The Isle Adrift


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The Isle Adrift is a mysterious island in Saerime, first appearing in Chaos Theory. The island was previously inhabited, however, over the course of the last few centuries, the Isle began drifting away from Ashaya for unknown reasons. The movement caused earthquakes and other strange occurrences, and the people later fled to the mainland as a result.

It is home to many ruins, and in particular, The Forgotten Temple.

= Story = Background

The Isle Adrift was formerly home to many ancient tribes. One particularly powerful tribe, ones who were masters of magic, stumbled across a strange artifact. This artifact showed them memories of a previous world and a being known as Oshjin who had reset that world then and others many times before. With this newfound discovery, the tribe set out to locate the core of Oshjin's being and devise a ritual to seal him away. The tribe were successful, and Oshjin was sealed with a powerful ritual in a hidden chamber below their most sacred temple.

The tribe later perished due to unknown circumstances, leaving the seal on Oshjin to weaken over time. Their structures were buried beneath the ground of the Isle and forgotten to time. The gradual weakening of the seal began to cause Oshjin's power to leak out. This caused many strange occurrences as well as the entire island to drift away from the rest of Ashaya. The drifting caused earthquakes and eventually drove out anyone who still lived on the island, and it earned its nickname "The Isle Adrift."

Chaos Theory

Dr. Matthias Zavath and Zalos Sana discover the remains of the tribe's temple and assemble a team of adventurers to investigate it. They arrive at the temple, now in ruins, and make their way through it- fighting constructs left behind by the people and reaching the hidden chamber. The team investigates the chamber, but are forced to flee as Oshjin's seal breaks and they are forced to flee. They escape the island as a giant forcefield is generated around the island, making entry impossible.

As the Expedition Team travels the world, the Isle's drifting accelerates, pushing it even farther away from the mainland in a much shorter amount of time.

The Expedition Team returns to the Isle after having destroyed the rift zones around the world, The forcefield has dissipated, allowing entry to the Isle once more. The party fight their way back to the Forgotten Temple to find that it has been somewhat restored to its former glory in the form of a Rift Zone. They make their way through the temple, filled with more enemies than before, and into Oshjin's chamber. They confront Vinth, and then Oshjin himself.

As they fight Oshjin, his light begins to spread out from the Isle Adrift and cover the world. When he is defeated, it fades away, and the party sees a vision of the ancient tribe as they sealed away Oshjin. When they awaken, the temple has returned to its destroyed state.

Prelude To Chaos (Epilogue)

After Oshjin is defeated, the ruins of the tribe are further excavated and the Memory Stone is rediscovered farther into the temple.

Way of Chaos

Over the course of ten months, the excavation of the temple and the city around it has progressed greatly, with the temple itself having been completely unearthed.

= Trivia =
 * The Isle Adrift was originally conceptualized as an abandoned land covered in snow and ice.
 * This concept was reused in the form of The Tower of the Ancients and later Temptera.


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