Orion Landson
Orion Landson (a.k.a. Ori)
Born and raised in Evergreen's End to the Local Cleric Sean Landson and his wife Meredith Landson a former traveler with a local Nomad tribe. Orion had a relatively uneventful childhood with dreams of traveling the countryside.
Father = Sean (Cleric primarily to Chauntea) Mother = Meredith (Nomadic) Twin Sisters = Aquila and Lyra - D.O.B. 4/15/132 - Just shy of 10 years younger
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Date of Birth
6 - 21 - 122 P.B.
Children
Gender
Male
Eyes
Hazel
Hair
Blonde
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
Light tan
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Clearing the Kobolds
1. Early start to the day and know the location of the bandits within about a mile.
a. Debate strategy on the way
b. Get near and secure the horses on top of a plateau
2. Searching for tracks of other horses we come across a path between some rocks that leads to a cave system and nearby there is a pit with lots of small bones(trash pit)
3. Quietly enter the cave and Thomas grabs a torch off the wall
4. Thomas slides on a slippery section and falls into a pit
5. While helping him out of the hole we are attacked by Rats
a. Fended them off they retreated
6. Continue past the hole
a. Beware this place only death here, run with your lives while you can.
b. Lots of bones, chickens, horses, one human skull, mostly animal bones.
c. Crates and boxes broken open one of which was addressed to Teldora.
7. In a northern passage I grab a chest and a cave In separates Nate and Thomas from Orion and Hazel
a. Lizard creatures attack Nate and Thomas
b. They defend themselves as Hazel and I extract ourselves from the cave in.
8. Near their campfire and bedding more creatures throw rocks down on us from about 20 ft up
a. Kill them with ranged attacks
b. Near the campfire was a mushroom farm of Treeshelf mushrooms as well as many other varieties of brightly colored mushrooms.
c. Decide not to touch any mushrooms that we don’t know and gather a bit of the edible ones.
9. Deeper into the cave system we pass trophy walls and hit another fork in the path
a. Voices from the west section
10. I watch the western cave as the rest of the party searches down the silent eastern passage.
a. They found a bedroom with a journal in a dresser
i. Kicked out of capital
ii. Can scam the people of Frost Rain
iii. Talks about the caravan route and his plan to ambush it
iv. Gold mine
v. Belongs to the dwarves
vi. Plans to hire help with excavating the gold mine.
b. Massive skull in an empty alcove with a bunch of pointy teeth
11. From the west comes 2 lizards and another larger one that speaks common
a. Leave or die
b. The skull is the shrine to the dragon mother, we will sacrifice you to awaken her.
c. We defeat them
12. Find the ash for Ingol and the flowers/herbs that teldora. As well as other odds and ends. Make our way back to town.
13. Return to town
a. Drop off ash to Ingol
i. The creatures were kobolds
ii. Extreme interest in the dragon skull.
b. Hagglers hook
i. People laughing at us thinking we lost, others cheering, some asking to be told the story
c. Teldora
i. Heals us
ii. Return the medicinal plants
d. The guard post.
i. Get paid for clearing the bandits.
LVL UP => 2
Quest Gathering Part 2
McGuiness Academy
1. Eldest son put up the club as collateral for gambling debt
2. Alester elder owner has memory issues
3. Halie(daughter) will try to pay some debt to buy time and find money to pay rest of debt
4. Lucky likes Alester, will keep an eye on them
5. Too far out of our capabilities at the moment
Church
1. Near the alter are the parent deities, sides are the siblings
2. Fancier dressed people giving sermons
3. Lead Archivist Luminare of FrostRain
a. Tour of the temple
b. built by travelers and gifts of the congregation
4. Other leaders
a. Chosen Inquisitor Byron
i. Not a fan of Lucky
b. Chosen voice of the People Alfred Grey.
5. Troubles of the church
a. Squatters outside the walls, reason to believe there are mages in their midst.
b. Multiple reports of magic performed no description of who is performing.
c. 5g each to identify mages
6. Interviews travelers to better understand the history of the land
a. believe there is more reasoning for these interrogations but no proof.
