The Temple of the Ascendant Watch

Discovery, Exploration

The Fractured Pack take a job within the Sunken Ceshau to clear a newfound temple of it's hazards to allow a sage to safely study it's history. Within, the heroes destroyed a colony of blights that had taken the above ground ruins for their home before descending beneath to finding their way through the initiation gauntlet.   The temple proved to be a secret cult that contorted the views of Pelor and Sehanine to take their ardent followers and corrupt them. The mastermind of the cult was a Rakshasa servant of Zehir, the Cloaked Serpent. Despite the cult being long dead and signs of the worship room's inhabitants and altar being smited by divine fire, the Rakshasa Voriski was still within the temple. When first found, the Voriski appeared before them as a trapped angel seeking release. The heroes saw through the ploy though, refusing to release her. Escaping her grasp, they returned to the excavation's Sage Klofevar Inkdrivel for guidance on how to handle the trapped Rakshasa.

The Fractured Pack take a job within the Sunken Ceshau to clear a newfound temple of it's hazards to allow a sage to safely study it's history. Within, the heroes destroyed a colony of blights that had taken the above ground ruins for their home before descending beneath to finding their way through the initiation gauntlet.   The temple proved to be a secret cult that contorted the views of Pelor and Sehanine to take their ardent followers and corrupt them. The mastermind of the cult was a Rakshasa servant of Zehir, the Cloaked Serpent. Despite the cult being long dead and signs of the worship room's inhabitants and altar being smited by divine fire, the Rakshasa Voriski was still within the temple. When first found, the Voriski appeared before them as a trapped angel seeking release. The heroes saw through the ploy though, refusing to release her. Escaping her grasp, they returned to the excavation's Sage Klofevar Inkdrivel for guidance on how to handle the trapped Rakshasa. Legend Lore: Voriski's cult to twist goodly priests and paladins into secretly serving the Cloaked Serpent was not a new one. In ages past, the temple of Sol in Vicugan had been corrupted by That Which Desires. An angel of Sol was taken captive and used as a figurehead to sway the cult, showing that Sol's will remained with them during the changes to doctrine and the replacement of officials. This angel would be blocked from Sol's light and believed subsumed by the will of That Which Desires. When a true follower of Sehanine resisted the twisting of the Cloaked Serpent, they were tortured to death. Welcomed into the Moonweaver's court, the soul revealed all. An angel of the Moonweaver and the Dawnfather descended upon the Temple of the Ascendant Watch, destroyed the unfaithful, and locked Voriski away forming a karmic mirror to what had happened long ago. It would not be until the freeing of Sol's angel in Vicugan in 5/15/1022 (less than a fortnight before Voriski's Release) that the karmic reflection would be noted by the celestial courts.