Spoilers Years 2001-2500
Summary: Two millennia of peace have consequences. The Tribunal has become a social institution rather than investigative body. Members are selected for diplomatic skill and family connections, not for vigilance. Investigations consist of reviewing paperwork that always says everything is fine because it always has been.
Champions are chosen through elaborate tradition and political negotiation. The divine guidance that should inform selection has been replaced by committee decisions. Not through malice, just through two thousand years of “the system works, so we can afford to be flexible.”
The kingdoms continue to prosper materially, but institutional purpose decays. Libraries are maintained but rarely consulted for the old warnings. The Covenant is celebrated annually in festivals but not studied seriously. Young people know they’re supposed to be grateful for peace but can’t really understand what they’re grateful for. They’ve never known anything else.
In the shadows, Zoroth, the Hollow Prince begins carefully reaching out to The Nyx. Not with commands or threats, but with questions: “Do you tire of enforcing rules no one remembers why they exist?” He moves slowly, testing who might be receptive, planting seeds of doubt.
Key Developments:
- Institutional decay through complacency, not malice
- Tribunal becomes ceremonial bureaucracy
- Champion system loses divine connection, becomes political
- Younger generations have no context for Covenant’s importance
- Zoroth begins subtle outreach to The Nyx
- Ysalyn the Fell shows interest in Zoroth’s perspective
- Still no actual threats manifest—complacency seems justified