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## About This Content
Deep within the earth, lost in the labyrinth of shadows, the Horde-Crone has
awakened the troggs to reclaim the ancient city of Gravehold.
The Depths expansion includes:
• Horde-Crone – nemesis
• Nym, Reeve, and Zhana – playable mages with unique starter cards
• One gem – Banishing Topaz
• Two relics – Transmogrifier & Vim Dynamo
• Five spells – Combustion, Devouring Shadow, Disintegrating Scythe, Monstrous
Inferno, & Void Bond
## Mages:
Reeve
I lost the arm to tainted jade. I felt it creeping through my arteries and
lopped it off without a thought. Best to lose the arm and keep the rest, no?
Kadir says I was born for this, meant to live here and now in this damnable
hole in the ground to fight these things. And she has the right of it. This is
who I am, what I am: a blunt instrument to be used against monsters. My life
matters not for much more than that. And I am at peace with it.
Whenever those bells ring I feel my heart swell as I heave my chopper from its
sheath. I smell the air burn as the breach opens and I cannot run there fast
enough. We all have a purpose, a gift to give. This is mine.
Nym
The Nameless… what a stupid name for these things. It makes no sense. It’s
just frightened people trying to understand something they don’t. Monsters.
That’s what these things are. Nothing more, nothing less.
Malastar says respecting one’s foe is the straightest and clearest path to
defeating them. But why would I respect monsters? Malastar is wrong. Respect
is a useless concept in this fight – I have no respect for those freaks and I
have turned as many of them to cinder as anyone.
A lot of people are afraid of “The Nameless,” but not me. They think I am too
young to know what fear is, but really, fear is the only thing we younglings
know. But I choose not to fear them any more. I won’t give them anything other
than my fire.
Z’hana
Through the flames I could hear them calling for me. My mother, my father.
Their voices drowned in fire and smoke… That was the day I lost my family.
That was the day I discovered I was a mage.
My philosophies on The Nameless are even less popular than Xaxos’. Many times
I have slept in the crypts for things I have said to others. But many more
nights I have fought back the dark, side by side with those who have locked
the crypt door behind me.
I have journeyed to the cave mouth many times, sitting in the weak light that
somehow manages to penetrate the mountain of rubble that bars our way back to
The World That Was. Each time I go, I remove a stone. If they catch me, the
crypts await. But I always go back, removing another stone and yet another.
One day I will seek whatever awaits me beyond this place. One day I will
remove the last stone.
## Horde-Crone:
In the ancient time, before our kind, the troggs walked The World That Was.
From what the elders remember of the lost tales, there were three great
tribes, each with a purpose. The Yud were keepers of life, gifted in the art
of creation, molders of flesh. The Orp were beings of shadow, masters of
ruination and death, the counterweights on the scales of life, against which
the Yud were balanced. And the Zom were neither light nor dark, but instead
were dreamers with great minds.
The world was unforgiving and empty then, but malleable, a great marble to be
chiseled and shaped as they saw fit. And though the tribes were each
different, they lived in great harmony. The world flourished and faded,
developed and dreamed, much the way worlds are supposed to. Eventually the
world they wove was complete and no longer needed them, so they journeyed into
the black of this very cave, to this very city, to sleep and be forgotten.
Now The Crone has stirred the troggs from their slumber. Awakened with new and
malicious purpose, they issue from the infinite depths of the cave in their
hordes, eager to take back their ancient city and undo their own great feats.
And who are we but immigrants here in Gravehold, in this world they made for
us? Are we not their children in some measure? Is it not their right to take
it all away?
Aeon’s End – The Depths