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The Night Below
Supporting Cast
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Abigail Suv
Innkeeper, worshiper of Soul, mother of Dok Suv -
Amon Keshal
Cold, Calculated sword wielding mage from the heart of the Elder's Hand Isles. The Keshal are a ruthless group of protectors and spell weavers to the Elder Hand, yet Amon has been sent here by her order to track down and kill a Necrophasist named The Doctor. -
Amory Tel Mithryn
Tel Mithryn clone, Former Confessor, former spy, defector -
Andris Of Andrim
Hermit, druid, Old as balls. Rescued by the group from the torture of the mindflayers. Has a great deal of knowledge regarding Andrim's history and the stories of the Kings of the Balaste age. -
Antonio "Toni" Parisi
Kaldo Nostra captain, bathhouse acquaintance of Dean Callisto, looking to move up in the world. -
Areisa Tel Mithryn
Fromer Keshal apprecentince, dueled Noelle Keshal in the trials, followed Mora's footsteps to the Breeze Islands -
Arent
Guardian of the Elderwood, Citizen of the Forest Rend; Protector of the WandWood and by proxy, Castle Rend -
The Bronze Brawler Arkus Ovar
Legendary Dragon Guard warrior, spear master; friend of King Ormund. Father of Dok Ovar. -
Aureil Stuadimire
Author, Worshiper of the Outcast, Citizen of Rend -
Lady Avalina Du'Monde
Knighted, Pensive, Brooding, switched service from Bettigar to Dalrath -
Barnabus Fray
Priest of the Platinum Dragon, maintainer of old temples -
Baska Frost
Second in command, chief secretary of affairs for the Prince of Frost, Baska is in charge of monitor the collection and the well being of the castle in the princes absence. -
Beck Trazmora
Writer for the Black and White Journal, possibly the most popular writer in all of Andrim, averse to music, seeking the story of the century regarding the Mage Takers -
Berakat Braunstar
Saltscraper of Saltstone, turned privateer and deckhand on the ashweaver, quickly becoming quartermaster of the black brothers -
Captain Bradley Tarves
A man well into his late 40s, gruff with a beard and light armor, the insignia of Ockney's Hold present on his lapel, -
Captain Wren
Not Soft. Present for the Malagorian assault on Glasspul -
Christopher Black
Saved by a wish courtesy of the court of Rend from a permanent lycanthropic state; once a great privateer and sailor, and an avid adventurer, he sailed the world on his vessel, the Ashweaver and brought many treasures home to his native black coast and his familie's estate at Kerrigan. -
Clove Rue
Wife to Finnick, Fae hunter, Faeologist and specialist of fae and human history. Pottery maker. -
Crone Lorelai
Formerly the queen of air and darkness, now somehting else entirely. Leader of the dusk lily coven, witch of the higest order and power. -
D'Jasper Probencruix III
Ship cook for the ashweaver -
Daggon Emeraldheart
High Prest of De'haan in the wake of the conflicts of The Undermountain; he helped the heroes of Rend and his sister overthrow Thane Selos and relit the forge flames of Orn; taking command of the Control Rod of the Golden Army and becoming master of the Golden Golems -
Darin Ornakk
Outgoing, talkative, fearless -
Davrik D'Throne
Captain of the Shalee Battlemages of the city of Shale, answers directly to the Circle; moderately corrupt magic mercenary -
Delhack Durokor
Brother of the Bonebreaker, exiled to the dark, was given Wound by Dok Suv after 8 years wondering the dark, returning to his tribe with the ancient weapon in hand. -
Derrig West
Mage, black bottom native, Owner of the old ways pub -
Diego Carbares
Curator of magical goods from across Orund, Amateur water color artist -
Django
Hound of the Valanar, mysterious elves from the Fey Realm; Loyal to Dok Suv, able to transfer fairy luck to those that pet this good boy -
Drogahn Dukar
Son of Corazzo, reforming criminal, squire of the dragonguard(?) Wields the sword of swiftness, and is known for his guile and slight of hand wields a pistol and a vicious crossbow for when things get nasty -
Elias VanDaren
The Reverend, Recluse/ fishing hermit, Paladin of St. Gaad, expert in the Andrimian Pantheon -
Erron Black
Questionable knight of ill repute, Rumored to be Black Iron Legion affiliated, most tournament wins in Andrimian history. -
Fergus Agreaus
On the run from Tor for seducing a housewife of a patchwork hills farmer, not a very experienced deckhand at the time of joining the ashweaver -
Finnick Rue
Husband to Clove, Fae hunter, rough around the edges -
Furian
Leader of a swelling legion of monsters and orcs, out for revenge, last survivor of a holocaust -
Gadson Ovar
Infant dragonborn, son of Dok and Yelena of the Winter Court, grandson of Sir Arkus Ovar -
Garen Thor'Dak
Knight of the Dragonguard, Squire of Sir Razzalax The Bold, Dragon conservationist -
Garth Goldshire
Commander of the Dalrathian Wardens, tamer of the War Goats, smart ass little shit -
Gerard
Former companion of Norebo, now in service of the count of Rend -
Giovanni Swiftshell
Swordsman, nomad, friend of the animals. -
Foreman GokShaw Az'Gock
Warlock devoted to hell, specifically in a contract for his soul with Roz in exchange for power. Foreman of the Billows forge where lower ranked duregar refer to him as The Demon -
Goru Darkclaw
Furian's right hand, and closest advisor; Old and says he is the last survivor of his clan, which was wiped out by Crone Lorielai when she was still known as the 3 that became 1. He is a practitioner of dark and ancient magics. -
Granny Frogs
Old Crone living out in the Mulgore Swamp, former void walker and follower of the Outcast -
Greya Ekalo
Deadly fighter, knife thrower, natural poisons and antidotes expert -
Half-Fang
Dashingly dirty Alley Cat in Barrel Hollow; Private Fence and administrator of the Thieves Auction -
Handsome
Pur'Wan Privateer, Schmitar swordsman, expert deckhand and sailor -
Hax The Infadel
Dwarven deserter, 1 armed, a construct sorcerer -
Hebi Sorne
Handsome City Goblin with a pension for Azurite, former associate of the Rat Hatters Gang -
Honorable Teller Hamish
Benjamin Hamish, drunkard, teller of the Bettigar Branch of the Bank of Brydella; Formerly engaged to Breanna Brydella -
Hush
Sorcerer of The Ordus Obscuras, Friend and Ally of Taze, creator and artisan behind the famous Arcanite Cigars -
Iron Fahz
Enforcer of the Bank of Brydella, companion/adopted ward of Argus Brydella, chairmen of the Bank. -
Joshua
Right hand of Arkus Ovar, born in Hargroves Holdout in Tor; Ceramic pot maker by trade. -
Junker Junka
Yellow Orc Tribe Spear polisher, aspiring warcheif -
K'Vaughn
Mind Flayer from a colony beneath Kaldore, looking to destroy abberent mind flayers worshiping the all hearing gods -
Kallum Kaicelius
Infernologist, Demonologist, Occultist, Ritualist, Auger, Planar Traveler -
Karissith De Leon
Mother of Noelle De Leon, Witch of the wilds but not unfamiliar with the realm of men; Blood Magic expert, one of the few left alive after the death of Crone Lorelai and Caicelius -
Karnak The Cold
Deadly General of the Iron God, leader of the Invisible legionaries and commander of the Iron Guards -
Kazarus Malvarian
Vampire of the black court, Member of the Black Cloaks, seemingly very "open" with the status of his condition. A descendant of Malvarian the Black -
Baron Kenway Dalrath
The wild king, unifier of the tribes of man, Baron of Dalrath -
Kingston Ornakk
Twin Brother of Orlisa, trader of rare goods, talented negotiator -
Korraine Blood
Sorcerer, Rune Child, Shalee experiment that broke loose, magical bomb person. -
Kothar
Krenwall serial killer, vicious fiend, lavish lifestyle; able to disguise himself as anyone. -
Lady Elise Cain
Vampire, Drow ruler of Malagorn dominion; immortal -
Lady Oxana Firehawk
Bold warrior, leader of the knights of The Black Rose -
Laowzo
Shiftywick's master; a gifted theif and a master ninja trained in the art of Tenchu; the quiet art -
Lenny
Dog trainer, blue kobold, simple fellow -
Ludise De' Lutist
handsome, talented, deadly -
Lyanna Ravenholm
Seer and master of metamagic, reader of the forbidden text of the Illustratus; She has seen the unnameable one and has rallied the Black Cloaks to exterminate as many illithid as possible; as a result of her work the black cloaks have nearly stopped all illithid activity in Arghast. -
Mace Boren
Master Forger, creator of the shield of andrim, the crown of andrim, and the weapons of the dragonknights. Devout worshipper of St. Gaad -
Madrios
Sorcerer of Aloy, Alchemist, Wary of outsiders, Eyepatch covers his left eye -
Marco Ciello
handsome son of Rosso Cayron Ciello, and a D'veshi woman named Emani, Marco's mother returned to D'Vesh, promising to return for Marco one day, but she never returned. Marco fled to Black Bottom as soon as he could, where he joined the Coastal Defense; he works as a harbor captain directly under the command of Vann Alexus; Master of Port -
Mariana GoldWright
Beautiful and tall Celestial blooded wizard, graduate of the academy of arcane arts at Shale, Divination specialist and descendant of Weaver -
Marlipp
Deadly, Deranged, Addicted; Marlipp was a mindflayer who was in the late stages of Azurite addiction when he was found and slayed by The group on assignment in Ockney's Hold. -
Merryth Tayne
Elder of the Dusk Lily Coven, childhood friend of Noelle Keshal, ancient Elven magic expert. -
Morbius
Black good parasite from the far realm, created by the mindflayers for the purpose of creating living armor. Currently bonded to the goblin Hebi, who named him as he pulled him from the Tsnomnisum -
N'Wah Keshal
The elf is deaf, unable to hear or speak. She has communicated with the group with pen and paper only so far. -
Naz Kernath
Elderly and frail leader of the Dusk Lily Coven, master Diviner and expert on all things divination magic. -
Norebo
King of the Summer Court, devout prankster, whimsically irresponsible -
Oregg Steelwiser
Lieutenant of Bonebreaker Doragour -
Organna Belal
Attacked by mindlayers, lost her brother Corvus to the ilk, has seen the ship/creature that attacked them and managed to cut the tentacles from a mindflayer and escape before her brain was consumed -
Orlisa Ornakk
Heriess of House Ornakk, not a very good relationship with her mother, quiet. -
Orzog
Ulithiad, capable, suddenly free, independent. He has come into the service of The Pale Prince, who has commissioned him a crown that will prevent him from being influenced by the call of the elder -
Othello Obb
Warlock of the Timekeeper -
Pacer Dalrath
Handsome half orc noble, brother of the wild king, no time for ceremony -
Packmother Zidane
Champion of the Barrelthrone, The Duke of Hounds, leader of Gnolls that control the forest of Rend, ritualistic sorcerer, hideout/fortress is a giant tree's root caverns known as the grandfather tree. Killed by Mora Tel Mithryn -
Parval Blackstone
General of the Andrimian Wardens; Captain of the Nomadic horse riding Wardens of the West; often called the "Horse Lord" He is known as a expert combantant on horseback and off and was trained by the legendary Vashtus of the Dragonguard, his Uncle. -
Patty Shrillwhistle
Eye Of Ballura member, friend of Taze, Bettigarain smuggler. -
Petrokalys Ourenguard
Honor Guard of Furian, Commander of Furia's Military; Arboreha defector; reasons unknown. Admirer of Mora Tel Mithryn -
Phillip Laken
