Frei's Memories: Day 3 (part 1)

Day 3 (part 1):

We awoke the third day and we were decidedly screwed six ways over.  Greyon, an Aon deserving his own sidebar, gave us a next to impossible scavenger hunt with portal keys, esoteric riddles, and much more powerful adversaries.

Greyon: 
This older, apparently higher-ranking, Aon is in charge of the game.  He has some authority over Serradus and, if subtle clues really mean anything, Serradus resents it. (As for Greyon's relation to Manath, who knows?)  Anyhow, Greyon is the one that turned me into a gecko as punishment for entering the game illegally (without dying).  He many times expressed concern that someone might be trying to steal the Aons' power.  In my case, at least, he's right.

As luck would have it, the cloaked man came through and the obelisks triggered massive explosions, tearing openings in the very fabric of Elysium.  Elementals of all varieties swarmed the game, killing everything in their path.  The most formidable of the elementals, a pyroclastic dragon, burst into the world and immolated the cloaked man along with some of the players.

The dragonborn stood their ground and fought the elementals in defense of a team of gnomes and dwarves who were getting their beards handed to them.  The elves, on the other hand, risked leaping through one of the rifts.  Honoring our debt to the dragonborn, we fought beside them.  Just in time, Serradus, Greyon and Manath arrived and protected us from the dragon.  The battle was vicious, but we survived.

The Elemental Invasion and the Truce:
I'm still not sure what happened back there.  The cloaked man was instrumental, but the elementals must not have cared much for him!  I think the invasion is part of a feud that goes way back.  I've gathered that in earlier times, a super-deity known only as El ruled over gods and primordials, who ruled over mortals.  Well, El must have died or left because the gods and primordials started killing each other and dragging mortals into it.  The war destroyed everything, including the gods, the primordials---heck, it even tore the mortal world in two!  Afterward, the Aons (descendants of the gods) and the Elementals (descendants of the Primordials) forged a pact to stay out of the mortal world and out of each other's hair.  I guess that Truce must be on the way out.

The battle left Elysium so devastated the Aons were forced to cancel the rest of our game.  I was flabbergasted when Serradus suggested we be returned to the mortal world as a reward for our heroic teamwork with the dragonborn.  Greyon resisted with all his usual hot air, but Serradus insisted that returning us would benefit mortals and fulfill some age-old promise binding the Aons.  Unbelievable, Greyon and Manath accepted his argument and released us.