Session 19: Family Drama
General Summary
- On the way towards Magecrest the party met Jill, mayor of Cloverhill, who wanted the party to help with an imminent orc attack
- The party managed to diplomatically sort the conflict out
- Upon arriving in Magecrest the party seek out Erdan, Ander's younger brother
- They end up speaking to Falin, Ander's father, who tells them to join him for dinner, which Erdan will join
- Erdan never shows up at dinner and Ander and Falin have a dispute
- Ander doesn't have an arm at this stage and Falin asks him about it
- Falin calls guards in to get Ander arrested
- Ander takes his shirt off to show his father his burn scars. When he does this Falin calls the guards off
- He says he will deal with consequences for Varis once the celebration is over
- The party learn where Erdan's workshop is and decide to visit the next day
- Falin also tells Ander that his sister Andraste wants to see him
- They go and see Erdan, who is very pleases to see Ander, although was upset that Ander left without saying goodbye
- Ander requests that Erdan make him a new arm, and he agrees to do it for free although specifies it will cost him to get it repaired or improved
- Erdan explains that he has been working on creating a forged man, although he is a long way off
- Erdan also agrees to take a look at the snapper and see if he can do anything to recreate it
- The party next head to the library, where they get help from a student in researching the old world, and Adran in translating the books they took from The Lost City
- The student finds out that there is a myth that the old world was driven to extinction and that the current world is built on the ruins of that
- Adran translates Carlos' diary, finding out he had a wife and daughter
- He also found out that the city they were in was dedicated to Dearil
- There had been an increasing number of natural disasters, which Carlos theorised was due to the god of destruction
- Adran was also able to find out that there used to be 10 gods, the tenth being the god of destruction, called Morhan
- Morhan was considered evil
- Chaos Bolt (a spell the party all have access to through their marks) was a spell granted to clerics by Morhan
- Adran came bearing the news that while visiting his hometown Raymond came into a large amount of power, allowing him to manipulate water
- Adran theorises that each marked has a connection to one of the gods, with Pothos being connected to Slaine, Dimitri being connected to Dearil and Raymond seemingly being connected to Njord
- The party visit Andraste, who is acting as headmistress of The Magecrest Magic Institution
- She wants one favour from Ander
- She wants him to apologise for not telling her he was leaving
- She agrees to keep a look out for any marked at her school
- In the night Ander and Dimitri dream of Raymond and Lei, as always.
- Pothos dreams of an eagle perched on a thatched cottage roof turning into an elven woman with red hair
- The party advertise for the marked to meet them at the tavern
- Ander waits while the other two search for the elven woman
- They find her, she's a druid called Hastae, who agrees reluctantly to come with them
- Ander meets Ekk, an orcish pirate woman, and Lilith, a tiefling blacksmith, who have both been marked.
- As Dimitri and Pothos return to the tavern a group of cultists arrive
- They successfully kill Lilith and Ekk, and teleport away, saying 'two is enough'
- The party head back to Andraste to see if the final marked was at the school
- They meet the man with the final mark, who, when asked to return with them to Oldden seems hesitant
- He admits he left his wife and child and doesn't want to see them
- It turns out his wife was Lila
- The party immediately contact Lila, who was very upset, and Adran, who almost outright tried to kill him
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