The Lunar Temple

Having just escaped the city of Crowharf in the Illithid nation, we were on route to the Lunar Temple as directed by Jaadoogar, the Guru who wrote many pages on lycanthropes we found in the Cynic's Rot library. He informs us that we will have another month of travel through another portion of the Hallow Tears to make it back to the Cloudripper mountains where we can climb to the highest peak and find the Lunar Temple.
 
He says that one would be unable to find it without a guide, but as a cartographer I took that as a personal challenge. But before we reached the temple, he said that Azurite must "show dominion over the animals of land, air and sea" in order to prove her worth as a Were-Panther. He asks her to take down a triceratops that we spot, grazing on the edges. We all assist but he IN-sists that she must strike the final blow barehanded. The creature was soon to gore Azurite deeply, possibly even killing her, but I forsaw him tripping and failing to strike true. A few well placed strikes and the creature was down by her hand (or claw), and as she dug into the side of the creature she changed into a full panther. Jaadoogar explains that she has mastered her animal form and can now change at will.
 
Next is the creature of the sea, and we pass close enough a beach that we spot a killer whale. I prepare her as best I can, with water breathing and haste, and send Mr. Squeakers in as a distraction, as the hydrophobic (in more ways than one) Moro stands on the cliff edge. She evicerates the whale and leaps from its corpse in animal form onto a nearby seal, just as a true big cat ambush predator would.
 
Finally is the sky, having followed the pattern, I rearrange my spell book and have magics that would assist better prepared. Jaadoogar takes us near a nest of giant eagles as we scale the mountains to reach the temple. I take to my flying carpet and endow Azurite with magics to fly. She flying pounces on the unsuspecting creature and takes it to the ground; which in this case is quite fatal. It's made comes from above to attempt to avenge its fallen, and inspired, and weave an enchantment that also causes it to plummet, smashing itself on the ground. Azurite consumes the creature she defeated and her claws in her panther form grow fiercer and tougher.
 
Finally, as the moon is soon to reach another full night we reach the Lunar Temple, the outside adorned with a huge stone directly mimicking the moon, every detail is exact. Inside is stranger still, appearing as a glass box floating through the sky, Jaadoogar describes this as a portal among the realms. When Azurite enters, a panther enters from the other side and mimics her movements as closely as the faux moon mimicked the true. Eventually they touch and my divination came true that she would hold onto her sense of self in the face of this trial. They merge and become one, and as they do she falls unconscious. Nothing seems to wake her, but Jaadoogar informs us that this is natural, and she will awaken when the moon has passed and he lights a candle to calm her spirit.
 
She awakens and tells us a few things about her experience, that she met other were-creatures, and has joined a group she refers to the Just-us league, but they call the Zodiac. She also informs us that they are concerned over the threat of Tloques Popolocas (or PapaLoco as they called him). He is a sun-worshiping vampire whom was released when Azurite and the others raided Tamoachan.
 
I hand over a copy of Jaadoogar's notes, and he wishes us well in our journey home but will give us a final gift, and we hold hands and close our eyes only to open them in a strange alley. We had teleported to the city of Zarald, hundreds of miles south of Talen'Lith. Divine magic is so... imprecise.