Light Falls, Darkness Rises

Life, Death

Arma Lucis, in chase of the clones, a curse left by the benefactors. Fly their airship across the sea, hoping to catch up to them. Illianna, keeping safe the Tome of Seven Nights in her bag of holding. Ein stays with the airship, along with Lesnora and Granden. The rest of the party arrives at an island and finds that the inhabitants, possibly a cult of some sort, have been massacred. The party follows the trail of blood and bodies to a ritual site. In the distance they wait and observe, not sure of how to proceed.   They notice a green dragonborn in chainmail, Illianna's clone holding a silver shifting sword and Nennoh's clone at the center of a hill, with a bright blue light bursting from the hill into the sky. As the group watches on for a few moments, Illianna looks down and sees the clasp for her bag of holding is open. She reaches into the bag, willing for it to give her the Book of Seven Nights, only for nothing to come out. She looks around and asks about the group.   She activates her paladin ability to Detect Evil and notices there are invisible evil entities walking about. As she shouts to the group to advance, the blue light fades and a torrent of bats explodes forth into the sky and hangs above the area. Nennoh's clone turns around and is holding a dark tome, similar in design to the Book of Seven Nights. In the following battle, Nennoh's clone, (Nega-Nennoh) referred to later as the Dark Seer, bombards Arma Lucis with Necrotic spells from a distance and traps Nennoh in a Wall of Fire with Rayne. Ness is knocked unconscious shortly after.   Illianna fights on as the last Arma Lucis combatant standing. She strikes savage blows to both the Dark Seer and finishes off one of the hags. A moment later, Rayne falls unconscious in the wall of fire and Nennoh is killed, turned to ash. In the final moments of combat, Illianna is polymorphed into a turtle and captured by the remaining hag. In this moment, Arma Lucis was defeated, Ein escapes with the airship, Granden being held back by Lesnora, screaming to go back for Ness. Ein goes on the run with the remaining members. The rest of Arma Lucis that was on the island, is held in an antimagic prison for a year.   During this year, Arma Lucis is gone, over the days and months to come, Arma Tennebris, rises to power and puts a stranglehold onto the Elleryn royal family and begins to execute the first steps in their plan...