Quest Gathering Part 1
1. Cyna Horne
a. Healers
i. Simple healing @ church of the 6 lights
ii. Teldora for the complicated stuff
b. Asked to deliver jug of blue liquid to Ingol
2. Ingol Firehand’s forge
a. Albert Folco
i. Shopkeep/runs the business.
ii. Sizes us up, and aids with outfitting our gear.
iii. Very high quality items for sale. Gold/plat weapon inlays.
b. Ingol Firehand
i. Older dwarf
ii. Drinks the blue liquid.
iii. Crafted gauntlets using dragons blood in the crafting process
c. There was a symbol on a shield near the door that was from a dwarven king
i. Matching the symbol on the letter.
d. Help needed
i. Reports of problems out of town.
ii. Hills east of town have bandits that raided a shipment of ash used in polishing.
iii. Bandits might not know what it’s good for and waste it or know what it is and sell it.
iv. If recovered worth 5g each, knight commander may have bounty for bandit leader dead or alive.
v. Shipment expected 2 weeks ago. Other townsfolk have had missing shipments as well.
3. Healer Teldora
a. Older elf female in dark green robes
i. Teldora the Kind
ii. Been here since the foundation of the town
b. Herbs, bottles, salves line shelves and clutter the space
c. Large low table ~10 ft round
d. Temple dabbles in restoration magics/blessings. Teldora specializes in divination magics to determine the source of illnesses
e. After Tale of Magic Teldora asked us to get a delivery from an herb dealer of hagglers hook
4. Tale of Magic
a. Magic was more free
b. “The Night of Sorrows” = The Blackwell incident
i. Magic was far more prevalent and considered a gift
ii. All people that had magical abilities lost control of it
c. Hazel raised that magic was not to be trusted
i. Now conflicted
ii. Tells the tale from when we were 5 or so about the glowing ball test
1. Church sends people to test children for magic and those children are removed from the population
2. Rough reaction from Teldora, saddened about the direction of topic
5. Teldora’s Shipment
a. Has also gone missing in the past week or so possibly the same bandit group
b. Purchased churros
c. Going back to Teldora to let her know about the delay
i. Someone drew a dagger in the best of 9 and is now bleeding on Teldora’s doorstep
Fort full of Problems
1. Population around a few hundred (E.E. only 60 at the peak logging time)
2. Stables
a. 15 y/o stable hand Johnny.
b. Says horse is worth 6-7G
3. Merchant willing to pay 4g to use horse as food for
4. Best-O’-Nine
a. Bar/town pub owned by a Tabaxi, other bartender = Scabby
b. Mead icons – apple(dry cider), horse(ale), dragon(burn), flowers(white wine)
c. Stranger hears we are from E.E. and buys us a round of shots.
d. Tabaxi = Lucky (southern accent)
i. Really friendly/salesman personality
ii. We tell him about the messenger, and he drills us about where his message is.
iii. From the southern deserts, gambled to make his way north, and won the bar he currently owns in a game of Best-O’-nine
iv. “Luck decides Fate”
5. Quests (Heard from Lucky)
a. Mc Guiness Academy
b. Church of 6 light vs outcasts
c. Forge
d. Healer Teldora
6. end up selling horse to stable owner for 6g
The first day of a thousand more
1. Full moon decide to head to Frostrain Fort tonight to get space from the E.E. visitors
2. Along the trail, we are ambushed by 4 of the Yuan’ Ti
a. Hazel gets hit but we beat the Snakes
3. Watering horses at a spring and taking a rest before continuing our trip
a. A group of travelers pass our trip 8 people
i. Friendly, warn them of snakes, they gift us snacks
ii. One recognizes Starin as a Chimera
4. Get to the main road
a. Find man struggling with horse
i. As we approach horse kicks him in the head killing him
ii. Search his body for identification
1. Sealed letter in dwarven runes
2. Books in hidden lining (Starin took)
iii. We bring the dead man to Frostrain to hopefully return him to his family
b. Toll road
i. Thugs set up a toll 1 silver each to pass
ii. After trying to negotiate our pass Starin starts fighting them
iii. Kills 3, pins the foot of the leader down with a spear cutting off his foot, 2 other run away
iv. Starin tosses the money pouch to Thomas
5. Frostrain Fort
a. Starin leaves on business, we talk to guards about the body
i. Knight Commander Daratos
ii. He was a courier, no family, all that was on him is ours to keep as well as the horse.
b. Find traders in Hagglers Hook to sell the horse too.