Warden of the Cat's Claw Keep, nearly killed by a Griffon until Noelle freed him and gave him the Longbow of Warning -
Preston
Vault Keeper of the Pale Prince, The Vault is a secret demi plane kept deep within the realm of Always Winter -
Priestess Krannick
Malagorn history keeper, speaker of the ancients, devout servant of the spiderqueen -
Raphael D'meara
Dreamer, burnout, mage, Kalashtar Vessel -
Risa
Child of the Tribe of Wild Men, capable archer, Warden of the Wilds, second in command of the Dalrathie Warden chapter -
Rosso Ceiello
Lord Regent of Bettigar, Betrayer of his friend Thomas Bettigar working with Blue Orc Tribe. -
Roz J'xial
Agent of hell, Mortal affairs contractor, authorized to issue wishes and make deals on behalf of demons and devils, works for Grazz't -
Sarah Emeraldheart
Member of the Remembrance and the Daughter of Agatha Emeraldheart; she joined the heroes of Rend when they retook De'Haan from Thane Selos, and was named Queen in the wake of the conflict. She killed Selos by throwing his body into the Orn Flame forge of De'Haan -
Scout Captain Jaz'Khar
Handsome, Naive, Infernal Blood, Aloyian Scout Captain -
Scribe S'Lesso
Master of Words for Black Bottom's trade council; collector of Ancient Andrimian Artifacts and history; expert on the history of old Andrim dating back to the war against the Giants -
Selene
Priestess of the Raven Queen from the Shadowfell city of Grayheart, sent into a tunnel to spy on illithid, she found herself awakening on the Tsomnisum Arkahn with the help of Dean Callisto and crew -
Selok Ironhand
Bartender and Owner of the Oasis, Barrel Hollow Community leader; smuggler. -
Ser Brandon Pellick
Free Lancer, Knight, son of Rodimer Pellick the dragon guard knight. Drunkard -
Ser Gerron
Paladin of Soul from the Endless Riverland, saved his world countless times from the threats of the big water -
Shiftywick
Expert Thief, Bird Person, slippery son of a bitch -
Sir Allan Lancel
Knight of the Black Rose -
Sir Balra the Blind
Knight of the Black Rose, Sadist, Blind -
Sir Eberen
Knight of The Black Rose, big and beefy, sharp as a tack Champion of the Pact Day tournament the past 2 years running. -
Sir Razalax The Bold
Legendary warrior of the King's Dragon Guard, master of the great axe, tragically sacrificed himself at the Battle of the Blood Moon -
Sir Rikkon Redmare
The Knight of The Wall as he is better known. -
Skoros Ameli
Young promising wizard, expelled from magic school, ally of Master Taze, saved from certain death and enslavement by the group -
Skullidan Skrem
Warlock of Ozenix, Oooze god. Has a little Imp assistant named Burden. In service to lady Elise Cain -
Speaker Lu'Daehan Keshal
Speaker of the Old Masters, Elder's Hand High Elf, noble ancestry -
Stacks Magillicutty
Barkeep of the Silver Path Inn, long time friend of Abigail Suv, Surrogate uncle of Dok -
Stormbinder
Herald of Furian, seemingly of Shalee descent or origin, has the ability to fly and control storms -
Sweet William Dunbar
The Butcher of Cleaver Street, owner and operator of Dunbars Meat Market, creator of Sweet's Meats. Notorious crime lord and leader of the Cleaver Street Gang. Public chair holder, and de facto Mayor of the Lower Districts -
T'Reya Ornakk
Beautiful, second youngest daughter, twin sister of Darin, learned mage, loves accents -
Taeadoro
Baron of the Baazar in Nar Fangjian, owner of the Serpents End, mediator of the criminal factions of Akrisa -
Grand-Master Taze
Taze is the court wizard of the Baron of Bettigar and a protector of its people. He first encountered the party at The Tournament of Fall Harvest in Ockney's Hold where he was attracted to Dean's magical signature. Since then he has provided the party with a few items and advice in their travels from his Mobile Fortress, a tower that travels wherever the wizard goes. -
The Raven Queen
Matron of Death, Duskmaiden, Owner of the palace of memories; The Raven Queen is responsible for guiding all lost souls into the afterlife by way of her mysterious Soul Forge -
The Red Woman
Over seven feet tall, lusty baroness, ruler of the city of Brass; Desires tribute above all else -
The Voice
The Voice on the other end of the sending stone found in the hands of Serbile; refusing to reveal his identity to the party for fear they might be illithid thralls. He seems to have some knowledge of the illithid as well as the arcane. -
Thomas Berg
Beck's boss, editor in Chief of The Black and White Journal; avid scotch connoisseur -
Trelick
Woodsy, aloof, zoned out firbolg, rescued from enslavement by the group. -
Un'Lae Shard
a young eladrin born into the El Bari tribe new New Elbar. He kept his status a secret until he met the group. -
Varlyn Reeves
Bounty Hunter, Halfling, True Grit -
Venali Daenal
Venali cant die, and he doesnt know why. -
Vincente Vincent Vincestarron
Sinister, Greedy, Clever, Sure Gentlemen -
Vor Khan
Drider cursed by Priestess of Lloth, Worshipper of the Outcast, former husband to Elise Cain -
Vorice
sly doppleganger with a pension for Mole work. Legate of Ajax; murderer of sir Allan Lancel and extractor of revenge on Rend. Deceased -
Vrenic Alfonz
Warden of the Rend wood, expert marksman and survivalist, has a bitchin horse named Alistar -
Weyland
Weyland is a former whaling hand who joined the ashweaver on a whim and an offer of 1 gold a day, lost his hand to grick when he was taken by illithids to the underdark -
Xerna Elkos
New Elbarian Skimmer builder, Resident and archer of Castle Rend -
Viceroy Xinec Estadis
400 year old elven chieftain of the New Elbarians, believes civilization is a poison -
Yelena Frost
Winter court's master of spies and intrigue, Love interest of the knight Oden Suv -
Zorado Tel Kanais
The Python of the Capital, a powerful mage in service to the crime lord Taeadoro; secretive and cheif spy master of the Serpent's End
Sessions Archive
Episode 148: The Day Above.
Six months has passed since the battle of the gate, and the group has reunited after traveling seperately for a time to celebrate Balaste Day with Kenway Dalrath; as well as the marriage of Pacer and Noelle Keshal. Mora has become enlighted by reading the Tome of Exalted Deeds in the time since the battle; Dok and Dean have been hard at work on reparing Rend while Noelle focuses her efforts on reforming the Keshal and reshaping them for the future. The nations of Dalrath and Furia have cemented thier bond further and the ceremonial wedding will only further to strenghten it. Ajax is revered and worshipped openly in Rend, Dean has chosen not to oppose this. Kenway calls to session a meeting of the Pact of Rend at the wedding and demands action against Ajax within the year; The Order of Observers, now lead by Hush and The Philospher have agreed to a hit on Mordredd but little else; saying Ajax's second physical appearance in Andrim was enough to dissuade them from open war. The group as a whole decides to allow Ajax to regain his army; settling for killing mordredd within the year while Dok, Elijah, Mora and Ser Nicholas search for the Rod of St. Gaad. Pacer and Noelle are officially wed, and there is peace in a once froughtful kingdom for at least a day; Kenway annouces his intent to make Dalrath an independant kingdom backed by Furia; knowing he has but one year to strenghten himself against Ajax before the demons are at his door. Illiax reunites with his children and forms a bond with them late in life; bringing them above ground for the festivities. Dean dances with Beck Trazmora and is approached by Veera Harr; Joes wife; she gives dean a bribe in the form of one hundred thousand gold donated to the construction of a mages school in Rend. Courtesy of Ajax The group parts ways once again, promising to see each other soon in the future; for there are surely more adventures to be had, and more battles to fight; but for now, there is peace in Andrim; and the threat of the Night Below has finally ended.
Episode 147: Coming of the Iron Lord
As the dust settles on the battle of the gate; the forces of Rend, Dalrath and Furia along with their allies regroup; Kenway loses little to no troops, Furia and Rend take the brunt of the damage and loss. As the group reconnects with Hush and Taze, Taze states he will be taking on a new name in his new form, the Philospher. Hush and The Phillospher escort the heroes to the vault in Glasspuhls underbelly. The group claims the treasures of the vault for their own before resting and awaiting a gate back to Rend. In the camp, Mora is visited by the Outcast, who's power has been increased signifigantly by Mora's involvement in the closing of the gate; his madness now clenased from the void; he sees clearly into the future and the past. He bids her farewell, and gives her a mountain seed as a reward for her dutifal work. He takes from Illiax and Dean the crown of the Tzartakar and destroys it. The group returns to Barrel Hollow before Rend to ensure Dok's family and the Rend VIPs safety; he surrenders the shield to Karnak the Cold; who releases the hostages, true to their word; though he tells Dok his parents did not join them, defending Rend to their last breath. Dok resurrects his parents back and Rend but finds the citizens of the town saved by Ajax, now some paying tribute to him and surely moving towards worshipping him.
Episode 146: In The Maw of Madness
As Blind Buck and Dok finish the binding trap, he gifts Dok a shard of the staff of Gaad and tells him that important people will need him soon before taking off into the distance towards the battlefield. The group charges the living gate in hopes of provoking a fight with Manzaar Carrion, but need a rest beforehand. Othello Obb, uses a CIBOT rift to send the group to a camp down by the river for one last rest. During the brief respite, Noelle consults the Keshal and Dok consults Soul, the latter of the two appearing in physical form within the camp, conversing with Dok face to face for the first time. Now rested and ready to do battle, the group returns to the valley and attacks the site of the gate directly. Dok distracts the Mindwyrm and the others dive on the mages protecting the gate as well as the elder brain council controlling the forces of Glasspuhl; all the while their allies from their years of adventuring return to the scene of this final confrontation to help. After a hard and ardeous battle with the great abberant beast, the living gate itself attempted to interfere in the battle, as the avatar of Illsenine charges them as they attempt to close the gate forever. The Mindflayers attempt any strategy they can, even sacrifcing themselves to open the gate faster, but it is in vain as Noelle and the combined might of The Valarad hold the door shut, leaving an opening for a fully charged Korraine Blood to enter the realm of madness and destroy it from the inside; but not before he took in the soul of Gepetto Callisto into him, taking him along for the ride and using his magical essence to fuel the blast. The resulting magical effect combined with Dok's slaying of the Brain drake finished off the threats of the great city. The army of rend, victorious over the mindflayers at last, burn the living gate as the souls trapped inside hum, meeting the raven queen as they finally find rest in the Shadowfell, and the door to the realm of madness is closed forever.
