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 Meridell
Neighbouring Brightvale, Meridell also underwent a similar predicament with the Shadow Wraiths. Team Meridell had to forfeit team practice to show the Wraiths their knightly skills instead.
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CAPTAIN "WIZARD" WINDELLE You should've seen me! I gave those Wraiths what for! Haha! | |
| YORIS OBBLES Not my idea of fun, Captain. Creatures that can drain your life force? No thanks, I'd rather be mistaken for a Yooyu over that any day. |
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 | ILSA ELLITS
So it wasn't Yooyuball? The adrenaline rush is all the same and it's just as brutal. I ain't Centre Defender for nothin'. | |
| FIORINA Good things the Shadow Wraiths can't fly! I had an advantage from the start. Aerial attacks are my speciality. Vanquished a TON of them! |
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 | GREGORIO MAILLE
By Skarl it was insane! We found out from Brightvale that they had the same invasion and many were starting to perish. Faerieland was in dire straits! | |
| WIZARD Those poor faeries, all they ever did was help Neopians! I would have loved to help them if we weren't ambushed. |
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| FIORINA
Other heroes, including a Brightvale Captain, were helping the faeries, Captain. | |
| WIZARD What I don't get is why King Skarl didn't send Jeran out to join that quest to save Faerieland? Damsel saving is right up his alley! |
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| ILSA
Skarl wanted Jeran to stay behind to protect Meridellians. Can't say I blame him. | |
| YORIS Despite all of the mayhem, the Turmaculus managed to remain asleep. |
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| FIORINA
That was a good thing for you, Yoris, considering how often you claim to be mistaken for a Yooyu! | |
| YORIS Shadow Wraiths, Faerieland's demise... being eaten by Turmy? Why didn't I just stay home? |
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| WIZARD
Chin-up, young JubJub! The heroes were victorious and we could return to our daily lives. | |
| GREGORINO You know what's left me wondering...? |
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 | TEAM MERIDELL
What? | |
| GREGORINO I wonder how many Draik Eggs were stolen in the duration of this predicament. I doubt Merifoods have that level of security, what with thieves hanging around. |
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| ILSA
Good question. I don't think anyone was paying attention with those Wraiths around. | |
| GREGORINO Drat! I could've snagged meself one had I known! |
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| WIZARD
Gregorino! For shame, do not encourage thievery. | |
| GREGORINO Sorry, sir. |
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