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30. 06/27/2020 Session Writeup

## Session Summary

As the party leaves the caves, they run into three other possible recruits for the Order of Enarei.  They try to threaten the party into giving up their loot, but it doesn't work out in their favor.  The Thundering Jaimar camp for the night, telling stories, and make it back to HorseCon mid-morning. It comes out that while Tami is planning to join the Order of Enarei, Zuza is not. Tami heads back to the Order of Enarei with proof that she indeed was in the dragon's lair, and runs into the other potential recruits.  With the party backing her up, other recruits are chased off, and Tami gets to join.

Then it's time for shopping!  Taer goes and buys some horses with Paolo and Astrid, Masina purchases a dog - and also checks in with the Blank Scroll and tells them the information she heard from Kultrini beforehand.  Lu goes and purchases a drift orb for Paolo and also ends up with a bracelet of independence.  In the evening, Paolo walks around and finds a curious ceremony that is supposed to help replenish someone's magic potential - but when he questions the practitioner, the practitioner becomes closed off and all but runs away.
Datvig

A picture of Datvig, a brown bear.

## Description

Datvig is a brown bear. You could refer to him as Zuza's bear, but Datvig prefers to think of it as a cooperative partnership.

## Player Interactions

The players met Datvig when they met Zuza. They haven't paid much attention to Datvig, but Datvig has paid attention to them.

Astrid bonded with Datvig during Horsecon, as Datvig was happy to have someone to talk to about all of the teenage drama he has to deal with.

## Featured Sessions

10. 07/21/2018 Session Writeup - A bear. Grumpy. Easily bribed by rations.  Has nice armor, for a bear.

11. 08/18/2018 Session Writeup - Bear.  Prefers to stay outside of town. Not really intense about anything, except maybe snacks

12. 09/22/2018 Session Writeup - Bear.  Not fond of cities, but doesn't like get kicked out of places.  Likes "Chester" for some reason

13. 10/12/2018 Session Writeup - Bear.   Surprisingly good cuddler.  On his way to Valkat

28. 04.10.2020 - A bear. Likes Zuza. So far, the outer tree ring in the emotional caring diagram. Could use someone to talk to.

29 05/08/2020 Session Writeup - Didn't die! Is a bear.

30. 06/27/2020 Session Writeup - Zuza's emotional support bear and good friend.  Might also be a ninja by proxy.

31. 07/11/2020 Session Writeup - Going to stick with Zuza. Still a bear.
13. 10/12/2018 Session Writeup

## Session Summary

The party was gathered looking out the window onto the courtyard when they heard a loud POP from behind them.  They turned around to investigate the noise - Lu noted it came from the bedroom, but also that the figure that represented Sarantium was missing from Tahir's table.  Masina, Lu, and Taer searched the bedroom - while they found some trinkets and a book on Kartvelia, they did not find Tahir. Paolo and Farideh made their way into the contract room and with Masina's help, opened the safe.  They found three tall bookcases filled with contracts - some of which with Angels and Demons, some with creatures from the prime material plane. The contracts with humans included donations to institutions, donations from noble houses, and paying women to have children with extraplanar blood.  The contracts with the extraplanar beings seemed to be focused on giving up their parental rights to the Path of Emanence.

At Zuza's request, Lu contacted Sophia with news of what happened at Kvari Keep using a postcard.  Sophia responded telling the dragonborn to return back to Melikov's Rest through Valkat.

Masina and Taer went down to the courtyard and talked to the angel and the devil that were discussing the loopholes in their contracts with Britni.  Masina convinced the two very powerful extraplanar creatures to help them destroy the rest of the areas controlled by the Path of Emanence. However, after realizing that most of these places are in populated areas, they decided that there should be some ground rules.  The angel quickly agreed and the devil gave them a week to come up with the terms. The angel requested a personal item so he could make contact later, and Taer gave him her fake bear-fur beard. Masina also convinced Temitah and Dithas to collect the information in the keep before destroying it.

