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 Altador
Team Altador immediately knew about the plight of Faerieland the moment that King Altador departed with great haste to investigate the issue. When Neopia began to fall into decay, though, and the Wraiths came in their masses, the Gladiators had to turn their attention to more important matters than Yooyuball...
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CAPTAIN "TRAPPER" REMIS The Wraiths came wave upon wave! There hasn't been this much fear in Altador since the Darkest Faerie became a threat.. | |
| LYVON CIBAIRE A Phantom Destroyer broke into my house and shattered all of the mirrors. I had to spend an entire week indoors protecting my family from those spectres. |
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 | SALAYNE RITAD
The clouds were so grey and the land became very cold. At first our fellow Altadorians just thought it was a bad turn of the weather but then... Then the lightning came. | |
| TIMU So many Altadorians were injured during the invasion of the Wraiths and suffered quite a few lightning shocks. I mostly acted as a healer, tending to the injured, offering what healing potions I could spare... The land was in chaos! |
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 | WINBERTO SELIZ
It was awful! Even the economy suffered. The petpets in the Legendary Petpets Shop escaped in a frenzy and none of the stores could keep a steady restock rate because every other land in Neopia had the same problem. | |
| TRAPPER Match practice was cancelled - it was far too dangerous for us to play. Had to help protect the land. |
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| TIMU
It was horrifying! Those creatures drained a lot of the citizens. | |
| SALAYNE King Altador is a good leader. He always cared about the welfare of Queen Fyora and Faerieland. |
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| WINBERTO
Good Lupe. | |
| SALAYNE Good Lupe. |
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| TRAPPER
We all missed out on a lot of team practice but it was the same for other teams, so that's okay. | |
| TIMU No, that's not okay. It was terrible! |
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| TRAPPER
You know what I mean. | |
| TIMU Yes. |
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| WINBERTO
Either way, we all survived with minor injuries. | |
| TIMU We're glad that King Altador went to rescue Faerieland. Long live King Altador! |
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 | TEAM ALTADOR
Long live the king! | |
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