The Story (Summary)

Many events have taken place on the Shadowland, and the Journal is a lengthy piece of work. Thus, this section attempts to summarize the events so that a newcomer can quickly understand the basic plot points without reading hundreds of pages of documents.

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Chapters

This summary is divided into chapters, which are categorized by critical events that take place in the plotline.

• Part the First: Lord Soth
  Guthnor, Soth, the Order of Sin, and Blackthorn. Cumulates with the opening of the Black Gate.
• Part the Second: The Guardian
  Lord British, Dupré, and Nystul are captives of the Guardian. Blackthorn appears and takes Lord British's place. Mondain and Minax appear.
• Part the Third: Immortality
  Shamino is freed. Soth departs to Krynn. The group learns of the black void golem and Exodus, and struggle to reach Pagan.
• Part the Fourth: The Daemons
  The royal court is free, but daemons Niltab and Maharba appear. Kilmas is sought and found. Andrella learns of star mages.
• Part the Fifth: The Comet
  The comet looms toward Britannia. K'mosh roams the land. The nine day countdown begins.
• Part the Sixth: The Dark
  Erimani faces off with the elementalist Siva. The heroes learn of the Kill. This chapter ends with Kianne in a coma.
• Part the Seventh: New Britannia
  Kianne recovers from her coma to discover that Britannia has changed drastically for the worst. The Guardian's total victory seems imminent.
• Part the Eighth: The Virge
  Andrella returns, and she and Kianne and Aelias work to free their friends from their comas.
• Part the Ninth: The Ether
  The great decision: should Kianne dominate Ether, or is there another way?
• Part the Tenth: Pagan Lords
  The original plan has been ruined, so now the only choice is to defeat the Pagan Lords.
• Part the Eleventh: Rising Army
  Only an army can counter the Guardian's forces and get Andrella, Aelias, and Kianne into position for the final showdown.

Major Characters

The primary heroes, villains, and other major characters, past and present, on the Shadowland, in roughly chronological order:

• Andrella Valence: The most powerful knight in the land, descendant of the mighty warriors of the world of Valencia. Her enemies fear her flawless sword skills and her allies value her talented leadership.
• Kianne Cassidy: An immortal warrior with a treasured bow who has traveled the multiverse. On another world she was once an elementalist. She became the Avatar on different shard of Britannia.
• Lord British: The benevolent king of Britannia. He gives aid to those who follow the Virtues. Lord British is both kind and powerful, though he does not display his power frequently.
• Lord Blackthorn: This man holds a high position in Lord British's court but has designs on ruling from the throne himself. He will ally with nearly anyone who can help him to achieve his goal. Some say Blackthorn was corrupted by the Shadowlords that emerged from the shards of the Gem of Immortality.
• Dupré: A paladin and one of the Avatar's longtime companions. This Dupré is actually not the one native to the Shadowland (who was killed), but is rather from Kianne's universe.
• Nystul: Lord British's very talented but senile mage. He has much knowledge and skill in the arcane and in alchemy, but at times he seems as though he is not playing with a full deck.
• Lord Soth: An ancient adversary of Andrella, Connor, and Kianne from their days in the guild the Lords of Krynn. Soth is a massively powerful undead necromancer from the world of Krynn.
• Connor Mcleod: The immortal leader of the guild known as the Royal Black Watch (RBW), and formerly of the Lords of Krynn. RBW was once a strong force in the Shadowland.
• Sygil Oakenbow: A wandering ranger who is also a member of RBW. Despite being a ranger, he feels Justice calls to him most deeply. He, also, was an Avatar on another shard of Britannia.
• Navien Trailwind: A divided man who trains in the powers of necromancy but is not himself evil. This apparent paradox may explain his seemingly conflicting actions.
• The Guardian: A sinister and powerful daemon-like creature with his sights set on Britannia. He calls himself “The Guardian” as he attempts to cause people to worship him as a deliverer, when in fact he is a conqueror. He can only travel between worlds using a portal known as the Black Gate. The Guardian's current home world is called Pagan.
• Mondain: A wizard who slew his own father to gain the Gem of Immortality. His gem was shattered by an Avatar but Mondain chased its pieces to the Shadowland.
• The Time Lord: An immortal enigma of a being. When Kianne first met him, he was under the guise of a seer named Hawkwind, and the Time Lord occasionally still uses this name. His beginnings are unknown. He works behind the scenes to shape history as needed.
• Batlin: On another shard of Britannia, this man was a follower of the Guardian. On the Shadowland, he is decidedly different...
• Kilmas: Son of Xavier, Andrella's uncle. Xavier allied with Mondain and conquered the original Valence Knights. It is rumored that Kilmas, his son, is a star mage.
• Aelias: A knight from Valence, a paladin by his own claim, though he knows nothing of Britannia and its Virtue system. He was given a powerful blade of light by the Time Lord and possesses the power of healing.
• Rakiah: A ninja from another world. Just who is Rakiah? No one seems to know, but Andrella apparently sent her to the Shadowland.