Second Binding

The Second Binding is an ongoing major event that saw the rise of the Eisinese Khanate in Eastern Erdesia. Like the Binding that came before it, scholars are not too sure what the exact cause of the event. However, sorcerers of the Selesnya Lodge suggest that the event is linked to the sudden influx of people migrating westward and the appearance of monolithic structures all across the world.

Background
"'The stars have guided its escape. There is no turning back now; Ragnarak is upon us.' - Jarl Carg Umbridge" Ten years before the War of the Two Basilieus, merchants travelling to the Far West heard rumors of mysterious obelisks rising into the air, distressing the local populations. Although they were reported to be harmless, scholars investigating the obelisks note that a strange aura is emanating from the objects.

The appearance of these objects were accompanied by longer winters. In the last decade, where the snow once lasted for six months, many settlements have been abandoned on account of the colder temperatures, which have dragged the winters for far longer than it should have been.

Eisinese Migration
It is likely that the drop in global temperatures led to the rise of the Eisinese Khanate in an attempt to escape from the expanding frost. However, another theory has risen in popularity recently, though its credibility is dubious at best. In the Far North, where petty Norse warlords do battle among themselves for what little arable land there is, a pair of explorers supposedly uncovered a rune stone that dated back the First Age -- a priced artefact from a time lost to history. The text is almost indecipherable, but the stone contains a number of distinct images. Chief of these was a depiction of a tundra, when touched, turns red in colour. They sold the stone to a collector in Strand, where it remains locked under the protection of Frejya's Chosen.

The item's origin is debatable, but its contents say otherwise. Norsemen travelling to the colony of Aton have reported strange weather patterns recently, and they remarked how -- in some days -- the snow turned red when the sun is at its lowest.