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205 LE
Víday, 1 Stormtide 205 LE
Iourn > Northern World > Urova > Salmaynak > Keldeema
> The Devastation:
- The Chosen, Syrah, Rio, Alessandre and the three pilgrims enter
the devastation of the Dragon Within.
- They carry the virgin (Silantha) on a litter, and drive fifteen
head of cattle and struggle with three heavy chests of gold.
- They arrive at the Great Mausoleum and drive the cattle up the
gutter to the left of the steps.
- Everything is on a dragon-sized scale.
- At the top they are attacked by a glass grenades that produce
an odd purple smoke. All apart from the Chosen and Syrah are rendered
unconscious.
- Alessandre and Rio are revived they have lost days worth of
memories.
- Rio can no longer remember Elias kissing Alessandre.
- With no sign of their attackers, the Chosen, Syrah, Rio and
Alessandre enter the mausoleum.
- They find a great room with a ziggurat in it. Atop is a throne
on which the virgin is supposed to sit. Locked doors lead onwards.
- Nicos burns through the doors with the power of his mind.
- In the corridor beyond they are attacked by a powerful stream
of fire. Everyone dives for cover except Arvan who is nearly killed.
- Arvan is bundled to safety by three dimunitive figures in black.
- They are enigmatic, but claim to be here to "deal with
the dragon".
- The Chosen decide to give them the benefit of the doubt and
return to the front steps and set up camp.
- See also:
Terday, 2 Stormtide 205 LE
Iourn > Northern World > Urova > Salmaynak > Keldeema
> The Devastation:
- At dawn two of the three black figures come to the Chosen. One
is badly wounded.
- The unwounded one reveals himself to be Callo of Walhoon. He
is with the Gnomish Intelligence Bureau (GiB).
- He needs the help of the Chosen to complete him mission.
- The Dragon Within is long dead. Two gnomish criminals (Verhoo
Lynwyg Thrang and Samonian Ferk) are using Walhoonian technology
to masquerade as the Dragon.
- The Chosen, Syrah, Rio and Alessandre team-up with Callo to
bring in these gnomish criminals alive.
- They find the skeleton of the Dragon Within. Elias instinctively
knows that it was a blue dragon of fantastic size and power. It
has been dead thirty seasons.
- Elias takes a tooth from the great beast.
- They encounter a large mechanical dragon piloted by the gnomes
and do battle against its fiendish gadgets and unexpected accoutrements.
- Raza and Arvan manage to board the dragon before it flies away.
- In flight, Raza over-powers the engineer (Thrang) while Arvan
tackles Ferk the pilot.
- Ferk ejects the pilot compartment, himself and Arvan leaving
Raza to try and fly the dragon in for a landing. It crashes spectacularly
but Raza and Thrang survive.
- The Chosen agree to aid Callo in his gnomish cover-up if he
aids them.
- The memories of the three pilgrims are modified. Alessandre
(as Millicent) will remain with them to convey the following to
the people of Salmaynak.
- The worship of the Dragon Within is at an end; the Dragon has
flown south to battle Karatath and it invites all of Salmaynak
to raise up against this threat.
- Callo promises to raise the matter of Karatath back in Walhoon.
Raza offers Zookie as a possible go-between.
- The Chosen, Syrah and Rio leave between the prelates from Temple
Town arrive.
- Alessandre bids Elias farewell. The status of their relationship
is still not properly defined.
- See also:
- League of
Light campaign, The
Dragon Within campaign log, twenty-two
and twenty-three.
Iourn > Northern World > Urova > Norandor > The
Wold > Galys:
- Remembering the tragedy of Ornlov Field, the hobbits march an
army between the Watchers and the Arcanum Incognita.
- They force the Watchers out of Galys and the Wold.
Zephday, 3 Stormtide 205 LE
Iourn > Northern World > Urova > Salmaynak > Keldeema
> The Devastation:
- The Chosen, Syrah and Rio bid farewell to Callo.
- They leave the Devastation for Sal'Parvis to tell the Prince
Meredith that they have kept their bargain.
- See also:
Zephday, 10 Stormtide 205 LE
Iourn > Northern World > Urova > Salmaynak > Celencia
> Sal'Parvis:
- The Chosen arrive in Sal'Parvis and are conducted back to their
townhouse.
