Sanguine Sunrise #30: A Snuffed Heart

General Summary

The adventurers catch their bearings whilst floating around the place. Eventually, they figure out the strange "laws" of the plane and begin gliding towards the destination that was the titan floating in space. As they moved, they started to make out large indents in the crimson corpse and many specks that seemed to be creatures moving upon it. Eventually, they saw some specks moving in their direction.
As it got closer, they saw a few figures that approached them, all being led by this gith figure with this commanding presence. He becomes interested in Gratorr's age and the others existences. He also mentions the darkness of the heart of Haemnathuun as he speaks to them. Finally, he says that they should either turn away and preserve their light or see what happens when two sources of heat attempt to burn the other out.
Luthrin managed to gain information from this Second Archon before their battle occurred. Flying through space, flame appeared and Luthrin summoned a blood fiend to fight the Archon. In the end, the archon's light went out. Searching the corpses of these guardians, Sanguine Sunrise finds a mysterious pulse on the Archon. They mess with it for a moment, but they then move on.
The group get closer and realize that parts of the titan have holes in it. They see one large quarry like structure in the chest that leads to darkness. They avoid this and head towards the ruby man's hand. 
There, they manage to deceive two guards into letting them into the tunnels that have been mined out, leaving Luthrin to see a location he has somehow seen before. The group manage to sneak past a praying man and move on. 
In another room, they talk to the first archon but hold back from attacking them because they seem to not recognize them, and they move past them. As the Archon is moving past, a Blood fiend descends on Luthrin.
A fight ensues where Luthrin deals with the Blood Fiend whilst the others attack the equally surprised First Archon. As they continue to pelt the Archon with attacks, an illusion drops and they instead see a strange fish-like creature with long tendrils coming out of the back of its head. The creature shouts throughout the complex and Sanguine Sunrise kills it, revealing a dwarf figure whom Gratorr seems to recognize.
The group then ambush the Fourth Archon that came to see what was going on. A fight ensues before Gratorr notices something strange occurring in the next room. Then, the Fourth Archon simply stops fighting and begins praying on the ground. After everyone attacks him with all they had, he continues praying as they hear claps at the door. 
They look over and see a triton figure clapping and multiple people in the other room kneeling before him. He explains that a death of the Archon will be met with a death of another figure, which causes Sanguine Sunrise to back off. They then follow this High Archon into a large room and speak.
He explains that he simply needs to cut off Luthrin's arm to bring Haemnathuun back and end all of this. Luthrin sees this as insane but both suffer from some strange mental shenanigans. In the end, at an impasse, the High Archon stands, summons the Sanguine blade and tells Luthrin that if they want the artifact, they had to come get it.

Character(s) interacted with

The Second Archon
The Fourth Archon
The High Archon

Report Date

22 Mar 2021