants should contact the Editor, Scott Kelley © remains with the artist Page 2 Fourth Week of Accordant Sigil’s Independent Global Information Service NewsChant Planar Chant Holy Sites Defaced Looking into the Dark as New Riots Erupt of the Empire SYLVANIA - Rioting began reveal the identity of the again in the burg after a short perpetrators. Some have taken Looking into the Dark of And it is around the time that boast the strength of their period of relative quiet when the silence to indicate approval the Illithid Empire the Githyanki and Githzerai empire. And they went across some bashers discovered that a of the strife. Perhaps today in this phase of races were formed the Illithid the prime in either a complex vandal (yet to be identified) had Today the rioting took a time you might ask, “What’s empire fell. The Githyanki network of teleportation desecrated a shrine to the much more serious tone and the soddin big deal with all were especially ruthless in their circles, and mighty ships many Power Labelas Enoreth. The battles are being pressed those Mind Flayer Rubes?” vengeful war against the said to rival planets in size shrine consisted of a sapling viscously throughout the burg. Other than the fact that it is in , they certainly didn’t (don’t go thinking the Nautilus silver oak planted on holy soil Disgusted by the fighting, the fact you that happens to be the stop when they drove the squids class ships were the only ones which the vandals uprooted and Council of merchants has rube, the deal is this The out of the Astral. Its said they they had). burned. Worshippers of announced plans to patrol the Illithids have vast power at their even went into the Ethereal (not They certainly ruled the Arvandor responded by streets of Sylvania and has potential, and control untold likely in my opinion) and on to prime. In the Astral one of their assaulting supplicants of the hired a number of modrons to numbers of worlds through out the prime to exterminate them. huge cases is what is now Greek pantheon throughout the construct barracks and the prime’s crystal spheres. Now as to when the empire known as Tu’narath, the city. renovate an old amphitheatre. While those encountered was created is the big mystery. current Tu’narath is but a small A statue sacred to Demeter When pressed for details, guild outside their territory seem few Its confirmed in most cases that fraction of the one in the past (I was shattered, presumably in members would only say that in number and hardly enough to the Blood War was being fought know, I know they’re very retribution, which only served any efforts on their part would be a significant threat, there’s when the Illithid Empire rose, inaccurate terms to use to inflame the rioting further. not “compromise the so-called one thing that remains true is so they aren’t that ancient. Its referring to the Astral). Priests of both pantheons were peace.” that everyone of them is often difficult to determine just The origin of the puzzled, as the Powers seemed - Marcanto Di Capella, potentially quite dangerous. what was the dominant racial Illithids? either unwilling or unable to culler(rm) And here’s one thing that will empire on the prime at any Some chant says the Illithid frighten you berk The given time, even today while were once were from a Crystal Obituaries Illithids had far more power many say human (I shudder to Sphere now known as the than they have in the past. Back think of that fact), many others Astromundi Cluster. An in those time the Illithids were a point to the “goblin” races ancient human civilisation huge empire, they not only being far more numerous. A fought a war against the non- SIGIS Culler controlled a huge portion of the source on the prime said they humans of the world prime, they also rules in the came in after the Reigar, Juna, Astromundi, to get back at the Astral and Ethereal planes. You and Thri-Kreen empires. But humans the non humans see that Eladrin and Baatezu, there are many objections to brought curses on humans. Found Hanged Archon and Tanar’ri, Modron this. Its possible that the dark of Mutant children were born and and Slaadi alike were the disappearance of the Juna they were thrown out of their RIBCAGE - SIGIS over his head; perhaps no more threatened by the Illithid was indeed due to the society, eventually becoming correspondent Eber Willburg than a wrist at best would fit Empire. This very ancient appearance of the squids the Illthid. Its also said the was found hanged today in his through those. Only an idiot or empire had the power to make themselves. Tanar’ri were actually the ones kip on Wheelwright St. The one deranged would try to kill the residents of the planes So how many years does that that wiped out the remaining body, discovered by a himself with something like beyond the Astral and Ethereal make it? I say a lot. humans. messenger, dangled from the that. And the floor below was to be peery of