Episode 145: At The End of All Things
The group consults each other on the dilemma they face when it comes to Rend; do they leave and defend their home or press the attack on the living gate? Dok, having recovered the Necklace of Returning from The Pale Prince, uses it to check in on his wife and son. Yelena and Gaadriel are held a a swordpoint by Karnak the Cold in deans quarters as Rend is assaulted from a crew of 4 Nautaloids. Karnak is joined by the infamous wizard Mordredd; finally face to face with the leadership of The Cult of Iron, Dok ask Ajax for his help; a deal is offered by Mordredd that dok will surrender the shield of Andrim over to Ajax after the living gate is decimated. Mordredd agrees on the condition that Karnak keeps all of the VIPs evacuated from Rend (Doks family, Skoros, Jess, Rhea, Selok and a few others) and Death Wards are placed on Doks family in the event he renegs on the deal. The Iron Chains of Mordredd tear open the skies of Rend and a fiendish armor of Winged Horrors descend from the Rift. Dok leaves his wife and child behind, returning to the battlefield. Meanwhile, the B squad steals a precious Mind Flayer artifact, the Archive of Thoon, which is priceless to the mindflayers as it contains the secrets of thier lost empire. This gives Illiax and Dean insight into the Gate's design and how to stop it. The group knows the dragon must be defeated first. Dok begins drawing a magic circle with the Begger Blind Buck who mysteriously finds himself here at the end of all things. The rest of the group engages an elderbrain inside of a mechanical tank like construct that smashes their forces. The outer walls of the Valley beyond Glasspuhl broken, Dean orders the forces of Rend to charge the gate, setting the stage for the groups final confrontation with Manzaar Carrion, the Mind Flayer Dragon and the Avatar of Illsenine
Episode 144: Assault on Glasspuhl
The group penetrates the walls of the illithid capital of glasspuhl, under the advise of The now questionable Taze head straight to the center of the battlfield towards the Interplanar Cannon, a device that launches Domination Spires into the various locations of the prime realm, dominating anyone withing a half a miles distance. The group gathers Korraine Blood who has been court marshalled for attacking the Storm Binder. They kill templars and mindflayers alike until they control the launch platform, they destroy the consoles that control the cannon as well as the launch platform that controls the plane shifting part of the device. The group receives a dower message from Skoros informing them the Mind Flayer's Dragon has appeaered in the skies above Rend.
Episode 143: On The Shores of Oblivion
The group makes landfall in the horrific city of Glasspuhl where the living ring is not only visible from even outside the city, but already active; The group reunites with Callum Caecilius who hands them one greenstone amulet, courtesy of Kothar who still vows bitter revenge against the party for ousting him in Krenwall and sending him back to hell; The Pale Prince arrives and returns the amulet of returning to Dok, Orzog volunteers to stay behind to see personally to the descrution of his former home. Mora discovers the currently transforming body of Taze the Wizard, at the request of Hush, they rush to save him and arrive slightly too late, with the help of Orzog the make an effort to change him and keep him outside the influence of the elder brain. They are attacked by Fish Men hybrids made from the Kuo Toans and human thralls; They are surrounded by dozens if not hundreds of fish poeple and begin to steel themselves for a fight when Pacer Dalrath appears with the Blue Skull Tribe in tow, as the Orc forces collapse on the fish folk, signaling the start of the battle of The Living Gate
Episode 142: The Mind Worm's Wrath
The group does battle with the vicious Mind Worm, a colossal beast who guards the Illithid Cities of the Kingdom of Glasspuhl and the living gate, remotely teleporting victims directly into its stomach and scrying at will upon any ship touching the glass sea; the heroes of andrim struggle valiantly against the beast and are pushed to their near breaking point before finally slaying the monster and sending it tumbling from the air to the cavern below; however the creatures psyonic energy was mighty, shattering two of the amulets of greenstone preventing their wearers from being completely shielded from psyonic attacks. However, the group finds a bag of soul coins on the body of a chain demon in the creatures lair, as well as a flametongue chain weapon; they call upon the Hell Runner Callum Caicelius to deliver the soul coins to Grazz't and Roz and bargin for more greenstone. The group sails the Glass sea for 5 more days before they see a terrible omen on the horizon, the dark red sun of the illithid homeworld and the nightmarish outline fo the gargatuan structure that is Glasspuhl. The fight of their lives awaits them
Episode 141: The Sea of Glass
The group goes to Kalandrah Port in Tor and meet up with the Brothers Black; Chris agrees eagerly to sail the sea of glass at the behest of Dean while Erron begrundingly agrees. The group journey once more into the Shadowfell and with the help of Ruck and the Ashari riders navigate the Illithid Lands to the coast of the Sea of Glass; on the other side of this ocean is the coastal city of Glasspuhl. Illiax, his status as admiral restored by the Raven Queen; uses his flute to call the Shadar Kai armada of ships, the group crosses the Glass sea and begins finding crew members missing; the group discover through investigating these vanishings that most of them occur while the crew is sleeping; they eventually trap the culprit, a small worm with psyonic powers, and eventually discover its abilities, being telported into a strange cove filled with acid that dealt psyonic damage; Berekat Braunstar fell victim to these attacks in the days that followed until eventually the group formed ap lan to explode the cove from within, however once damage was dealt via disentigration by Dean, the hurled them up into a cavern where they came face to face with The Mind Worm, an illithid creation of Diastrious proportions and the culprit being the attacks; Now the group faces a twenty thousand pound nightmare in ther Illithid's guardian.
Episode 140: Last Rest
The group finalizes all plans, strategems, and alliances before the final battle at Glasspuhl, they agree on a course of action in the battle itself, as well as a plan of attack. The group will scout ahead, create a teleportation circle and bring the armies in that way. Dok and Yelena decide to marry before he leaves to the Night Below again. The group's friendships and alliances are recognized completely as all of their allies gather for the wedding the night before the armies are set to arrive in Rend. The Pale Prince arrives in dramatic fashion, and tells yelena as a wedding gift he will give her her powers back, on the condition that he borrows the neckalce dok uses to visit with Gaadriel each night. Dok gives the necklace to Yelena for her to decide; She elects to take the prince up on his offer. The group attempts to use Gladfrenel's tower to move into the shadowfell but find themselves in a trap of his design, the litch again nearly kills them before they escape the mansion only to find themselves again in the plane of fire, a quick plane shift from Ludan Keshal saw the group escape, but barely.
Episode 139: The Eldritch Knights
The group journies to Kaminite to seek the eldritch knight, there they find research station Zeta; a small village of mostly researchers studying the strange phenomenon known as the glassing, the scarring on the lands from the magical difussion explosion hundreds of years ago; still irradidated with constant storms of green electricity. There they meet Sara Valenchime; a magi researcher drastically underfunded by the Arcane Circle; thinking the group is part of SMART. She agrees to give the group suits to help them navigate the radiation for a surplus trade value, the group finds the hall of enlightment, a rather decripted orcish monument converted into a makeshift temple hall. They meet Jai Alai, Master Eurion Drake and all the other eldritch knights and with the help of Noelle Keshal, they convince the Eldritch Knights to join them in the fight against Glaspuhl, as well as open at least two more gates in the final battle. The group returns to Rend for a last rest, Dean has a vision of Glasspuhl, and see's Manzaar'Carrion inact a ritual to turn his form into that of the Brainstealer Dragon
Episode 138: The Knights of The Blue Rose
The group absconds from the eye of the circle of Shale with captain Davrik D'Thorne of the State Wizards; who uses his mercenary work in an attempt to build his own nobility and hopefully propel himself to a higher station in the mageocracy; he recognized Dean's and the war against the illithid as an opportunity to earn gold and glory for his order and agreed to help at The Battle of Glasspuhl. Davrik took a hefty payment for himself along with a 50 percent deposit. The group was then invited to Manor D'Throne to formally sign a writ agreeing to the terms; in the meantime they visited Lake Callisto, finding mere ruins inside of the burned manor. They discovered a secret stash of items and keepsakes from Gepeto Callisto and learned his history within Shale, being credited as a hero for curing a disease called The Drain along with famed serial killer Uvine Greywood. It would appear someone was trying to erase the truth of the Callisto experiments and eliminate Gepeto in the process. These events caused Dean to recover a memory relating to the night he left Shale, revealing himself to be under compelled domination from his grandfather, who seemingly banished Dean to Andrim for his own safety. Gepeto apparently completed a ritual to seal a copy of his soul inside a magic jar before being executed by the circle and ordred dean to toss it into the lake. returning to shale, the group discusses the possibility of trying to talk with Greywood before ultimately deciding to deal with the illithid first. Davrik introduces the group to his master of spies, a woman named Carina, and his second in command and armorer, Arwen Delenos or Del; Del informs the group he can likely help with any alchemical or mechanical efforts in the meantime and act as the groups liason to Davrik in Rend as he's not in the circle. Arwen agrees to return to rend with the group and Davrik suggest running this by the Eldritch Knights as well; as they are obsessed with sealing rifts like the Keshal. The group elects to travel to the island the Eldritch Knights are located on and seek them out.
Episode 137: The Visitor
The group opens an account with the Bank of Brydella, putting over 15k in gold into an account under Dean Callisto and the Company of Rend with the account password High Life, in draconic. They then journey to Shale while Noelle goes to the Eldest House. In Shale, the group seeks out blasting rods for their use against the illithid and are reunited with their old friend Davrik D'Throne, here he is Captain Davrik of the Arcane Circle, Evocation branch. He is a state battlemage but plays mercernary with his black ops wizards and spell blades; he persuades dean to use his money to buy his soilder's services instead of putting them into blasting rods, the group seems to agree and invites Davrik to join them as they continue to maneuver, he agrees to join them for a breif jaunt. Meanwhile, at the eldest house; Noelle receives a promise of aid from Master Lu'Daehn for managing Rift transport during the battle against the illithid. She also meets The Arbiter, a strange prisoner of the Keshal who wants to study the Eldest House.
Episode 136: In the Shadows of the Empire
The group scrambles to deal with the spice situation and zorado as well as stake their claim of Corazo's hoard; they take as much as they can; killing Valthor in the process for his Black Dragon mask. Drogahn decides he will stay with the group while Anku decides it's time for her to take her cut and depart. She is offered a position amongst the leaves of the Jadite clan, and seems to accept. The group decides Zorado and the problems with the spice hoard are all but resolved, and they have more pressing matters to attend to; as Magmorax; The Red Dragon enters the room and seeks their submission and ceasing of the treasure within Corazo's lair. The group departs with the captives of Corazo and returns to the Snake's End; There Taeadoro is surprised to learn of the betrayl of Zorado and the group beleives him; He races to return to a treasure hoard he stole from the emperor fearing zorado may have already stolen it; He arranges for the group to meet Daz, the leader of the Bang Syndicate. The group teleports to Tegquay, a port city small enough to not attract undue attention from the judges or emperor and bargins with Daz, arranging the delivery of 40 rifles, 60 pistols and 35 barrels of blasting powder. The group considers hiring Daz to break into the Royal Imperial and steal seige weapons. Daz informs them this will cost them about 100 thousand gold for him to even entertain, and at that rate he keeps 5 of the weapons for himself. The group teleports back to Rend, opting to bring Drogahn in to their fold citing his quick wit and obvious skills in Skullduggery and Larceny of many types, planning to offer him as a squire of spies to Erron Black.
