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Morg 1, 3e658

Session 20 (5/11/22)

by Blythe Hahn

Duels, Dreams, and Devils or…Dragons?

  • Morg 1st, 3e658

  • Hahn estate

  • tell Kelsa not to go into the vault, probably trapped; she’s pulling gold coins out of her pocket, gives one to Cordelia and one to Elli

  • Indy says he was at Dax’s house, and is joining him for training

  • Drevlin asks Maggie how to get to the Temple of Vek

  • Old Gods District - 6 temples

  • Temple of Vek: dragon statues, red gem eyes

  • statue of a dragon man with wings and horns at the door (huge doors)

  • strange creature on roof; answers door, with one large arm ending in a claw, hump on back, red scales (half dragon, half dwarf)

  • Wilhelmina Ajarkxetixis

  • very hot inside temple (~90 degrees)

  • temple full of thousands of books; metals being melted in 9 different fires

  • books: Battle of Blackspire, 1e17; first era books

  • grab a book off the shelf, dragon scale leather, and it begins glowing and speaking in Draconic (according to Elli, narrating)

  • Vek “dragon father who rules us all”

  • creation story of Vek starting fires across the sky, which became stars, which scattered sparks, which became eggs

  • wife Imolen, the two of them are now Magumaas

  • dragons came before the gods (at least the gods we know now)

  • Wilhelmina tells Elli she’s an ice dragon

  • exposes silver scales all across her body, horns

  • says she is not a full dragon but has the heart of a dragon

  • Wilhelmina tells us several things in detail:

  • how babies are made

  • the First Ones and the elves

  • go down to basement

  • collection of different metal cogs

  • collection of tiny wood sculptures of cats

  • various other strange collections

  • shelves of dragon plushies

  • end of the dark month

  • clean up city from the storm, but the ice never melts; Alderoak and Vulcanus mages start to research it, barricading the area around the market

  • Dawnrise is a very quiet celebration compared to usual

  • as the light comes over the horizon, the sun becomes platinum, shedding rainbows of light around the city; blue with hints of purple, indigo, whites

  • a shadow is cast in the distance, growing closer and closer; in the distance, a fleet of ships sailing towards the walls of Quiluna

  • flying over the horizon, atop a huge dragon, is a single person on a seat, eclipsing the sun for a moment

  • dragon has rhodium scales, brings white lightning

  • a voice from the city tells the dragon there will be no surrender

  • lands outside the city

  • ships are from Nordholm, raiders, Norkheimers; Quiluna guard fights but they are overwhelmed and surrender

  • on the fourth day of lockdown, the dragon comes to the Palace District, becomes a woman of massive stature who takes the council from the chambers, casts them into the dungeons, and occupies the city for the next two years

  • Nordman king with her has a clawed, mechanical arm carved with runes

  • says city is full of “maggots,” refers to the councilors

  • says Umot (dragon) can bring the sea down upon them with a single word

  • criticizes city for bowing to lich?

  • says temple is stolen from the gods (used to be a temple to all the gods)


    • (Post Session)
  • Morg 1st, 3e658

  • at the temple of Vek, Blythe starts to tell Indigo that they started the fire, but he interrupts, already knowing, and says “I forgive you.”

  • he whispers to her, “I just don't want anything like this to happen to you.”

  • Cordelia says that Indy can’t be the one to forgive us; we burned the High Horns’ house down, so it has to be them

  • Blythe tells Indigo that Drevlin didn’t mean to hurt him either, that he’s just scared

  • Indy says he wants to watch Drevlin’s back and make sure he doesn’t get hurt or killed

  • in the dresser at the Pickle house

  • Blythe asks her godmother if her family is dead in the ice

  • father is dead and “returned home”

  • mother is alive but “weakens, a broken heart chips away at the threads”

  • Andrew is alive

  • Sarah has “parted from the skein [soul stream],” and “the reapers will come for her one day, but she will see a final sunrise”

  • Blythe asks about Marlie’s mother:

  • “Sable shines, she knew what would come, the seeds are planted and her roots run deep. The deal she struck will carry until the child's death.”

  • upon clarifying, her mother will die without her, but Marlie will live without her mother

  • godmother does not speak of the deals of others, so does not clarify more

  • Blythe shows her the note from Father Zaius

  • she asks what I will do if my friends set fires again; I suggest putting it out or stopping them

  • she says if they behave wrongly I should not follow, and if I have the opportunity to right my wrongs, I must commit

  • “Our word is a bond that cannot be broken or betrayed, this above all else matters, and we do not lie, only weave a new truth.”

  • Blythe tells her father always said war was inevitable

  • “There is only one thing that is inevitable and that is all things come to an end. It is the path to that end that grants wisdom to those left behind.”

  • Blythe asks her about any deer gods in the forest, tells her what Sarah said

  • she tells me….

  • father traveled to the Silver Lakes in search of the soul stream so he could create a soul for a machine

  • he made a deal with Lochlann, the Horned One of the Silver Lakes: “Lochlann gave your father a seed of a world tree. He told him to plant the seed and when it bore fruit he would have the secret he asked for. In exchange, you father was only to protect life, never bring harm to it.”

  • “He planted the seed, and tended to it for years, but when the seed remained in the soil and did not sprout, your father dug it from the ground and threw it into the sea.”

  • after the seed was cast into the sea, father started HARM; however, soon after my birth, the company began experiencing hardship and misfortune

  • Lochlann, claiming life for life and death for ruin, claimed me and cursed my house to never be whole until the debt is repaid

  • mother approached the Death Mother, and asked her to “stop the present and take the past”

  • she says her heart was in the right place but she was stupid, and promised the future in exchange; so godmother took the Hahns’ future

  • she took me and all of the children my mother would ever bear

  • Sarah would be a Hahn no more

  • Andrew would never father a child

  • Lochlann was not satisfied with this to give father’s past, and she would not let him have me, so he took father instead

  • he took father to the Silver Lakes, where he is bound to protect life until the end of time

  • if Blythe finds the seed in the ocean, “your father will be free, but you will remain mine”

  • Blythe asks what being “yours” means:

  • Blythe will live amongst the mortals and know pain, love, and life, and then, when she is ready, will join the Mother in the forest as a bann sidhe with all of my sisters and brothers, collecting souls and giving peace to the dead

  • this will be true of everyone descended from her, until the end of time

  • godmother tells Blythe about a forest in the center of the Otherworld, which has an enormous tree and many people

  • Blythe declines going today, and goes to think instead

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