Campaign Timeline

The town was found empty of life, with no apparent cause

Shivaren, Deborah, Rakki, Mafaldine, Illalai and Hettie travelled west, skirting around the foothills of the northern jungle, heading for the distant chasm ruins. They found Levrin's Barter, a neutral trader, sacked by bandits, and stayed there before continuing. They located Maetica 's brother, a giant named Kanack, but found him fully under the "madness of crowds", a curse that plagues the giants, and were forced to put him down. They located the chasm ruins, and finding them mostly at the bottom of a waterfall ravine, went to climb down via the ruins at the top, but were set upon by kelpies. Making their way to the bottom and fighting off carnivorous plants, they found the crystal keys to unlock the ruins under the town, and fled when the Vulkoori drow arrived, making their way back home.

A team made of Voroc, Cornelius, Skarn, Illalai, Diiroehn and Ketsitsidis travelled below the Glass Anchor, discovering a vast staircase leading into a ruined Giant city underneath the town. They dealt with a pair of gargoyles, notes from the first settlers, and discovered recently activated constructs that marched them through the city. Exploring further below, they entered into a command structure filled with the constructs.

A team made of Shiv, Deborah, Rakki, Mafaldine, Illalai and Hettie delved underneath the statue by the harbour, unlocking a sealed door and discovering an ancient Giant laboratory built into an underground tower. Bypassing traps and unstable elementals, they looted the place of tools and supplies, found a diary from Lyndara, an ancient member of the The Sul'at League, and a path that connects it back into the complex under the city.

A party made from Voroc, Cornelius, Diiroehn, Illalai and Zellandria went down the flooded staircase with the aid of alchemical potions, finding a flooded infirmary, a huge, dark water-filled cavern, underwater streets, and an airtight elevator leading down to The Fires of Rebirth, a site for "honoured guests" of The Sul'at League

A party made of Elanora, Forge, Zellandria, Diiroehn, Verusa and Hettie took a cart, horses and went north-west, through the savanna and into the barrens in search of the Foundry of the Molten Gaze, and the dragonshard glass it contains. They returned dealing with a foundry full of undead, glass created themselves, and a deadly curse which Illalai cured.

Almost all of the town gathered together, organising a huge festival party to improve town morale and celebrate the holidays.

An expedition made of Elanora, Forge, Diiroehn, Rakki, Ket and Josie followed Elanora's historical research, discovering an ancient route taken through the Fearfrost mountains by escaping elven slaves in the days of the giants, and which could lead to a safer path over the mountains. They walked the pass, found the elven hideaway, and opened a Swift terminal at The Mendicant to return home.

A team made of Voroc, Zellandria, Cornelius, Ket and Josie traveled to and infiltrated the Scholar's Lodge, a Sulatar dangerous research site built into old Su'Lat League ruins. Finding extensive records of the Sulatar's plans, speaking to the image of Adaxus from somewhere beyond the world, confirming that they plan to use The Skybreaker to bring about an Age of Fire, and very narrowly escaping death at the hands of The Unburned, they escaped back to Beacon.

An expedition of Rakki, Ilalai, Deborah, Shiv, Ket and Mafaldine travelled to the Court in Exile, meeting the Archfey Lord Ashwind and learning more of the Sulatar's plans and the damage done to the land's spirit.   Discovering from the fey that the Sulatar were planning on summoning a phoenix, the party then raiding into the volcanic plains, preventing the ritual and foiling the Unburned's plans.

A team with Voroc, Cornelius, Forge, Zellandria, Elenora, Ilalai and Rakki descended into Khyber to visit The Maw, the ancient underground research facility. Fighting and killing the beholder which had turned it into a gallery, they recovered one of the Destiny Arms, found the site the first drow were created by the giants, and the body of Lyndara.

A hunting party was created of Voroc, Ket, Diiroehn, Mafaldine, Zellandria and Josie, launching an expedition down into the ruined Manufactory below the town. There, they found and defeated the ancient behir known as the Delver, finding another route down below and leaving the ruins safer for travel.

Following up the attempts to create a druidic circle capable of healing the land, Rakki, Ilalai, Deborah, Thren and Shiv joined together to search for Archdruid Rahva, the self-exiled Vulkoori leader. Tracking her to the ancient mining facility of Titan's Folly, they found that the site had been used to mine Lamannia, the plane of untapped nature, and Rahva had travelled through the portal there to live on the plane instead of the mortal world. After discovering the Sulatar had beaten them there and stolen the Heart of the Wilds that powered the portal, the party jury-rigged the portal open temporarily and raced through to find Rahva.   They discovered the Archdruid, convinced her to return to her people, and persuaded the Vulkoori speakers to take her back as a spiritual leader. Rahva then persuaded her people to accept one day of working with their ancient enemies for the good of the land, completing the druidic circle needed to cleanse the curse.

