Armageddon zone

• Levels: 70-95
• Danger: deadly
• Author: Lok
• Translation: Reistlyn
• How to get there: 21e5sd8e3n4e2s3enen5es2e (from the Market Square)

The prophets of Ahuramazda, preaching in the squares of New Thalos, know the legend of the first Frashkard and the Coming of their god and saviour, who once turned the flourishing lands of the distant Dark Continent into burning plains of eternal battle between Good and Evil.

By the labours of Varda and Leo the wrathful Ahuramazda was at last subdued, and the territory of Armageddon sealed away, lest the rest of Thera perish with it. The burning lands of Armageddon may now be entered only by a narrow path in distant Freeport.

The prophets of Ahuramazda love to quote the ancient manuscript -- the only one that hath survived from those terrible times. Thus it is written: But the day of Ahuramazda shall come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

And the nations were wroth, and Thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that Thou shouldest give reward unto Thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear Thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.

And thou shalt see heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. And on his vesture and on his thigh a name written: "KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS". (the remainder of the manuscript hath not survived -- which is, perhaps, just as well...)