I'm sorry if I sounded grouchy Jaleela, that wasn't my intent - I was making a joke at Thelandrin's expense over his tough line on thread necromancy, in general its a fair cop when its done as the early posters can't respond to any comments, etc but a new reader won't necessarily recognise that the time gap prevents response but I didn't mean to imply that you were doing anything wrong.


Personally I love talking about stuff like this

We definitely need something fairly cataclysmic to explain the disappearance of the landbridge, but have the problem that coastal cities like Ilien were coastal before hand and weren't too badly affected - economic blight but not tidal waves sort of thing and there were lots of survivors which is why I go for something mystical/delayed but still epic in concept.

The more I think about the more I like the shift into the shadow world approach - how about a quest to restore the holy site? Of course Azrai also died on the mountain too - and who knows what corruption has seeped into the holy stone whilst in the land of nightmares...