Episode 135: The Stagnant Villa
The group infiltrates the Villa where Rene Dukar lives, Dukar is merely a human guise for Corazo to operate in human society. The group stealthily moves to the interior property while Leaf Kaisho maneuver's to distract the guards, dispatching Maku and his drake riders without as much as a scream. As the guards scramble to deal with the Monk, the group flys into the exterior balcony where they discover the large manor; there they meet Arianna and Verrion, a wife of Corazo/Dukar who agrees to help the group if they do not harm Verrion. They are escorted below ground where Anku and Arianna depart to the spice hoard; Anku delivers the spice directly to Zorado with his bloodstone, and is instructed to depart from him as he works. She returns to find the group freeing all the captives from Corazo's dungeon, including Leaf Tatsu and Drogon, Corazo's son. Dok offer's Drogon a position on the dragon guard, much to the protest of the rest of the Group. Drogon agrees to help kill Corazo for revenge for sabotaging his spice operation. Volthar, a sorcerer who served as Corazo's mage until the tried to dominate the creature and found himself at Corazo's mercenary and being pumped full of his blood. They also discover Xara, a tiefling who though suspected of being a spy for The Bang Syndacite, is actually employed by the Judges of Nar Fangjian; she reveals Zorado's true nature and plan to the rest of the group and they are forced between going after Zorado or finishing Corazo before he awakens and they lose the element of surprise. There is an intense back and forth between the players, with Dok and Dean convincing the group that the mission to save the world from the mindflayers must come first, and therefore Corazo has to die either way; Xara begrudgingly says she'll handle Zorado as Noelle gives her a silver'd dagger The group charges into the hoard in the last hour of Corazo's slumber, and he is awakened by the groups presence. A Battle between the two forces breaks out, and the group's strategy and preparation proves too much for the Black Scaled lord of Spice, as Dok strikes the killing blow from within the very maw of the beast. As Corazo crashes to the ground, he lands in a heap of gold and treasure sending coins every direction. As the dust settles, the group races to the spice hoard and finds Xara slain, presumably after a tough fight with Zorado, Dok uses revivify on Xara and brings her back to life, but the weight of her failure causes her to weep as the group looks around at the now empty warehouse where just an hour before, over 5 tons of spice filled the space.
Episode 134: Shadows Over The Jungle
The group unites a meeting of the minds of Rend when it comes to Dragon knowledge, and get advice on how to deal with Corazo, deciding it would be best to attempt an ambush inside of his lair while he sleeps; Dean sends a horrendous paranoid dream to Corazo and the group returns to Nar Fangjian to begin their hunt. Anku is confronted in her chambers by Zorado, who task her with locating the spice hoard of Corazo and allowing him to hand it over to the empire. He modifies her memories of these events with a subtle spell and makes her beleive the task is coming from Taeadoro himself. The group maneuvers through the jungle and discovers plant and wildlife of The Elder's Hand, inching closer to the Villa Corazo's lair masquerade's as. The group meet a Jadite clan warrior named Leaf Kaisho, his partner Leaf Tatsu has been trapped in Corazo's prison and he seeks a way inside the prison beneath the lair. The group enter the village of Tel Naris Kahn and pose as "Weird gem sellers" provided a distraction for an ambush on a spice runner shipment that arrived in the harbor of the little village; There mora and Anku killed Rafee, the Middle son of Corazo the black and his spice runners; they take the boat back up the steady river until it becomes too treachourous to navigate and approach the villa on foot, in the distance they see drake rider patrols closing in on them.
Episode 133: Welcome to Nar Fangjian
The group returns from Star's Rest and spends a few days introducing the Black Cloaks to the castle grounds; They then decide it would be best to acquire as much firearms and blasting powder to equalize things with the Illithid on foot; To do so, they use a bullet forged in Akrisa to travel via teleport to nar fangjian, during teleportation; Illiax is taken by a white hand reaching into the teleportation and snatching him away. The group arrives in Nar Fangjian and immediately finds themselves in The Serpent's End; a seedy bar when mora was here, now a full fledge compound promising safety and a holy ground for the criminal underworld; there they meet Anku Tel Raza, a warrior from the jungles of the Akresia wilds and the "Baron of the Bazaar" Taheadoro and Zorado; Taheadoro will arrange a sitdown with the bang syndacite and pay for 6 of these seige weapons in exchange for helping to kill Corazo the Black; a dragon who is a member of the TzarKaizen dynastay, another seedy criminal org. The group agrees to his terms and agrees to setout from Serpent's End back to rend via teleportation circle. Mora and Anku stay and both have delightful experiences with Changeling workers of Thaeadoro. Hebi wakes and finds a gift from the butcher.
Episode 132: The Brothers of the Illustratus
The group journies to Arghast to seek out the Black Cloaks, Warden's specializing in the protection of the prime realm from the threats of the creatures of madness; They number at just 14, but all are specialist who know how to fight illithid and worse. After helping the brothers of the black cloaks clean up the town of Bernhandt after a vicious beholder attack the group journeys to Star's Rest, the fortress of the black cloaks. There they meet all the members of the brotherhood and Dean convinces them to fight in the war against the mind flayers with them; One amongst there number, a woman mage named Lyanna, has had the same visions of the Unameable One as Odin Suv. Varn Kully and the other black cloaks vote nearly unanimously to support rend and leave the island to come along on to Rend
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Episode 131: Men of The Moment
The group returns from the house of mirrors, kenway makes a grand speech commemerating the soilders of rend, and annoucing a festival of his own for dragonfall. The group breaks the curse of Heelslicer and the last giant king Erendahl on Elissa Brontess and begin the process of breaking the curse upon her throne. She struggles with the truth of her actions against her parents. The group hears about Laowzo's true wearabouts secondhand from Norebo; He is found by them in the city of Underhill, and is shortly thereafter reunited with Shiftywick. The group returns to Rend, setting their sites on Arghast and the recruitment of a group of Wardens called The Black Cloaks
Episode 130: The Pact of Rend
The court of Rend begins to recollect itself from Oryndahl; The group debates their next move, deciding that cashflow should be their highest priority; they discuss going into the breeze to retreive a second tooth of the dragon weapon they also try to question Shiftywick regarding a shard of the crown of Andrim they suspect him of stealing. The group elects a new captain among the men, Kore of the Elbar. and visit hush in his house of mirrors. Hush offers his asstiance gathering the enimes of ajax in the house of mirrors. A festival is held at Rend, with many notable guest including all the barons of Andrim even Kaius (Kragg) and Zyll. Elissa Brontess ask Noelle about marrying Kenway, but he seems more interested in marrying Edmund off to her to consolidate power and secure edmund his own. The group has a secret rendevous with a select group of people; Petrokolys and Mora jet off on his Pegasus Sarai; he won it in a battle with an archon. He returns Mora to the house of Mirrors in time for a meeting; Present at the meeting are Kenway and Pacer, Furian and Petrokolys, Sarah and Daggon, Erron Black, Hush Edmund and The Prince Asohka of the Githyanki, They all pledge themselves ot the Pact of Rend, an agreement to deal with the threat of the Mindflayers first, even if it meant allying themselves with Ajax, then turning their sights on him once their work is done.
Episode 129: War Never Changes
The group listens to the account of the B team regarding the crown of andrim; Erron Black confesses his failure as general of Rend's forces and reports the total lost of troops at about 281; Future plans are set for a festival in the coming weeks to honor the fallen and potentially court allies for Rend in the attack on Glasspuhl. Pellick is instated as the new general of the Rendian forces; Erron Black is named master of spies for Rend and Beck Trazzmora sends volume three of the collected works of the heroes of Rend to them, along with royalties. The group travel to Aurelias Jadesoul and get a shard from Sarah Emeraldhart; they are told the Band that binds the crown is in Kenways possesion.
Episode 128: The Queen Under the Mountain
The group launches a surprise attack on the forces of De'Haan, Thane Selos Golem's leap down into the forge ash to protect him and the group seeks the Control Rod; the group cannot hope to harm the mighty warrior constructs, they more so seek to distract the machines until the control rod can be found. It is eventually found by Noel and reforged by the white flame of Orn via the hands of Daggon; as the armies of dalrath carve through the mountain the forces are split, being called back to protect De'Haan, a pincer maneuver is intiated. Dean is nearly killed, and instead Pyriah is lost and disnegrated; leaving only the crown of the Tzar Takar in its place. Dean surrrenders his Death Ward favor from the Raven Queen for Pyriahs soul, which is almost reclaimed by Merrick. The Golems bow to Daggon and Sarah and Thane Selos is arrested, he regales the group with his tale of Ajax and Mordredd and how he came to be a part of the Black Iron Pact. The group discovers Ajax had planted his gate under dehaans square at least a hundred years before he launched his attack on Andrim; Davrik informs the group that Mordredd likely went to the Emperors First School in Arghast.
Episode 127: The Thane Under The Mountain
The group rendevous with Kenway Dalrath and agree to help him take De'Haan; promised the reward of the Vault of De'Haan upon their completion; Sarah and Daggon Emeraldheart along with their younger sibling Vorthan, or Vorry accompany the group; After hours of strategy a plan is set out, and the group is able to Scry on Thane Selos and see enough information about him to teleport directly into his captial. They prepare themselves as Pacer and Kenway prepare their army to distract most of the troops of De'Haan by unleashing a horde of war goats strapped with explovies hoping to make a entry way into the impossible to seige walls of the caverns of De'Haan. The group also meets Davrik D'Thorne a shalee battlemage who is backed up by his own simulacrum.
Episode 126: The Codex
The group finishes their journey in Oryndahl once and for all, leavining behind the Cavern of Sacred thoughts, but not before learning the truth of the origin of Illsenine. They meet Ilmar, a musician mind flayer; as well as many other mind flayers that have been severed from their elder brain and simply wish to be killed. The group enters the Codex, a great collection of illithid knowledge, and learn nearly all of their secrets. Including the truth of the overwhelming power of the all hearing gods. They return to Rend and elect kenway dalrath as a likely source of strenght for a future conflict with Glaspuhl. They elect to help him end his dwarf problem, they gather the three Emeraldheart siblings, Daggon, Sara, And Vory as well as Digger Varak, to enter the mountain and ambush Thane Seelos. They journey north to Dalrath via teleport and seekout the Wild King and Furian to rendevous and plan their attack.
Episode 125: The Cavern of Sacred Thoughts
The group continues to move through the Ring, they eventually come upon Organna Belal; she has been captured and is being ceromorphized into a star spawn hulk that they fought previously; Organna helps them maneuver through the ring into the cavern of sacred thoughts, an ancient temple to the goddess illsenine, the first of the elder brains and the creator of the illithid race; they do battle with the Elder Brain lord of Oryndall and his Venerators; holy paladin guardians of this anceint temple; The fight is feirce and ferocious, dok and pyriah are nearly lost and Dean once again falls to the illithid, however a burst of his wild magic reincarnates him and shifts the tide of battle back into their favor; Finally Organa sacrifices herself with the last cask bomb and blows up the the pool containing the elder brain, the explosion destroys the brain and nearly all the tadpoles, except one that latches onto and enters mora's head.
Episode 124: Attack on Oryndahl
The group reemerges from the Abyss just in time to r ejoin their armies in the Shadowfell; the march on Oryndahl is ready, the group forumulates a last minute strategy to use explosive barrels to attack the city, distract the mind flayers and put a number in their Thrall armies; The decision to make the bombs out of Rendian wine cask is made, and the group flies off in the Nautaloid they stole from the Mad Kings coast; Hebi/Morbius elect to act as a first way, dropping into enemy terroritory just as the bombs begin to fall; The nautaloids bombing run is a success as the gate bridge of the outer ring is blasted open and lowered; allowing the Rendian forces acesss to the city; The group blows a hole in the side of the eastern ring and enters into the lab; there they face a forward party of mind flayers and starspawn hulks; dispatching them and readying themselves to plunge deeper into the city of secrets
Episode 123: The Blood Bowl
The group participates in a sort of fight for entertainment in the blood spire; there they reunite with Grazz't and have a first face to face meeting with Ynagouh, who is still upset regarding the battle of the Blood Moon. There they face the Molydeus once again, this time with two other generals of the dog queen; they slay the Molydeus in an extremely hard fought battle and retrieve its gem once again. In the future, they could use the gem to retrieve Sir Razzalax's soul. Pacer defeats Gravahr, First Lt of Grazz'ts armies; The two engage in a battle that sees both flying through the air and clashing in the skies; Pacer is nearly defeated, impaled by the Cambion General; but Pacer uses Ferocity to survive the round and finishes the demon by ripping his wings from his body and then decapitating him. Grazz't is pleasently surprised by these events; Pacer and Grazz't have a brief staredown over noelle, who is gifted the rare corpse flower by the prince of pleasure.
