Vyn TImeline

fter being stowaway aboard a ship for many weeks the group of Ib the Bruiser, Bobie, Nalia Malphason, Poppo Hedgehopper, and a thief called Sirius were caught by some of the sailors of the ship. They quickly dispatched the unarmed crew but were caught off guard by a strange Veiled Woman who talked of “probabilities” and then knocked everyone unconscious with wild magic. They awoken and after the thief Sirius was killed Ib, Poppo, Nalia, and Bobie were thrown overboard. It was as they were sinking they heard the voice of the Veiled Woman say “Breath”. The group then all had the same vision, an ancient room full of charred bodies and a doorway with a blinding light. You heard voices say strange things before waking up on a sandy beach. The group made their way through an ancient ruin killing skeletons, some particularly nasty rats, and a sahuagin. They emerged on the other side finding themselves on the Sun Coast of Enderal. They met two apothecary, Finn Dalires and Carbos as well as an orc who called himself Turngut. The group of Finn, Carbos, Turngut, Ib, Poppo, Nalia, and Bobie then fended off a bandit ambush. After that Ib went off on his own and the apothecary stayed behind to clean up the bodies before heading back to The League of the Apothecary. Nalia, Poppo, Bobie, and new found friend Turngut traveled to a local town called Riverville to meet with a rogue named Jespar Del’Varek who has been hunting these bandits as of late. They met Jespar and his two companions MacGuire and Pearson. Jespar talked cryptically about an old man named Alfrid that these bandits had captured. The group then met with guard captain of Riverville, Dirk. Dirk talked of the leader of the bandits The Butcher and after interrogating a captured bandit Dirk discovered that The Butcher was planning an attack on Riverville that very night. The party alongside Jespar’s party defended the central bridge and managed to kill the main force of bandits including a strange green robed man and sent the Butcher fleeing with his tail between his legs. The party then learned from the mayor of Riverville, Jugar Featherwill that the green robed man was apart of a snake cult that has long been held up in the Featherwill ancestral home Castle Croft. The party successfully killed the evil inhabitants of Castle Croft and released the souls of several spirits within the castle. They also found the man Alfrid that Jespar had been searching for and traveled back to Riverville to claim their reward for taking back the castle. Nalia also received one of the three swords of Malphas and was tasked with finding the other two. Jespar told the party his mission that a magister named Yero contracted something called the “Red Madness” which caused him to kill a large number of innocence. The party then spoke to Alfrid who revealed he had always suspected something like this would happen because of the rage Yero buried from his mother's death. Alfrid would also inform the party of Yero’s childhood home not to far from here. At the execution of Butcher strange grey creatures emerged from the crowd and were able to free the bandit leader. The group explored Yero's home finding information possibly pertinent to the Red Madness. The group then headed back to town to rest before the long road to Ark.

You finally arrived in Ark and began to take in the sights of the city. You delivered the letter of introduction from Jugar Featherwill to the noble quarter post office, a letter addressed to one Belis Ormaris. After some shopping the PC’s learned that a man named Trusty Patches may have information about Dettlaff and various other things. Nalia also learned that a man named Father Winthrop is an expert on all things Malphas and could tell her about the swords of Malphas. The group went back to the Dancing Nomad to rest for the night and found Jespar Del’Varek having an argument with his lover Ves. Jespar informed the party that his employer Constantine Firespark would meet with them the following morning. However the group was rudely awakened to the Inn being attacked and rushed down to provide assistance. They defeated the mysterious knights swiftly with the help of Jespar and Constantine Firespark. However, the assassin who was sent to kill Constantine fled. The group was finally paid for assisting Jespar on the Sun Coast and were then offered another job from the old mage. The group then went to Trusty Patches in search for information on the man known as Dettlaff. After paying Patches some gold the group found out that Dettlaff van der Vesper was in the Undercity. Upon traveling there they were able to find Dettlaff’s location at a toy shop via the help of a mercenary named Dagroar. The group then found a strange music box which teleported them to the realm of Apocrypha. There they learned many things from Dettlaff, the chosen of the god of knowledge, Pamat. BobE learned about his new god Elnil and received several gifts from both Elnil along with a gift of good will from Pamat. Nalia