Two hours later, Alzar is moving his items out of his Bags of Holding and Other space and pulls out the Temporal Shift Cube. As he does, a mist begins to rise up.
In a moment, an immortal’s servant has appeared and informs Alzar of an immediate need that Pandius has for him. What has happened is that a race of creatures, named the Oard, from another planet in this realm, arrived at Pandius a few years ago.
The Oard hate magic. They are a technological race only, and they pilot their starships with great power and destruction. They wanted to create a base of operations here on Pandius for their empire in this region of space. But the problem is that Pandius is not the right place for them. It’s too magical, too powerful, and would never work.
So the Oard have sent their people back in time to several places along the history of the planet and in particular, here in Norwold. Ancient Norwold, named Aelos, is the area that the Oard seek to subvert, by removing various adherents of magic and pushing those of technology.
Oard –
(Ignore the Borg to the right, I can’t find an image of just an Oard).
The Oard have used anti-magic technology to prevent a bunch of ways of getting someone to their area, but the Cube Alzar just acquired is technological in nature, not magical. It can penetrate their shell, and Alzar can arrive in various places along the timeline, stop the Oard from pushing the anti-magic agenda that results in Pandius following their lead and becoming technology-only and a part of their empire.
Alzar’s Cube has just been set up, and he can go at any time. He asks a few questions first. If the changes were made in the past, why hasn’t the future already reflected them? Because Alzar has already gone into the past and fixed things and succeeded. Now all that’s left is actually to do it. The Oards are pretty violent, it’ll be easy to figure out what their plans are.
Alzar agrees, and he packs some stuff into his OtherSpace and memories some different spells. He has the tabi, imp, and two of his constructs – Fangs and Coils, in the OtherSpace. Meanwhile the stone and bronze golems are in the flask and marble. Alzar can’t take anything or anyone else with the Cube, they have to be stored, so no Android or Amber Golem or anything else. The next day, with his stuff ready, Alzar uses the Cube.