Episode 122: Tales from The Abyss
The group journeys into the heart of Tennebrus; seeking the blood spire; they find themselves in a combat with a swarm of batlike man creatures called NightWings; the nightwings prove to be formidable opposition and nearly kill Dok; Dok is returned to magnificent mansion; they are contacted directly by Malvarian who offers an olive branch to them for killing the nightwings. They are taken to the bloodsport via the Mistway; Malvarian welcomes to them to his Den of degeneracy and blood; he offers them their Keshal in exchange for entertainment and his endless boredom; The group invites Pacer Dalrath to participate in an old school tournament in the halls of the Blood Spire
Episode 121: Attack on Camp Rend
The camp of the Rendian soldiers and Ashari tribe are beset on all sides by "Trotters" vicious horrifying flesh eating horses; after a hard fought victory, the group begins to plan their next step for Oryndahl when they discover Two Keshali envoys have gone missing, and its discovered theyve slipped inside the Cube. The group solves the cube and opens it again, this time a demon steps through attempting to take their souls; they dispatch the demon and go into the gate opened by the cube; they find themselves in the realm of Orcus, 333rd layer of the abyss; Noelle uses the Keshal Overmind to contact the ancient masters and discover a vampire named Malvarian has the keshal in his possession somewhere called The Blood Spire
Episode 120: The Pale Folk
The group visits The Ashari, a telepathic, psionically gifted tribe that were at one time surfacers; they were taken below into the darklands and into Oryndahl 500 years ago. They eventually developed psionic abilities after the illithid experimented on them with Azurite. A group of them escaped to the eastern lands and found White Rock, and the valley where there is an abundance of Azurite. The Ashari suggest to the group a united attack on Oryndahl with Rendian forces; the process takes about 5 days and the united forces march on the illithid city Pyriah accesses more memories of the Tzartakar; giving him the opportunity to learn that the elder brain will call to him, and even tempt him. This awareness will give him the opportunity to resist its call; though not a guarantee of success; while meditating on this, he finds a grey render that bonds to him, he names Blanks
Episode 119: Cube Talk
The group finds a strange cube among the belongings of Glafrenale; they believe it to be a sort of gate to the abyss if solved, as the cube is a puzzle of sorts; They debate for hours on what to do with both the Cube and the Wand of Orcus. They decide that the Wand of Orcus will be delivered to the Raven Queen; in exchange she offers Dean her favor; a myseterious token of unknown power; but does give Dean the ability to Summon a Raven, named Orion. The group spots one of the Pale folk, or the Asharee; and Mora chases them down, they are offered audience with The Asharee Cheif as they have shown great strenght by slaying The "Rotting Wizard" as the Asharee called the Litch. The group leaves the tower, leaving the Brothers of the Gray Mist behind, but not before Mora has the chance to learn some of their stances and techniques; learning the way of the gusting Palm
Episode 118: Enter The Dark Lands
The group flies the nautaloid ship across the Sunless and into The Darklands, the outskirts of the Illithid Empire. There they find several odd landmarks and decide to head towards a seemingly human construct that looked like a tower of Elven make; there they find 3 monks, Afrenail, Hezargo and Gris, Brothers of the Grey Mist of Kaldore; they seemingly serve a patron known as Glafrenoal, a wizard who owns the tower and sends the brothers on assignments to retreive magical artifacts and other compoenents for his arcane rituals; The group grows curious about the wizard, seeking to ask him for help with their illithid problem; They find the wizard in his study conducting a dark ritual, the ritual involes the dessecrated corpses of 13 indivuals of various races. The group intrudes on the study and is immediately attacked by the dark necromancer, revealiing himself slowly to be a Litch, much like Lord Zyll. The Lich is slain when Mora dives on him with a kick and splatters him, his blood completing the ritual to bring forth the wand of Orcus, a devastating artifact of unimaginable power over life and death, and undeath. The group decides to incase the wand in a vault of amber and put it away for safe keeping. The group decides to base themselves out of the tower for now, and spend the next few days parsing the Lich's belongings and spellbook. Dok looks to consecrate the tower and cleanse it of the dark presence leftover from the rituals therin.
Episode 117: The Duskmaiden's Rewards
The group travels back to the Palace of memories to receive their rewards for felling the Mad King for the Raven Queen; The rewards are personalized, and each come with a difficult choice for each person with the exception of Pyriah, Pyriah is taken to the Soul Forge and given the opportunity to Ressurect Merrick, the elven creative genius demigod; he chooses to leave Lev, and return life to Merrick's corpse; but he refuses to join Merrick as his champion and shuns him after claiming that they are even; Pyriah joins the Rendian Comission and pledges himself to their cause of stopping the Illithid Threat. The Group returns to the keep previously held by the Mad King and recycle and repurpose several Nautaloid ships with the help of Hebi, or rather Morbius, who has taken over control of the goblins body due to a bout of temporary insanity. They manage to repair the mind flayer vessel to flying condition and intend to pilot it across the sunless sea to the Dark Lands
Episode 116: In the Clutches of The Mad King
The group does fearsome battle with the entity known as the Mad King, the vicious beholder is felled and the group infiltrates his keep and discovers an ancient propehcy predicting their arrival, and the fact that they beholder was in his own way guarding the people of Greyheart from reaching the Illithid Territories.
Episode 115: The Sunless Sea
The Group sets sail from Greyheart and ventures out unto the Sunless Sea in search of the Mad King, they meet the Coral Kingdom's Merrow and make an agreement with them for passage through their waters. They find a crashed Drow Shadow waider that contains several dead bodies and a barely living drow soldier named Jayce; fearing the intrusion of Shell Sharks, they place him into the chest of belonging. A fight erupts with the Shell Sharks and the Mad King shows up to finish the group off, revealing himself to be the Beholder Zorblax Zaruxian
Episode 113: The Palace of Memories
The group travels to the Palace of memories, the home of the Raven Queen herself. They witness the Wonders of The Hall of Memories and Dok elects to place his holy symbol into the collection in the Wing of Hope. The Raven Queen ask the group to eliminate the Mad King, as he has no soul and therefore lies beyond her power. The group accepts the Raven Queen's request for the sake of a favor from her collection or herself; they elect to take the folding boat into the sunless sea; The domain of the Mad King
Episode 112: Into The Bleak
The group journies to the Winter Fey court and negotiates with the Prince of Frost to complete their deal from Avarrak Sul, The city is now transformed into a fortress; and the prince is seemingly preparing for war; the group is too concerned with their illithid buisness to worry about it for now; Orzog gifts the group the illithid helmet that can free an illithid from the grasp of the elder brain The Prince teleports the group to the Shadowfell, and they are subsequently attacked by the first creatures they see, a strange shadowy rodent that can emmnante magical darkness. The group survives the encounter and escapes towards the city of Greyheart; there they meet the Shadar Kai, and reunite with Selene Pyriah meets with a group of old allies, they ask him to free their master by working with the matron of ravens; the group agrees to meet with her and Preistess Selene arranges an audieance, offering to escort the group through the Palace of memories
Episode 111: Getting The Ducks into a Row
The group welcomes 2 new members of the Dragonguard, Rottgriel and Rokgnaw of the Drakora Village. Garen Thordak welcomes both as old friends and helps them settle into their new places within Rend. The group seeks to finalize any affairs they can before returning to the Underdark, as Dean's dreams have turned dark once more, refelcting a horrifying future for Taze and Andrim itself. They deliver a cask of wine to the barony of the dead and meet Lord Zyll, to their surprise he is not quite what they expect of a Lich baron. Noelle returns to the Eldest house and witnesses the death of Kalron Malbar and Amon becoming a Elder Tree on the council of the Kehsall; She is embraced by the council as a knight, and Kalron's essence joins with the eternal masters in the veil, to his protest. They then travel to Tor to meet with Baroness Elisa Brontess; she agrees to boon their taxes for one year if they will heal the knight of roses of his wounds from the tournament. After which they send their new compatriots to Braille's End to seek the crown of Andrim. After meeting the Baroness, they travel to Shale, to Serenity Sqaure to purchase magical items and potions for the upcoming journey; Dean runs into an old class mate who informs him of a safety deposit box awaiting him; therein he finds a few magical items, a bit of gold and family heirlooms and a note from his grandfather; among the possessions in the vault is Dariaxxe, a gargoyle bound to the blood of house callisto.
Episode 110: The War Room
The group returns to Rend after a hard fought battle against Kalron and Sadrith, with Kalron captured the group takes a few days to set in order the finnacial affairs of Rend with Accountant Hamish. After deciding to inact a Tax in the coming years on Rend, Skoros annouces to Noelle that she will be marrying Brandon Pellick in the Spring, when the flowers return. The group are greeted and joined by a new group of adventureres from Tor who have taken on the Invisible Legion and lived; looking for safety. The group consist of Val Feel, Idibo the Fool, Pariyah of the Shadowed Lands and Kalei of the Elder's Hand
Session 109: At The Turn of The Tide
Dean, Mora and Dok see the Outcast, who encourages them to appeal to Zero's sensibilities to escape Kalron's Lab. Zero agrees to help Dean if they are intent on killing Sadrith. He guides them to the Hedge Maze; Meanwhile, Noelle battles Kalron Malbar with not only Amon, but the Knights of the Keshal and Speaker Lu Daehn; Amon is lost in the battle to Power Word Kill courtesy of Kalron, but he is captured after having his arm severed and his Val Sura removed from his person. The Keshal return Kalron to the Eldest House to await his fate; the group meets with Hamish to discuss the finances of Rend. Zero joins the party in Rend, agreeing to stay for awhile while he gains his bearings of the outside world
Episode 108: Countdown to Zero
The group is split, Noelle and Amon face Kalron Mal'Bar in the depths of the hedge maze, the others are confronted by Sadrith's confessors and a clone of Dean named "Zero". Both groups clash in battles in which they are pushed to their limits, Dok, Mora and Dean attempt to negotiate with Zero after he locks them into the lab but Dean's wild magic accidentally turns him into a potted plant. Noelle is knocked out in the fight with Kalron, awakening to find amon has been left to face Kalron and donates the last of her life force to give noelle a shot at facing him herself.
