The Incursion

The Incursion was an event that occurred approximately four hundred years before the present day. It was the defining event of the setting, causing the writing of the Treatise and the formations of the Honours and Guilds.

Event
The day of the Incursion was usual in every other way. There was no special occasion, nothing to mark it out as different from any of the others. In a single instant, across the world, countless strange artefacts suddenly appeared. These were in locations sometimes strange and curious; people were finding things in fields, in houses, stuck into walls or, more unfortunately, people. There was shock and terror of the unknown: many artefacts were left alone, thrown into undergrowth and lakes long forgotten, or simply destroyed.