Brighthorn (episode)

"Brighthorn" is the tenth episode of Regolus: Genesis.
==Official Description==
"It's tough to be a god.
The village of Brighthorn is hiding something. The Gods enter the settlement under false pretenses and attempt to find out why these people matter so much to the future of Regolus. Everything seems off. What will they discover deep beneath the Church of Sacrifice?
== Plot ==
=== Part 1 ===
* The group is welcomed by the villagers of Brighthorn and walks through the town. Ünen looks around to see the different Islands and areas around whereas Ystävä and Nevrik scan the area for the two missing faces that they are looking for and realize that the little girl they were looking for might be older now. Īlread says Goodbye to them after the gods decide to stay on the Island overnight. Another thing that they notice is that it smells pretty bad on these Islands. 
* Ystävä decides to talk to the older individual that greeted them who is sitting in front of the steeple and ask about the other faces they are looking for and he tells them the name “Luna” that could fit to one of the descriptions. But he is wondering why they are looking for Luna and asks if they are with the guild, which Ystävä confirms. Hearing that, the individual offers them to find a place to sleep for them and talk later. Meanwhile, Ünen practices to walk but fails rather quickly at the new task but Nevrik stops him and promises to teach him later.
* As they come together, the old individual introduces himself as Tyroh, the Horned Shaman, the guiding star of the Order of Sacrifice that serves the great Aurelius, Saint of Sacrifice, before he leads them into the Great House (House of Blessed Sacrifice). There, they see another individual who is praying in front of the altar who they will get to know as Godwin later. They follow Tyroh into a chamber where they can stay for the night. They ask about the two other faces again that they are looking for and Tyroh is happy to provide information as long as the appropriate exchange is made. The last individual is called Eui, she has changed but there is still hope. Tyroh tells them that they are so close to the original dream and don’t want to put more stress on her so maybe the group could help. The gods are able to convince Tyroh to tell them about the plan that they are supposed to know as a part of the guild but they pretend that Ünen, or in this context Nüen, is still in training and does not know all the information yet. 
* Tyroh tells them that the people of this town showed worship after seeing what they could do with the help of their Saint, but they received so little response from them and things began to fall apart. Only after Eui’s dreams began, everything seemed to change. A gift, it seems, that helped them find their path when no one else answered. They have to make sure that the events she dreamed of happen as described and that the star will fall and they asked the guild for resources to help them, which he hopes the “guild members” brought with them. The gods ask to speak to Luna and Eui but Tyroh tells them that it is difficult/not possible to speak to Eui as she is housed beneath the House of Blessed Sacrifice, tethered there for her own sake. They decide to speak to Luna first but Tyroh tells them it might be best to wait till the morning for that as she is busy dealing with what happens after sundown. In the night, the plague that has riddled them for so long has gotten better but is still not fully gone and affects the formerly living more instead of the living. Luna and her cohorts deal with them on the southern Isle each night. That is also the reason why it smells so bad here. Ystävä asks if they ever reached out to another god when theirs didn’t answer and Tyroh tells them about the individual they saw praying, Godwin, who follows another god that seems to be fruitful. Godwin is a protector for the people on this island and they ask to speak to him too in the morning. After that, Tyroh leaves them alone for the night to speak to Īlread about the resources they brought but asks them to keep quiet about what they just talked about. 
* As soon as he is gone, Ystävä transforms into Īlread and goes to catch Tyroh before he can speak to the real one. Tyroh asks about the materials they need and Ystävä assures him that they will get them on the island by sunrise. Ystävä also tells him that they might have to postpone their plans if anything is out of place but Tyroh is not sure if Eui’s body will withstand another failed attempt. As they go out the door, Ystävä can see the real Īlread standing not far away so they use one of their abilities to incept a thought into his mind so Ystävä can get away without a problem. 
* Nevrik and Ünen leave the room as well but lock the door with their magic beforehand. They each find a space to keep watch as the sun goes down.
* Ystävä transforms their form again before they go and find Godwin, who is finishing up his prayer to Yla at this moment. As they start talking to each other, Ystävä takes off their hood and Godwin drops to his knees right away, flabbergasted about the divine being he sees in front of him (Yla). Godwin assures them that everything will go as planned. When Ystävä asks him if he ever hears the voice of Uro when he prays, he answers that he will “not pray to those beneath you”, meaning Yla. They tell him that they send others to help and that they will stand beside him. Before Ystävä disappears, they imbue him with a blessing.
* As the night falls, the air gets colder and colder. Starting from the southernmost isle, tendrils of gaseous mass, of fog, begin to spread and the sound of a small child weeping begins to echo through the night. Besides that, everything else goes still.
=== Part 2 ===
* Ystävä godspeeds to Eui after their conversation with Godwin as the connection to the other gods cuts off. Godwin prepares himself to protect the town from whatever is about to happen at nighttime with new motivation after his divine encounter. To get to a better advantage point, Ünen transforms into their animal form, a jetblack owl, and makes their way to the southern isle while Nevrik turns into his pegasus form and concentrates more on the main isle. They both can see more and more semi-humanoid structures being formed out of the small pillars of fog, more so on the southern than on the main, where they are taking on featureless, fully fledged bipedal forms that make their way to the main island. Ünen can sense a source of life below the ground and breaks the earth apart, revealing more and more buried bodies, all of them still alive.
* Ystävä lands in a passageway and follows it till they reach a chamber, the air in there shimmering from the plates of stars on the walls. In the center of the chamber is an emaciated floating person, fixated above the ground with completely rolled back white eyes. Ystävä tries to reach their friends but feels that the connection does not work down here. Instead, she reaches out to Eui to cast Greater Restoration whereupon Eui awakes, confused and scared. Ystävä reassures her that they are here to help, set her free and stop what is happening. Then they cast Sleep to give the girl some more rest before dispelling the invisible chains that hold her afloat and with them the plates of stars on the walls that fall to the ground. With that action, not only the connection to the other gods is back but the ground on the islands begins to shudder and rumble and the wisps gather back on the southern isle where they start to change somehow, connecting with each other.
* Ystävä calls Midnight and Hylan to get to Brighthorn as soon as possible to help them with what is happening here, to which both agree, before they teleport Eui and themselve to the attic of the steeple and seal the entrance shut so nobody unapproved can get in. The last thing they see before teleporting away from the chamber is a woman stepping in who is identified as the last face they were looking for, Luna.
* Nevrik can still see Godwin shouting orders and making his way to the southern isle so Nevrik follows him to see what he is planning to do, while the southern isle is still falling apart. Ünen, seeing this, changes into his full god form and separates the southern island into fragments, isolating the bodies and the earth. Nevrik gets Godwin out of the way to save him from the collapse and they fly up in the air. 
* Ünen, angry from what is happening, teleports Tyroh into his hand and grabs him by his throat, but it is not the person they have seen before. Instead of the old man, he now looks like a younger looking individual that just says: “So it begins”, as he stares up at the bodies in the sky, blinded by the godly presence. Ünen demands to know the meaning behind it all, whereas Tyroh answers that the stars rotate and will fall and they will gladly give themselves for such a fate.
== Characters, Locations and Organizations ==
=== Player Characters ===
* Ünen
* Nevrik
* Ystävä
=== NPCs ===
* Īlread
* Tyroh
* Godwin
* Eui
* Luna
* Midnight (portrayed by Will for a single answer)
* Hylan (portayed by Will for a single answer)
=== Locations ===
* Regolus Prime
** Brighthorn
*** House of Blessed Sacrifice
=== Organizations ===
* Order of Sacrifice
==References==