New Days Ahead
22nd of August 139 P.B.
Past 2 years
- Spending time with logging company and Kaia
- Caring for sisters and spending more time studying the pantheon/deities
Last year
- Lack of game returning in spring / prepare for another harsh famine
- Past few weeks Orion has become light sleeper, cold sweats, aches and stiffness (upper body and arms)
- Being treated more like adults, work, adult duties, and being part of the conversations of rationing/town issues.
Visitors
- We are starting to see Capitain Starin showing his age, using a “walking staff”
- A caravan of covered wagons approaches.
o 3 wagons, each with 4 horses to pull.
o one of the wagons is a personal transport(unusual for traders)
o the lead driver isn’t in charge, motions us towards the middle wagon
o food stuffs in the first cart,
o 3 people in the middle cart, 1 woman and man (royalty version of “dressing down”), other man (putting mask on his face) and a soft glow inside the carriage.
o Man and woman human couple(mid 30s?), in wool robes, rings on man, woman with earrings and jewelry
o 3rd person is Dark leather armor, extremely well polished, cloak, and detailed white porcelain mask. Heavy enough to affect the shocks of the carriage.
- Sent by the Temple of the Six Divine
- Imperial Family heard our request for aide and sent all the wagons loaded up
- Staring contest between Captain Starin and Masked stranger.
- Off load all food to homes and get back to the wagons, but the figures have likely gone into Starins home.
o Sneak nearer the window to listen in (Orion fails)
o Heated discussion
Starin was asked to leave (estate waiting for him, land and helpers)
The 3 strangers are being sent to take over, and investigate for arcane corruption / cleanse it
Strengthen the relationship between the people and the Temple of the Divine
Starin packing a bag of his belongings.
- Couple = Gideon and Leila
o Replacing Starin as leaders of Evergreens End.
o Hazel offers to take them on a tour of E.E. (for tomorrow)
Captain Starin
- Get to Jean, gather supplies, get himself and the 4 of us out.
- Imperial “Family” sent an Inquisitor.
o Order of Inquisitors Major Dark mark on the religious organization
Sometimes tracks down evil, sometimes finds child with an evil omen and murders it.
Part of the church, but nobody ever joins them voluntarily
Not preventative, purely response to known threat
o First part of the church to exist.
- E.E. has been a Druid zone
o Ancient druid made groves (druid churches)
He died here
Why we have Ironwoods, and reason for the accelerated tree growth.
- The Church has started to track Groves
o Hunting relics and starting to control the druids
- Starin dons armor and weapons from Jean
- Druid of E.E. Lived in Catacombs below E.E. and stored all his information within the Catacombs
- Why can’t we kick the 3 strangers out
o Jean was from tribe up north
They had a shield relic that protected from attack
Church demanded relic, killed all and left Jean with a massive scar along her side
Goodbyes to families
- Orion intentionally avoids the parents instead seeks out sisters to say goodbye for now, packs a small bag. (extra clothes, dagger, what other equip that I would have for being in woods)
Traveling to the Chimera
- The forest is more dead than It should be for this time of year
o The druidic magic seems to be fading from the land
- Something doesn’t feel right.
o Knee high grass moving different than wind.
o Starin tells us to run for the fort.
o Starin throws a dagger into the grass, hits something.
o We bolt for fort, Starin fighting giant snakes with arms???
Inside the Fort
- Hazel has been back often and knows a secret entrance.
o She has been studying and taking notes.
- Trophy room
o There is a study nook
- Roof
o Starin walking his horse to the fort after winning his fight.
- Starin
o The Snake things were Yuan’ti trackers / scouts
They come from the southern lands
Usually need warmer climates (either its warm here or they are desperate)
o Tells the tale of the chimera
Wasn’t a member of the chimeras but trained under some after they joined the expeditionary force
o Leads us to the armory
As opposed to the trophies these weapons and armors are immaculate.
