Excerpt: Dungeon Crawl: The Fall

The history books expend a great many words on the history of Vondrin, the Twice-Gated City, and historic home of Janus, God of past and future. Scholars and historians like to ramble about the significance of the Red Demon King’s attack on Vondrin. The theologians remark about the significance of the choice. And no text is complete without a recounting of the War of the Desert Gate or the Seven heroes who turned the tide of war with their valor.

In fact, a cynical student will find that such accounts seem to gloss over the true turning points of the war. Such laudatory texts fail to address the starting point of the battle, and the one decision that kept Vondrin from falling to the Red Demon King. To identify the true turning point one must leave the Twice-Gated city and travel back several weeks before the opening of the battle. In the city-state of Verdun, across the wide plains, to the temple of glass wherein the priestess’s of Medea, Goddess of Innocents, sang the praises of a pure life.

Here, in the silence of piety, is where the war’s turning point first turned.