Runeterra and a New Beginning?

Two months ago, the Harrowing in Bilgewater had been long and bloody...

Most people had no idea what had happened that night. Even the few who did know were vague or evasive, unwilling to go into detail.

In any case, the people of Bilgewater who had survived that terrible disaster knew roughly this much:

They had endured the darkest Harrowing in Bilgewater's history. In the vast expanse of cursed Black Mist that had shrouded half the Serpent Isles, at least a fifth of the people in Bilgewater City had died at the hands of all manner of evil Undead, slaughtered in the rampage of those terrifying monsters!

Those unfortunate souls had likely had their spirits cursed and been dragged back to the Shadow Isles by the wraiths as the Black Mist receded.

Even today, the devastation of that night was still plain to see in Bilgewater.

From Butcher's Bridge, one could see that aside from some of the docks and parts of the Lower City in the low-lying areas, more than half of the wooden houses and houseboats in the city's upper districts had been destroyed by the dark red flames that appeared that night. Without a doubt, the devastation had been horrific...

Of course, most of the fires had actually been started by Bilgewater's own people, after they discovered another miraculous use for those flames.

But...

No one could deny that as dawn approached that day, they had defeated the Black Mist from the Shadow Isles for the first time, along with those evil Undead scum!

Yes, they stubbornly believed exactly that!

Though, at the last moment, a miraculous golden beam of light had descended from the sky, driving away the Black Mist and purifying the wraiths concealed within it, the stubborn people of Bilgewater believed that even without