- They begin their meetings with five of the six princes again.
- They are able to convince them that Korvis will not invade their
country.
- The princes finally agree to Enoch's term. Nicos sends word
to his Fire Eye.
- Lazarus Hawkshood tells Nicos that a cleric of the Odyssian
Church based in Junos thinks he has found a way to breach the
Astral Plane.
- If a portal can be formed, Tarex intends to send an army through
it.
- See also:
Sunday, 14 Stormtide 205 LE
Iourn > Northern World > Urova > Norandor > Uris:
- A 500-strong force of from the Children of Óslos and
other notables (including Lazarus Hawkshood) assemble in Selentine
Park.
- The wizard Forsharn and members of the Odyssian Church follow
the insturctions of Jellovar of Junos and opened a magical portal.
- The assembled enter and disappear.
- Immediately, Nicos's connection with Lazarus is broken. The
fate of the Fire Eye and army is unknown.
- See also:
Iourn > Northern World > Urova > Salmaynak > Celencia
> Sal'Parvis:
- The Chosen of Narramac leave Sal'Parvis at the beginning of
a long journey to Ashardon.
- Rio remains in Sal'Parvis with her uncle Baraka.
- See also:
Terday, 16 Stormtide 205 LE
Iourn > Northern World > Urova > Norandor > Sal'Cran:
- The Chosen and Syrah awake on the northern side of the Straits
of Contemplation: they are back in Sal'Cran.
- While Nicos is shaving, a figure steps out of the Mirror of
Mellifel and introduces itself to the Chosen.
- It is locutor of the Nerra, and comes from a place called the
Plane of Mirrors.
- This plane is akin to the Astral and could be used as means
to move large forces in the coming war.
- The locutor says the Nerra have already been approached by the
forces of Karatath. It invites the Chosen (as representatives
of the northern world) to make a counter-proposal.
- The Chosen will be summoned to a parley with the Nerra at a
later date.
- See also:
Zephday, 17 Stormtide 205 LE
Iourn > Northern World > Urova > Norandor > Sal'Cran:
- The Chosen of Narramac are given an audience with Korvis. They
tell him everything.
- He congraulates them, but has misgivings about their ruthlessness.
- Korvis agrees to commit his army to the League of Light.
- The group discuss how Raza can exercise his authority as Godspeaker
without emasculating King Galahyde.
- Elias and Nicos go to the pub to avoid the protracted discussion.
- Later, Korvis shows the Chosen a host of demonic maggots and
larvae that were recently delivered to the city in grain that
originated in Narrisham (alledgely).
- The Chosen recognise the maggots as the same creatures they
destroyed in Umbria on 11 New Year.
- The maggots are destroyed before they can turn into fiendish
locusts.
- See also:
Caladay, 18 Stormtide 205 LE
Iourn > Northern World > Urova > Norandor > Sal'Cran:
- Nicos sends word to Fire Eye Verity Candor to get Kybos of the
Scrivereners to research the mysterious Nerra.
- The Chosen and Syrah Pendragon depart Sal'Cran for Uris.
- They take Fire Eye Igneous Hawkshood. The new plan is that he
will replace Vince on Belsinor's Girdle, leaving Maelstrom to
do what he does best in Sorostrae.
- See also:
Morday, 20 Stormtide 205 LE
Iourn > Northern World > Urova > Norandor > Westerland:
- En route to Narrisham, the Chosen, Syrah and Igneous see a large
army heading from the city to Sal'Cran.
- The army is led by Duke Gardoneaux.
- The Chosen demand and audience, but must wait and are forced
to travel with the army back toward Sal'Cran.
- See also:
Sunday, 21 Stormtide 205 LE
Iourn > Northern World > Urova > Norandor > Westerland:
- The Chosen and Syrah have an audience with Duke Gardoneaux.
- He claims agents of Korvis seeded his grain stores with fiendish
maggots that hatched into giant infernal locusts.
- The food stores have been destroyed, hundreds are dead and Gardoneaux
is going to make Korvis pay.
- The Chosen try to convince the Duke of his error but to no avail:
they need proof.