would also learn the names of the three swords of Malphas, her current swords true name being Cyfiawnder, and the other two being called the Waterblade and Flameroar. Nalia however did not learn the location of the swords but did learn that the Waterblade is held by Loram Waterblade. The group ventured back to their plane and got ready for dinner with Lord Belis Ormaris. Upon arriving they heard Belis arguing with another lord named Dakrast about the state of the Undercity. The group had a pleasant dinner with lord Ormaris before departing the following day for Rashengrad. The group encountered Aldius the Boatman who ferried them across the lake known as the Heart. However while going across the lake the players encountered undead controlled by the Girl in the Water. The group was able to defeat the undead and moved on to the ruin Rashengrad, where they fought many constructs outside. When entering the ruin the group encountered even more constructs who had killed most of the excavators and mercenaries that were also mysteriously there. After the fight they met Lishari Peghast, the lead on the excavation who had managed to survive by hiding atop some rubble. She explained that the excavation was to find the sigil stones, stones that have the potential to protect someone from the Red Madness. Thegroup continued through Rashengrad easily defeating a large construct by using the kill box tactic. They then found another mute assassin who killed himself when he became trapped in a room. The group made their way to the final room where they found a Pyrean frozen in a crystal. After some rest and extra looting the group with Lishari Peghast and the frozen pyrean made their way back to Ark. Lishari took a quick liking Turngut and flirted all the way back to the city. Upon arriving they found that the city was in shut down of sorts. The front gates were closed and people and carts heading into the city were being searched. The learned terrorists in the city have been targeting prominent nobles, mages, and members of the order. They were allowed in and made their way to the Sun Temple and were let in due to danger any important person had of venturing out of the temple. They met briefly with Firespark getting paid before the group was introduced to Grandmaster Tealor Arantheal. Alongside the Grandmaster was Truchessa Natara Del’Varem, Bastion Krell, and Commander Tody Ulric. They informed the group that an anti religious tyrant named Taranor Coarek will be in Enderal in two months to kill any who still follow gods. The grandmaster stated that the time of the old heroes is done and its time for new heroes to arise. He offered the group a chance to join the Holy Order but to do so they must first pass the Trial. The group set off with Signet Master Jorek Bartarr, a woman named Calia Sakaresh, and an elf named Dunwar. To do the Trial the group must first enter the Whisperwood and make their way to the First Foothold. The group encounters some plant zombies before coming face to face with a victim of the Red Madness and a greater Asylum Demon called a Demon Firesage. The group then continued on to the First Foothold the first place where Malphas and the First Men of Enderal camped. It was then that Jorek Bartarr revealed to the group that the rumor of the Lightborns deaths are true. The group saw a vision in which they witnessed Narathzul Arantheal wielding a black steel blade known as Godkiller besieging Kaer Rzeka. The group then saw as Malphas himself helped Belis Ormaris, Loram Waterblade, and Tealor Arantheal escape from the castle before the ceiling of the castle caved in, with Malphas dying soon after. The group then begun their initiation drinking a purplish liquid and falling into a dream like realm. Each person saw something very specific Turngut saw Gaunter O'Dimm, Nalia saw a knight with tarnished armor wielding the Flameroar, Poppo saw a halfling who looked strangely similar to himself, and BobE saw a strange nine jeweled mask hovering above two knights. The group went through the dream dungeon fighting a possessed Dunwar, freeing Micolash Bartarr and escaping the dungeon. The group awoke and found that two days had passed and that they were back in the Sun Temple. The group then had a conversation with Tealor Arantheal who congratulated the group and stated that they would be the last to go through the old trial as it has become extremely corrupted by the shadows. Jorek Bartarr then thanked the group for freeing his son and for the first time treated the group with respect. The group then went to a party thrown by Jespar Del'Varek. Several of their friends were their to congratulate and give gifts to the group. Jespar, MacGuire, Pearson, Thraduik, Lambert, Ves, the Dalpots of the Halflings Orange, Detlaff van der Vesper, and Ib the Bruiser with his boss Francis Bedlam The King of Beggars. The group had a good night of celebrating until it was interrupted by Helgard von Eberich the father of the little girl that Turngut had killed in the arena.

