Session 125

Synopsis
==Summary==
The party is attacked by a dozen or so rabbits. When spells are casts, they are more powerful and somewhat uncontrollable, causing some minor rebound. They also discover that Belxari can't cast any spells. Though wary, they continue forward, flying toward the archway that Belle had seen in the distance. They find the archway leads to a tunnel, which has signs of having had people there recently. 
The tunnel is cleanly carved, the ceiling covered in a softly glowing white moss. There are further signs of former occupation, including crude weapons, furniture, and bedrolls. Belxari seems to recognize a set of armor inside, but dismisses it. Kiono notes that it seems like someone seems to have been there recently, the sparse decorations indicating it might be someone's home. Teer opens a door further along the tunnel, leading to a circular chamber with a raised bit of some sort I'm sorry. On the far wall is a stone face. Sitting next to the face is a sleeping old dragonborn who has a beard made of hair. They wake him and discover that he is Darius, one of Belxari's old traveling companions. Darius explains that the stone face is the God Forge, but that the party has to retrieve a flame from further up the mountain in order to light it. He recommends going at night, as there is a nearby dragon who might notice the flame traveling during the day. They pass the afternoon playing various games—Teer and Esteem playing a horrible game of Skipbo with Darius, and Kiono and Belle playing a game of chess before Kiono makes a Selective Silence spell scroll. 
As evening falls, the party begins to hike up the mountain. The sun only dims to a twilight brightness rather than darkening fully, no stars in the sky, only the other side of the world. As they reach the top of the mountain where they find a stone statue of a man with the head and neck of a serpent and eyes of rubies. At the base of the statue is a bowl of white-hot flame. They approach with torches made from the local foliage, but the flame forms into a visage who calls them trespassers. The entity declares them enemies, as they are the children of the Betrayer, while the denizens of the Inner are those of Aganja. After a brief fight with the elemental, it explains that Aganja gave them life, but was betrayed and so they were forced into the Inner. It then fizzles out, leaving the fire in the bowl. They gather some of it, and return down the mountain to the God Forge. Darius uses one of the torches to light the forge, and the fire spreads until the stone face awakens. The face greets them as the children of Azal. 
The forge agrees to tell the story of Azal and Aganja. They were brothers from ancient times, possessing of immense power. They bent the primordial chaos into creation. Azal was lazy and uninterested until Aganja finished his work. The creatures of the Inner were the original inhabitants of the planet, unchanging through time in their perfection. Azal usurped Aganja's position, trapping Aganja's creations inside. Azal took on the name Progenitus and also credit for Aganja's work. 
Souls that are collected by Lysaro are occasionally dealt out to their respective afterlives, but eventually they are broken down, but the fate of the soul stuff is unknown to most people; Lysaro is the only one who knows. The God Forge explains that the soul stuff becomes recycled into the life in the Inner, and then eventually recycled again to the planet's surface, continuing the cycle of life. 
In order to create the Thingy, one must offer the body, blood, and spirit of the Thingy they wish to make. In Kiono's case, the body or form is the staff, the blood or power is the "energetic little crystal," and the spirit is an item which indicates the Thingy's purpose. Kiono offers the hag stone that Kiki gave her as the spirit. The Forge explains that it will take a couple of hours to digest the items to create the Thingy. 
== NPCs ==
=== Introduced ===
* Darius (returning from campaign one)
* The God Forge
=== Returning ===
* Belxari
=== Mentioned ===
* Aganja
* Azal (later Progenitus)
*Lysaro
==Items==
*Scroll of Selective Silence (created by Kiono)