- Nicos tries to contact Fire Eye Clintlock Papin in Narrisham,
but he fails.
- The Chosen take their leave of Gardoneaux and head to Narrisham.
- See also:
Terday, 23 Stormtide 205 LE
Iourn > Northern World > Urova > Norandor > Westerland
> Narrisham:
- The Chosen of Narramac and Syrah enter the devastated sprawl
of Narrisham.
- Heading into the city they visit the local Church of Fire and
speak to First Flame Pinko Turk.
- Pinko says fire clerics tried to defend the grain store against
'agents of Korvis'.
- Three were killed, Clintlock Papin was badly wounded with a
vile weapon (he's in a coma) and Eleanor Stone survived.
- Nicos succeeds in resurrecting one of the three dead fire clerics.
- Nicos learns that the vegetative Tarrashar is at the Village
of the Eighteen Churches in the care of Vina Leikey.
- The Chosen meet with the cheerful but ineffective Marquess Sirann.
- They want a scrivener to interrogate the dead bodies of Korvis's
'agents'.
- Sirann is happy to help, by the Chosen suspect Chancellor Artur
of being complicit.
- Brack follows Artur and overhears order for the bodies to be
burned.
- Brack has to fight a number of guards to retrieve the dead bodies.
- Artur says that he'll get to the bottom of it and then tries
to have Brack murdered. Bad move.
- Artur is apprehended in the streets of Narrisham after a high-speed
donkey chase.
- Speak with Dead spells are cast: the chosen learn the infernal
eggs originated from a half-elf called Maurittius.
- Maurittius is currently at the Peak Infernal (where ever that
is!)
- Vina Leikey confirms that (in his youth) Tarrashar used to adventure
with a half-elf called Maurittius.
- The Chosen learn that Clintlock Papin is actually a Malificent
and rush back to the Infernus to apprehend him. But he has gone.
- Nicos detects Papin out in the plain surrounding the city, but
he cannot tell where.
- The Chosen and Syrah chase after him. But it is dark.
- A flying Arvan spots Papin trying to cross a river.
- Arvan tries to capture Papin in octopus form but inadvertently
kills him.
- See also:
- League of
Light campaign, Sow
the Wind campaign log, session
twenty-five.
Zephday, 24 Stormtide 205 LE
Iourn > Northern World > Urova > Norandor > Westerland
> Narrisham:
- After witnessing two bulettes in flagrante delicto, the Chosen
return to Narrisham.
- They meet with Marquess Sirann.
- Nicos interrogates his fire eyes for any information about the
Peak Infernal.
- He discovers the children's story told by Alamanda.
- The Chosen search the house of Clintlock Papin and discover
a note that may have been written by Tarrashar.
- Nicos contacts Fire Eye Lars Ulrich at the Village, but there
is no evidence of Tarrashar being ambulatory.
- See also:
Caladay, 25 Stormtide 205 LE
Iourn > Northern World > Urova > Norandor > Westerland
> Narrisham:
- Arvan attempts to follow the tracks of whoever left the note
for Papin.
- This is a seemingly impossible task, but somehow Arvan succeeds!
- The Chosen and Syrah follow the tracks to a room in a tavern
called the Crying Gull.
- The room is the residence of one Dr Campion, who has been in
Narrisham for four weeks. There are suspicious stains.
- They trace Campion to a well-to-do house. Elias, Ravenna and
Nicos go to fetch Eleanor Stone (in case she recognises him) while
the others stake the place out.
- Campion emerges from the house. Syrah, Brack, Arvan, and Raza
try to stop him.
- Campion is a golem-like creature who puts up a great fight.
- When he dies a globe of flame erupts from his chest and shoots
up into the sky.
- See also:
Iourn > Northern World > Urova > Norandor > Village
of the Eighteen Churches:
- The orb of fire covers the entire of Norandor in minutes and
arrives in the Village.
- It slams into Infernus, completely destroys the temple.
- Belerus Rothsman carries a wounded Vina Leikey to safety.
- See also:
Iourn > Northern World > Urova > Norandor > Westerland
> Narrisham:
- The Chosen discuss the burden of proof, and how they can halt
Duke Gardoneaux.
