War Within prologue: Magical Blackouts in Dalaran
On Sunday, the portal network in the Tower of the Guardian, used currently to allow champions to respond to echo assaults all over Azeroth, experienced a power flow issue as flow of magic it was drawing from slowed for a few moments, causing some concern.
Calling his Sunreavers to his meeting, Magister Sungazer explained that while fluctuations in the city’s ambient magical field are typical, that did not usually apply to magic being provided to such an important task. Fearing a more serious issue was at play, he lead the group through the city to investigate.
They began by questioning two Silver Covenant Guardian mages, in what ended up being a tense but respectful dialogue. They learned that while nothing odd had been reported from the Alliance district, there was an issue with the nearby bank. Proceeding there, the group found a chaotic site: dozens of patrons waiting in a long line outside the building and yelling at tellers to give them their money inside.
The bank, it seemed, had lost access to the magical field earlier in the day which had caused tellers to lose access to the magical vaults for over thirty minutes. Word spread quickly throughout the city, and citizens had been flooding the banks asking for their money to be withdrawn.
The Sunreavers then decided to investigate both main entry points into the city. While Magister Sungazer verified that the Violet Gate had also momentarily experienced a power flow issue earlier in the day, all necessary precautions had been taken and portals had been down for an hour until deemed safe for use.
Meanwhile, at Krasus Landing, all was normal. Sunreavers Skymaster Jadzia Summersun, a new transfer from Northrend, explained that a group of gryphons were being prepared to provide constant to-and-from transportation with Suramar City due to some of their teleportation pads being temporarily disabled.
The group met up and discussed their findings. As Magister Sungazer returned to the Tower to check on the portal network, the others made their way to the Violet Hold to ensure that all was well at Azeroth’s most dangerous and important prison. They were greeted by Archmage Asgard of the Violet Citadel who forbade them from getting any closer. He explained that the Hold was being prepared and secured for more power outages, caused by the excess magical usage of the Council of Six as they work on something in secrecy.
For the moment, it seemed, the outages and fluctuations would continue as the Kirin Tor completed whatever worked they prepared in the Violet Citadel.
To be continued…