Farideh, Zuza, and Taer went down to search the basement - but not before Farideh realized that "Chester" was a Firbolg.  "Chester" explained that he was just here because of the Keep's wards causing issues with fey migration patterns and agreed to stay around while they continued searching the keep.  Downstairs they find the log book for the experiments. Zuza takes the log book to show to Melikov as proof. As they are leaving Taer blows up the basement and the keep's inner buildings.  Farideh eventually lets "Chester" go, but not before asking him for some stuff. He gives her some hallucinogenic mushrooms.

Zuza, Tami, and Datvig headed to Valkat, while Temitah and Dithas discussed their plans with the rest of the party.  Temitah revealed that they are likely to try to use some of the information gathered for an event in two days - and Masina remembered that this coincides with Professor Zaur's debate.  Fearing the possibility of violence, the party tried to convince Temitah to stop whatever is planned with Professor Zaur. Temitah refuses, but agrees to leave peacefully. However, while the party was focused on Temitah, Dithas stole some of the evidence from their cart.  Taer caught her and killed her with one guiding bolt. Temitah turned into a bear to try to fight the party, but he was also killed.
22. 09/27/2019 Session Writeup

## Session Summary

The party spends the night in the ever-more cramped guild room; though Lu wakes up early to get some crafting time to work on some special enamel pins.  Astrid joins her for a while, but doesn't join in.

The group goes down to meet with Vira, where they find out three things:  the ghost ship never made it back to port, that Eliso Levan was behind the ghost ship, and the gates of the city were now open (if a little crowded).  Paolo and Taer help out at the travelling temple one more time while Astrid and Lu head to the Blacksmith and look for food with Masina. Eventually, everyone meets back to meet with Ilya Goga to get their reward from the Queensguard. Ilya really doesn't want to know more information, but feels like she should so she can prepare.  She also drafts an amendment to their contract to add Astrid, and mentions it might be a good idea to get out of town. Taer talks the party into heading over the mountains to attend the meeting of all of the northern nomadic tribes.

Then it's time for more shopping! One more trip to the blacksmith, the general store, the temples of Set and Qveri, the dragonborn quarter, and a good number of food stalls.  Horses retrieved and cart acquired, the party meets up once more to head out.
Ottilia Bengtsson

## Description

Author, entrepenuer, and owner of Ottilia's Nook, a bookstore in Sarantium. Ottilia uses Ukka (and stories about followers of Ukka) to try to empower young women and enrich herself, possibly not in that order.

## Party Interactions

Taer originally saw a poster advertising Ottillia's book in an adventurer's tavern by the docks. A few days later, she, Lu, and Astrid went to investigate Ottilia's Nook and met Ottilia in person, where she revealed she was a follower of Ukka. Ottilia talked Taer into purchasing Ottillia's book, offering her a free one-on-one session.

## Featured Sessions

36. 11/20/2020 Session Writeup: Bookstore
Owner and self-help guru. Will fight you, but might charge you for it.
Professor Zaur

## Description

Professor Zaur is a teacher of history and alchemy at the bard college in Kotumi. She was attacked by the Divine Right, stealing her materials to sabotage a planned debate and threatening her position at the college.

## Player Interactions

The players met with Professor Zaur after she put up a notice asking for help on an attack on Science. She explained her issue - that her notes on the works of Kel of Myev were stolen.

The players met with Melikov, Kel of Myev's research partner, but found him not willing to give his version or recreate the notes. When Farideh reported that Melikov wants her work destroyed, the conversation went south. Zaur kicked the group out of the office, but Masina convinced Tami and Zaur to talk, and Tami gave Zaur some information.

Later, the party found Zaur's notes in Dithas's bag of holding, and returned the notes to her. They also warned her that the Divine Right was looking to start something at the the debate.

## Featured Sessions

05. 02/09/2018 Session Writeup

06. 04/07/2018 Session Writeup

11. 08/18/2018 Session Writeup

14. 11/10/2018 Session Writeup
Ferhat

## Description

Ferhat is Liviana's assistant at the Sarantine Fighting Pits. They seem to be there to gauge the abilities of any adventurers that might want to fight, and put them in fights that would be challenging but interesting for them.

## Player Interactions

Ferhat sized the party up upon their first visit to the Sarantine Fighting Pits.

## Featured Sessions.

38. 1/15/2021 Session Writeup: Half elf, Liviana's assistant. Sized you up and seems to know what's what. NPC least likely to sing
Karlheinz Flater

Karlheinz Flater, a dwarf's dwarf.

