Quote Originally Posted by TooSoon View Post
It's a fair question. The instinctive reply is "well, this is a low levelled world"... and that's kind of true. On the other hand, it's also not. For instance, V's master would be, what, level 16+ at least to be an Archmage? Assumedly higher, since I doubt they get called Archmage for having 1 level in it. Similarly, there have been other Archmage's an wizards in the past (like Fyron) who are assumedly high enough level to help a lot. The elves have a country of their own too, which must have high level characters. Then consider the Familicide spell. Did you see how many Black Dragons were killed? The corollary of that is there should be similar numbers of good dragons who want to help save the planet (and even the evil ones don't want it to be destroyed). The Ancient Black Dragon was a 32-33 HD monster with at least level 17 Sorcerer abilities. It was more powerful than the entire Order is now. The good versions of such Dragons sure would come in handy right now. Even the Evil ones aren't likely to interfere to stop them, they don't want to be destroyed after all. There have also been a few other characters, some joking ones, some serious, who have appeared on panel and would probably be a big help. Ok, they don't all know about it, but many of them (such as V's master) could be easily informed, and by this point High Level Dragons watching over humanity should have enough clues something pretty serious is going on (and some of these people could be reached out to for help).
I mean, there were also those two guys who habitually storm the gates of Hell that Durkon found that one time, who almost joined the Order, but Roy had already found the Order we know and love.

That being said The idea that there's OTHER world ending plots going on isn't a bad one.