History of the Crown of Truth

Luxifer "Lux" Vanitas and Vania Rose Vanitas are born in Nyxvanus to House Vanitas.

Illuamor and Inu arrive in Kagi, the capital of Nishi Province on Kagawa island. There, the two wander around the market district, where Illuamor buys a a magical pot. They also find a strange vendor called "Inconspicuious Vegetable Seller" that is run by a young man named Syn and his three companions. However, it is obvious that Syn has no idea how much vegetables cost when Illuamor goes to buy some. The crystal Amarus gave Illuamor makes a golden halo appear above Syn's head, marking him as one of his destined companions. Syn agrees to go on the journey with them since it sounds interesting.

On their way to the mainland of the Lolos Republic from Kagawa island, the Republic Group is attacked by a group of Chuul. The monsters rise out of the ocean and begin to target Illuamor specifically, and try to steal the crystal Amarus gave him that can light up when a piece of the Crown of Truth is close by. With the help of Tadashi, a bounty hunter named Estrella, and Captain Anya, the party manages to fend off the Chuul.

Elvari is summoned to The World In-Between from his home plane in Barovia by Soren, the God of Dead and Darkness. Soren was originally planning to kill Elvari, until he hears of Elvari's past. Soren instead adopts Elvari as his son and tells him to find the ten pieces of the Crown of Truth, so that Emperor Titus Cicero cannot use its power for selfish means.

A youth dressed in all black known as Slyth broke Lux's arm in the Cracked Goblet tavern for no apparent reason. Lux was sitting with Astrid, Sirenna, and another companion who works for her when Slyth approached her and started trying to fight her out of nowhere. The scene caused a tavern fight to start up until Glyn, one of the City Watch, appeared in the tavern. Glyn has been trying to track down the culprits ever since.

The Empire Group's airship flies through a sandstorm on their way to the Oracle Janina and is attacked by a swarm of Giant Fire Beetles. Afterward, they continue on their way into the mountains, where they find the Empire's Western Temple of Amarus. It is here that they speak to Janina and discover that Emperor Titus' true mission for them is to find the ten pieces of the Crown of Truth for himself.

During the fight between the Empire Group and the riders attacking their airship under Atlas' orders, Ivan ends up dying. His soul is sucked into The World In-Between, where he sees a vision of his death. He then sees someone standing over him with long black hair and a leather jacket. Ivan's own hair turns black instead of white, and his eyes change from purple to red. He asks the stranger if he can get a new gun from him. The person asks Ivan what he is, asks who comes to the Underworld asking for guns, and says they finds him weird. However, they still hand Ivan a gun from their own holster. Ivan says he'll find a way to get out of The World In-Between despite not knowing how. The stranger removes the bullets from their gun and pulls a magical sycthe from it, which they use to slice Ivan in half. Ivan's body and soul then returns to the airship with the rest of the party.

Elvari arrives in Falonde, Nyxvanus after being teleported by Soren. He finds a tavern and starts to search for anyone who knows where he can find a young Fae woman. There he meets Dune, who tells Elvari about a temple for the god Amarus at the edge of Bridge Village, and a half-Orc named Andrew currently traveling around. The two are questioned by a member of the Falonde City Watch named Glyn, who's trying to find information about a recent barfight.   They grab a large moth Faunus with amnesia named Alethe before leaving at the request of the barkeep, since Alethe was blocking the tavern's entrance by staring at a lantern outside. Alethe agrees to go with Elvari and the others on their way to the temple of Amarus.

Once their falling airship safetly lands, the crew realizes that the engine is practically beyond repair from the Emona's attacks, and they'll have to walk on foot to the closest town. After traveling through The Decaying Frontier, the Empire Group makes it to Florium, a town in the Western Elysian Empire. On the way there, the party spots a giant skeleton warrior covered in sand and erosion sticking out of the rocky desert terrain. After Doc asks Lexus about the warrior, he explains that it is left over from the dawn of the Age of Ancients, back when the gods battled each other. The party proceeds to Florium, which Ivan remembers as the first town he visited after he died and came back to life.

