Starkeep

"Starkeep" is the eighth episode of Regolus: Genesis.
==Official Description==
"It's tough to be a god.
It's a godly shopping episode. Come chill!"
== Plot ==
=== Part 1 ===
* Nevrik and Ünen find themselves back at the World Beacon and Nevriks tells Ünen about their new followers. Ystävä is not with them at the moment but they can feel them in a different part of the Hearth. While they are talking, Yla’s voice appears, telling them to meet her in Starkeep. 
* In the time Ünen was gone, he spoke to his direct superior.
* Arriving in Starkeep, Yla is waiting for them. She asks them if they intended to do what they did, to mimic her work or if it was just flattery. What the gods did down on Regolus brought more power into the Hearth but they also created divinity (“plant a seed beyond the boundaries of the realms”) and that falls beyond Yla’s grasp. But more importantly, Yla wants to know what they did in the forest so they tell her about what they did with the flame incarnation. Yla wonders if it was not them who created it, what it is that sparks with the light of the divine beings there now and encourages them to seek out the roots at some point before she leaves.
* Nevrik and Ünen decide to go to the Sunforge, where they meet Dami-Yno. He tells them that everything he creates has to have a meaning and he uses concentrated ether for his creations and other components they would like to give him to thoroughly connect the creation to its owner.
** Nevrik asks him for some new armor, so Dami-Yno wants to know what he would like it to mean. And so the Bindings of Passion are created for Nevrik, armor that channels the elements and is one with them but also evokes emotion. If Nevrik brings more components to Dami-Yno, he can include them afterwards to improve the connection.
** Ünen gets a new weapon that should represent the binding of all things to each other. The Ties that Bind is the name they choose and it can also be improved if they bring Dami-Yno more materials.
* Dami-Yno also shows interest in Ünen’s shield, as he can feel no Ether in it and normally everything is made out of it. Ünen tells him he received it from Uro and it is a part of him. Dami-Yno finds that very fascinating and would like to take a look at it sometime soon. He also offers the gods to make them more if they need anything else but Nevrik and Ünen leave his space for the time being.
=== Part 2 ===
* While they still feel Ystävä in their domain, Nevrik and Ünen decide to visit Nevrik’s domain to try to find out more about the Spark/Gemstone and maybe its connection to the elements. As Nevrik lets his consciousness flow, he receives a vision about a big, inverted looking tree with roots reaching upwards where the canopy should be and five lights between them (red, blue, green, white, black) that glint once before fading out, only the red one staying a moment longer, almost looking like the familiar shape of the eye/red gemstone, before it fades away too. Nevrik and Ünen think that it is almost like some sort of inverse, upside down dimension. 
* They decide to gather Ystävä and go down to Regolus again to seek out the 4 individuals they were told about, so they knock on Ystävä’s door.
== Characters and Locations ==
=== Player Characters ===
* Ünen
* Nevrik
=== NPCs ===
* Yla
* Dami-Yno
=== Locations ===
* The Hearth
** World Beacon
** Starkeep
** Sunforge
** Altarhold
*** Nevrik's Domain
==References==