The Cord That Binds
General Summary
Investigating rumors of her eidolon causing trouble, Runa gathered her friends Enam, Tiff, and Raffyr to seek out the bog witch known as Agye after failing to summon Origin. The witch agreed to imbue an item from Runa’s past that could sever the connection between her and her rebellious companion but only after they drove off the hell hounds haunting her from her hut. In the meantime, Auntril offered his services to Runa as a substitute, ensuring her spellcasting. Runa agreed.
Scattering the pack, the Nessian Warhound known as Churlz agreed to abandon the hunt in exchange for his life, apparently none too happy to serve a being known as the Hag Countess, a former patron of Agye’s. Churlz betrayed the location of his master, a cauchemar nightmare whose name he refused to give. The party honored their deal and released the warhound, and approached the bluff to the south. Their concentrated efforts destroyed the demon, and they collected a new species of flower that fed on its blood, calling it Cauchemar’s Bane and naming the site Nightmare Bluff.
Agye was grateful and enchanted a pair of scissors to lead Runa to her Origin. Along the way, they encountered a distressed woman whom they revealed as a shapeshifting hag, but she disappeared into the ethereal plane. Following the illusory trail of fire, Runa’s bad dreams pushed her onward into a dark elf refugee camp at the Grand Library. There, they approached the shrine of the good drow deity Eilistraee and found Runa’s Origin. The cat revealed the true story of Runa’s history, that her husband did not in fact cheat on her, but was seduced by a succubus who looked like her, and Runa was forced to kill her mind-controlled husband with scissors. Origin appeared out of her rage then and drove the demon away. During her vision, the drow Ist Za’Irin explained his role in Runa’s tragedy, that he was the one who summoned the demon in revenge for his unit’s destruction by her uncle. Ist himself had fled persecution in the Underdark to Pandora, and Origin, seeing Runa finally happy with a newfound family of friends, left her to protect the drow and his infant son, Ist’s bond of suffering with Runa apparently enough to sustain the eidolon of rage.
In drow tradition, the injured may declare vengeance, and even among the followers of Eilistraee this right exists, albeit as a method of redemption. After a long struggle with her friends followed by a sleepless night of soul-searching, Runa returned to the shrine and listened to the words of Nymklyr, the priest of Eilistraee. Runa, her mind made up, cut the spectral cord between her and Origin and incinerated the father and son in a blazing inferno, rejecting the goddess’ offer of resurrecting her husband, knowing she did not deserve him. The Origin story of Runa’s rage ended, her eidolon disappeared. Runa’s selfish vengeance still left her without a source of power for her magic. However, she rejected the agenda of heaven espoused by an astral deva named Artiya’il “Arti,” and flat-out refused Auntril’s obvious bid for more power, instead opting to return to the swamp and join Agye’s coven.
Agye was grateful and enchanted a pair of scissors to lead Runa to her Origin. Along the way, they encountered a distressed woman whom they revealed as a shapeshifting hag, but she disappeared into the ethereal plane. Following the illusory trail of fire, Runa’s bad dreams pushed her onward into a dark elf refugee camp at the Grand Library. There, they approached the shrine of the good drow deity Eilistraee and found Runa’s Origin. The cat revealed the true story of Runa’s history, that her husband did not in fact cheat on her, but was seduced by a succubus who looked like her, and Runa was forced to kill her mind-controlled husband with scissors. Origin appeared out of her rage then and drove the demon away. During her vision, the drow Ist Za’Irin explained his role in Runa’s tragedy, that he was the one who summoned the demon in revenge for his unit’s destruction by her uncle. Ist himself had fled persecution in the Underdark to Pandora, and Origin, seeing Runa finally happy with a newfound family of friends, left her to protect the drow and his infant son, Ist’s bond of suffering with Runa apparently enough to sustain the eidolon of rage.
In drow tradition, the injured may declare vengeance, and even among the followers of Eilistraee this right exists, albeit as a method of redemption. After a long struggle with her friends followed by a sleepless night of soul-searching, Runa returned to the shrine and listened to the words of Nymklyr, the priest of Eilistraee. Runa, her mind made up, cut the spectral cord between her and Origin and incinerated the father and son in a blazing inferno, rejecting the goddess’ offer of resurrecting her husband, knowing she did not deserve him. The Origin story of Runa’s rage ended, her eidolon disappeared. Runa’s selfish vengeance still left her without a source of power for her magic. However, she rejected the agenda of heaven espoused by an astral deva named Artiya’il “Arti,” and flat-out refused Auntril’s obvious bid for more power, instead opting to return to the swamp and join Agye’s coven.
Report Date
18 Apr 2020
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