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--- story:the_oakenveil_portal [2026/05/07 11:05] – dungeonmaster
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 It is worth noting that in this campaign setting, and furthermore 5.5 edition Dungeons & Dragons, that a large amount of belief in something can give rise to that something becoming reality, especially when it comes to [[:Gods|Gods & assorted misc powerful Entities]]. This is how Clerics, Warlocks, Paladins and others might contribute to help empower those they deem to be supernatural forces.
-For the sake of those in the now expired town of [[:Oakenveil]], their belief was strong as a whole, however they managed to originat it aside. The language of a "Chosen One" was theirs, the details left behind on a few [[The Firekin Family Project|scrolls]] or random other places was theirs, not from a divine source. When humanoids record history or create lore, the telling isn't always perfectly accurate. This is just a fact that plagues both a fantasy realm such as this campaign setting and the real world alike. For example, one might notice that the word "veil" itself is an anagram of the word "evil" and attempt to imply things because of it, then look for further anagrams and attempt to draw meaning out of them. But this would be done out of curiosity, or paranoia, rather than leaning into factual matters.
+For the sake of those in the now expired town of [[:Oakenveil]], their belief was strong as a whole, however they managed to originate it aside. The language of a "Chosen One" was theirs, the details left behind on a few [[The Firekin Family Project|scrolls]] or random other places was theirs, not from a divine source. When humanoids record history or create lore, the telling isn't always perfectly accurate. Terminology changes. Interpretation favors the reader or speaker. This is just a fact that plagues both a fantasy realm such as this campaign setting and the real world alike. For example, one might notice that the word "veil" itself is an anagram of the word "evil" and attempt to imply things because of it, then look for further anagrams and attempt to draw meaning out of them. But this would be done out of curiosity, or paranoia, rather than leaning into factual matters.
 What we can be sure of when it comes to the "Oakenveil Portal" is that humanoids did exist and their belief did empower it, or something, somehow. Chances are the story of the Oakenveil Portal however is not entirely accurate as it reads.
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+  * In modern time in the campaign [[:Player Characters|The Party]] ventured to the location of the former town of **Oakenveil**. They found a deep hole cut into the earth with a multi-hundred foot metal circular staircase leading down into it. At the base of that they encountered a sketchy tunnel that looked hastily dug out and prone to a cave in if anything should stress it.
+  * This tunnel led to the chamber where the Oakenveil Portal, brought back to activity through ritual by a guy named **Markoff**, a figure in the **[[Half Star Portal Stones|Half Star Cult]]**, was trying to bring forth "The Chosen One." Markoff was quickly defeated and therefor unable to answer any questions about the goings on at the portal, including how he knew about it, how the plan came to be to create an entry way to it after all these years, and what the end goal was.
+  * Markoff had performed a ritual, prior to the arrival of The Party, to open The Veil. He never got to finish and wait for the arrival of a Chosen One, but by that same token no one was able to re-close the portal.
+  * [[:Jhason]], an undead who was present under control of the cult, was freed incidentally by the killing of Markoff and would later return with the party to collapse the entry tunnel. [[:Eyrun]] and some skeletons ended up blowing it up due to his cooperation.
+  * In the duration of just a few days where **Jhason** & **The Party** were all absent from The Oakenveil, prior to collapsing the tunnel, [[AAP|whomever]] or whatever crossed through it and exited the tunnels.