Event: Wrath of the Omega

This is the final chapter of the Trinity: Shattered storyline, and the nine-year metaplot.

...as an aside, it is entirely fitting that it has taken nine years to see this story to its conclusion.

Act I: The Shattering

This is the first act of the Wrath of the Omega event.

Description

At the conclusion of the event known as the Epoch Trigger, the Omega's plan has finally come to fruition. Tetra, having successfully defeated William, has brought together the nine individuals - the Chosen Nine - the Omega has cultivated throughout time and space to a specific location, centered directly between the Three Towers on Adnez, in the year 462 CR.

With a thundering boom that nearly shatters reality, the world reshapes itself into the Omega's image, bringing the Three Towers into close proximity to each other. The Chosen Nine are bound through mysterious and foreign powers to the Towers, their very essences slowly drained into them, and each of the nine incarnations of the Omega emerges from the Towers, converging into a singular spot, though still not whole.

With a motion, Omega grants his boon to Tetra; who promptly transforms into an Omega Dragon, the first and only of his kind. Omega then summons forth a crack in the fabric of the multiverse, and vanishes through it - the point of his exodus becomes the focal point of a set of nine crystals, each glowing with an intense light, reflective of each Force. Tetra rests beneath the rift in meditation, waiting for those who would thwart his master's plan.

After a few moments, the rift seems to widen, pulsing with a great and terrible power, enshrouding the entrance to wherever Omega enacts the final stage of his plan in a shimmering field of energy. The curtain widens until it encompasses the Three Towers, then stops: the Chosen Nine now act both as guardians and keepers of the shield that protects the gateway to the Omega.

If this madman is to be stopped, the first step on the path is clear: destroy the guardians of the Three Towers, before entrance to the gateway can be gained...

Effects

The powers of the Chosen Nine are great and terrible, and further amplified by Omega's boon. While each lives, their essence is tied directly into one of the Three Towers; in return, some aspect of their power holds sway over the fabric of reality that is Trinity.

• Kotrit Wayveri: While Kotrit yet lives, his command of arcane necromancy saps the life out of all living creatures. Any healing effects granted to living creatures has its effectiveness halved, and if a creature dies, its corpse rises as an undead minion of Kotrit shortly thereafter if the soul is not returned to it (while Lux and Umbra live, this effect occurs instantly; if the soul is returned through an Impossible effect, the creature is instantly returned to life and is no longer under Kotrit's control).
• Anabstercorian: While Anabstercorian yet lives, his thirst for power and dominion over the worlds of Trinity weakens their resolve to resist enslavement. All thinking creatures with a brain suffer a -6 penalty to Will saves; all creatures lose immunity to mind-affecting effects and cannot regain it; and creatures that have Mettle (Will) lose it and cannot gain it.
• The Hive Queen: While the Hive Queen yet lives, her presence distorts the fabric of reality, altering it to suit her needs and the needs of her children, and brings fear to the hearts of creatures her kind would consume. Teleportation effects are rendered unusable; living creatures lose immunity and any bonuses to saving throws against Fear effects, and such immunities or bonii cannot be regained.
• Lux and Umbra: While the brothers Lux and Umbra yet live, their connections to the Metaphysic utterly disrupts the flow of souls from the prime to other planes. Creatures with souls that die are unable to be raised from the dead, as their souls are lost upon the currents between the Metaphysic and the Prime; however, an Impossible effect can return such souls from oblivion, though only once. In addition, this clouding of the connection between souls and the Metaphysic reduces the effectiveness of calling upon a creature's Truename; thus, all Truespeech checks are made a -4 penalty.
• Rydia Mistcaller: While Rydia yet lives, her soul's bond with the Primals is sufficient to alter the flow of elemental energy throughout the universe, driving the elements mad. No terrains provide geomancy suites; creatures in a terrain gain 50% energy vulnerability to that terrain's associated element (while Kadyn yet lives, this is doubled to 100%).
• Kadyn: While Kadyn yet lives, her presence encourages the world towards destruction, reinforcing the weaknesses of all. All things that exist, including creatures and objects, lose and cannot gain any energy resistance, and any Damage Reduction or Hardness a creature or object has is halved. If a creature has an energy vulnerability, it is doubled.
• Lavos: While Lavos yet lives, it constantly twists and turns the timeline, intertwining it with alternate timelines and confusing its enemies. Beneficial temporal effects function at only 50% effectiveness (random numerical values are halved; if no numerical values, duration is halved instead; if no duration, the ability only has a 50% chance to function); tracers cannot be placed; and creatures halve their effective Initiative bonus, rounded down.
• The Infomorph: While the Infomorph yet lives, it incessantly interferes with the processing of information, insinuating itself into the very memories of existence. All Intelligence-based checks are made at a -15 penalty, delve into blue checks cannot be made, and loresight memes cannot be used.
• Kevaan: While Kevaan yet lives, he toys with the laws of probability, altering chance by forcing the dice to fall where they may. PEPs and Luck points cannot be used, and effects that would allow rerolls are unusuable.

While these are all considered Force effects of their relevant Force, they are enhanced by the power of the Omega that has been imbued into them - as such, no one, not even a Wanderer, is immune to these effects. They are treated as properties of the plane itself, having been woven into the fabric of reality, and thus cannot be altered by mortal means, save through the death of the individual(s) to which the effect is tied.

Because the Chosen Nine are blessed with Omega's boon to create these effects, they themselves do not suffer them.