Deciding to take action against the recently discovered Riedran military force on the islane, Elenora, Forge, Diiroehn and Ilalai grouped together and snuck into the encampment called Dar Zash. Bypassing guards from the Riedran's Harmonius Sail, they fought and killed several of Akatash's vessels to steal the Riedran flagship, The Ties That Bind. Fighting off a counterattack to take the ship back, the team from Beacon prevailed, depriving their enemy of an important asset, and claiming it ready for use against the swimming, undead dragon guarding the Forge of Hours.

Diirohen, Elenora, Forge and Hettie travel to Sharn, chasing down Abria d'Cannith who has uncovered secrets of dangerous artificing that Beacon is trying to keep hidden. They track her down, find she has been scrying on Boris, and destroy her lab before she can ruin the town's inquest interviews and reveal their secrets.

Cornelius, Zell, Threnode and Rakki are caught up in House politics, managing attempted business dealings from Houses Cannith and Orien. Unknowingly foiling Kwanti d'Orien's assassination attempt on House Lyrandar's baron wins them some good will, and they get through their interview with only moderate incidents, but with promises made and tensions high.

Looking at their promised reward by the Houses be taken away - the reward for stopping the Skybreaker and saving the people of Westport - Beacon hatched a plan. Travelling to Fairhaven in Aundair, Zellandria, Diiroehn, Adalror, Hettie, Josephine and Threnode engaged in an afternoon of bank fraud, walking away with a vast sum of money that should have been rightfully theirs, and the wrath of House Kundarak.

Hearing that Adaxus intended to recruit a distant town of cloud giants to his cause, a party of Elenora, Forge, Cornelius, Ilalai and Rakki travelled to the Kleos Aquifer on the distant barrier island.   Finding the scattered township and fields under the grip of a plague, they negotiated with the giant empress, travelling into the aquifer to find the source of the disease and remove it.

Hearing that Adaxus intended to recruit an isolated tribe of necromantic stone giants, Deborah, Rakki, Ilalai, Shiv and Adalror sailed south to the delta of the Kraken River, and trekked inland to stop Adaxus' plans.   Finding the ambassador partially successful, and learning the area was under the sway of an ancient giant calling themselves Relic, they liberated a village from a vampiric giant overseer, then turned on the master.   After a vicious battle in his lair, the party killed the vampire Relic, and rescued Sebrak from becoming a sacrifice. Leaving the region in turmoil as vampiric minions scrambled for power, they retreated knowing Adaxus would not have his undead and necromancer allies.

Looking to Adaxus and his plans of conquest, Forge, Elenora, Diiroehn and Ilalai used stealth to scout out the giant's base at the old oasis to the north of the town. Sneaking inside, they ruined the giant's food supply, stopped a storm giant's attempt to resurrect an old giant champion, and escaped Adaxus's retaliation with a hasty escape.

The Scar That Abides regained consciousness, and the overlord immediately brought his full attention onto Beacon, driving the entire town along with Adalror, Josie, Deborah, Voroc and Hettie into vengeful fury.    While the Scar sought to bring the town down from the inside with distant power, those staying in town travelled to the Umbragen drow, experts at warding against fiends. They found the underground fiends surging in power, and fought back an attack on their town. The Umbragen then worked with the party, teaching them wards effective against the Scar, and Ilalai used a shard of the Scar's former prison to power a greatward, shielding the entire town from the Scar's distant attention.

Seeking magic to help protect against the Scar's influence, Zell, Hettie, Cornelius, Voroc, Deborah and Ket teleported to the abandoned Sapphire Observatory, finding it a Giant research site into Far Realm magic.    After an accident of magic and artifice, the party found their souls pulled free, and replaced into the wrong bodies. Traversing the ruined facility, they dealt with the body-swap, handled a mess of diplomatic Sendings, and found the protective magic they needed, before locating the mad herald overseeing the base and using his artifice to return to their correct bodies.

The town sought the help of the Umbragen to explore a wealthy, fiend-infested cave network on the surface of Khyber. With Munokhoi, a team of Deborah, Rakki, Ket, Hettie and Adalror delved into the caves, finding it rich with dragonshards but also containing a tunnel into the Scar That Abide's personal domain of The First Wound.    Within, they gathered critical information about the Scar's domain and its threats, found great wealth to help the town, and slayed a rakshasa who had apparently freed the Scar's new exarch from this place some 15 years prior. They left as the threat of the domain became clear, dozens of vengeful demons coming to kill them for the tresspass.