So what's this going on all about the sky? No rain, whispy clouds? When did this start/why?

It's the wounded sky, an ongoing event I don't recall a whole lot about other than ice devils. The main reason however is that the weather system was broken, and very difficult to fix as it was and so weather was stopped and boom, sky tear.

The weather system was apparently very very complicated code that did all sorts of crazy RL-esque weather calculations that made it very hard to tinker with, and when someone tried it borked hard, so they decided to turn it off and re-write it.

For the RP behind the event, the Forsaken decided to use the power of the syzgy (all of the planets aligned) to do... something, we never found out what. We were able to stop them, but the damage to the world's weather was irrevocable. The sphere in Snow Valley is supposed to be keeping the worst of it at bay for now. Look for event posts mentioning Forsaken, ice devils, or weird weather.

Personally, I'm assuming we'll find out what they tried to do (or are trying to do?) in weeks leading up to ascension.

Who are the forsaken?

I'm a bit fuzzy on that, but it's either the ice devils/miasmas themselves, or whatever sent the ice devils/miasmas to us (I think the latter).

We don't really know. They're just the guys in charge that have been sending nasty stuff over.

Get caught up here on the Ice Devils, the Forsaken, and the Wounded Sky:

http://www.lusternia.com/game/news/Lusternia/Events/217 (First encounter with the Ice Devils)
http://www.lusternia.com/game/news/Lusternia/Events/218
http://www.lusternia.com/game/news/Lusternia/Events/220
http://www.lusternia.com/game/news/Lusternia/Events/221
http://www.lusternia.com/game/news/Lusternia/Events/222
http://www.lusternia.com/game/news/Lusternia/Events/227
http://www.lusternia.com/game/news/Lusternia/Events/228 (Start of the Wounded Sky)
http://www.lusternia.com/game/news/Lusternia/Events/229
http://www.lusternia.com/game/news/Lusternia/Events/230
http://www.lusternia.com/game/news/Lusternia/Events/234
http://www.lusternia.com/game/news/Lusternia/Events/235
http://www.lusternia.com/game/news/Lusternia/Events/239

I think if you want to speculate on on-going events, you should do so in game. I'm surprised this thread was allowed to live to be honest.

I'm hoping that Icewynd is eventually opened as a new area; a high level bashing and questing ground. It can even have it's own town; we can call it Icewynd Dale!

(ba dum tsssch)

rika:

I think if you want to speculate on on-going events, you should do so in game. I'm surprised this thread was allowed to live to be honest.

No one is speculating, someone just asked what was up with the sky. We filled her in the background, and pointed her to the relevant event posts.