Ars Aeterna

Centuries ago, a woman who moved among the scholarly circles in Kurayo vanished from the city. She left without much commotion and headed towards the storm-battered valley of Railoch. The reasons for her departure were dire: staying a moment longer meant a fate worse than excommunication at the hands of her former peers–all because she had used a fellow scholar in an experiment. Apparently, what she had done was so abominable that their cold, dead hearts were outraged. With the city of darkness no longer a haven, Ekaterina van Eisser fled to where she would not face such prejudice again.

She laid the groundwork for her new laboratory within an old abandoned crypt in Railoch. The bones that had once laid to rest were now dust and there was no one left to pay respects. In the darkness below the earth, a growing dissatisfaction with undeath began to take root. She became a vampire to escape the limitations of the human lifespan, but now she saw flawed this ‘immortality’ was. A paltry extension of life in exchange for glaring weaknesses. Vampires were reliant on blood, while liches were averse to holy light.

To correct those flaws, she began experimenting with angels. When hundreds of trials failed to produce satisfactory results, she concluded it was due to the weakness of an organic body. As her work transitioned into golems, she had an epiphany. Perhaps the true problem was the possession of a physical form. True immortality transcended the laws of life and death itself. She began transmuting test subjects en masse, turning the extensive underground laboratory into a massive refining complex to create a being without limitations, a living embodiment of her ideals. And now, those years of endless labor will soon be complete.

A call to arms has been sent far and wide across all Revaliir, backed by a shaky tentative collaboration between Ortolanus and Iskander—the former an ancient lich who was a colleague of Ekaterina’s first victims and the latter an elder from Zets’Ki Cradle. The normally parsimonious undead master has even offered rewards for the brave souls who choose to risk their lives in breaching the underground stronghold to put an end to Ekaterina and her creation, once and for all.

TL;DR
A vampire alchemist obsessed with perfection is planning to bring an unspeakable horror into existence for the sake of achieving ‘true immortality’. Stop her before that happens!

Event Location:
Railoch

Drops:
Liquid Gold (common)
Amulet of the Squared Circle (common) 

Event Prizes:
Orbs of Tria Prima
Vigile d’ Egregore 
Vial of Aqua Vitae