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| Henregard Firecaster |
“By the Builder,” The volcano dwarf warpriest of Clangeddin said under his breath as the alu demon revealed
was paraded in front of the citizens of Bouvet Keep. The term expressed a
combination of astonishment and disbelief. Around the warpriest scores of
people shouted words of hate and phrases too vile to be repeated; from his
vantage point he could see his close friend Barit standing among the heroes of
virtue and most notably Dolgrin Ironshield, the paladin from Barit’s dream-vision.
The warpriest felt a
surge of emotion wishing he stood by his friend when under scrutiny from the
high priests of the Temple, but the warpriest fell to the weight of bureaucracy
and doubt; but there was the proof of Barit’s vision- in the flesh. Tears of
regret flowed down his soot-grimed cheeks and beard creating pale streaks from
his brown eyes down to his red beard.
Through watery eyes the warpriest of Clangeddin, also known
as Henregard Firecaster to his friends, watched Fumi Laumstaucher consign to
death at the hands of the heroes and vowed to join Dolgrin Ironshield’s followership
to remove the gilt of doubt against his closest friend and to discover a new religious
purpose.
We begin in the midst of what will be three days of
investigation into the breach in the bay; gathering information on the
whereabouts of Count Keirkin; and the raids and capture of more followers of
Orcus. Bards from the Northern Lights college are enlisted during this time to disseminate
all manner of news and information.
We also did some research into the two ancient books
gathered from the magical chest (type IV bag of holding): The Tome of Rilenia
and the Spellthief’s Collection.
Of the ones that suffer the Fumi birthmark some displayed no
sign of conspiracy or evil devices, though the vast majority had been reared by
the cult even going by an Abyssal Orcus calendar and not this world’s.
Scrying for Count
Keirkin reveals to us by way of the Admiral
Nelandrach Olithir, that the Count is on a barge along the south west
coast- but he is on the move.
Looking into the breach we learn that the bubble dimension
that once was home to the dragon Tenebirs has reached a saturation point and
was now filtering water from Earth into the breach, the elemental plane of
water, and back to Earth. It appears we have a few months to act on this before
the open reaches a catastrophic level.
The Tome of Rilenia contains a section of what went wrong
with the Ways and the author’s concern over the unforeseen dangers. The author
presumes knowledge of a ‘creator’ elven wizard in his or her references as
Rilenia (a taken name not his given or truename) and a wizard mark. Information
gathered from the MacCaugh later revealed that Relenia’s remains likely rest in
Ferraq Tulle in Miar Moshea graveyard under the likeness of a creator wizard.
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| Miar Moshea |
Spellthief’s Collection are ancient pirated spellfroms the formost
leaders in various old-world schools of magic. The Collection mentions Myrddin
Og and the MacCaugh’s as well as other prestigious wizards in their field. It
also had various wizard marks the Spelltheif collected.
Dramen uses a contact other plane to answer a question: will
the rod of cancellation be adequate to close the breach? A: It’s a good start. Dramen
furthermore contacts his host Smendric for aid; the same question was posed to
the Traveler. And while the answer was very similar- it was a good start- it
also came with a warning that closing the breach would draw undesirable
attention from someone or something… There were locations shared between the
host and avatar on Earth as well as below the waters.
Then a question was poised about Shar’s abyssal son. The
Monitor’s son is the result of a dark drow god’s revenge against Shar’s hubris.
Alicia depression resulting from the many miscarriages and still births drove
her towards necromancy to bring about an offspring she so desperately wanted to
give to her husband Shar. This venture into the dark side lead to the abyssal
son we see now as an asset from the demon-web pits on loan to Orcustown.
At the end of three days came the execution of Fumi Laumstaucher
preceded by formal declarations, charges against the accused and their sentence
and our fellowship as administers of Boulvadian justice. Our names are also
cleared as accessories to the Duke’s death. On and on it went building the
anticipation of the citizens.
Dolgrin, Kotri
Steelreaver, Rydin, and Syrendross participated in the executions as Dramen and
Kyras summoned dire sharks in the bay to consume the cultist’s remains as they
were dumped into the waters. Fumi was paraded out to great wails of hate from
the populace who wanted her dead.
Rydin blasted his horn
of goodness as eight blades from the four heroes of Virtue took her mortal
life; although Kotri was left with a brief curse that likely bodes ill for us
for the future.
Bards spread news of a bright future under Nelandrach
Olithir including rebuilding the docks that will boost jobs and bring
prosperity.
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| The Breach in the Ways |
Later in the Admiral’s company we discuss our immediate and long-term
intensions. He provides papers for us to take to the various duchies naming us
as court officers of Bouvaldia.
The next forty-five days are spent in downtime as Dramen
crafts a mythic rod of
cancellation to close the breach as the rest of us occupy ourselves in
other ways.
This concludes Chapter 1 of Dragon Age: Heroes of Virtue
We begin next session playing the *Followers group who are
traveling to Emmerdin Pac
Napiay with the lost knight of
the Lynx.
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