We gain our starting arms and armors
o Next destination is Frostrain Fort
Season of Changing (part 2)
12th of March 137 P.B.
Continuation of Seasons of Changing
at the Fort
1) Structure
a) Northern wall collapsed.
b) South old rotting doors. Open.
c) Western and eastern standing and overgrown with plant life.
2) Wolf tracks.
3) Mid day approaching the southern entrance.
a) Hinges are rusting away, wood is in decent shape.
b) Hearing wolfs probably inside. We head to the west wall
and climb up.
c) Standing on top looking down into the courtyard.
4) In the Courtyard
a) Wolf Pack 3 adults (2 Female, 1 Male) + 8-9 pups.
b) Carving on the stone arch of southern entry.
i) Weird creature carving
ii) 4 claws/feet, tail, hump/wings, multiple heads?
iii) Found hatch that leads into the fort
c) Kaia speaks with the wolves
i) We are ok to explore until the rest of the pack returns.
5) Down the Hatch.
a) Kitchen
i) Big Iron cauldron over what once was a fire pit,
and cookware.
ii) Faded diamond banner, gold thread, sky-blue-gold-black
color scheme.
b) Trophy Room
i) Leather throws (boar skin?)
ii) Wall of animal skulls and broken weapons/armor
iii) Thomas picks up plate armor with black Arrow
(1) Teleported to a Battle Field (Winter post snowfall)
(2) Centaurs and Elves
(3) See the arrow launched by an Elf and hear the hit
(4) Returned to the trophy room.
(5) Ran home spooked
6) Back at town
a) Capitain Starin
i) Tell him about the fort and our vision.
ii) Showed him on map where the fort was.
iii) Fort was “The Den of the Chimera”
(1) Adventuring Guild used that as a base
(2) Showed pictures that resembled the carving I found
(3) Disbanded when the crown started incorporating
adventurers into The Imperial Expeditionary force.
(a) Some members joined the force others turned
away from the new regulations
iv) Fort is often found by the rebellious teens of each generation.
v) There is a blue wolf with the pack.
vi) Village keeping the fort a secret to avoid the empires
influence / eye
b) Talking to Mom
i) How common is magic out in the world
(1) Main temples and clerics 1-2 in towns more in cities
(2) Druids exist but are more fluid in movements/work
ii) Have you heard of the Chimera
(1) Heard stories about them when younger.
(2) Were more like a fable/folk lore
7) The Logging camp
a) 5 new ironwood sprouts. None to be harvested.
b) Harvesting other trees is open with stone giants help
c) Starin talking to Logson
d) Kaia
i) The chimera were evil
(1) Claims they assassinated the grandfarther of the king
(2) Hunted down for revenge
e) The young ironwood
i) Went to look at it, and somehow ended up pulling it out of
the ground
(1) magical influence ??? (or story progression railroading)
(maybe both)
Season of Changing
12th of March 137 P.B.
Season of Changing (March 12th)
1) 5 year break
a. Personality traits
i. Strong: compassion/duty
ii. Weak: shy / soft spoken
b. Sisters
i. Aquila: artsy/dreamer
ii. Lyra: grumpy/selfish
2) Springtime
a. Given more space as we get a bit older.
b. Start gaining more information about how the town functions
3) Over hearing Starin
a. Talking with Hazel’s mom and Orion’s dad.
b. “With spring closing in The River Runners should be coming around soon.”
i. The River Runners – logging company that brings a huge amount of visitors/traders.
ii. We Jump at the opportunity to talk with outsiders.
c. The River Runners
i. Leader was old man missing teeth. Claimed he lost them chopping down a tree after his axe broke. No longer with the Runners.
ii. Ironwood, 1/1000 trees, severely protected by druidic law, only harvested if the tree falls naturally, each tree registered with druids and protected.
iii. Drinks for celebration, cherry alcohol. Given to all kids.
1. Orion’s dad/ Hazel’s mom link arms before drinking
2. Starin has 2 shots puts one on a mantle
a. Alter (has sun with a face) unsure of deity.
