Reality seems to shudder and strain under an enormous weight as your vision goes white. Against the pale backdrop you see the silhouette of an Elf, walking along a path of black tar sprinkled with ivory. The Elf stops and performs an elaborate gesture, causing the path around him to change. Tendrils of blue energy, half-cloud and half-lightning, first snake along then envelope the path in both directions. In a final display the now bright path folds in upon itself, the line becoming a circle.

A flock of birds bursts forth in flight to obscure your vision, and just as you begin to note the variety of colorful plumage, you see each of the creatures crushed by an invisible force! You duck your head to avoid their twisted bodies as they fall, and when you look back up, find yourself reoriented to your surroundings, the jumbled images all but a fragile memory.

Your sight is suddenly snatched away by an intense vision, but you first hear a scream of feral anger rather than see it. The image of the Faldesu river appears, quiet at first but then beginning to churn and boil. Skeletal figures rise from it, dancing at the hands of an unseen puppet. (This last vision might be a typo and was probably intended to read puppeteer.)

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3 separate visions. I suspect they are unrelated to each other.

No real ideas about the first vision but I have seen a warrior mage spell that messages similarly with a blue and white cloud.

The 2nd vision might have something to do with the Shard guild (birds), so anyone in the South should keep an eye out there.

The last vision relates to an invasion in Riverhaven earlier today where a howling Prydaen man ran through the streets, gibbering and calling forth foul magics. He summoned skeletal bowmen, river-dwellers' skeletons and waterlogged skeletal hounds. As far as I know the necromancer was only seen in Atmo messaging and not as a stand alone NPC. For anyone interested in the average difficulty of the 3 invasion mobs: the hounds were the most difficult; their defenses were comparable to Adan'f spirit dancers but their offensive skill was at least a full level higher. Their stat builds appraised as roughly equal to the 60-70 range across the board.

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drat. wasn't logged in for any of it, got it from a 3rd party.

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A bit belated, and this came by way of someone who saw the vision in Plat, but I'm guessing it was probably the same:

A strange, oily sensation creeps across your flesh and you feel as if you are falling. The world around you grows dim and distant, and you become aware of the disjointed elements of a scene that is both here and not.

A corpse lays before a furious Prydaen man, its form shifting so rapidly that it's impossible for you to make out any details save for a heavy, hooded cloak. As if ash, pieces of the body's flesh flake away until all that is left is a sooty cloud. Carried upon a fierce wind, the ashen mass first swirls over water teeming with fish, then continues to pass by a crystalline sculpture before settling to reform in the shadow of a great mountain.

A flock of birds bursts forth in flight to obscure your vision, and just as you begin to note the variety of colorful plumage, you see each of the creatures crushed by an invisible force! You duck your head to avoid their twisted bodies as they fall, and when you look back up, find yourself reoriented to your surroundings, the jumbled images all but a fragile memory.

- Miskton

Are we ever going to learn who the old man is or do we have to become gms to find out?

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