Episode 107: Arriving at Azalon
The group manages to deceive the twins Ackrid and Astriel by telling them they work for Sadrith, and disguising themselves as Confessors. They manage to sneak past the two to the anterior reef, an area guarded by a kraken, they avoid the kraken by flying overhead and teleporting to the edge of the isle known as the Azalon. This cavern was a secret entrance/exit used by Sadrith and the Confessors, Amory leads them inside and escorts them up the spirals to a facility where several deans are being cloned; they decide to go east, towards Kal Ron's lab; there a vicious Cadre of Boneclaws and some kind of Soul sucking Mora zombies; a device in Kalron's lab made out of Val Sura crystals, explodes and teleports Noelle and Amon to the Hedge Maze in the courtyard, in the central most part of the Island. There, Kalron Malbar, formerly Kalron Keshal awaits his old master, and her new apprentice. Meanwhile, in Kalrons Lab, Dean is confronted by a clone of himself, guns at his sides and surrounded by Sadrith's Confessors
Episode 106: Once More Into the Void
The Ashweaver departs once again from Khalenport, this time with a new Sadrith clone; Amory. She tells the group of the Islands history belonging to the Cult of the Drowned God, before Kenway weakened them allowing Sadrith to take over the Island with his Cult of Bones. He renames the Island "Azalon" for paradise, as he treats it as sort of a vacation home. The group strategizes on how to approach the Island, guarded on its outskirts by a Kraken. Ship Hunter sharks attack the vessel, the crew dispatches them with great damage done to the ashweaver; finding themselves rudderless and taking on water, two silloutettes appear on the Horizon, black dragons; The Twins Ackrid and Aureli
Episode 105: Forging the Future
The group returns from Spine Cove to Castle Rend, Erron Black arrives to resume command of the Rendian troops; The group travels to the house of Mirrors once more, Irling introuduces them to Khyler, who translates the eldritch language primordial for them, teaching them the history of the Drowned Cult and the Cult of Bones. The group visits Bettigar and learns of the fallout of the deal with the invisible legion, kenway is taxed for 150 of his finest men by Ajax. The group visits Callum Port and finds a clone of Mora called Amory; a former confessor and spy of Sadrith who reveals many secrets to them and offers them a way in to Azalon
Episode 104: The Oracle of Spine Cove
Dok learns the skill of Communion with Soul from the Reverend Elias; Noelle visits once again to the house of mirrors, declining to assist the Ordus on replacing a member of the invisible legion. Dok manages to break through in his communions and visits The plane of Tempest and Soul, Temperion Peak in Celestia. He is instructed by the cleric Barnabus Frey to visit the oracle of spine cove; The oracle is the duty of the Reverend to guard; it is an aboleth, a child of the all hearing gods left clinging to this world. It contains the memories of all its ancestors in a singluar line along its back. It relays to Dok a massive amount of Andrimian and world history. The Elder beings resided here first, before Korlo slew IO and shed light upon the world, there was darkness and water, and in that darkness and water, the elder gods made their life forms. The reverend tells Dok of the Staff of St. Gaad, a powerful artifact that will come in handy when fighting Ajax if he plans to summon another demon army. The group visits Kragg's manor and does business with the blue dragon lord, they find a painting of the Outcast as a child, by Alren Tambry a famous shalee painter.
Episode 103: The Ballad of Nicholas The Goat
The group reconciles with Edmund the morning after he is named Baron of Bettigar; They are visited by Lydia who offers them their winnings from Tournament of Kings. Kenway and Pacer stay to assist with the cleanup and ensure Edmund gets off on the right foot as baron. Edmund names Patty Shrillwhislte the new Rosso of Bettigar after Lady Avalina refuses, citing her oath to Lord Kenway. Hush visits the group and offers some gifts to Edmund on behalf of Taze in his continued absence, including a hedge mage named Pheladus and an animal companion named Monarch. He also informs Dean and Noelle of the coming of the Invisible legion to officiate the transfer of Power to Edmund Betetigar. The Group journies north, returning Furian to the Dusk Lilly Village, and then head even further north to meet The Reverend. The Reverend shares that he has been tasked by St. Gaad to teach Dok how to commune with the power of Soul, he is taken back to Rend and agrees to teach Dok in the Temple on the Castle Grounds. Pellick is given a gift by Vincent Vincestaron to signify his debt being paid and him being safe now; he plans to leave for a few days with Skoros.
Episode 102: The Tournament of Kings
The Group participates in the grand tradition of the Tournament of Kings, Mora represents lord edmund, Erron volunteers to compete to clear the debt with the syndicate and Dok will compete on behalf of Castle Rend. Bettigar's festival is in full swing as the group enjoys spectating the Mud fight, the open combat tournament, and betting on the fights themselves. Dok defeats Sir Kyus Wrax and Mora defeats the Brydella Banks' Iron Fahz. Meanwhile Kenway and Erron Black make quick work of their opponents, Kenway realizes Erron Black is fighting in disguise and feigns an injury to allow Pacer the opportunity to fight Erron, and make good on their bet from a year ago. Pacer wins in a near draw with Erron when Sir Erron makes the choice to yield before one of them dies or his identity is revealed; Mora and Dok fight and as always, Mora comes out on top, but Dok puts up his most valiant effort yet. Pacer and Mora face each other in the finals, with both warriors going blow for blow until Pacer outlast Moras torrent of ki bursting strikes and then pins her to the ground; whispering to her he's ready to take the fall, he allows Mora to knock his tooth out with a powerful kick and she is declared the winner; Edmund is revealed to the people of Bettigar at last and challenges the Rosso Ciello to make the circle; the Rosso accepts the challenge but proxies his son to represent him; Edmund duels the older and more capable Marco Ciello, eventually overcoming the usurper's son, Edmund refuses to kill Marco and turns his sword to the Rosso, the Rosso turns to his guards for aid but all abandoned him in the face of the true baron of bettigar. The group rushes from the coliseum to retake Bettigar Keep, finding Erron Black has already cleared the Throne room of Dawnhammer Commissions soldiers, the group takes to the streets to aid the citizens of bettigar, defeating and rounding up the last of the dawnhammer commission, they end the night sleeping in Bettigar Keep, the childhood home of Edmund Bettigar
Episode 101: Setting The Board
The group journeys to Bettigar Keep to begin their final preparations for The Tournament of Kings; They visit with Arkus Ovar who tells them the history of Karnak The Cold; The white dragonborn in the employ of Ajax. They teleport into Taze's apartment and find it has not been disturbed much in the past two years; the group meets up with Patty Shrillwhistle at the Tea Leaf and he catches them up on the current state of the city, and his ongoing struggle against The Rosso Ciello. He also informs them of Marco, the Rosso's son. They journey to farm outside the keep where Kenway Dalrath prepares for the event; they enjoy a night of merriment with The Baron and Pacer and Edmund, and decide who will represent who in the tournament. Noelle teleports to the wildlands to retrieve King Furian
Episode 100: Returning to Castle Rend
The group returns safely home to Castle Rend and strategizes their next plan, Mora returns and pushes the group to pursue Sadrith Tel Mithryn after the tournament of kings, which begins in a few days.
Episode 99: The Battle of Fire and Brass
The group challenges the gurdians of the soul coin vault, two demons in the employee of the Red Woman of Aloy, then take the fight to the mistress herself and finalize their deal with Grazz't. The Prince of Pleasure rewards the group with 4 Greenstone Amulets, ancient dwarven technology that protects its wearer from the Illithids psionic abilities
Episode 98: The Lesser Evil
The group sneaks back into the city of Brass with the help of Efreti merchant D'Jarrn; they strike a deal with him to move against the Red Woman, synchronizing their efforts with the incoming help from their draconic alliance, the group sneaks into the dungeons of the palace to rescue the Hell Runner, Callum Kaecielius. In the process they free a spy of Grazz't's; an Abishai. Raz is summoned by Noelle and informed of the situation, agreeing to bring a force of devils from the pit to assist in the fallout battle after the dragons are dealt with. The group confronts the sorcerer Madrios, electing to spare him despite the protesting of Callum and Hebi; The group must make a move against the Red Woman's vault of Soul Coins before they can hand over the city to the Demon Prince
Episode 97: Meeting Gadson
The group returns to castle Rend and informs the citizens of the return of the seasons, adjustments are made on the homefront and Gadson, Dok's son is introduced to the rest of the family. The group returns to Black Bottom to attend the Trade Ball, they briefly consider killing Sweet William The Butcher but decided against it after his mayoral campaign is announced.
Episode 96: The Chase in Kind
The group chases the relentless shiftywick through the northern mountain ranges, ending at the village of the Blue Orc tribes and reuniting breifly with Del Hack Durokor, the group meets with the Pale Prince and negotiates a trade between the groups for Dok's sons freedeom. The Balance of the seasons returns to Castle Rend as well as Doks legacy dwarven armor from Thane Avarak
Episode 95: The Molten Fortress
the group infiltrates the molten fortress of the Red Dragon brood in the northern ruby desert; there they meet Cyndra, the former lover and mate of The Red Tyrant; she offers a deal to the players to help her dispose of the Red Woman by taking out Alloys aerial defenses against the dragons; the party leaves agreeing to the deal, but ultimately unsure of what to do about the city of brass. They return to Castle Rend to regroup and recoup but Dok sneaks out in the middle of the night, discovering Yelena and a child are missing, the groupe teleports to the scene of the chase and joins Yelena in the pursuit of Shiftywick, who has stolen Dok's child
Episode 94: The Twisting Sands
The group gathers their wits and supplies and journeys north toward the lair of the red dragon brood with Scout Captain Jaz'Khar; along the way they see the sights of the barren ruby, learn some of the city and the Red Woman's secrets from Jaz'Khar and find a camel loaded with treasure, but dying. After leaving the camel behind, the group come upon the exiles of the city of Aloy, scorpion folk known as the Tincalli, the infernal word for Exile. The group leaves the Tincalli to their hunt and continues north as the heat begins to rise, alerting them to the proximity of the Red Dragon mother rising ever closer.
Episode 93: The Hidden City
Aloy welcomes the players with a heroes feast and welcome, they are brought before The Red Woman, who commends them on their acquisition of the heart of Cynder, she employees them to finish off his brood in the southern reaches of the Ruby, the city welcomes all of the players in its own unique way. But after a rest and some trading with the master craftsman of the effreti, the group feel ready and able to slay a dragon or two, and head north into the wild sands.
Episode 92: The Red Sands of The Ruby Desert
The group employees the Hellrunner Kallum Kaceilius to locate the lost city of Aloy, remarkably, he discovers the city is hidden on the surface of Andrim, and may be the cause of the Ruby Desert emerging nearly 100 years ago. The group are ambushed by the Burrowing Howlers that stalk the sands for prey, shortly after they run into knights riding strange rolling mounts, and are escorted to the city proper. The City of Brass awaits the group, as does its mysterious benefactor, The Red Woman
Episode 91: The Rendian Connection
The group settles affairs at Rend before heading back to the black coast, where they meet both the mysterious Voice of the sending stone, which belongs to the mighty mage Hush, who offers safety and the knowledge of the Ordus Obscuras to the group. Then they meet The HellRunner, a teeflieng named Kallum Kaicelius
Episode 90: Funeral For a Friend
The group reels from the loss of Andris of Andrim, but in his passing learn some secrets, including possible hints about the true nature of King Ormund and the location of The Crown of Andrim, an artifact said to be destroyed by Ajax when he usurped the throne 62 years ago.
Episode 89: Time; Enemy of the Heart
The group returns to Castle Rend to drop what treasure they can and attempt to plan their next move now that the Illithid have been dealt another staggering blow, they decide locating weapons that would be powerful against Mind Flayers is Paramount, and they currently have a few leads as to which ones are worth chasing down. They catch up with Rend's goings on and discover a new fleet of War Hounds trained by Lenny; Andris returns to the keep with Skoros, and is in his final hours of life, a gathering is held in the forest behind Rend and Andris calmly and peacefully passes away, but not before revealing the location of the crown of Andrim, and that he beleives king Ormund is still alive.
