Infinite Possibilities

Infinite Possibilities Campaign Summary

Infinite Possibilities is an ongoing campaign being undertaken by the Magus Senate of Dalaran. This event had no outside interaction with other guilds. This event was precluded by the Tales of the Infinite series of Stories, which serve as a background for the alternate timeline the characters come from.

This is a ongoing campaign and as such is a WIP

Brief Summary
The infinite time ways of Azeroth are unclear since the aspects power was lost. A dark future has manifested amidst the sands of time. As the infinite possibilities of time are made apparent and the time streams laid bare, this leaves but one question for the Magi of the Magus Senate...what happens when they cross?

Full Summary
For weeks the magus senate tracked a series of anomalies that were beginning to be made manifest. As Garrosh was held at trial in custody of the Alliance, Horde, and Pandaren, temporal disturbances began to sprout up. All the meanwhile Horde and Alliance factions tore themselves to pieces oblivious to the true dangers that were to come. Important Magi within the city who had also felt these disturbances came to the Magus Senate to act as the Council of Six was caught up in the events surrounding Garrosh Hellscream. Scouts led by Mage-Commander Alexander brought back news of developing anomalies which seemed to be appearing at random. Eventually the true nature of the anomalies was revealed by Verus Baelheit and Muzula Silverweave; chronomantic disturbances were forcing their way into existence powered by unknown means. The senate lacks the knowledge to close these rifts for now.

Nethergarde goes silent
The first dangers began when Nethergarde Keep sent out a general distress call to Dalaran...which swiftly fell silent. The damning silence even more disquieting then a blasting alarm. The senate swiftly mobilized to the keep where various battlemagi took charge. The unexpected occurred when the mage-commander suddenly vanished on approach to the keep, upon approaching the magi found their access barred and powerful barriers obstructing their entrance. While trying to break it down, they were ambushed by several battlemagi in Kirin Tor garb. In the confusion a few senators were injured but the foes were driven back with relatively few casualties. Their true foe appeared before them, on the other side of the shield. A man bearing almost exact likeness to the commander; a dark and twisted future version, warped by desperation, and driven to extremes by necessity. The keep was surrounded in a powerful temporal bubble which put them slightly out of phase with the guardsmen and garrisoned forces while the foul reflections of the Magus Senate did their work. After several biting taunts and hints of what was to come, the man retreated, giving the senate time to break down the barrier and run at the man who lay tantalizingly out of reach behind more barriers as the gate sealed behind them and they ran into a well placed kill zone.

As the magus senate took casualties the man, now revealed to be a future version of Vanidicus, retreated to the mage tower to prepare a vast spell while he barked orders through magically augmented voices. He did not expect the senate to survive, but survive they did, with some casualties. They raced into the mage tower, smashing down barriers and managing to plow through guards imbued with dark powers. They eventually reached the top where the future Vanidicus was overseeing a series of complicated spellworks in the form of a great rubric, which powered the time field. Van linked himself to the rubric and activated its defenses and trapped the senate within powerful anti-magic fields which did not affect him. He wasted no time, teleporting to Crona Runetouch and driving him to the ground and ripped his energy from his body, taking a bite of it and throwing it away callously. As the magi tried desperately to cast as Van tore his way through the senate, inflicting many casualties the senate eventually managed to damage the rubric with weak spells, disrupting it slightly. They used this time to strike at him, inflicting minor damage before the anti-magic fields went back up. Van continued his rampage, injuring many more and getting to Verus Baelheit, ripping his energy out before his wife and using the energy to blast the worgen away, but her knowledge of spells let her recover quickly, she quickly recovered and locked blades with the deranged man and they blasted each other apart again. Another mage, Kyandra Icefire, seemed to figure out the spellwork, but before she could tell anyone, Van appeared behind her and with a void magic powered blow, began to rip her energy out, but the other senators managed to swarm the battlemage and repel him.As the senators who mad managed to escape his wrath damaged the rubric some more,

Van was finally injured beyond his capacity to go on. Teleporting quickly he took Drossy, a young girl apprenticed to Arranax DeVin, hostage. Using her as a human shield he destroyed the rubric, which was providing the powerful defensive fields, and escaped through a portal, leaving a confused senate behind. The real Vanidicus soon managed to get into the tower shortly afterwards and was immediately detained for questioning. He was soon released once nerves settle down.

Northrend Whites Out
In the following week several powerful temporal anomalies began to make manifest. Within the Borean Tundra, the area around Coldarra experienced fluctuations in energy level, while in Dragonblight energy signatures were tracked backwards from the Azure Dragonshrine to the Bronze, whereat disturbing whispers and chattering could be heard that sounded of men they once knew. At the Bronze Dragonshrine the deployed team traced visions to Coldarra, where other senate teams where already posted. As they linked up and entered the caves underneath Coldarra, Councilor Zanbor Emerson vanished, just as Van did before his future self appeared. Though they found no foe, they knew that their next foe was upon them.

They found him a few days later when an incredibly powerful magical shock-wave rippled across western Northrend, blacking out several Kirin Tor monitoring posts. The source of this energy surge was swiftly traced to The Nexus, a blue dragon stronghold that had been nearly abandoned in recent years since the end of the Aspects. The magi found a way up by means of a series of teleporter panels which left them on the rings of the Nexus, each one swaying as the magical power keeping them aloft grew unstable. Within the rings of power a future version of Zanbor floated within the energy beams, delirious and in denial, believing himself to be sitting in his office in Dalaran and that everything was OK. Knowing the situation was delicate and that a failing of the nexus's stabilizing effects would mean catastrophic levels of destruction. As the senate worked a way to get Zanbor out of the beam several members managed to trigger his temper, causing powerful barriers to form around them with Zanbor hardly noticing, instead shouting and yelling about paperwork and pay cuts and raises and beer night.

As Zanbor drifted in and out of lucidity, Van lead the senate around, carefully disabling the barriers as not to alert Zanbor, once they reached the closest part to him they struck; ensnaring him in strong containment beams and trying to pull him closer and out of the beams of magic. But Zanbor was too strong and he easily snapped the beams, unleashing great waves of magic to bear down upon the senators as he moved higher up into the energy beams, growing more and more powerful and further destabilizing the nexus.

The magi co-opted the teleport system and managed to reach his level. Zanbor, now nearly breaking apart with the energy flowing through him began to drift back and forth personality wise. One moment thinking of Dalaran and parties and his hated underling Lewis, then the next moment he would be screaming and yelling, tearing at his eyes and shouting of the oblivion that faced them. As he slipped back and forth he fell in and out of delusions, sending intense beams of arcane power at the magi and sweeping destruction out of the center. As he delved deeper into his crazed and at times strangely tranquil state, the rings began to destabilize further, a continent devastating explosion was imminent! As they senate fought to grip him from the center of the nexus the Councilor chattered and screamed unleashing explosive pulses of energy which caught several senators unaware, striking them down. The senate fought harder to pull him from the beams and to defend from his awesome power. As he resisted his body began to break apart. Flakes of skin and cloth drifted away from him. When the magi finally pulled him from the beam that ran through the Nexus and struck him finally, he began to disintegrate. With a last moment of lucidity he asked where he was, realizing what was happening, he fell to his death, his corpse disintegrating on the way down.

The current time Zanbor declined to know of these events or read the reports, not wanting to know what had happened to him.