It takes 12 hours for the party to travel to Glantry, the Last City of Lindworm, in the stomach of a Giant Sandworm also known as Tadashi's pen pal. The Sandworm spits them out on a mountain not far from Glantry's main government building. The group has to work in pairs to pedal mini airships up the mountain onto where the main government building is perched.

Nearly a day passes as the Empire Group flies on their new Skybarge toward Salonac. When they reach the crossroads between Salonac and Canone, the crew points out an area where merchants have been disappearing into the sand. The party decides to jump down into the sand and fall into an underground tomb.

Ivan asks Dandit for a pocket watch in return for the gun he got from the Modern Plane. Dandit finds the gun interesting and allows Ivan to take only the pocket watch. Ivan then asks if he can free him from the gold Primus' gauntlets turned him into. Dandit laughs and spews his acid breath over Ivan, causing him to die once again. Ivan's soul is partially sucked into the pocket watch, while the other pieces rejoin in The World In-Between, where he ends up startling the same person he saw before (Grimshaw) while they were writing in their journal. Grimshaw gets extremely angry from being interrupted in his private quarters and takes out a gun to shoot Ivan in the head before he can even ask for another gun to replace the one he gave Dandit.

The Lost and Found enter the Wicked Elm Woodlands. After walking for hours, they are attacked by a pair of Enchanted Shrubs and a Violet Fungus. The forest is obviously sick and seemingly cursed or diseased by something.

The Lost and Found arrives in Luflion after burning down the Wicked Elm Woodlands. The party decides to get some food and sleep. Luran gets drunk for the first time while trying to deal with his emotions and accidentally strikes a sketchy deal with the town's mayor while in his drunken state.

It takes five hours for the Empire Group's airship to reach the town of Salonac after leaving Dryfang Station. Once docked outside of the town, Doc has the party and ten of the airship crew split up to buy ten days worth of supplies for their journey to Elysia. It is here that Doc meets a baker named Galius who offers to make him enough pies to feed the entire crew.

Doc talks to Ivan privately about how he's been lying, stealing, and endagering people on their journey, as well as not following his orders. Ivan says that he doesn't take orders from anyone, to which Doc threatens to no longer bring Ivan along on the journey any longer. Ivan says if they don't take him on the mission, he'll bring the entire mission down, and starts to melt the airship. Atlas sneaks in and shoots Ivan with a tranquilizer dart, knocking him unconcious. Doc then ties Ivan up and shoves the Ring of Mindshielding he got back in Ledon onto his finger. Doc and Atlas then begin to beat Ivan to death. Once his soul is trapped inside the ring, Doc puts it on and is possessed by Ivan until Leo gets the ring off him. Unfortunately, while Doc was still possessed by Ivan, he gave Merlin his pocket watch. Merlin succumbs from the pocket watch's curse, which allows him to see a small white rabbit that speaks to him.

After Illuamor and Estrella find a portal hidden inside of the mansion, Illuamor sticks his head through and is pulled inside by a beautiful woman. He begins to see visions of a woman he once loved in his arms and begins to mourn her--until she runs a sword through his chest. The vision morphs into his research lab burning down around him while the woman laughs. She says that he was a fool for trusting anyone and that she's coming for him. Yivanny, the Goddess of Dreams, intercepts the vision and tells Illuamor not to loose hope or faith in others. Illuamor pulls back into his suspicious, distrustful thoughts until Yivanny snaps her fingers and sends him back to the room with Estrella.

While trying to find the source of humanoid blood splattered all over the hallway of the upstairs mansion owned buy Canvas's father; Inu, Syn, Ie, and Gelure find the corpse of a dog laying on the dining table. Inside the corpse is a crystal with a programmed message that said the "experiement failed" and they were coming for the real thing (likely Inu). Afterward, they found Estrella and Illuamor next door and realized Scurra was missing.

The Lost and Found kills a swarm of rats in the sewers of Luflion that turns out to be the pets of a kobold name Snasuh, who relocated to the town's sewer system after the Wicked Elm Woodlands burned down. The group offers to take Snasuh with them until they can find him a new home.