them. Just what was the empire I find this origin to be a bunch rafters of his small attic battered and bloody as if he had I’ll try to attempt answering possibly like? of screed, as there is evidence apartment. The Secret Service hurled himself there some of the questions of the It’s well known that Illithids that points to the Illithid being declared the incident a suicide repeatedly! We in the Secret mysteries left behind the Illithid have telepathic abilities and older than that. Its very possible despite the fact that the body Service suspected Eber was not Empire buried in the flow of therefore they share their they existed around the spheres looked severely battered. in his right mind when he time. Believe me, following thoughts together quite often. long before that, before humans When asked to explain this suggested that Lord Paracs, around your githzerai friends Its said an Illithid’s thought are even existed. There are two discrepancy, Gunther Linz, the may he live long, might be on Rrakma hunts does not tell always open in the public for all theories at work here the first officer in charge of the ‘losing his grip on the reigns of you much about the Illithid, and to know. Taking this into one is evolution, as time goes investigation, indicated that power’. Apparently, Eber did I do know what they’re capable consideration they are a on creatures do change, they Eber had fallen many times in not realise he had sunk this far. of as I’ve been a part of Rrakma completely peaceful and grow into something else over his attempts to hang himself Only the seriously disturbed hunts. harmonious bunch, which countless generations of and declared that Eber was would say such a thing, don’t For this publication, I hope to makes me completely sick to breeding. While I won’t probably “deranged”. you think?” possibly take another look at even think about. Of course provide the full details, its said “You should have seen the I found myself agreeing what past greybeards like they’re not harmonious and that from squids and other number of ropes hanging from heartily. Ronassic have done. My peaceful to their slaves. They mollusks is where the Illithids the rafters,” said Linz. “Most - Gustav Torun, culler research has been done with the way they treat slaves is even far evolved from, while some other had loops far too small to fit (rm) help of looking into possible worse than how humans treat mollusks eventually evolved past locations of Illithid cities, farm animals as the members of into fish, then amphibians, then reading Githyanki and the Verdant Guild would say. reptiles, and then various Githzerai historical accounts, The Illithids are fascists, mammals. Humans are said to Magnum Opus’ and digging through resources while they don’t have the have evolved from apes by the pulled from the City Courts, the Baatezu’s reputation for way, while evolved from Hall of Records, the Anarchists fascism they’re still very cruel. boars. MusÉ e Arcane Information Underground, and Think of a empire as being one This goes along with the from Kesto Brighteyes owner that combined a lot of the worse theory of parallel development of the Parted Veil. habits of the Harmonium and which is where things in And there is one last word the Baatezu together, and then different places are the same as before I start, I do not guarantee you’ll begin to think what its they are everywhere. This this chant to be any bit accurate. like. explains why there are humans, Just when did those Sods What did the empire dogs, cats, dwarves, elves and have there empire? have? goblins on so many prime Well its certainly a long time They had great worlds. Thus it can be said ago, before many prime worlds accomplishments greater than Illithids were around before, even existed. We know through most things, humans have done the Astromundi Incident at the that the human race did exist today. They lived in huge cities most created another type of during the time the empire that were said to reach the skies Illithid, the curses brought on existed, as humans were often of their planets. Many had those humans probably came used as slaves and livestock. specialized magically created from elsewhere, either a You see a particular bunch of servants to each to a job of coincidence that follows the human slaves rebelled under expertise. Huge monuments parallel development theory, or the name of one called Gith. and other artwork existed to perhaps it was an ancient