## Description

Karlheinz Flater is an older Dwarven fighter, and very much a Dwarven Fighter. Just imagine your stock image of a dwarven fighter, and you've got it. He's traveling with an elf and a human in Sarantium.

## Party Interactions

Astrid ended up talking to Karlheinz while trying to find information on the Path of Emanence. He invited her to join him and his party the next day as they went to the noble houses looking for mercenary work.

## Featured Sessions:

33. 09/11/2020 Session Writeup: Dwarven Adventurer. Bordar's cousin (whoever that is). Older. Just a simple dwarf man with simple dwarf murder hobo needs.
Zoe

A picture of an impossibly beautiful elf with perfect hair and impossible clothes

## Description

Zoe is an elven priestess of Sune, with refined tastes, extremely well tailored clothes, and perfect hair. She seems pleasant enough.

## Party Interactions

Zoe greeted the group and they arrived via teleportation circle in Sarantium. Lu presented her with the portrait of Sune as a half-orc, which she gratefully accepted. Paolo asked her about using her teleportation circle, but said that he would need a sponsor from within the temple - which she was willing to do for them, if they'd take care of a small problem for her.

It turns out that the small problem was a corpse flower in the basement of the temple. The party got rid of the flower and are planning to re-bless the basement to prevent future incursions.

## Featured Sessions

32. 08/07/2020: Priestess of Sune.  Incredible robes, less high def than the last elf, but incredibly glamorous.

37. 12/13/2020 Session Writeup: Head Priestess of Sune in Sarantium. Not great with stank. Willing to dole out advice.

39. 2/6/2021 Session Writeup: High Priestess of Sune.  Currently helping her with the rat problem in her basement. Kind of.

41. 4/9/2021 Session Writeup: High Priestess of Sune, apparently not great with names

47. 09/25/2021 Session Writeup: Priestess of Sune. Would like you to invest in the arts.
Liviana

Liviana seems to be in charge of adventurer intake at the Sarantium fighting pits. She's a old elf with a number of scars and a general no-nonsense demeanor. She seems to care about the adventurer's wellbeing, and hates Eobard the Smiling for taking advantage of new adventurers.

## Player Interactions

Taer and Astrid approached Liviana to find out more about the Sarantine fighting pits. Liviana vented her spleen about her thoughts on the current state of affairs for mercenary work for the Sarantium nobility, but also provided the current prizes available for adventurers.

## Featured Sessions

38. 1/15/2021 Session Writeup: Older elven woman, has seen some shit. Works at the fighting pits. Has strong opinions on the youth, disloyalty, not paying folks an honest wage for an honest days work. NPC most likely to know a union song.

45. 07/31/2021 Session Writeup: More of a dirtbag granny than anything, runs the fighting pits, would definitely be into killing Eobard.
25. 1/17/2020 Session Writeup

## Session Summary

The party emerged from underground to end up in the northern foothills of the greater Pencheti mountains.  That night, they avoided using some of the more recently used campsites, but still found themselves attacked by horse-thieves in the middle of the night.

The next morning, they noticed some hawks acting as scouts in the area.  Taer recognizes them as likely belonging to a trading horse tribe that operates further southeast from her mother's tribe's area (nearish Real Life Turkmenistan/eastern Iran). They try to avoid contact with the hawks and the tribe, and the next day is quiet, until the storms.

The next afternoon, they get attacked by a young blue dragon, which ends up eating their cart and killing their horses. The party does manage to kill the dragon in the end, and ends up managing to get some impressive items off of the carcass.
Praetor Anthos

## Description

Praetor Anthos is one of the most powerful beings in Sarantium. It is unclear how long he has been Praetor, or how long he has been in Sarantium at all. He has the same sort of eerie sharpness to him that all fey creatures seem to have.

## Party Interactions

The party met the Praetor at an auction, after they accidentally won a chance for lunch with him. He seemed to be able to see through illusions, and took special interest in Masina.

## Featured Sessions

43. 06/04/2021 Session Writeup: High ranking member of the Imperial Court, apparently high def, maybe receptive to the Emperor? Or vice versa?

