The Fine Print

"The Fine Print" is the fifth episode of Regolus: Genesis.
==Official Description==
"It's tough to be a god.
500 years after their first visit down to Regolus, Ünen learns the extent of his deal with Kirrehan. The gods hear of the fire that's been burning the forest for 500 years and go to investigate. What they discover is something unexplainable and deeply terrifying."
== Plot ==
* Ur-Viraan and Fake-Ünen arrive at the tent where the other gods are. The tension and confusion are still noticeable but the room is quiet. Ünen steps forwards, quietly staring at Fake-Ünen, who whispers in their ear to have a little fun as he pretends that the real Ünen is just a Facsimile but Ünen is not appealed to it and activates their gravity well. Fake-Ünen offers to go to their quarters to talk more and as he starts to go, he has a hard time moving because of the gravity that is pulling them to Ünen. Tamsyn, still confused, asks Nevrik if he should be concerned but Nevrik tells him that they just have to figure out a few things. Hylan decides to go back home to tell someone about what just happened while the rest follows Fake-Ünen outside. Before he goes, Nevrik catches up with Tamsyn for a few more minutes, talking about purposes and what it means to be alive but Tamsyn also tells him about a fire in the woods near Hellathen and that he is worried about that all.
* The gods are escorted to the tree by the Golvhenn member of Nevricil that they met before. Ystävä casts prestidigitation to make little flowers and grass grow with every footstep they take. They arrive at the tree and go inside to this little platform that takes them upstairs. On the way, the gods check in on each other and they remember the bet Ünen made and that maybe this is all a part of that but Ünen makes clear that that is still no reason to have his identity stolen like that.
* The higher they go, the more obvious it gets that they enter a Demi-Plane of Kirrehan and are welcomed by a lot of birds and Fake-Ünen, who shifts their form back to Kirrehan after Ünen tells him to. The others get back into their normal form too instead of staying in their mortal form. Kirrehan explains that all of this was part of the bet and is written in his tome so it had to be done that Ünen helps with the Elves and because of Kirrehan’s deception, they did their deed. All they have to do now to stop this all is to pass down the title of “Elgariis”, Spirit Leader, to another individual. That means this individual would get access to the demi-plane that they are currently in but also more power for them. Kirrehan tells them that he, as “Ünen”, helped establish the Nevricīl but the one thing he worries about is the fire in the North that he was not able to control yet. He put an encampment there to deal with it but they are still working on it. Kirrehan also asks them to not tell Yla about it all but he is sure that Aldwyn knows already, like he always does. They also talk a bit more about the developments that happened down here on Regolus that the gods helped with and about this newer species, humans, that are out West. Kirrehan lets Ünen decide what to do next, who to pass the title on but Ünen is still resistant because the only goal was to guide them and not play such a big part in their lives. Additionally, Kirrehan confesses that he might have opened a doorway to another world, the realm of magic, that some individuals now have access to and he thinks about moving some folks there completely. It is the world from where Kirrehan takes his magic from and he keeps his information that way but doesn’t know much more about it yet. But they first have to figure out what exactly to do with the Ünen/Fake Ünen situation. They consider giving them a prophecy but Ünen wants the people to lead themselves with maybe Kirrehan as a third-party adviser but nothing more. To seal their decisions, Kirrehan writes them down in his book. The gods decide to go to the fire in the North first, that is seemingly alive and needs their attention.
* They godspeed near the encampment they heard about near the fire. Nevrik can almost feel the fire in the distance, almost like he has a connection with it. They go forth as they see the encampment but decide to keep going and not go talk to the people.
* Traveling on through burned woods, where Nevrik’s familiar feeling gets heavier and heavier, they arrive at a wasteland, a crater with a pool of flames and something like a swirling mass of slow-moving flames. They wonder if this is something that came through the door that Kirrehan opened and Nevrik jumps into the pit to find out more about it. He still feels the connection to it, calling out to it and asking what it is doing. As he does that, it flickers and gives out a pulse, just as an eye forms and a voice appears: “Why don’t I wake?” (02:17:50). It gets more and more angry but as Nevrik tries to calm it down, it stays angry and is instead evolving and growing from the fire form into a great dragon.
== Characters, Locations and Organizations ==
=== Player Characters ===
* Ünen
* Nevrik
* Ystävä
* Hylan (portrayed by Will)
=== NPCs ===
* Ur-Viraan
* Kirrehan
* Tamsyn
* unnamed Golvhenn member of the Nevricīl
=== Locations ===
* The Hearth
** World Beacon
** Starkeep
** Altarhold
** The Afterlife
** Phylaxis
** Mindbleed
* Regolus Prime
** Üthevhenan (Heart of God)
** Kirrehan's demiplane
** Hellathen
** The Heartwilds
=== Organizations ===
* Elgariis (Spirit Leader)
* Nevricīl
==References==