388YE Spring Equinox winds of fortune

Spring is a time of renewal; a time for affirmed loyalties and renewed oaths.

Overview

Wind of Fortune	Order Released	Last Updated	Note

Over the past three months, events have taken place which are of significance to the Empire and may require a response from her champions. These are the winds of fortune, counterparts to the winds of war that detail the Empire's military campaigns. They lay out situations, and usually include things that characters can do to take advantage of opportunities or to resolve problems. In almost every case, they start with a piece of flavour text. This fiction helps introduce the wind of fortune, or draws out a particular theme or element. Often, it represents a viewpoint that one or more NPCs might have in-character. In all cases, these pieces are intended to help create an atmosphere and provide a little entertainment. Where they contain opinions, those are the opinions of the fictional people depicted - and where they contain information or rumours, the assumption is that the reader will create their own context for that information or gossip if they want to use it in character.

The body of the wind of fortune describes situations and lays out ways players can engage with them. Except where we explicitly talk about something being "rumoured" or use a phrase like "some might say..." the details of a wind of fortune are factual. They represent briefing material presented by the civil service or similar authoritative sources and represent something the average educated citizen would acknowledge as a reliable truth. Unless we specify otherwise, we're also being as thorough as possible. This information doesn't need further checking in-character. It's not an opinion, and we're not trying to trick you.

Nation	Diplomacy Wind

As always, how much or how little of this information you choose to know in character is up to you. Part of the purpose of Winds of Fortune is to maintain the illusion of the Empire as a living, breathing place where things happen - and to make players aware of things their characters could know based on what their roleplaying says they have been doing for the past three months. It's perfectly acceptable to turn up to Empire having read only a few Winds of Fortune that directly interest your character; part of the fun on the field can come from learning about situations and opportunities in other parts of the game.

In each case, we've tried to tag the Winds of Fortune entry with the nations or political bodies to which it is most relevant. We've done this to help people who are interested only in events that are especially relevant to them. In no way are these tags intended to be exhaustive; the Empire is a complex place, and very little happens in isolation. We are also adding the dates that they were last updated (other than typos and correcting red links) in an attempt to make it easier to keep track of the newest releases.

Other Events

Vigilance in Sarvos

Investigated Sarvos
Citizen	Nation
Achseh	Highguard
Ada	Highguard
Aemon	Highguard
Alessi of the Basilisks of the Labyrinth	Highguard
Amaro d’Apulian	The League
Apollos	Highguard
Delilah	Highguard
Destin	Highguard
Elena Donati di Sarvos	The League
Esria	Highguard
Estella Lucati	The League
Fabio Costas d’Apulian	The League
Frater Pontius of Adoniram's Testament	Highguard
Giuliana Tessaro di Sarvos	The League
Godfrey of The Emberclad	Highguard
Jared	Highguard
Joran	Highguard
Jovian	The League
Jules von Holberg	The League
Junia of The Rowan Chapel	Highguard
Kaspar Yakovich von Holberg	The League
Laurencio Lemmini di Sarvos	The League
Lia Adelaar	The League
Melkior of Balthazar’s Vineyard	Highguard
Merlof Von Temeschwar	The League
Miroslaw Vukovitch Von Temeschwar	The League
Omin	Highguard
Paulus Adelaar van Holberg	The League
Taddea Ginori	The League
Tyrael	Highguard
Vashti of the Cenotaph	Highguard
Viviane Barossa di Tassato Regario	The League

Seek out falsehood and expose the truth! We send Joran of Reikos with 25 doses of liao to rally the people of Highguard to use their well-earned skills to find those who betray the people of Sarvos. Let Virtue reveal the deceiver!

Joran of Reikos, Highguard National Assembly, Winter 387YE, Vote: 552-0

Seek out falsehood and expose the truth! We send Viviane Barossa with 25 liao to rally the people of the League to use their well-earned skills to find those who betray the people of Sarvos. Let virtue reveal the deceiver!

Viviane Barossa, League National Assembly, Autumn 387YE, Vote: 168-0

Last season, an opportunity arose for the priests of the League and Highguard to investigate the potential of a Grendel espionage ring in the crown of the Catazar - the city of Sarvos. Both assemblies approved this venture to thwart the machinations of the orcs of the Broken Shore, and the last three months saw thirty-two of their number descend upon the coast in a vigilant fervour. Furthermore, the Sarvos Chamber of Commerce voted to seek out the aid of the College of the Liberated, further increasing the chances of success.

Unfortunately, due to the actions of Imperials taking advantage of the offer of the Court of the Shadowed Oracle to profit from the espionage ring rather than identify and disrupt it, the inquisitors were thwarted in their attempts. The priests of Highguard and the League were unable to follow up on enough leads to identify the Grendel agents or their key bases of operation.

All is not lost, however, the Conclave committed to the war on whispers this season gone, and from that focus comes results. Those who took part in the venture have been able to determine and share that there were three military units led by humans from somewhere in the east of the Empire (that is, from either Varushka, Dawn, Holberg, Therunin, or Urizen) who took part in this counter-counter-espionage.

Participation
Those who took the Preach Vigilance - Investigate Sarvos action will have taken part in interviewing the faithful in Sarvos, investigating leads and clues in the city, and attempting to identify traitors to the Empire. Unfortunately, each time they were close to pinning down something, it would have gone awry. Either a witness was whisked away, a piece of evidence lost, or a written document had the text garbled.

Rod and Shield in the Commonwealth

• The Rod and Shield have been encouraged to support the Commonwealth against Cold Sun
• Members of the order can journey to the Commonwealth to offer advice, or take part, in the fight against scions of Cold Sun

Shortly before the end of the Autumn Equinox 387YE, Lantir was lost to Cold Sun. Sakari Nightscale, as Grandmaster of the Rod and Shield, called on the order to offer magical aid to the Commonwealth, along with the Golden Pyramid and experts from the Granite Pillar. Battlemages and magicians interested in the practical application of magic in military situations have travelled across the Sea of Steel to support the Commonwealth's efforts against the scions of Oblivion, either by directly getting stuck in against the heralds, or through discussions on the tactical use of magic.

Any player whose character is a member of the Rod and Shield can email plot@profounddecisions.co.uk with their CID to let us know that their character went to the Commonwealth. Those who email in will receive a random pawn of vis and a lingering traumatic wound from an encounter with a scion. The deadline for emailing in to take part in this opportunity is midnight on Tuesday the 19^th of May.

Mandates

• You can find details of the mandates, along with the rest of the Synod judgements, here.

A number of mandates were successfully upheld in the Imperial Synod last season. As long as the named priest provided sufficient liao, those mandates have been automatically enacted.

Winter Conjunctions

• Last event there were a number of conjunctions of the Sentinel Gate; their known outcomes are listed here

During the Winter Solstice, there were a number of conjunctions of the Sentinel Gate identified by the Imperial prognosticators. In each case, a band of Imperial heroes used that conjunction to travel to a location far from Anvil and intervene in an ongoing situation. These are the known outcomes of those conjunctions. In the case of battles, it is important to remember that the Military Council can only make use of two of the major conjunctions each summit, choosing which to take advantage of during the Muster.