Lost in Mourning is a play written by Luca Syara.
Lost in Mourning is a heartrending tale of Cyran refugees surviving the Mourning, and the danger and trauma they faced both during that event and in its aftermath. It depicts people panicking in the wake of the explosion that set the sky alight, and then fleeing their homes as the mists encorach.
One scene depicts a 7 year old girl, a half-orc, escaping via House Orien Teleportation Station in Whitehearth. As the child is loaded up onto the teleportation circle, before her parents, she is alarmed by shouts behind her and catches glimpses of the station erupting into violence just before she is whisked away to another location. No more groups arrive via the teleporter, and the girl is taken in by a woman she recognised from Whitehearth and her own children.
Another scene depicts workers in a Cannith manufactory, who become trapped in the factory after the explosion messed with the enchantments on the equipment and sealed the doors. The workers, unable to escape the factory, take shelter inside a dragonshard-lined industrial kiln. The workers survive the blast and the coming of the mists, and eventually manage to make it out of the factory. Many of them then die on their way out of the ruins of Cyre, attacked by living spells and other horrors.
Another scene depicts the lightning rail station in Kalazart, becoming swarmed by refugees fleeing the incoming disaster. People mob the trains in their desperation to escape, and the station falls into a state of chaos and pandemonium, with some trains leaving with empty carriages, hijacked by desperate people, and others become stuck and don't leave at all. One train driver makes an effort to ensure that they get as many people onto the train as possible, filling every carriage. The driver looks out and sees the mists approaching, and with tears in his eyes, yells that he is sorry before plunging the train forward, into the desperate crowd that are crowding the conductor stones and trying to grab onto the side of the train.
The last scene of the Mourning itself is on the Field of Ruins, depicting the armies of Breland, Thrane and Cyre clashing, before the explosion rips through them and all three armies are torn apart. Few survive, and are forced to throw their national allegiances aside in the interest of survival as they try to escape. Much like in Luca's other play, Five Lives, they realise that there is more that unites them than divides them, and that this tragedy goes beyond the borders of Cyre, even as the mists don't.
The next part of the play is dedicated to exploring the immediate fallout of the disaster, showing how the refugees were received in each nation. Breland welcomes them with open arms, and sets aside land for the refugees to call their own, camps like New Cyre, High Walls, and Threshold, but that seems to be the extent of the aide provided. Thrane takes the refugees in and sets them up in temporary camps whilst permanent homes are found for them, but this also results in the splitting up of communities, though families are kept together. Aundair and Karrnath both refuse entry to the refugees outright, Karrnath citing an inability to feed them given their own famines and Aundair refusing to elaborate beyond ordering the refugees to leave.
Cyrans spread around the continent, with some even travelling to distant Xen'drik and the city of Stormreach.
The play then dramatically shifts, depicting groups of salvagers going back into the Mournland in search of treasure, and other groups going back in to find lost family heirlooms or search for survivors who didn't manage to escape.
The play ends on a somber note, with the cast lining up on stage and delivering a speech about the current state of things, that for many Cyrans, conditions haven't improved much in the last 6 years. Staff go through the audience with buckets asking for donations to help those in High Walls.