Echo Storms

As time wore on, Tal'dorei learned there were consequences for magics employed on Sunday. Sporadically, large storms of chaotic and wild magic would appear from cloudless skies, wreaking havoc on the local area. They all had common features of a tornado like swarm of lightning spewing out of the ground into the sky, turning it ashen and grey. Left alone for too long and it would start permanently reverting the sky to ash filled hellscape that existed before Sunday. Worse yet, these storms were made of pure magic and altered the landscape and denizens within to deadly effects. These storms seemed like echoes of a time lost trying to reassert itself and cast the world back into darkness. Very quickly, the rulers of Tal'dorei realized the immense threat that these storms posed and starting coming up with ways to neutralize them. It didn't take long for someone form Whitespires to come up with a portable and strong anti magic grenade that could negate the storm if set off in the storm's center. The only issue was distribution; no pattern had yet been perceived in the activation of these storms. It was settled upon to make striders the first responders to such cataclysmic events.

Not one has ever come back from an Echo Storm, but every single time one has come up the nearest strider has responded and dealt admirably with the threat. The deceased's loved ones are well looked after by benefactors in Whitespires and every member of each crew are given a place among the heroes of the Dedication Square in Sun Spire. We have these brave men and women to thank that the world has not been cast back into the shadow and terrors that plagued us during The Year of Perpetual Ash.