Consolidation



The kithain residents of Topeka do not know WHY Queen Mary Elizabeth ap Dougal consolidated the ducal seats to a set pattern around Caer Pallisades in the summer of 2019. They only know that Duchess Ríona Leocháin ni Dougal withdrew her bale and entire retinue in order to comply and left a command behind to Count Elric Amberlake ap Fiona to do the same.

By intention or accident, the Consolidation of so many balefires created a kind of glamour zone that immediately drew the Elder Dark's attention and appears to have roused Dr. Eugene Miller to even more zealous actions regarding the "treatment" of children and others exhibiting above average creative and imaginative thinking.

Politically, the Consolidation was a disaster. Baron Jarnulf ap Aesin suffered heavy casualities of vassals after first discovering, then attacking the Nightmare Trod. Baroness Chantel and most of her nobles were murdered on the following Samhain. Baron Witherspoon was the victim of a capricious Unleashing at Pennons that cast him into the Far Dreaming; Baroness Witherspoon herself was lost when she went on a rescue mission. Spectacular Sights was sealed after the Emerald City strip club was demolished as a consequence to a Beastie raid that culminated in a severe Escheat breach. The Silverscales claimed the holdings- and the titles of Count and Countess after Count Elric and his wife Countess Rosedove became thralls to Pigment addiction and left themselves- and everything else- to rot.

The Consolidation also severed the ability of Topeka's residents to contact/receive contact from nobles or faction leaders outside the County itself. Most kithain who leave the County and the Near Dreaming most connected to it are never seen again. Likewise, many kithain or their allies simply vanish without a trace. No explanation has ever been reached.

In 2022, the Imbolc flame from Tam-Tara did not arrive.