After Soren drops Alethe and Elvari back on top of The Lost and Found, everyone introduces them to Snahsu. They decide to get more food, clothes, and stop at the blacksmith (where Alethe causes problems and gets the Net of the Moth Catching Champion, while Charlotte gets a Warhammer of Voltage). Elvari, Luran, and some of the others go to the tavern, where Luran confirms that Elvari is a vampire from another plane of existence. Luran explains that the Feywild seems to be combining with the Feydark, and he doesn't know why. After hours have passed, they reunite with Andrew and the others and leave Luflion for Sunclove.

Doc destroys Ivan's cursed pocket watch after rabbit Ivan causes problems between Doc, Merlin, Lexus, and Leo. Doc and Ivan's soul are sucked into a pocket dimension where they see a young man in a wheelchair talking to himself. Time reverses, spins forward, and resets repeatedly before they meet Malborh, the God of Time--one of the creators of this universe. Malborh explains that they originally gave the watch to a "very special mortal" and is angered that it was destroyed. They punish Ivan by banishing him from this universe, along with all of his items, so he can never return to this reality. Malborh states that perhaps they must have a hand in the fight for the Crown of Truth, in order to keep anymore troublesome "creatures" such as Ivan from causing chaos in their universe. Afterwards, Doc is returned to the Mortal Plane on the airship.

On their way through the mountains to Nyxvanus, Scurra becomes separated from the party. He spots the same crow from the day before trying to help him and grabs it. While the rest of the party takes shelter in a cave, Syn and Ie head out to find Scurra. They end up having to build a temporary hut during another snow storm, causing Nicu to find Scurra first. He remarks that at least Scurra will be good for emotionally damaging the others after he kills them, but that Scurra doesn't deserve to know who he really is. The crow Scurra catches transforms into a humanoid form with a rapier named Olir (God of Winter) and challenges Nicu. Olir defeats Nicu right as Syn appears, but remarks that Nicu will return.

The Lost and Found fight monsters to entertain Nightfell Aldercrown and his Midnight Court in return for Elvari and a piece of the Crown of Truth. They are forced to battle a Bulette, Feywild Hippogriff, a corrupted Stag Centaur, and an angered Actaeon. Elvari manages to leave the room Nicu was keeping him in and joins the fight along with Grimshaw halfway through. The creatures increased in difficulty as the rounds go on, but the party managed to win.

The Empire Group arrives in Portus, the harbor district of the city of Elysia. On the way there, Doc made sure none of the crew would bring water to Scarlet (since it's like acid to him). Doc also started learning some basic/beginner Elvish from Lexus, who he discovered is a warlock who accidentally sold his soul to the God of Wisdom, Bymos, as a child. After studying with Lexus, Doc and Leo construct a Homunculus Servant inside of a Homunculus Servant to keep their piece of the Crown of Truth inside of. Doc fuses it to his armor and keeps it inside of it for extra protection.

The Empire Group meets Lucius for the first time (during the campaign) in Portus. He is working as a Courier delivering a letter from Emperor Titus complaining about reports of lots of money being spent in his name because of Ivan. Doc reports that Ivan has been executed. Atlas tells Lucius to send a letter to Titus from him that his "old friend" misses him.

After teleporting to Rica Falco's house and being let inside by her father when Doc claims he wants to be taken on as an apprentice, the two admire some of the paintings. They see some wall paintings by Cassia--one being a 360 panorama of the Legend of the Crown of Truth. It reminds them of the painting of Adonis they saw the day before. After a while, Scarlet overhears two people arguing upstairs. Doc recognizes one of the voices as Lucius, and says he must be talking to Cassia. When Cassia cries, Scarlet teleports up and starts to fight Lucius until Doc stops him. Doc drops his disguise and tells Cassia she's not alone after Lucius tells her she's being a coward for running away from the truth of what her father has done. Lucius reveals that Crown Prince Drago, who was supposed to be killed 20 years ago, is actually living as the gladiator Adonis.

Leo is are accidentally sucked into a "glitch"--a tear in the Plane of Dreams and the Modern Plane that are repeatedly colliding and ripping due to an unknown phenomenon happening to the time stream. He was able to come back due to Scarlet teleporting to save him.