44. 06/26/2021 Session Writeup: Hi def. Has the ear to the Emperor, and a lunch appointment with you.

45. 07/31/2021 Session Writeup: High def. Important Can see you. The real you.

47. 09/25/2021 Session Writeup: Technically not in this session, but sure talked about a lot. Do not mess.
26. 2/08/2020 Session Writeup

## Session Summary

After the fight with the blue dragon, the party took what they could, mourned the horses (or at least Astrid did), and set off walking.  After a few hours, they saw a gnomish house in the distance. Pooling their knowledge together (and possibly asking a friend), they determined it was probably some sort of poorly disguised portal. The Thundering Jaimar give the house a wide berth.

The next day, the party see the same hawks that they saw a few days ago circling above - Lu recognizes the hawks as similar to her mother's. They belong to the Iyrk-Api, a horse tribe that does business with Lu's mother. Arga, the leader of the group, offers the Thundering Jaimar a ride to horsecon.

The next morning, they all shower, and by the end of the day they've made it to the site. They make their way to the food tent where they run into Zuza. She's here with Tami and Datvig; after the incidents at Kvari Keep, the dragonborn at Melikov's Rest blamed Tami and cast her out. Zuza objected, and went with her. Tami is looking to join the Order of Enarei.
Dorji

## Description

Dorji is a travelling merchant who sells kala nemak. Relatively kindly, but with no beard.

## Player Interactions

The players met Dorji in Lanketi, when looking to purchase some kala nemak for a devil summoning. Dorji agreed to sell them the salt, but required her to sign a sheet of paper holding her responsible for any damages that might happen due to a devilish or demonic summoning perpetuated using the salt.
49. 11/06/2021 Session Writeup

## Session Summary

The group continued to search the third floor, with Masina breaking apart one of the golems and putting it in the bag of holding and Astrid stealing more family photographs, before moving on to the fourth. In the library, they steal a number of books on a number of subjects, including golems, the Wish spell, and a certain series under special lock and key:

1. Dale McCrab's guide to healthy living
2. How to win friends and influence people
3. Agile for the body
4. Magical Mindtraps
5. Center Yourself
6. Strong in the real way

On the fifth floor, Masina breaks into a safe and raids the head of the Path of Emanence's desk, gaining a lot of platinum and some files. Paolo, Lu, and Taer break into the conference room and find and destroy the sigil there. Then, some clay golems are summoned. Lu and Taer dimension door down to the first floor to get that sigil and quickly call Yshmael and K'thonis. . .  And upstairs, Elisio Levan is summoned. The group dispatch the golems, kill Elisio, and let Yshmael and K'thonis to do their work.  Yshmael and K’thonis teleport the party to their inn.

The party makes an appearance at their inn, and the innkeep reveals he has a package for Masina - it's a hat of disguise and a message. Masina wants to leave town immediately. Therelin offers both Taer and Masina membership to the Rooks, and Taer leaves the party.
Emilio

Picture of Emilio. Canonically wearing boobplate, but also wearing a pointy hat that's not pictured.

## Description

Emilio is a frail but etherial looking elf who 'dabbles in the arcane arts'. He was drinking wine and wearing a pointy hat.

## Party Interactions

The party met Emilio (along with Godric and Karlheinz) in a tavern, and then later met up with him at Eobard the Smiling's recruitment center to interview for some possible mercenary adventuring positions.

## Featured Sessions

34. 10/03/2020 Session Writeup - An elf that dabbles in the arcane arts. Not annoying at all.
Killillion

A **killillion**(a name coined by Jonathan Bowers) is equal to 103×103,000+3. It is equal to one followed by 3×103,000+3 zeros. It is 3×103,000+4 digits long.

Writing down the full decimal expansion would take 3×102,994+0.000003 books of 400 pages, with 2,500 digits on each page (except for the first, which would have 2,501).

This is not to be confused with the Epstein system *kilillion* (106000) or *kilillio-illion* (1000000106000).
Building Competitions

## Info

Building competitions are hosted in a separate creative world and the theme is different every month, which is posted on the forum.