he group then gave an update about what they learned from Gaunter O’Dimm to Jorek Bartarr, Constantine Firespark, and Tealor Arantheal. Tealor then sent the group to a Council of Eight meeting to present this information to the council. A lot of political intrigue happened but it all ended with the council sending Jespar, Lambert, and Ves to negotiate with some renegade elves in the Belt of Kile; and giving the group a job to try to stop the ever growing riots in the Undercity. The group travelled to the Undercity after defusing a situation at the main gate thanks to a partially drunk BobE. The group met with the leaders of the Guild of Beggars, Francis Bedlam, Ib the Bruiser, and Tinboy. The guild further informed the group of what's going on in the Undercity before pointing them toward two potential leads. A trouble maker named Ogald and the group's old nemesis The Butcher, aka William Brown. The group learned that during the War on the Lightborn Francis was in the same regiment as the Butcher, and during the war the Butcher took a really bad blow to the head which changed him. Francis informed the group that it would probably be more difficult to track down William but the group pursued this lead anyway. They were told to track down Trusty Patches, a seller of information who has recently gone into hiding due to the mute assassins who prowl the city now. The group was told that the only person who would know where Patches is located is a freelance thief called Greirat. The group then set out to find this Greirat in the Lower Burg of the city. Finding Greirat they chased him through the streets and nearly lost him but managed to catch him at the last moment. The halfling thief would lead the group to Patches who would give the group information about the Butcher who had been spotted exiting and leaving a warehouse very frequently. Coincidentally a tiefling named Otir Teauge also disappeared around the very same warehouse. The group went to the warehouse where they were shocked at the not outright violent guards who asked if they had a meeting with Mr. Tolstock. Poppo and Turngut went in to meet with Hobson Tolstock and very quickly discovered something wasn’t quite right. A fight ensued in which the group discovered that Hobson was a doppelganger. Many of the guards having just been regular guys doing their jobs surrendered and had no clue about Hobson being a doppelganger. The group then searched and found a secret passage leading down. After interrogating Hobson Tolstock the group learned that “Hobson” was really a doppelganger named Sikt and that the real Hobson Tolstock was killed and put in a barrel of acid. The group also learned that inside the crates and barrels of the warehouse are enough armor and arms to arm a large revolt in the Undercity. After a small moral dilemma it was decided that it would be better to kill Sikt. Before being executed the doppelganger said a single word “Vatyra” the word the Butcher said before he was rescued at his execution. The group then rested before moving to the area below the warehouse. They discovered that the tomb was ancient from the time when the Undercity was more well off. The tomb belonged to a family that Nalia recognized as the Beartildes but didn’t know much other than that. They searched the tomb until they came upon a child sized sarcophagi which they opened. They were then attacked by a spectre which drained some of the lifeforce away from Turngut and Nalia. Inside they found a doll that had the soul of a child trapped in that would bring great bad luck to whoever held it. The group continued on and started to hear the loud noise of someone being tortured, the group barged in and a tiefling hung upside down. The group assisted the tiefling Otir Teague while he hung upside down playing a violin. The group freed Teague and his dire badger Stigz and Teague shared that he was down here looking for treasure. He shared that he knows where it is and will share the spoils with the group fifty fifty. After some discussion the group agreed to Teague’s terms and the group battled a gargoyle before finding a good amount of treasure. Teague departed warning the group of what was under the stairs and wished them luck. Earlier Poppo had found a secret passage that led somewhere upon further investigation and encountering some traps the group came upon a door which warned them to not enter the room as great evil is laid to rest there, a great evil that wielded something known as “He Who Grins”. The group then interrogated one of the torturers and learned that the Butcher as well as the leader of the Vatyra, Queen Vatyra are somewhere inside this crypt. The group decided to leave it for now and continued on. And found that the next room was boarded up upon removing the boards and locking the door. The door opened on its own and for a brief moment they saw the lone rocking chair in the room move just a little. The group attempted to remove the chair from the room but it would not budge out the door. The group then relocked and reboarded up the room and continued on. Finding a room with a large number of stone guardians, Poppo was able to pull a stone and deactivate the guardians. The group then had a near tragic battle with some doppelganger rogues which nearly ended in the death of Poppo Hedgehopper who narrowly escaped death. The group then left the Beartilde Crypt seemingly searching all of it. The group returned to Putrid Grove and reported to Francis Bedlam. The group then rested and was rudely awoken by the halfling Greirat being hung in the middle of the grove. A note on his body stated that the Vatyra had tortured Greirat and used him to find the informant Trusty Patches. The note also challenged the group to a Dance of the Four Points. The note itself was written by the Vatyra leader Queen Vatyra. Francis informed the group that the Four Points is a place where gangs fight to establish who is at the top in the Undercity. However several years ago the four most prominent gangs in the Undercity made a treaty called the Big Four treaty which established a relative peace in the Undercity. The group set out for the battle at the four points and were met by Queen Vatyra, William “The Butcher '' Brown, Ogald the leader of the Hounds, and a brawler named Eanulf. The battle was difficult with many on both sides losing their lives. Ogald was the first notable person to be killed followed by Ib the Bruiser who was killed by the Butcher. Right after that however Turngut charged over and smashed in the Butcher’s head like a watermelon. But tragedy soon followed as Turngut was killed trying to get up to Queen Vatyra. Queen Vatyra fled and the battle was won despite terrible losses. More tragedy followed as Poppo follow Vatyra before disappearing no one knowing where he went.

During the Dance of the Four Points Turngut Ulgratch is killed.