Campaign

The party encounter Edgar Kruger-Ysern, his guards, and the mercenary Clarity Merelsdochter, attempting to apprehend Isobela di Peron di Cameri, Alana Catarinsdochter and Oneira Athelsdottir, three werefoxes(species:aee5d15f-565f-4b84-977e-1fe782bf9c0e) who are alleged fugitives from @[Aldernord, in an attempt to recover the stolen Ring of Zaal. A fight breaks out and Edgar Kruger-Ysern is killed.   In gratitude for their rescue, and knowing that should they keep ahold of the ring that the Alderni would continue hunting them, the werefoxes give the Ring of Zaal to the party. They are thought to have headed to Cameri, with the intention of seeking refuge in Lith Terrin.

The survivors of the expedition to Kab Melekh exit the tomb and are confronted by the goblins of Zhenzh, who blame them for everything that has transpired. By the intervention of some unknown power, history branches in two: in the original timeline Hassoreliath the Red, one of the Five Great Dragons of Mandragore, arrives and engulfs the survivors in a great inferno; in that which changes, it is the copper dragon Dendrithekimallion who is first to arrive, driving off the goblins and allowing the survivors to leave.

With the assistance of Beatrix, the party break into the Ducal Palace of Cameri in order to rob the hidden vault belonging to the now-deposed House Zaal that lies beneath it. They enter the vault, and in the process of stealing its contents encounter Ser Ingrid Absthoven-Zaal, a knight who has been magically sequestered within the vault in order to guard one item among its contents - the Reliquary of the Sun Reborn. A fight breaks out, during which the wards on the reliquary are disrupted, releasing its contents - the tormented shade of an ancient Kenku known as Stone Skittering Down the Mountain, into which is bound a fragment of the soul of the Paragon known as the Hunter.

The party lure the Carmine Pillar into ambushing them outside of the city of Cameri; they swiftly dispatch the cultists and the shadow demon that they have summoned, but fail to prevent the cult's leader - none other than Nicodemo di Scrivano di Cameri - from escaping. They encounter the enigmatic shapeshifter Tdjaia'ucchan, who was attempting to infiltrate the Pillar and assassinate their leader.

The party encounter three hags, who offer a number of boons in exchange for certain certain metaphysical or ephemeral prices. They reveal that there are nine who having survived the events that were fated to kill them, are now unbound from the Web of Fate: Aurelia, Echoed Murmur, Eibhleann, Nikol, Teagan; and also Beatrix, Hasdrubal, Lucrezia... and Tzatu'yshan   Nikol enters into a deal with the hags, trading "all benefit they have gained from their sacrifices to the Mother of Murder" in exchange for information that they do not yet know they need. In return they are told that in order to use the Throne of Stars they will need one who is capable of using it; the hags identify one such individual as being named Motion an agent of the Gilded Tower, who is the reincarnation of an oath-bound agent of the Paragons. They explain that Motion is fated "to lose all hope and be devoured by the Utterdark"; they offer to trade the information of how to avert this fate, but the party decline.

The party descend into mines near the town of Paracannia in order to help rescue some trapped miners. There they come across Nerazh Zdravka, a goblin druid who has psychically melded with the Myconids dwelling in caves below the mines, and intends to reverse the Shattering by bringing all goblinkind into psychic communion with the fungus. They destroy Zdravka before she can do any further harm, and encounter the ancient myconid sovereign One Outside All, who they win the support of after warning them that the Great Gates have been unsealed.

Guillaume Arthmael-Riddacci ambushes Princess Beatrix Bheuren of Aldernord when she and her companions return from Paracannia via a secret teleportation circle beneath the ruined keep of Avenfort. When the princess' companions turn out to be rather more dangerous than anticipated, Guillaume attempts to escape, but is slain by a shadowy wolf-like creature, which is later established to be a Hound of Ill Omen manifested by the sorcerer Motion Ashbrook-Sarren.

The party discover Sanctity Falcoferri-Riddacci's involvement with the Everstorm Covenant. When they confront him, on this, he opens a portal to the sanctum he has created in his own dreamscape using an enchanted mirror, and summons a flock of Mephits to rampage through the Academy of Gildenschloss. It is later established that one of his goals in doing so is to kill one of the students - Galiana "Guidance" Votellian, who has a technical claim on the throne of Aldernord; and possibly also to attack Dorothea "Doctrine" Canthor, the daughter of the imprisoned necromancer Eupraxia Canthor, in order to intimidate Eupraxia into silence.   Sanctity appeared to have been cut down by the party during the fight that ensued, though it later emerged that they had only destroyed a simulacrum; Sanctity himself was inside the dream-sanctum, and is believed to be trapped there after the mirror was destroyed.

The party leads a sting operation to uncover an assassin who was working with the Everstorm Covenant, and was planning on killing Galiana "Guidance" Votellian. The assassin is unmasked as Heinrich Sturmkind-Canthor, a former mercenary soldier in the Wolves of Kruger, who was now working as a tutor for the Hall of Apprentices at the Academy of Gildenschloss. Following his capture, it was determined that Heinrich was acting on the orders of Baron Ortolf Kruger-Ysern.

The party enter into the dreamscape of Motion Ashbrook-Sarren in an attempt to reverse the mental conditioning that was placed upon her by Gudrun Athelswicht-Zaal and Sanctity Falcoferri-Riddacci to constrict her power in the wake of the Night of the Wolf, and which had since been subverted by Sanctity in order to use her Hound of Ill Omen, Telarna, as a weapon of assassination.   In Motion's dreamscape they encounter numerous entities, including Tulia Seconda Akropos, one of Motion's past lives who was partially responsible for the Fall of the Katari Empire; the enigmatic cat Na-Menes; the Duck of Many Dreams; Xorbuqesh, an oracular toad-spirit; Ki'lar'akh, a Vylok chain demon; and a memory of the Kraken Queen. They are eventually able to unlock Motion's psyche and subdue the "Dark Half" - the part of her mind which had fallen to the Utterdark and which would have destroyed her completely - freeing Motion from the Web of Fate and preventing her doom from coming to pass.

The party gain entrance to a hidden basement in the Gilded Tower whilst looking for a prototype magical carriage, and encounter a colony of Cranium Rats which seem to have been inadvertantly created by the experiments of the Empty Gyre with a psychicly active otherworldly crystal. They bargain with the Parliament of Rats for use of the carriage, and bring about a religious reformation that unites several disperate sects of rats.

Whistling Bolt, an assassin in the service of the Reckoners of the Final Hour and Key Turns in the Lock, is apprehended by the party as he tries to flee Rostog.