Aerois - Chapter Four: No Rest for the Wicked

Katie Morrison as Aila

 Kim Richards as Nova V'ger

 Rhiannon Frost as Sentry

 Tom Hazell as Qillek Ad Khollar

**No Rest for the Wicked** is the fourth chapter of the Aerois campaign. It was broadcast live on both the Yogscast Twitch channel and highrollersdnd Twitch channel between 13th January and 3rd March 2019, and consists of eight episodes.

*The gang settle into Kalie's Rest; a town full of life, religion and Spell Clash tournaments!*

## Summary

Kalie’s Rest is the second largest city in this region of the continent of Suvonna. The party meets with the local Field Warden Milika Dawnblessed, before splitting up. Quill, Nova, and Lucius visit the Wayspire, the centre of the messenger service run by the Aarakocran Messenger’s Guild. Sentry meets up with Tracker and Scout, and Aila meets up with an Orcish priest covered in storm tattoos similar to her own, called Kalu Otoma. Kalu is a priest of Zephyr, god of the sea and storms, and he challenges Aila to a fight, which she loses by a narrow margin. As she lies unconscious, Aila meets Zephyr who tells her that the answers are close, and that there is an Elf in the local Abbey (Brightflame Abbey) with similar abilities to her.

Nova, Quill, and Lucius go shopping and meet a kind but ditzy Centaur named Rosemeadow, and learn about the latest sports craze, Spell Clash. They go to watch a match and, finding that this is a non-lethal spellcasting duel that is very exciting, Quill and Lucius decide to become contestants, both of them winning their first bouts. Meeting up later with Milika Dawnblessed, they tell her about their exploits so far, especially the events in Ironwick. She warns them about the dark energy coming from Nightfrost but lets them stay in town. They go to the local Temple of H’esper where Dean Simon, seeing Nightfrost, tells them more about the Eterna - they are powerful beings ruled over by The Triumvirate (three powerful Eterna, one of whom is Tiangong). He tells Nova that shards of Tiangong could be recovered from all over Aerois and that binding them to her existing sword could make it incredibly powerful.

People from the Abbey demand that Dean Simon come to the Abbey on the orders of the Abbottess, but the party resists them. Unfortunately, Dean Simon’s tower is burned down in the fight. The party learns in the morning that the kindly old Abbott has died during the night and been replaced by the Abbottess and the worshippers of Palador. A mysterious Guardian, Breeze, makes himself known to them; he is aware of a Guardian, Tracker, who is nearing the end of his life, but Breeze knows the secret to extending it. He is willing to save Tracker’s life if the party is willing to help him and invites them to meet him at the mausoleum in town. Breeze has captured an Ashbringer, a dangerous cultist of Palador, and one of the Abbottess’ bully boys around town; he is prepared to syphon the life out of the zealot to give it to Tracker, and even begins the ritual before Sentry stops him. Once she does so, Tracker’s lights dim, and he powers down for the last time. The group fights Breeze but he escapes.

The Abbottess makes a public speech denouncing the actions of the Ashbringers and praising the party. That night, Quill dreams of H’esper, sees the town in flames and a woman in chains in the middle of a doorway, trapped and surrounded by fire. They tell Milika about Quill’s vision, and she hires them to get into the Abbey to investigate – the doors have been shut for a three-day mourning period, but she suspects that many priests and priestesses who have mysteriously gone missing have been taken there against their will.

Lucius sends Nightfrost, and during his reconnaissance he discovers many of the missing clergy being held in underground dungeons at the Abbey. The party and Valla break into the Abbey successfully, but in having to fight multiple waves of enemies Nova is knocked unconscious, and Sentry is killed. The rest of them are captured and taken to the underground dungeon and incarcerated with those they had come to free.

The party is taken to a dark chamber which houses an Archway, an old method of planar travel, where the Abbottess interrogates them. She discovers and destroys Nightfrost before operating the Archway and revealing Charrydis the Ashbringer, an Archfiend who had been disguising himself as Palador to trick the Abbottess. Charrydis drags the Abbottess into his realm before Valla reveals herself and activates the portal to open a different door, this one to Kalus Starbane, leader of the Valkyrian Empire and enemy of Aerois. Starbane comes through the portal, recognises Valla as his daughter, and agrees to release the party if Valla will come with them. She reluctantly agrees.

Starbane gives the party a fragment of a star which should be powerful enough to bring Sentry back to life if they are quick enough, then teleports them away from the Abbey to a beach somewhere far from Kalie’s Rest.

## Major NPCs

List of major NPCs encountered in this chapter.