Fusion of Lorwyn-Shadowmoor

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Fusion of Lorwyn-Shadowmoor
Information
Era	Mending Era
Date	4521 AR
Location	Lorwyn-Shadowmoor
Sets	Eventide
Storyline Sources	Eventide
Characters	Ashling, Brigid Baeli, Kiel, Maralen, Oona, Rhys, Rosheen Meanderer, Sygg, Sapling of Colfenor, Vendilion Clique
Outcome
Restoration of Lorwyn–Shadowmoor’s natural day–night cycle Death of the Sapling of Colfenor, the Vendilion Clique, the elven royal family, and many faeries and elves Apparent death of Oona and ascension of Maralen as the new Queen of the Fae Reconstitution of Oona in secret and creation of a clique of loyal faeries in Glen Elendra Ashling’s restoration of sanity and loss of elemental power
Timeline
Great Aurora Fusion of Lorwyn-Shadowmoor Fall of the Infinite Consortium

The Fusion of Lorwyn–Shadowmoor was the end of the unnatural centuries-long cycles of day and night that had defined the plane for generations. Occurring a bit more than a year after the Great Aurora, this fusion restored a natural day–night rhythm on the plane and the collapse of Oona's long-standing dominion.

Description

The fusion followed a year of chaos and devastation. The elemental Ashling, having ascended as the Extinguisher during the Aurora, had lost her sanity and sought to raze the entire plane in fire. Her rampage became the defining crisis of the year, with various survivors, transformed or otherwise, attempting to resist her and contain the escalating destruction. Among them were Rhys, now a safewright of the Wilt Leaf, Brigid Baeli, untouched by the Great Aurora's effects due to her possession of the Crescent of Morningtide, and Sygg, hardened into a cruel tactician, all drawn into a battle for the fate of the world Brigid no longer recognized.

At the center of the turmoil was a growing conflict between Maralen and her creator, the fae queen Oona. Oona, having long manipulated the plane's time through unknown magic to stretch days into centuries, had attempted to avert her transformation by transferring her consciousness into Maralen, but instead accidentally created a rival for herself. Maralen, born from Oona’s memories yet given full independence of her creator by a miscalculation, gradually broke away and plotted to usurp her maker’s control.

Maralen’s schemes drew her toward Ashling, whose unstable elemental power had grown nearly divine. With aid from Rosheen Meanderer’s prophetic scroll and the Crescent of Morningtide, Maralen succeeded in temporarily stealing Ashling’s power for herself. Armed with fire and intent, she challenged Oona directly, hoping to end the ancient queen’s reign and the cycle of auroras once and for all.

The confrontation that followed was fierce and spread across both Cayr Ulios and Glen Elendra. Oona killed the Sapling of Colfenor in a final act of spite, only for Rhys to absorb the sapling’s deadly natural poison. Meanwhile, the elemental power Maralen had seized slipped from her control and returned to Ashling, along with clarity and memory. Restored to herself, Ashling joined Rhys in a final assault against Oona. Fire and poison wounded the queen, and as she faltered, Maralen dealt the killing blow using moonglove—ironically, the very herb her original elven self had gathered before being murdered by Oona to create her new form.

With Oona’s apparent death, her long-standing manipulation of Lorwyn–Shadowmoor unraveled. The artificially prolonged cycles collapsed, and the plane entered a true 24-hour day–night rhythm for the first time in living memory. What this meant for its denizens—whether they stabilized in one identity or retained shifting aspects—remained unclear.

In the aftermath, the cost of this transformation became clear. Along with the sapling's death, the event also caused the Vendilion Clique to perish, along with the elven monarchs, and countless fae and elves across Glen Elendra and Cayr Ulios. Ashling, now free of her power and madness, began a new life —memory intact, yet forever altered. Maralen stood triumphant as the world's new queen of the fae.

But even in death, Oona was not finished. In the now quiet Glen Elendra, she was shown to be reborn, her essence reconstituted in secret. In the shadows of Glen Elendra, a new batch of faeries loyal to her began to stir, as she plotted her revenge.