A dark wave of demonic force slides across the landscape, leaving death and destruction in its wake. All creatures great and small, humans, humanoids and all living beings were no match for its awesome destructive power. Shelters held no relief from the greater demon’s insidious power.
Preceding the wave is a fear so great that many are driven mad. In the wave’s wake are left the dead, the dying, and the undead, the mad, the shaken and the still-living. The shadow of the wave has touched them all, but to some, its passing is more noticeable than to others.
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