- They go to interrogate Chancellor Artur.
- Raza offers to kill him in return for information, but later
goes back on the deal.
- Artur doesn't know Campion. He last saw Maurittius two weeks
ago.
- The Peak Infernal is a week west of Northmeet.
- Nicos sends word to Boudewijn. Is this the place Tarrashar used
before?
- See also:
Sharday, 26 Stormtide 205 LE
Iourn > Northern World > Urova > Norandor > Westerland
> Narrisham:
- Marquess Sirann and companions take the Chosen's evidence to
Duke Gardoneaux.
- The Chosen and Syrah Pendragon head east on the long road to
Ashardon.
- They leave Igneous Hawkshood with Pinko Turk.
- See also:
Morday, 27 Stormtide 205 LE
Iourn > Northern World > Urova > Gunstadtan > Kûlhazan:
- In the Clan Kurast stronghold, Xyleria Maerimyrdra is awoken
strange noises.
- She discovers a huge pit concealed at the centre of the stronghold.
- It is filled with thousands and thousands of changelings!
- She tries to contain them with a Wall of Force and then flees
for help.
- See also:
Iourn > Northern World > Urova > Norandor > The
Úngorn:
- The Chosen and Syrah are chased into the Úngorn by a
great swarm of infernal locusts.
- The woodland is protected by the powerful druid, Tobias Forester,
and mysterious allies.
- The Chosen join Tobias on his way to the druidic grove.
- Tobias is very interested to hear of their doings.
- He speaks of the missing Jelanie, and his suspicions regarding
the Grand Druid.
- He urges Arvan to sort this matter out before the moot in a
month's time.
- See also:
Caladay, 32 Stormtide 205 LE
Iourn > Northern World > Urova > Norandor > The
Úngorn:
- Tobias, Syrah and the Chosen arrive at the grove; Arvan is reunited
with Tok.
- Tobias warns that infernal swarms have also been seen east of
the forest.
- Nicos contacts Hera and Igneous and discovers the brutal war
between Narrisham and Sal'Cran is paused.
- Maelstrom contacts Nicos with news of Jessica; Nicos passes
the information on to Aitora Pendragon.
- See also:
Morday, 34 Stormtide 205 LE
Iourn > Northern World > Urova > Norandor > Úngoris
> Western Cross:
- The Chosen and Syrah pass through Western Cross; they are called
back by men of Duke Galvus.
- Galvus is a pragmatic do-gooder who seeks the Chosen's expertise.
- They examine the body of an assassin that recently tried to
kill Galvus.
- The body is riddled with taint that Arvan recognises from the
Great Dark.
- See also:
Caladay, 39 Stormtide 205 LE
Iourn > Northern World > Urova > Norandor > The
Wold > Buckmeed:
- The Chosen of Narramac and Syrah pass through Buckmeed.
- Elias and Nicos stock up on tobacco.
- See also:
Morday, 41 Stormtide 205 LE
Iourn > Northern World > Urova > Norandor > Skalas
> Vrex Cross:
- The Chosen of Narramac and Syrah arrive in Vrex Cross.
- Syrah bids the Chosen farewell and heads to Uris to speak with
Munro of the Church of Earth.
- Nicos picks up aged fire eye, Astronomicus Carnifex, with the
intention of leaving him on the Girdle.
- See also:
Terday, 44 Stormtide 205 LE
Iourn > Northern World > Urova > Norandor > Ashardon:
- The Chosen of Narramac and Astronomicus arrive in Ashardon.
- They take the portal to Gelaphina on Belsinor's Girdle.
- See also:
Zephday, 45 Stormtide 205 LE
Iourn > Northern World > Belsinor's Girdle > The Tower
of the Marshal:
- The Chosen arrive in Gelaphina and swap Astronomicus for Vince
Loire; Vince is very ready to go.
- Lord Marshal Nareem has been grievously wounded by a "rising
power" in the Midnight Lands.
- This power seems to be unconnected with Karatath.
- Sir Garnir is to accompany the Chosen back to Norandor (via
Tibrai).
- Nicos refuses to go to Tibrai because of the stories he has
heard of Shalnazara.
