Darkness Falls
One year after the collapse of the Demon Empire, parties were still held across Cronus to celebrate the victory of humanity. After one such night of drunken revelry, the giant crystal crucifix of Saint Laurent Church de Cronus was discovered hanging upside-down with the bodies of the twelve priests guarding the holy crucifix nailed to the four walls of the antechamber with massive bone spurs. Blood drenched what was a holy sanctuary.
This heinous blasphemy against the gods rocked the entirety of Cronus. The distinctive bone spurs used in the massacre led the investigation straight to the doorstep of the Brothers of the Silent Hand. Amidst this confusion and violence, Aggress the Great, Hierophant of the Holy Order, called together his disciples and announced the Silent Hand had nothing to do with the atrocity at Saint Laurent and called on all believers to stop the senseless violence.
In this uneasy silence, a miasma of death began creeping across the land. Eudemons were rounded up and exterminated, preachers, guards, and even adventurers died mysteriously in their sleep. The only common link between the victims; an upside-down crucifix hung on a nearby wall.
To make matters worse, unprecedented disasters began occurring all over the world; locusts, floods, hurricanes, and plagues ran rampant over the land and brought Cronus to its knees. Though many were convinced these calamities were the result of something rotting in the heart of Cronus, even the sages and soothsayers of the holy mountain were helpless in divining the nature of these disasters....