Fourth Week of Accordant Page 3 Sigil’s Independent Global Information Service Planar Chant Looking into the Dark of the Illithid Empire Illithid method of assimilating nations divided them again. other surface dwellers. Before intelligent squids may in fact be just a race that evolved along non-illithids into their own. I say its an highly unlikely Illithids would usually live on wrong, but they’re said to have them, much like giants and The role of their cause for the fall of the Illithid the surfaces of planets, but nothing at all to do with the humans. If any of these races do powers? empire. It can be more likely know they have almost all been illithids. And then there’s the have a connection to the The Illithids were said to not attributed to the slave uprising forced into the of Krakentua that look awfully illithids its that they evolved have much of a belief in the lead by Gith. When she rose up many worlds. Its said that years like illithids except they have from the same source which are way of the planes, they had against the Illithids, many of living in underdark have octopus heads and they’re about mollusks. very little in the way of gods, followed, on other countless made the Illithid uncomfortable 80 to 100 feet tall. The - from Janus Nguyen a and only knew of the planes by worlds many other slaves did in conditions on the surface. similarities can’t be all planewalker, chivman, boom- discovering it. So therefore the the same thing as Gith’s But other accounts say, that dismissed, as in many ways stickman and spellslinger for Illithids beliefs did not have a followers. The Illithids they were always like that, its they do have the same jink, and a part time significant effect on the planes, depended on their slaves to do just that the past empire was intentions, except they act more researcher of darks. but the squids did have some most of the labour for them, not able to control the conditions like Tanar’ri. Perhaps they (jn) gods though. because they were lazy as we’d on the surface to their taste. were once Illithid, or they are There were two Illithid like to think, but because they One possible world is Ssirik powers, Illsenine the supreme were said to lack the strength Akuar a place where I went Stop Press Illithid god who is one of the and endurance to do so. And with a Rrakma band, the most powerful and mysterious when their slaves turned planet’s rotation has been of all powers. The other is against them many of their stopped and there is one side Cadre Promise Maanzecorian, quite possibly a masters fell to them, but many that’s eternally dark and cold, Illithid that ascended to god- more slaves were also slain by and another that’s bright and hood, its unfortunate that the their masters. Nevertheless hot. sod isn’t around anymore. without their slaves, the squids But stopping a planets More Attacks One theory points to the fact couldn’t really do a sodding rotation was one of their cruder that Illsenine was part of a thing. Their cities and their methods, its said they used JUST BEFORE press release weeks. Though less than extremely ghastly Baatezu empire fell apart. forms of darkness spells and SIGIS obtained a letter from the specific as to their future experiment committed on my Some say that the fall of the control magic to make their infant Anarchist cell known as actions, the Cadre makes it “people” tieflings. It’s said empire, was done by the planets suitable. the Cadre. This is the cell clear in this (almost their dead brains were all combined attacks from many The Illithids have gotten presumed responsible for two incomprehensible) message thrown into this pile, and that sides. Its probably true in some themselves a lot of enemies separate bombings attacks on that they seek a unified pile became Illsenine. And thus way that the beholders and the today, almost everyone hates the City Court over the last two destruction of anyone with jink: Illsenine either created the followers of Gith fought them especially the Githzerai Illithids, or it found them and against the squids, And that the and Githyanki. The most they started to revere him. plane-borne races say an common races Illithids deal Another says that Illsenine opportunity to attack. Its not with are Beholder, Jink is Power just is, much like how many that the Blood War paused Elves, Neogi, Aboleths, other powers are said to be. between the Tanar’ri and Duerger, and Derro. Another “The Cadre has but one mission: Destruction. We aim to pull Now here I go backing the Baatezu, but that the two races thing noted is that its said that down the walls that compress the torus of Sigil and turn us all Athar up that powers aren’t all diverted some of their forces to cranium rats didn’t exist during into gears of an infernal machine. Those that steer the machine that divine. Another bit of deal with the squids. Eladrin the time of the empire, but now are the guilty bashers. No one has asked these self-proclaimed chant I hear is that the squids agents are said to be they are spread through out the pilots to guide us into wilful destruction. We the Cadre have wanted to make a “supreme responsible for some of the planes, especially in Sigil, in taken the honourable role of mutineers. Mechanical break-down fact their may very well be brain,” perhaps they wanted to slave uprising, and its said that is our goal. Fire is a cleanser to scour these slavers from their the