Red Star

The Red Star is the name given to a series of celestial objects that appear in the sky of the Far World once every two centuries. A portent of significant doom, for further back than most living beings can recall, adventuring parties would journey to the Tower of Nethys to prevent the destruction the Red Star would wreak (groups successful in this endeavor would traditionally earn the moniker of Star Cleavers).

The precise nature of the Red Star and the mechanics of its destruction was largely lost to the majority of the world. The general assumption among Allarians held that it was a meteor and that its collision with the world would cause great destruction. However, as some observers noted, the logical flaw in this assumption is that The Red Star returns with regularity, which a meteor destroyed or set off course by the Tower of Nethys would not do. It was discovered by the current Star Cleavers that the Red Stars are all vessels launched by the ineffable Dark Tapestry, invasion ships containing innumerable horrors - the method of discovery being a failure to properly destroy it with the Tower and having to subdue the invasion force personally.