Guidlines:

* Keep all builds to the theme.
* Do not copy someone else's build.
* Building competition is not for testing redstone.
* No builds entirely from tutorials.
* Pixel art must be original, not a copy.

## Commands

**/buildcomp -** Teleports you to the building competition world.

**/survival -** Teleports you back to the survival world.

**/plot help -** More information on commands.

**/plot auto -** Claims the nearest plot.

**/plot sethome -** Set plot home to the current location.

**/plot home -** Teleports you to your plot.

**/plot middle -** Teleports you to the center of your plot.

**/plot done -** Mark your build as finished.

**/plot continue -** Un-mark a build as finished so you can continue building.

**/plot info -** Display the plot info.

**/plot alias set [name] -** Sets an alternate name for your plot to appear as.

**/plot download -** Download a schematic of your plot.

**/plot add [player] -** Allow a player to build in a plot only while the plot owner is online.

**/plot remove [player] -** Remove a player from the plot.

**/plot trust [player] -** Allow a user to build in a plot while the plot owner is offline.

**/plot untrust [player] -** Remove a player from the trusted list.

**/plot deny [player] -** Deny a user from entering a plot.

**/plot kick [player] -** Actively teleports a player out of your plot.

**/plot delete -** Deletes your plot and un-claims it.

**/plot clear -** Clear plot you're standing on.

**/plot biome [biome] -** Changes the plot biome.

**/plot set floor [block] -** Sets the floor of the plot to a specific block.

**/plot music -** Play music in your plot.

**/plot list -** List active plots.

**/plot plugin -** For more information on the plugin used.
Eobard the Smiling

## Description

Eobard the Smiling is a former adventurer, entrepenuer, and owner of Eobard the Smiling's Emporium, and business that is supposed to revolutionize adventuring and mercenary work. He does, indeed, smile a lot.

## Player Interactions

The party first heard about Eobard the Smiling when they headed to try out for Eobard's adventuring service. They later learned that Eobard the Smiling has a connection to the Path of Emanence.

Paolo met Eobard the Smiling at the Path of Emanence's auction, and did his best to get Eobard interested in their aliases.

## Featured Sessions

43. 06/04/2021 Session Writeup: Human businessman and contract mercenary leader. Please don't flirt with him, he's gross.

44. 06/26/2021 Session Writeup: Retired Adventurer, current entrepreneur. Businessman.

45. 07/31/2021 Session Writeup: Scumbag Robert Half, planning on maybe killing him, definitely destroying his business.

47. 09/25/2021 Session Writeup: Runs a mercenary temp agency. Still smarmy, has no taste, doesn't know his own passwords.
48. 10/15/2021 Session Writeup

## Session Summary

During the long rest Lu gets a message from her brother, Gaz, saying he'll be in Sarantium in a few days and would like to meet up.

After a little bit of preparation and last minute planning, the group teleports into Eobard the Smiling's Emporium. Knocking out the guard, they proceed to loot the place. Going through the file records, they find:

* A good number of the highest paid positions were actually at the front
* Another good number were within the Emperor's household, if not his personal bodyguards.
* There's a note about Elisio Levan's unpaid invoices
* There are two guards on Eobard's payroll that are staffing the Path of Emanence

After that, they head to the Path of Emanence.  From the first floor, they find out that the fountain is a sigil, but head up to the second floor. Masina throws a dagger at the anti-magic sigil on the floor, but it's not enough to destroy it; she takes damage and wakes up the golems inside.  They fight and destroy the golems.
House Skerlos

House Skerlos is one of the eminent merchant families in Sarantium. Like House Laskaris, they are a merchant noble family, largely involved in the perfume and glass trades. They also have a connection with the Path of Emanence through Xanthi Skerlos.

The party attended an auction at the Skerlos estate in Sarantium. At that auction, the Skerlos family purchased what is essentially a 'golem in a box', with the magic grimoire and materials needed to create a powerful golem.

## Notable Members

Xanthi Skerlos - Minor member of the Skerlos family, gifts officer for the Path fo Emanence.
Path of Emanence

(Also known as the Order of Emanantion, it appears they might have changed it after rebranding)

## Description

The Path of Emanence is a mysterious organization that appears to have a focus on research and learning. It notably has no respect for creatures not from the prime material plane, including (but not limited to) angelic and devilish creatures.

