The Black Well of the Old Ones

Summary
In Sylivas, there exists a nihlistic death cult that seeks to bring about the destruction of civilization. They seek to accomplish this by the opening of the Black Well of the Old Ones- a supposed portal to the underbelly of the abyss.

Background
In recent times, Sylivas has taken a backseat on the world stage. No longer do they wiled domincnace of the mainlund, instead they have been isolated into their home coutnry, and have slowly been declinging in population. These decline in their cultural dominacne has led to many elves questioing the very notion of their exiistence.

Some of the elves think, they should go out in the world again, and should try to reconquer the human civilizations ( which they think are morally bnakrupt and rife with corruption). More moderate elves think they should resign themselves to peace and diplomacy. acting as intermediaries between the other civilizations so as to prevent war.

Some take the pacifist way of thinking so far that it actually spills over into madness. meet here the elves that lead the death cult of ny/rakath. They claim that their civilization as a whole should simply die out and that the slow decline in the influece of their culture is actually a good thing. Unfortunately, they apply this thinking to the other civilizations as well.....

The Event
The death cult has discovered through arcane investigation that there is a way of gaining acess to the abyss via several complex divination rituals. They dont just want to gain acess to the abyss, they actually want to rip a whole between the abyss and our own world; the resultign effect would be free travel between the two planes.

If they are sucessful in this endeavour, then the world as we know it could be overrun with foul demons from the abyss. Some arcane shcolars at the front of their field have indicated that the entire world/universe itself could become corrupted if this occurs, since the planes of existence were never meant to be connected in this manner.

The only way to stop the opening of the portal referred to by the cultists as the Black Well of the Old Ones is to prevent the cultists from gaining all of the material components necessary for he ritual to be performed.

These artifacs include:

The Vice Rod of Mog'drol

The Binding Necklace of V'udra

The Banishing Chalice of Xellmath

Thaazor's Urn of Doom

Rargarn's Skull of Gold