Fractured Magic (Story)

Fractured Magic is a storyline that is designed like a comic book mini series of five issues that is about the magic element of the RS Universe and the focus is mainly on Runes and Baron Steampunk as they try and stop a new threat in the form of Hedu a cosmic deity. The story begins a month before the beginning of Season 2 with Runes off on his own tracking The Black Knight but he comes across a new Sorcerer named Venture and he fights him briefly till Venture beats him and escapes but Runes follows him to a cave close by where he has a ancient artifact called the Eye of Ummolius which he uses to summon Hedu, who arrives from a portal. Venture commands Hedu to destroy the sorcerers of the world so he Venture could be the most powerful one which Hedu replies with a malicious laugh then raises his staff and disintegrates Venture who screams in pain as it happens. Runes attacks Hedu who uses his staff to blast him away nearly killing and prepares to kill him but a portal opens and Baron Steampunk exits it and blasts Hedu with a spell of Dark Matter. Hedu is knocked off balance and Steampunk then grabs Runes then drags him through the portal back into his House on Earth-7. After Runes is healed up, Steampunk explains to him who Hedu is and then tells him that they need to head to the Keep to try and find a weapon able to defeat Hedu. They arrive at the Keep a magical point in between Dimensions much like the Edge used by the Alliance of Freedom used at a later point in time. As they are searching for a weapon Hedu arrives at the Keep to destroy it and all the sorcerers in It in his quest for extermination of all Magic Users, Steampunk and Runes lead a attack against him as they where there to learn knowledge about the Neocraft and it's threats, they are defeated by Hedu and he destroys the Keep and kills many of the sorcerers. Runes and Steampunk then team up with a group of other sorcerers and search for the Staff of Rand a power mystical artifact that was the only power currently available to them that would not corrupt them instantly by using it. They begin a quest to find it ending with Runes using it to banish Hedu to the other side of the universe. This storyline includes many new sorcerers like Magician, Rift, and Jackal.