Dovin Coril (Whitesword, various)
When Iott's reign began, Dovin's missions became less frequent. Their vigilance over planar comings and goings meant that large dangers were answered by them and lower planar creatures that came to Habololy were defeated by the Iottians or prevented from arriving all together. Additionally, the danger from Greysnows was diminished during this time again due to Iott's oversight. It was a nervous at times, but relaxed at times feeling. The years became easier with big Iott watching, but there was an unease to their continually growing power. Dovin was not as disturbed as many of the guardians whose value of freedom was much higher than his. Not to say he did not value it, only that he did not mind that a force was out there preventing the lower planes from reaching Habololy, even if it meant they were watching him too.
He focused in those year on other tasks, more mundane in nature but nonetheless meaningful. Creatures of lesser note that had been allowed to lurk due to lack of resources were hunted down. The cults of Vishtoo, Loomashyn and the other lower planar ones were dealt several meaningful blows by Dovin and the guardians. The battle against the lower planes might never have been in such good shape as it was after five years of Iottian rule.
The Day the Magic Broke was a terrible event when looked through that lens. The only silver lining was that spellcasters could no longer easily travel to or summon things from the lower planes. But those that had been in hiding or biding their them started to creep out of the shadows. Their hesitation bought Dovin and the guardians time, as they did not understand as well as the guardians what the state of magic was. Dovin was assigned a leadership role and he and his team's task: find any new loth that made its way to Habololy and destroy it before it could make plans. Dovin thought they must be joking, or perhaps they meant any loth that came to Icefia, or some area. But the guardians were not joking.
Iott knew sooner than any other mortal organization what the breaking of the stones meant. They reached out within a month to the guardians and came to an agreement on what to do to prevent planar incursions. Knowing Habololy would be at greater risk due to the lack of magic available to many, they sought the guardians and made Kay Allansa, the headmaster of Planar magic available to them. She became Dovin's official contact with Iott and the two worked together on a plan. Dovin had not often met as impressive a woman as Kay. As well studied as possible, dedicated to understanding of the planes without being consumed by any of them, she had a mental discipline that matched Dovin's physical one. The two became fast friends.
The next four years were hectic for Dovin, yet rewarding. Kay directed and led lead. In nearly every nation on every continent, she had the ability to detect loths and send the assault team Dovin lead. As the years progressed, the loths sensed the vulnerability and more attempts to reach Habololy were made. Dovin guessed sixty in the time they worked together. Although some members of his team died, he, Kay, Julius the Bright, and Permenu Waterskipper survived the years. While the many successes gave Dovin great pride, it was the singular failure in that time that haunted him.
In 799, in the town of Lewsteinen in the Destroytian Republic, Dovin and his team faced a loth Corruptor called Calamutus. These loths were known to Dovin and Kay, and it should have been no hard task to dispatch it. By luck, it arrived in a market, already disguised. Anyplace else and it would have been dead in less than a minute. Lukurs the Bold called out for everyone in the market to stop. They did for a moment, which would have allowed Dovin to quickly find the loth. Both things devolved quickly. Ugain, bad luck, as he would learn later, a band of thieves was just about to rob a passing noble who was traveling through the market covertly. The nobles guards took Lukurs for a bandit, the thieves took him to be the law. Chaos ensued.
Ill prepared for battle with trained bodyguards and a mundane band of thieves, Dovin and his group though to retreat, but the loth was still in the market, and worse, he started to kill civilians. They had to remain to find and destroy it. Dovin could not remember a more chaotic scene. There was no way to tell innocent for combatant, thief from guard. His ability to find the loth worked, but the mass of people and movement was such that it was near useless. It only ended several minutes later when two locals Iottian agents stationed in the republic arrived and puts spells to work dispersing the crowd. Kay, who had been communicating from afar, arrived later, as she unable to planarly travel at the time to have reached the area faster.
Calamutus escaped, two members of the team dead along with twenty five from the market. A mix of thieves, guards, and civilians. The local Iottians and Kay argued for a long time and Dovin and his team were detained for a day. Two months later, the team was back at it, heavy hearted from their losses but still with a mission to complete. Only successes after lifted their spirits, which were doing fairly well by the time 801 arrived and things crashed.
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