A Guardian for the Shrine

A Guardian for the Shrine was a long campaign of the Stormblade Clan, which culminated in the downfall of one of the clan’s most powerful nemesis: the corrupted Wild God Shalarin. Their journey consisted in visiting several places of former clan adventures in order to bless The Stormblade and use it to empower a guardian spirit for their shrine.

Prelude: Stormblade Shrine
During midsummer, Nurzum Stormbreaker called his clansmen to celebrate the ancestors in a ceremony on his newly build shrine. It was all going well until suddenly an ancestral spirit manifested warning them. Shalarin was trying to use that shrine to enter the mortal realm, and the ancestors were keeping her out as long as they could. With the help of the living, they managed to keep her away. However, the door to the Shadowlands was still open and the shrine remained unguarded, as the Stormblades managed to meet again only at the end of the Fourth War.

As the night falls, they gathered around their village's bonfire. However, not even the flames are enough against the chilling cold wind that blows. Chieftain Xul’ili and her disciple Nurzum explained the situation to new bloods and members not present before, and Karthys even suggested using one of his shackled spirits as a guardian. Discussion went on and people began to hear whispers of some unknown voice, which escalated into the howling laughter of Krogarh. The orc’s body showed signs of a bestial nature and the clansmen noticed his eyes had become Emerald Green. The sheer void pressure is unmistakable: Shalarin possessed him.

Her pressure was overwhelming, and she mocked the clansmen about their inevitable destruction. As they slowly but surely managed to endure it, the new blood shaman Detra could not and fell to the ground. Shalarin mocked her by saying the elements had abandoned her, to which an enraged Xul’ili responded by using the Stormblade to exorcise her away. Repelling such a strong spirit was no easy task, and the boundaries between mortal and spiritual planes weakened. The spirit of Darukk, son of Korgaz, then approached the clan and explained how to empower the Stormblade to seal Shalarin away once and for all: by empowering their artifact on former places which were important in their clan's history.