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 Tyrannia
All was well in Tyrannia as Team Tyrannia worked on their Slushie Slinging skills (just for a break from Yooyuball). All was well, that is until the Shadow Wraiths unleashed their wrath on the prehistoric land.
[NOTE: All Tyrannian language has been translated - except for Elbin Kroe who is not actually Tyrannian.]
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CAPTAIN LORYCHE So we took a break from Yooyuball? You all know how much we love those slushies. | |
| HARLIS NEYHBOL Them slushies is good. |
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Very good! But Faerieland fall from sky. | |
| WILA BENNE Big trouble for Neopia. Many turned to stone... Shadows came alive. |
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 | ELBIN KROE
I just hoped my friends in Terror Mountain were okay. All the clouds were black, but those Shadow Wraiths were scary! | |
| HARLIS We smashed many shadows with boulders and fire spears. Much more fun than Yooyuball! |
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| WILA
I threw a rock like Yooyu. Shadows defeated - yay! | |
| ELBIN Whilst the others were having fun battling those creatures, I flew off to investigate what was really happening. Some folks in Neopia Central told me that some sort of curse had been cast on Faerieland and it was sinking! All the faeries were turned to stone. Wraiths were everywhere and Neopia was in crisis. I got back to Tyrannia to tell them what was up. |
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| LORYCHE
Elbin reported back with bad news. But we have a duty to Tyrannia. To keep it safe. | |
| SCRAP They kept coming, the shadows, and made many sick. |
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| HARLIS
Like angry spirits. | |
| ELBIN Then Faerieland apparently crashed. We didn't find out until much later about what had really occurred but I couldn't believe it! |
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| HARLIS
Faerieland go boom! | |
| LORYCHE But then shadows go away and Neopia normal again! No Faerieland in sky though. |
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| ELBIN
I snooped around for more news and learnt that the faeries were back and rebuilding near the Haunted Woods. I'm glad it all worked out well in the end. | |
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