- Brack is taking any nonsense carries the struggling Nicos through
the portal.
- See also:
Caladay, 46 Stormtide 205 LE
Iourn > Northern World > Urova > Tibrai > Ündrachis:
- The Chosen, Vince and Sir Garnir arrive in the temple beneath
Raith Keep.
- Nicos rebels and says he is going straight to Ashardon before
Shalnazara turns up.
- He puts the wrong orbs into the pedestal and opens a portal
to Celestar.
- Ravenna notices, but tells him that he has the right combination.
What a wheeze.
- Nicos goes through the portal and vanishes
- .Ündrachis is littered with bodies.
- Shalnazara appears and speaks of a Malificent attack on his
temple, and also on Jotan's Point.
- Elias is alarmed and sets off for Jotan's Point.
- Ravenna feels guilty about Nicos. She says that she will catch
up, and then follows the fire cleric to Celestar.
- Elias, Arvan, Brack, Vince, Raza and Garnir are attacked by
harpies defending Jotan's Point.
- There was obviously a great battle here, although none of the
Chosen's loved ones perished in the fight.
- It seems that Drasha and Garnir had "a history".
- Drasha says the town was attacked by land and sea by Malificents
(which is a very worrying development).
Misgon is very surprised not to see Ravenna. He later says that
he wants to joint he party and get into Narramac's old base inside
Mount Korvast.
- Privately, Drasha tells Elias that one recent death was not
down to the Malificents. One of the nursemaids has been killed.
- Drasha suspects Nissa Fisher.
- Brack is reunited with Shredder.
- See also:
- League of
Light campaign, Sow
the Wind campaign log, session
twenty-eight.
- League of
Light campaign, Where
Dragons Fear to Tread campaign log, session
twenty-eight.
Iourn > Northern World > Urova > Tibrai > Ündrachis:
- With no word from Ravenna or Nicos, Elias, Arvan, Brack and
Raza return to Ündrachis.
- They take the portal to Celestar.
- See also:
Sharday, 47 Stormtide 205 LE
Iourn > Northern World > Galacial Wastes > Cthalamé
> Celestar:
- Nicos arrives in Celestar (temple of neutrality and goodness)
to find it a frozen hell hole.
- He meets the guardian, a gossamer being of unworldly beauty
called Sulmaleera.
- One thing leads to another, and they wind up in bed together.
- Ravenna arrives a little while later, but she cannot find Nicos
anywhere.
- After several hours, she decides to return to Tibrai and uses
the orbs to open a portal to Ündrachis.
- See also:
The Walk Between Worlds > ???
- There is a tremendous explosion as the portal from Celestar
to Ündrachis and the one between Ündrachis and Celestar
meet.
- Elias, Brack, Raza, Arvan and Ravenna are trapped in a maze
of staircases and landings that seem to go in all directions at
once.
- There is no Weave here.
- They pick a direction and travel aimlessly.
- Raza is very angry at the pointlessness of it all and tries
to use Lucid Dreaming to contact Quenqurial.
- The party meet a bipedal blue draconic creature who has been
lost on this path for centuries. The creature calls Elias "brother".
- Suddenly, the creature is dissolved by Shalnazara who has somehow
escaped Ündrachis!
- See also:
- League of
Light campaign, Where
Dragons Fear to Tread campaign log, session
twenty-eight.
Iourn > Northern World > Glacial Wastes > Cthalamé
> Celestar:
- Sulmaleera detects that the portals are no longer functioning
and flees Celestar gaining her freedom.
- Nicos is marooned in the cold.
- He cannot contact Fire Eyes from inside the temple and has to
out into a dire blizzard to make the call.
- He manages to tell Vince what has happened to him.
- Suddenly Nicos finds himself trapped in the temple: has he become
the new Guardian?
- Quenqurial arrives. He says that the portals in Ündrachis
and Celestar have been destroyed.
- Shalnazara and Sulmaleera have been loosed into a world between
worlds.
- No-one should ever go to this place. It is too dangerous. Quenqurial
cannot go.
- So he equips Nicos and sends him out in his stead. Nicos's mission
is to return Shalnazara and Sulmaleera. If he fails he will remain
in Celestar forever.
- See also:
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