Episode 88: Forward Thinking
The group takes a survey of the items in the treasure hoard and begin packing away the immediate valuables and magical items and artifacts; they proceed deeper into the illithid laboratories in an effort to find and save organa, as well as shutting down whatever is going on here in the process; along the way they face off against a brain golem and more of the experimental illithid monsters hybrids. They encounter a Giant's head being used as some kind of false elder brain and super computer for the facility, the group puts the head out of its misery, but not before it reveals it continas the secrets of the lost illithid art of spell jamming, K'Vaugh takes a keen interest in this information and Dean makes a move to stop him from taking it, once he has it, K'Vaughn no longer able to trust the part, plane shifts back to his colony with his new found discovery; saying to the group he did enjoy his time with them while it lasted. After the battle, the group is weakened to the point of exhaustion, and forced to hold up in the treasure vault and attempt to rest; during that time the Illithid finalize whatever they were working on in the Labratory, and escape with the functional Nautaloid and activate their destruction protocols for the island. The group gathers what treasure they can and leap into an escape vessel hidden inside the vault, it fires them deep into the black sea and the surface, where they are subsequently picked up by Erron Black and The Ashweaver
Episode 87: The Shallow of Skulls
The group infiltrates the innermost parts of the Island, discovering the secrets of the Kaldo Nostra treasures hidden within, along with finding the entrance to what looks like some sort of Illithid laboratories within. Two experimental creatures are released upon the party that seem to absorb magical damage and blast it back out at the party. The party discovers the Organa they saw suspended above the pool was a ulithird commanding the creatures, and dispatch several other mind flayers during the attack. The group finds the treasures of Don Luciano and take the immediate valuables before heading back down to finish off the laboratory and whatever experiments await inside, and hopefully save their friend
Episode 86: The Caverns at Gully Cove
The group journeys back to the Island with K'Vaughn's help, who at least for now seems to be a genuine ally against the Glasspul illithid. The group seeks out Selene but finds only the disgusting Grimlocks inside, feasting upon a group of people who snuck into the Caverns not long before our group but were discovered. Amongst them is Selbire, a spy who carried a similar to Allen Lancel. He also had in his grip a sending stone to a mysterious deep and raspy voice on the other side, the stranger chooses not to reveal his identity at this time, fearing the finders of the stone are illithid thralls, but he sets the party to task locating an item he had sent Selbire for, an orb. The group discovers a horrifying farm of humans suspended by a creature that was a roper at one time, but had since been subjugated to Ceromorphsis. The group defeated three of these creatures with the help of K'Vaugn and Selene, and find a chamber in which Organa is being held captive suspended above a pool with two large reptilian creatures standing guard.
Episode 85: Strength of Body, Strength of Mind
The group encounters a mind flayer who is not just psionically strong but physically strong as well, after a long and hard fought battle against his forces, they meet another illithid from the Guliack Variah colony in Kaldore; and they seek to destroy the abberant colony of Glasspul along with the players efforts; plane shifting them to a safe place to rest while the mind flayers back on the island bolster their defenses
Episode 84: The Hidden Island of The Kaldo Nostra
The group sails from the heart of the black coast into the northern reaches to find an island depicted on a map found within the desk of the Arkahn Pointe. The group manages to stealthily infiltrate the islands exterior, avoiding troglodyte solders along the way. The group clears a camp of human guards an interrogates a lone enforcer, the enforcer has no love lost for the mind flayers and gladly tells the players their locations as well as how many to expect. As the group moves towards a mindflayer sentential, they notice a large number of enforces dominated by his abilities forming a type of shield wall around him.
Episode 83: The Sacking of the Arkahn Pointe
The group discovers the secrets of the living mind flayer vessel that was once the Arkahn Pointe, prized ship of Don Luciano. Within the depths of the ship a strange parasite is contacted and bonded with Hebi, and tells the group many of the Illithid's secrets; freeing their two captives from the tanks within the ships deck, this introduces the party to Selene, a Shadar Kai Preistess of the Raven Queen, and Crastor Belahl, Organna's brother. It is discoverd through conversations with the parasyte that the process Mindflayers use to turn humanoids into their own is called Ceromorphsis, and that the process has already begun on Crastor. The group, in an attempt to save crastor, perform psychic surgery on him, but inadvertently kill him in the process. Organa is devastated by the loss, and the group presses on to the island where Don Luciano's treasure, as well as a mind flayer base resides in a hidden cove on the islands side.
Episode 82: The Attack of the NostraTsomnisum
The Mindflayer pirate captain Kzaric has firmly set the Ashweaver in his sights, unknowingly drawn into battle by the clever use of magic from Dean and Noelle; The group does battle with the Behemoth and comes out on top, but the mindflayer preserves himself in a chrysalis prison. The group discovers below the decks of the Nostra a brain pool, a navigational elder brain, and two mysterious tubes holding humanoid figures within.
Episode 81: Stranger Days
The group teleports to the black coast, finding their teleportation circle slightly outdated; it now rest firmly in the basement of the former disciple of the Outcast, Fenris Avair, brother of famous Shalee wizard Fizbop. Fenris escorts Mora through his paintings into the Void to resolve her issues with the outcast. Hebi joins the group as they head back to Black Bottom via Eagle transport Beck resolves to attempt to finish her writings while the group seeks to lure the Arkhan Pointe into a trap, along with it's Illithid captain
Episode 80: Opening Doors
The group discovers a door hidden beneath lord Arent the Tree Elder; as well as a Dryad now living in the forest of Rend. Vrenic visits from the warden and advises the group that a Dryad is good luck; Mora discovers Yelena's hiding spot behind the door as well as a secret she's been keeping from both dok and Norebo; Noelle receives a complicated offer from Raz; who still seeks a crown for one of the lost cities of Sul. Skoros learns much about the mindflayer scourge, and their biology. The group decides to tie up loose ends in Black Bottom.
Episode 78-79: The Rise of The Sea Mother
Blackmarsh hallow's recoking has come in the form of titan goddess Blipdoolpoolp! She crashes through the city streets as the group barely escapes her collapsing chapel with the help of their old friend Prince Ashoka of the Gith Zerhai; Nautaloids, Mind Flayer ships from beyond this plane emerge instantly, challenging the Gith Hammer Cruiser and engaging in a chase across the plains, Asohka is briefly captured, then returned to his vessel at which point he brings the group back to Rend, Dean and Mora are nearly killed by the Illithid and need 3 days to recover at minimum
Episode 77: Dance of the Depths
The group tries to infiltrate the outer limits of Black Marsh Port but is beset upon by dozens of creatures with glowing black eyes and chattering teeth and mouths, the wet Fish men of Blackmarsh are upon them! The group loses the battle against the mage takers, and in turn drags them back to their hideout beneath the church, but these Kuo Toa are rebelling against the Mind Flayers; and when the party finally meets Elias Stoneguard, he escorts them to a chamber where they witness the birth of Blipdoolpoolp from the body of Kori Marwell
Episode 76: The Secrets of The Ebony North
The group travels to Zestichen Trading Post, and discover a town that seems both sinister and secretive, and discovers a cart from Black Marsh arrives with goods for trade, after "conversing" with the cab driver they discover a monstrous species of some kind is corrupting and controlling Black Marsh; perhaps these are the infamous Fishmen finslayer reffered to? The group sets off for Black Marsh, but is ambushed by clicking mouths and beading fishy eyes surrounding them.
Episode 75: The Voyage of the Ashweaver
The group sails the legendary Ashweaver, traveling north up the coast to both Garrison Port and the university city of Saorti, meeting new allies and discovering new secrets along the way .
Episode 74: The Lavish Life
The group enjoys a day of shopping, dining, bathing and celebration after striking the deal with Berg, Noelle learns of some fey court secrets courtesy of Norebo. The group bonds out the Ashweaver and pushes out to sea with Hebi, Beck Trazmora, Erron and Christopher Black and a crew of new underlings to assist in running the ship, pursuing both Elias Stonguard as well as the Archon Pointe, the yacht containing the mysterious mindflayer artifact Hebi encountered.
Episode 73: Black Bottom Girls You Make The Rockin World Go Round
The Coalition sets out from Castle Rend, returning to the Black Coast with Beck Trazzmora and Hebi the goblin in tow; They visit their old friend Dren and do some serious business in the magical capital of Andrim; finally they meet with Thomas Berg, the editor of the Black and White; and sell him exclusive rights to the story of the heroes of Gravesford.
Episode 72: Among Us
A killer is on the loose in castle Rend, the players investigate and find that the killer is a Legate of Ajax, as well as an old enemy from Ockney's Hold; the Changeling Vorice, who was offered his chance at revenge against the party after months of torture at the hands of the Ceaseless Syndicate. Mora executes Vorice as the many eyes of Ajax watch on. The group makes plans to head to Black Bottom with Hebi and Beck Trazzmora in tow. Dok proposes the reestablishing of The Dragon Guard of Andrim with the help of Mace Boren and his Father.
Episode 71: Make Way For The King
Furian retakes control of his settlement and makes plans for the future. A summit for peace is called between Fuiran and Kenway Dalrath, oversaw by Noelle and Dean. Furian declares himself the new king of Furia, the western kingdom, and proposes kenway keep the east, minus the Amirkanni lands. Kenway Dalrath reluctantly accepts Furian's proposal and his overwhelming military might
Episode 70: Malgore's Malice
A battle for control of the savage lands breaks out as Goru Darkclaw and the forces of Furian collide with the infiltrating Coalition of Rend. Furian is purified of his curse by Noelle and enters the fray just in time to save Dok's life from the Shaman and turns the tide towards victory as Goru is killed by Dean with a cone of cold
Episode 69: Nice
The group has a brief moment of respite in Castle Rend. Dean's ambitions are condemned by the other members of the party. Furian is revealed to be deathly ill inside his camp, prompting a rescue mission plan being proposed by Noelle. The group learns of Dean's grandfather's sinister past and current state; Dok stands up for himself and Lord Edmund The rescue mission to cure Furian of his Curse sends the group into Furians camp, where they see the world Furian has made into his kingdom.
Episode 68: Flipping the Board
The players discover the cost of a wish, as four months pass between leaving the vault of the pale prince and returning to Dalrath. The clock until war ticks ever closer to midnight as Furian mysteriously vanishes from the board while his pieces move towards Dalrath. Dean confesses his desire to become Baron of Rend to the rest of the group, to protest from Mora and Noelle while dok remains unaware, focusing on his time with his family back at Rend. A new friend joins the group and pleads them to return to black bottom to avenge the death of his friends at the hands of the mindflayers
Episode 67: A Casual Lunch Between Friends
Dalrath plays host to the Winter Court, namely the Pale Prince himself. The group makes another deal to offload the crown of Avaraak Sul in exchange for two long sought after wishes, ending the curses of Furian as well as Christopher Black
Episode 66: Return to Dalrath Keep
The group, injured from their ordeal among the Dusk Lilly is forced to take a few days of recovery in Dalrath, they await an audience with Lord Kenway to discuss what happened with Furian in the Savage Lands.
Episode 65: Furian.
The group is told they have one hour to prepare for the arrival of Furian, the master of the blood legion arrives in the dusk lily camp. An ancient ritual is carried out by Caicelius and Crone Lorelai
Episode 64: The Ultimatum
Noelle seeks answers about the Dusk Lilly Coven's mysterious past, which brings her face to face with Crone Lorelai, as well as Furian.
Episode 63: The Dusk Lilly Coven
After making a deal with the winter court, the count of Rend and his forces are teleported directly into the camps of Crone Lorelai and the Dusk Lilly Coven; Noelles family awaits, as they anticipate the arrival of the Furian Legion
Episode 62: Full Moon Massacre
The group is ambushed by a group of maddened Lycanthropes, wielding weapons of the ancient elves, after the beast are dealt with they journey to the unfreezing river, and meet with Yelena of the Winter Court; agreeing to a deadly deal in exchange for the location of the Dusk Lily Coven.
