Off-season Specials
The Altador Cup season is each year in June. The rest of the year, the players may still get into all sorts of adventures. You can read them here.NAVIGATION:
The Faeries' Ruin Effect on the Altador Cup teams
A Bit of Background Info...
In September, Year 12, the annual Faerie Festival abruptly came to a halt due to an unforeseen curse that turned the entire faerie population in Neopia to stone!
As the months dragged on, Neopia learnt how much danger they were in without the faeries monitoring the overall welfare of the planet. A crack team of heroes (King Altador, two of Altador's guards, King Jazan of Qasala, Captain Brynn of Brightvale, Xandra the scholar, the Ogrin Top Chop Master and Hanso the self-proclaimed master thief) went out of their way to rescue the sinking Faerieland in order to save Neopia from a horrible fate.
Many had to do battle with Shadow Wraiths that plagued the planet and drained the life out of anything they passed. It was a grim time for all.
But the destination for Faerieland was a direct collision just outside of the Haunted Woods and Xandra revealled her true powers for Neopia's rule. At that point Xandra had turned everyone in the vicinity of her into stone after tricking our heroes into believing that an ancient ritual would save the doomed world. Hanso and Brynn had been spared from the ritual's effects because Xandra believed that they could help her reform Neopia "in her image".
Brynn battled against Oblivion whilst Hanso deliberately antagonised Xandra to overload the artefact that started this mess (he liberated it from her a second time since the start of the plot) which led up to the most selfless heroic deed in Neopian history...
Hanso sacrificed himself to save the world by destroying the energy-charged artefact, petrifying himself and Xandra in the process of breaking the evil spell. This unpetrifed our fallen heroes and the faeries... although earlier on in the plot, Xandra had killed off Hubrid Nox to aid her plans and sadly he could not return.
With the faeries freed along with our other heroes, Queen Fyora returned the favour to Hanso, asking him to revisit her when he was fully healed...
(For more information about the plot, please see our The Faeries' Ruin plot coverage.)
But due to the catastrophic effect this was having on the Neopian world itself, our Altador Cup stars suffered during the off-season as well.
Today you will hear from the players themselves about how The Faeries' Ruin impacted their lives and training possibilities in the duration of the global crisis.
Team Interviews
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Team Faerieland
Ah, but Team Darigan Citadel were right - Team Faerieland DID survive the ordeal... but only just. They were there when the artefact was activated and had first-hand experience of the city's demise. They had to go to great lengths to escape to safety.
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CAPTAIN KAKONI WORRILL Oh my goodness - it was the SCARIEST thing my team had EVER experienced! When the artefact was activated, everyone in Faerieland at that point lost consciousness... When we awoke, all of the faeries were petrified! | |
| VALTONOUS RAE Then the Wraiths came... *shudders* |
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 | BABOLINO
Then Faerieland began to fall from the sky! | |
| DELMA HARRENCE With us ON it! |
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| BABOLINO
Yeah - with us on it! | |
| CIONA BROAN The electrical charges in the air made me woozy. |
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| VALTONOUS
I helped battle off the Wraiths as we devised an escape plan. | |
| DELMA We looked for a moment to make a break for it! As we're all winged Neopians, we flew away once the storms paused to recharge electricity... We had to be quick, though, because Wraiths were all over the place. |
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| KAKONI
We retreated to Kiko Lake for safety. All the while we were aware that our home was constantly losing altitude... | |
| CIONA Everyone in Neopia was trying to be so helpful in helping Faerieland, but the crash was inevitable. |
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| BABOLINO
Faerieland was destroyed! No one could save it. We thought Neopia was doomed for sure. | |
| DELMA OUR HOMES WERE RUINED! |
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| KAKONI
But Hanso... Wow! What he achieved and sacrificed for Faerieland was unfathomable. | |
| VALTONOUS What he did for NEOPIA, you mean! |
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| DELMA
We're eternally grateful... but we'll need to rebuild our practice grounds for Yooyuball practice. That's a set-back... | |
| KAKONI It's a relief we're all alive... Hail Fyora! |
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 | TEAM FAERIELAND
Hail Fyora and Neopia! | |
| DELMA Well, we'd better say hello to our new neighbours... the Haunted Woods. |
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