In FY 14 one of my PCs (a new avangion) teamed up with Nethas and Xaymon to travel about 3000 years into the future. They spent a couple months there traveling the wastes, looking for life. They visited the seven city states, a dozen villages, they scoured the tablelands and they found… desert and ash.
Whole swaths of land were defiled, the Crescent Forest and Forest Ridge were gone, silt had pushed even further into the tablelands, cities were broken ruins, villages were just gone, mountains had erupted into volcanoes and the sun beat down mercilessly. They did not encounter a single living creature, but a lot of undead, intelligent and not. All wanting to extinguish their life. They could not find the cause, but looking around them they could see evidence of defilement and the paraelementals everywhere.
They returned to FY 14 and vowed to never let it come to pass. They knew they were not strong enough alone, they would need to take on all the Sorcerer Monarchs, the para elemental priests, every defiler would need to be destroyed. Undead would need to be wiped from the face of the world.
In FY 14 alone they located three more potential avangions, invited them into the newly formed council and used the Korgunard’s Annulus to help them transform into avangions. In FY 15 they started courting three more that accepted. One has already used the Annulus succesfully, one it turned out had defiled long ago and turned to ash, and a third hasn’t yet used the Annulus while the council tries to figure out what went wrong. They identified another three candidates that will need assistance to gain the required power including Atzetuk (who they don’t yet realize has been lost to the spirit of Tek) and Shatri.
Xaymon knows his mentor Korgunard had an avangion mentor, but not where he or she is, if they are still alive, or if the council could convince them to help. They don’t believe even with all of the council they can yet avert this coming apocalypse, but with the First One’s help (who they believe is fully metamorphisized), more preservers, and becoming more advanced themselves, they think they have a shot. Until then they hunt for allies, helpful magic and psionics, destroy undead, defilers, and para elemental clerics, and try to stay under the radar.