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The Three Bladed Sword: Scieran: The Soul-Severing Trinity

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Senior Classmen have started calling you guys "The RGAs" (short for The Really Good Adventurers) - and are impressed that you all made it back alive and not needing of a resurrection. So, y'all seem to have a positive reputation, so far. Further, Professor Arcus ("Bone Daddy") gathers the groups that assisted in containing the Shadowed Lord, as well as your small group that infiltrated his keep. He reveals what is known so far in regard to the Shadowed Lord. He feels that from all descriptions, he has a good idea what the three bladed sword is. It is Scieran. Scieran, the "Soul-Severing Trinity," is not merely a sword; it is a blasphemy forged in the darkest corners of existence, a weapon so potent it defies the very laws of reality. Its three distinct stacked blades, each humming with a malevolent sentience, are responsible for its terrifying reputation: one to cleave the divine, one to sunder the essence of life, and one to tear away the soul itself....

The Academy's Origin

Where did Arcadia come from? The Adventurer's Academy of Arcadia did not exactly pop out of thin air. Well, it sort of did - technically. It was following the second great mage war (which almost destroyed reality itself) that the surviving members of the Circle of Eight reached an agreement to safeguard the future against a possible dreaded future of total annihilation. The question was though, how to do this? Their answer was twofold. The Scourging First, greater arcane magics had to be kept out of the hands of those who would use them for foul purposes. The remaining circle members decided that they would have to sweep the planes for greater magics and lock them away as best that they could. This would be a life's work for many of them, but should they fail - the cost would be too great. The Creation of the Arcadian Academy Second, a virtual army of guardians (heroes?) would have to be recruited and trained to keep those powerful secrets locked away for time eternal or to hid...