Dwarvia - The Darkness

It was a bright summer morning when it arrived. Coast dwellers say it came from the east like a storm cloud and grew higher, faster, and darker before it washed over the shoreline and then drifted over the mainland, blanketing all of Dwarvia. It wasn't a cloud, it wasn't dust, but a strange dry haze that hung in the air like cigar smoke. It was orderless and invisible at short distances, but from the mountains and hillsides the fields and prairies disappeared into darkness in all directions, and the sun became a dim white saucer floating through the soupy sky.