Episode 61: Deep Days and the Dark Forest
The party acquires the services of Risa, a scout commander from the Wardens of Dalrath who has agreed to escort them through the moonfire forest, and help them track down the Reverend and the Dusk Lily Coven
Episode 60: Into the Savage Lands
The group journeys through the Dalrathy mountain pass towards The Savage Lands and ever onwards, seeking out the dusk lily coven with the help of the Wardens of the Wilds
Episode 59: The Farewell
The coalition of Rend allied with the Baron of Dalrath feast and prepare for a long journey into the heart of the savage lands, their mission is to kill furian or stop his legion from advancing to the Valley of Tolls. The Dusk Lilly coven has positioned itself firmly in between Dalrath and the forces of Furian.
Episode 58: Brunch with the Baron
The count and his notorious cohorts are finally met by the Baron of Dalrath Keep, Lord Kenway. They become more familiar with the ever growing threat of Furian's legion. And noelle enters the realm of dreams for a conversation with Furian himself. Discovering more about the ties that bond the two dreamers
Episode 57: Welcome to Dalrath
The coalition of Rend arrives in Dalrath and are reunited with old friends, and meets some new ones in the process; all while getting to know the city of Dalrath keep, the home of Baron Kenway Dalrath and his militia
Episode 56: The Bitter North
The group, accompanied now by bounty hunter Varlynn Reeves, narrowly escape the clutches of the dwarven slavers. After, they investigate the town of Snowspike, which is mysteriously empty.
Episode 55: Smash and Dash
Dok falls victim to the schemes of Yelena and the winter court, becoming a pawn in a game of death between the courts . The group leaves Krenwall in a rush and heads north towards snow spike
Episode 53-54: A Night at the Fairy Market
The group spends their last night in Krenwall at the bi annual Fairy Market , sampling the products and wonders of the mysterious feywild, and perhaps some of the court denizens as well.
Episode 52: The Devil in The Details
The Coalition of Rend seeks to confront the Magistrate Damian Kels, suspected of being the Krenwall ripper.
Episode 51: The Krenwall Ripper
The group investigates the strange slayings of young women in Krenwall
Episode 50: The Strange and Weird city of Krenwall
The group heads into Krenwall for a brief rest and respite but discovers a sinister spree of murders is occuring within the city, The group meets a new royal in the harsh cold of Dalrath
Episode 49: Please, Head North
The Group is pursued by a gritty bounty hunter named Varlyn Reeves and continues north towards Dalrtah, meeting a strange fellow along the way.
Episode 48: On The Seven Cities Road
The Coalition rides for Dalrath along the Seven Cities Road, a trip that will take the better part of a month to complete.
Episode 47: Homeward Bound We Be
The Coalition of Rend escorts the Iron Bound Caravan from the Underdark back to the Surface as well as decides theyre next move now that they can finally put Avaraaak Sul behind them.
Episode 46: The Trials of the Eldest House
The party ventures to the Elder's Hand Islands to see Noelle through her trials as a Vidari, if she is found in contempt, she may be executed. She must prove to the "Old Masters" that she is worthy of defending the Arcanum
Episode 45: The Surface World Awaits
The players return topside, directly into the heart of Tor and begin making their way back to Castle Rend to both celebrate as well as assess their next move against the Illithiad. Amon Keshal warns Noelle her trials for the Keshal will be the next day.
Episode 44: The Forgeheart and the Forgotten Thane
The players investigate the forgehart and the treasures inside, before taking on the twisted Warden of Avaraak Sul.
Episode 43: The Crushing Halls
The group fights their way through the Warden's keep, discovering the secrets of the forgotten dwarves of Avaraak along the way.
Episode 42: The Eye of The Storm
The group nears the top level of the Warden's keep within Avaraak Sul, and assist Erron Black in acquiring the ForgeHeart.
Episode 41: Return to Avaraak Sul
The coalition finds themselves once again deep in enemy territory, this time on the bottom floor of their final destination within Avaarak Suul, the Warden's Keep.
Episode 40: Blastin' around the past
The group takes a well deserved rest in the age of peace with the help of a little time travel, does a little light shopping to prepare for their return to avaraak sul, and tries not to get on Chronicas bad side
Episode 39: Into the Mystic
Retreating from a bad situation and a losing battle against Hardok's experimental weapon, the group escapes into a rift caused by the explosion in the potion processing facility, the fate of the experimental weapon unknown as their location as they plunge into the Unknown
Episode 38: The Twisted Designs of Hardok
The group infiltrates Hardoks Laboratory, the famed Duregar alchemist responsible for producing the mind domination potions used by the Illithid threat.
Episode 37: The Demon of The Billows
The group begins to infiltrate the Billows, the interior forge of Avarrak Sul and attempts to make contact with Gokshaw Azgock, an interesting Duergar pledged to the devil Roz in exchange for power of the fiendish variety.
Episode 36: The Poofing of Noelle Keshal
The group meets Kalidram, a man from within the Azurite Deposits beneath the natural resting place of Avaraak Sul, The iroundbound Rebellion begins in full force as the group infiltrates the interior of Avaraak Sul. Noelle is visited by a dangerous representative of Hell who offers her an interesting proposition.
Episode 35: Depths of Despair
The Coalition plunges further still jnto the digging tunnels of Avvarak Sul, bringing them into a confrontation with the Duregar for Control of the "digging machines" vital to the ironbound rebellion
Episode 34: The Chains That Bind Them
The coalition of Rend finds a moment of safety in The Slave Pits, where they are brought before The All-Strong, the leader of the slaves who is as it turns out, Ser Arkus Ovar; Dok's father.
Episode 33: Into Avaraak Sul
The Coalition of Rend arrives in the depths of the sewers of Avaraak Sul, what horrors, treasures or discoveries await them in the forgotten city?
Episode 32: The Strangers From Above, The Evils Below
The crew has a close call ambushing a group of the mind flayers and their latest captures, among which is Korraine Blood, the last of the Shalee rune child experiments, and are escorted by Al into the city of Scarabus, or The hive as it is known to the Chetonni
Episode 31: The End of the Beginning of the End
The group ambushes a caravan of thralls being transported by the Mind Flayers deeper into the underdark, perhaps even to the city of Avaraak Sul
Episode 30: The Strangers from Above.
The group is ambushed by mysterious illithiad forces, and aided by a new Chetoni ally, the discover a caravan of slaves being taken deeper into the dark and decide to intervene.
Episode 29: Into the Valley
The group reports back to Lady Elise Cain with word of their works on the Monoleysius, they investigate the sister city of Xorn, where research is being carried out on the domination spire, one of the weapons that the mind flayers have deployed on the surface.
Episode 28: Cursed Forms and Cursed Swords
The Coalition and Captain Wren manage to track down the creature, revealed to be an Oni. It would seem from the remnants of it's lair that it has been plaguing the people of malagorn for many years. Now, they have it cornered in its lair, just as they spring an alarm, alerting the creature to their presence
Episode 27: The Nest of Blood and Bone
The Coalition of the Willing heads into the Northern dark seeking the creature lady Elise has charged them with Slaying.
Episode 26: Along Came a Spider
The group falls into the web of Lady Elise Kain the heart of Malagorn
Episode 25: The Strange and Sprawling Dark
The coalition enters into the under dark, finding it extremely difficult to navigate they head into one of the only "civilized" cities of the northern dark, Malagorn; home of the last Drow of Lloth
Episode 24: A last moment's rest
the group makes their final preparations to enter the Night Below; saying goodbye to old friends and gathering thier resources for the perilous journey
Episode 23: As Above, So Below
Dean is resurrected by the time keeper after a fatal encounter with a mindflayer, The group returns to castle rend to prepare for their expedition into the Underdark.
Episode 22: The Domination of Gravesford
A strange alien noise rings out in the Andrimian Countryside, Gravesford is under attack, but by what? by whom? The group rides like the wind to find out.
Episode 21: When The Smoke Clears
The battle of the blood moon ends with loss and tragedy, but bittersweet victory as well; Noel takes the vow of the Keshal.
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Episode 20: The Blood Moon
The Gnolls, lead by Packmother Zidane; begin their assault on Caslte Rend under the cover of the Blood Moon.
Episode 19: Stalwart Defense
The lord of Rend prepares his fortress for an assault by the departed gnolls, and their pack mother Zidaine. A stranger arrives at Castle Rend.
Episode 18: The Danger in Starting a Fire
The players investigate the gnoll camps and prepare for an assault.
Episode 17: The Wonders of Telestra
The group travels to Telestra to retrieve a mysterious book at the behest of The Outcast.
Episode 16: Home is where the Hearth is
The crew surveys the damages of Castle Rend after the siege and Orcs, and hire a crew of renovators to assist them with the repairs.
Episode 15: The Last Baron of Bettigar and The Count of Rend.
The group discovers a strange prisoner in the orcs keep and decides to claim the keep as their own.
Episode 14:The infiltration of Brokenspire Keep
The group successfully breaches the secret entrance to brokenspire keep, and manages to turn away the ghostly presences that guards it. Now they find themselves in the dungeon of the ruined castle, surrounded by prisoners awaiting their time to be taken below.
Episode 13: The War Came Home
The group retreats into the hills of Bettigar, taking their boat from Gravesford to Lauralie, Dok's home village. They meet with Abigail Suv, Dok's mother, and rest, eager to search for the location of brokenspire keep, however; Bonebreaker Dorokor has already dispatched her lieutenant Oregg Steilewesier to raise the village at the behest of Rosso Ciello
Episode 12: Band on the Run
The group rescues Dean and narrowly escapes capture at the hands of Rosso Ciello and the Knights of the Black Rose, but theyre not out of Bettigar Keep yet.
Episode 11: Hangman's Heist
The group plans their next move after barely escaping the clutches of the Rosso Ciello and his knights, however one of their allys, the Young Dean was left behind; his rescue proves to be a complicated undertaking
Episode 10: A Brief Respite
The group is wheeling from their last bout and some members of the group are injured as well, they seek refuge in the small trading post of Renmir where they learn the Baron of Bettigar has been slain.
Episode 9: The Mineshaft Scrap
The players face off with the goblins and orcs beneath the mines of The Mulgore.
Episode 8: We Are All Our Own Devil
The group ventures further into the Mulgore Swamps, seeking the mining shaft that now houses the the Goblin clan that seems to be running a muck in the Patchwork Hills.
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Episode 7: Into the Green..
The group heads into the deadly Mulgore swamps and meets the mysterious Granny Frogs
Episode 6: The Hanging City
The group arrives in the mysterious hidden city of New Elbar after a daring escape from Barrel Hollow.
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Episode 5: In the company of thieves
The group remains in Barrel Hollow for the thieves auction, however what they intend to sell or buy remains a mystery
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Episode 4: Wrong side of the tracks
The group rides into Barrel Hollow, a den of slavery and thieves as they seek any hint as to the whereabouts of the blue skin orcs they encountered before.
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Episode 3:Snatching Victory from the Tentacles of Defeat
The party reels and seeks rest after a nearly fatal encounter with Marlipp, the insane mind flayer.
Episode 2: The Brain Gorger's appetites
A group of rat catching mercenaries originally scheduled for a simple security detail now find themselves on the hunt for a monster that has taken over the Ockeny's Hold mines.
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Episode 1: Strange Beginnings
A small group of Rat Catchers has been summoned to the village of Ockney's Hold by Captain Tarves of the Mayoral offices of the small mining village under the guise of working security for a tournament and festival going on in the city in the coming days.
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