4) Dream
a. People from all over never met before, coming from east, south and west. Really tall person 15 or so feet tall. Dark skin black/cobalt blue. Glowing eyes
staring into my soul. The figures are talking but I can’t hear. Song echoing on the wind. Person from the west covered in veil. Group from south look all
the same. From the north kneels down to touch my forehead and I wake with a start.
5) Arrival of River Runners (4 members arrive at gate others setting up a small camp outside town)
a. Richard Logson Jr.
i. Carries staves and scolls/land charts
b. Walter Logson
i. Older, Wields Axe, cuts and scars all over.
ii. Dark metal shackles round the wrists. (kept covered)
c. Finneus Treeshade (druid)
i. Riding old decrepit mule
ii. Using long staff almost as a walking staff for the mule
d. Kaia Sapling (doesn’t like the last name sapling)
i. Riding young colt
ii. Young likely mid teens
iii. Apprentice to Treeshade
iv. Travels the world (namedrops amazing places that we hear about in stories
e. Some of the visitors are extremely tall
i. Hazel drags me towards them
ii. They are stone giants
iii. Sense of déjà-vu from female stone giant.
1. Beckons me over
2. Eyes are galaxy swirled of color
3. She was the person from my dream.
f. She who sings to Dreams
i. Communicates through touching our foreheads and using telepathy.
ii. “I have met this dreamer before, I have heard your dream voice before and it is a very powerful voice, I thank you for letting me hear it.”
iii. Times where you can explore farther than our world (the world above ours = dreams) sometimes by location others by time.
iv. “Last night you were able to come to this place, you sang your song and I heard it.”
1. “Song = destiny”
2. Your song has been a happy song, it wants to grow stronger and louder, there is a disconnect between yourself and your world.
v. Magic is not evil, humans just haven’t learned to control it which leads to fear.
6) News from the South
a. Prince is betrothed.
b. New villages in the southern deserts.
c. Far East - Elven Queen has had children.
7) The Ruins
a. Kaia tells us of “the ruins of the tower” a few miles outside of town.
b. Used to be a tower/fort that fell during the Blackwell.
c. Blackwell
i. Archmage part of ruling royal family
ii. All the mages were told by archmage to rebel and attack killing near 25% of population.
iii. Deities turned on the arcane mages and wiped them from existence.
d. Tracks leading into ruins, lots of small tracks, one large 4-5ft drag mark with blood. Dried from a few days ago. Wolf tracks. Kaia prepares flaming hands
and prepares for a scuffle.
Sprouts in a Forest
127 P.B.
Hazel's parents worried about visitors.
Dad is comforting "Its ok, they're normal"
why now - mom
its been 10 years - dad
Talk about hiding people being suspicious
Gave us Quest to Find plants
Ember Flower - like a tulip but red-yellow in appearance
- petal sour
Emerald seeds - large grape but dark green & very shiny
- red vines climb tree
Dwarf Root (Found) - gold roots
- under rocks near river beds
Dragons tongue - dark red Squiggly and lumpy like a tongue
- soil black and bare under rocks find the dragons lair
Dwarf Root
find a low spot in the river
fall in the river helping Thomas out
climbing out of the river find a copper piece
Hazel finds the Dwarf Root
Emerald Seeds
tower of kids to pluck them out of the low branches
Ember Flower
randomly eating yellow flowers to find the sour ones (nat 1)
one of the flowers had a wasp
Dragon's Tongue
looking for DT
teenager almost shot Thomas with an arrow
father of child is a village Hunter (Baronthorn)
stepped on a stink bug and squished it (second nat 1 in a row)
playing with rocks lift one to reveal a snake
***Snake Fight***
constricts Hazel
shifts to Thomas and constricts his right arm/wrist
Hazel blows whistle, Loud conch shell sound erupts, weasel like creature comes from the bushes and attacks the snake
Weasel kills snake
get the Dragon's Tongue and run back home.
Captain Starin's House
Arrival of Strangers
- dwarven bearded guy
Older guy = Head Cleric Dolthor
- Traveling / taking census
They question all of us children about the town and activities of the town
Give us gifts/trinkets of glass orbs with different shapes (kaleidoscopes)
- some of them glow "special" (magically gifted)
- to the parents alone of those special "We cant have another tragedy. It's for the best"