Eladrin also helped more of those rats in the cage do so to create a massive dens. Wherever there is Jink, there is guilt and there will be the telepathic network that could Zerthimon form his than there are people. Cadre with a confessional. Know that death is the only span across crystal spheres, convictions against Gith who Related races and planes. Or perhaps they they saw eventually taking the Well there are Illsenine’s absolution we give. We do not seek the Jink of others. We seek needed a ruler, one that would same route that the squids Zombies which can be found in only the destruction of power by striking at those with jink. rise above them because they were. Let’s not forget the inner the Caverns of Thought which saw conflicts in ambitions for planes as well, they were also is the Elder Brain’s realm, they As of this writing, the Cadre however, we here at SIGIS the power of a particular threatened by the Illithids as are created by sods who’ve has not identified any of its believe that members of the Illithid individual. well. The genies were said to actually decided to go there. members and the investigation Fated would do well to keep The creation of Illsenine in have really been responsible Then there’s the Cranium Rat by the Harmonium continues. their guard up in the coming this theory was said to be the for the fall of the Illithids in the vermin, which scurry along Given the rather barmy chant of days. greatest achievement by this Ethereal plane. everywhere through out the this peculiar message, (pw) ancient empire. Certainly Strangely enough some point whole soddin cage. The Illsenine is said to know almost their fingers at the Dhour as Cranium Rats do serve all their is to know of in the one of the factors in the fall of Illsenine, and worse yet the Spate of Memory Loses multiverse, every Illithid is the empire. But its thought that more of them that stick together also said to be a proxy of the the dhour are a relatively new the smarter and more powerful elder brain, as it can see race to the planes, the blobs of they become. Some worlds on in Clerk Ward through every Illithid (and amorphous slime that roam the the prime are said to have fallen Cranium Rat). Astral and Ethereal are said to due to plagues that Illsenine’s REPORTS ARE EMERGING brought to trial. A spokesman Maanzecorian was an be only around for a few cranium rats have brought. that a large number of said “The Harmonium have individual among the squids decades. I find the theory on the Next on the list are the Eaters individuals have suffered partial placed an injunction forbidding that rose to the rank of a power. Dhour involvement to be of Knowledge, the walking memory losses over the last two any official or unofficial It became a rival to Illsenine, unlikely. heaps of brain matter and other days. Most cutters so affected comments from our faction on but never approached Illsenine The Illithid today guts that personally seek recall an encounter with a the situation.” anywhere near the elder brain Well they certainly aren’t as knowledge for Illsenine. They Harmonium door-to-door It has emerged that the in power or influence. Its truly powerful as they were before. are like celestials to the squids, patrol, then remember coming- rumours linking the Bleak sad that its life ended. Their great empire has fallen, something that they look up to. to with a splitting headache. Of Cabal with the assassinations The fall of the Illithid and most of their major worlds They go around physically the missing minutes (hours?) in were spread by Anarchists. All empire? too have fallen. They live in absorbing the brains of sods between, nobody has a clue. Bleakers held by the Graybeards on the prime as countless numbers of prime they come across. Some advice No more deaths due to Harmonium have been released clueless as they are, often worlds but not many of the from a blood like myself is poisoning have been reported without charge. attribute the fall of the empire planets they live on do they avoid them at all costs. for two days. Have the Fresh chant is beginning to due the Beholder race uniting rule. Some chant says there is a Grell in some way look a Harmonium actually managed circulate that the assassinations after realizing the threat of the few Illithid worlds have the little like how Illsenine looks, to catch the assassin? The were initiated by the Illithids. They nearly wiped out former glories of their past. but they have no connection at Fraternity of Order have Harmonium to eliminate the squids but its said by them On many worlds Illithids all to Illsenine or to any of the uniformly refused to comment unsavoury elements in the Sign that stopped when the hatred have been hunted down by squids. Kraken are what some on whether an individual or of One. between the various beholder humans, elves, goblins and rubes think are just giant group has been arrested or (jw) Page 4 Fourth Week of Accordant