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THE OAKENVEIL PORTAL
Oakenveil was a town existing long ago, adjacent to where the town of Oakenshire now exists at the current time. Oakenveil was around well before even the Goliath tribes settled the Havenspass region. The town existed because The Veil between the normal world and a specific realm was thin here, in a spot in a cave, deep below the surface. This led to the construction of the town, primarily for those who could feel the power emanating from the veil. The area originally full of oak trees atop of rolling terrain, sandwiched between mountain ranges, became known as “Oakenveil” due to the landscape and that which was below.
On the other side of this Veil between realms dwells an Entity. An Entity with ambition to drive all abominations from the regular world through The Veil to its side, or slay them, freeing the normal world of them. Those who existed in Oakenveil wished to embrace this. Many considered themselves Clerics, Warlocks or Paladins of The Entity. They consisted of Humans, Dwarves, Elves, Gnomes, Halflings, and those of mixed bloodlines stemming also from those same races.1)
Whisperings from The Entity to those choosing to embrace it resulted in learning steps to perform a ritual to summon it to the normal world. It promised to send itself, in an avatar form known as the “Chosen One”, who would force out Undead and other abominations. A tear in The Veil would be formed, allowing for the Chosen One to emerge and abominations to be pushed through in the other direction to its realm.
The ritual for this involved seeding the rip in The Veil with the blood of those races who were not to be considered abominations. All others would be subject to eventual purging by the Chosen One. Those with no blood, such as The Undead, would be the first priority for the Chosen One to push through The Veil, or Slay.
At present, there is no other revealed history about how things went for the people of the now forgotten town of Oakenveil, or how the “Oaken Veil” itself was buried and forgotten as well.