The Story So Far…
Shadow of the Mad King
500 years ago, a tyrannical Krytan king was slain by his own people, those who had suffered greatly during his reign of lunacy. It is said that this king’s body was chopped into pieces, and his spirit was banished to the Underworld, but that he can return to the mortal realm for just one day a year: on Halloween. Yet, it had been 250 years since the last recorded sighting of the Mad King Thorn.
Adventurers received a mail from Captain Tokk of the Captain’s Council, asking them to assist the Durmand Priory, and that strange doors have begun appearing across the land. Magister Tassi asks them to help her find the missing parts to a biography of the Mad King. To help, she provides a new device: the Candy-Powered Matter Meter, and asks that you first use it on the ghost standing next to her.
The adventurers proceeded to travel from ghost to ghost, gathering clues and the missing biography of Prince Oswald Thorn. They learn of the tricks that young Oswald Thorn played, or the violence he used, that resulted in the death of his brother and first wife, as well as several others. Meanwhile, the strange doors across Tyria began connecting brave adventurers to the Mad King’s Realm, proving that the Mad King did exist.
Magister Tassi asked adventurers to continue looking for a second volume, which details his continued reign of lunacy and terror on his subjects and “another wife”:, his eventual murder, and the steps taken to hide his body.
Throughout this searching, the Lion’s Arch statue had slowly been becoming cracked and crumbling as mysterious energy seemed to be building up inside. Finally, the statue itself shattered and the Mad King Thorn emerged into this world. The Priory, however, fought him back and adventurers entered into the Mad King’s domain to fight him.
Their efforts resulted in the Mad King’s power being diminished, returning him to his previous limitations of visiting only on Halloween, and only for fun. The Mad King traveled around Lion’s Arch providing occasional games of his old pasttime: Your Mad King Says…