## Player Interactions

The party first heard of the Path of Emanence from the small god, who asked Britni to look into Kvari Keep. Later, in Kotumi, when some of the members kidnapped Britni on her 17th birthday, per a contract her father had signed to give them the rights to her. The party tracked her to Kvari Keep, where they found out that the Path of Emanence were doing experiments on different types of Aasimar and Tieflings (those of Angelic and Devilish blood) to try and see if they could reverse-engineer what happened with Erynies (former angelic creatures that are now devilish). The Path of Emanence is doing this through legal means, tricking their subject's parents into signing them over when they reached the age of majority. After freeing their friend, they struck a deal with Yshmael of the Twin Paradises and K’thonis of the Sulphered Darkness to help them take out the remaining Path of Emanence Locations.

When in Sarantium, the party met with the gifts officer, Xanthi Skerlos, found out that they had some close connections to Eobard the Smiling, and typically work under an agile framework. During a tour of their Sarantium location, they found out that the group has been doing research on various demigods, Hisal, complex magical equations, and binding souls to golems.

## Map of Locations

Note: Kvari Keep has now been destroyed. Blue mountain is Lu's home, which is not affiliated with the Path of Emanence.

## Notable Characters

Tahir - Leader of the Path of Emanence in Kvari Keep

Xanthi Skerlos - Gifts officer for the Path of Emanence

Aurel Zarides - Researcher

## Notable Locations

Kvari Keep

Sarantium

## Featured Sessions

11. 08/18/2018 Session Writeup

12. 09/22/2018 Session Writeup

35. 10/30/2020 Session Writeup

42. 05/09/2021 Session Writeup

43. 06/04/2021 Session Writeup

44. 06/26/2021 Session Writeup
41. 4/9/2021 Session Writeup

## Session Summary

After moving from the Mosaic room, Lu and Paolo went up to Zoe and delivered the icons along with the small magical items.  Zoe mentioned that these belonged to a paladin of Sune, and that the Paladin's sister was still living, though she couldn't remember where - only that the experience changed her, and she got into fighting after Hyacinth died.

As the group settled down for a short rest, they planned for their next few days: deciding who would go on the Path of Emanence tour with Therelin (and that, of the current group, only Masina and Paolo had been seen by Tahir), what they were going to do for the auction, and what questions they should ask for Paolo's commune.

After the short rest, the party finished scouting the rest of the area - finding mostly a little bit of gold left over, and then went to find a path through the lowest level to the Path of Emanence. During their journey, they ran into some urban explorers, found a shortcut, and accidentally fell into a chasm.  They found a basement entrance to the Path of Emanence, which seemed to have one bored guard on duty.  After using seeming to make themselves look like the urban explorers, the guard chases them out into the night in Golden Reach.  The party then returned to their inn, paid for another week, and settled in for the next day.
27. 03/14/2020 Session Writeup

## Session Summary

The party wakes up to Tami talking to a very striking elven? person. Paolo talks to her for a little bit, but she decides not to give her name. Paolo's not impressed. Masina shows up and she and Kultrini go on a walk together. Once alone, Kultrini reveals that Amisi found his way up to Kvari Keep, found something buried near there, and then turned back around. She also offers help with the blank scroll, maybe for a price.

Meanwhile, Lu gets a message from her mother asking that she please, PLEASE be careful - apparently her mom heard about the dragon.

The group heads towards the arts and crafts tents, where they drop off some items for judging, display, and sale.  The attendant tells them that they can pick up either their items or gold in three days' time.  While in those tents, Paolo notices that the Razat, one of the other clans, have Order of Emanation sponsored items, while Masina notices a dagger that was left over from Kultrini's last stand. Paolo finds someone to ask about possibly getting a new bag of holding, but doesn't get a good answer.

Taer talks to the Rooks, they agree to hear her out the next day.  If they agree to the quest, Taer and a certain number of Rooks will join the group, evaluating everyone and offering invitations to anyone they deem worthy.

Astrid and Taer check out the sidehill buckers. There's axes and woodcarving and lots of dwarves. Astrid makes a new friend, and they decide to meet up later.

Meanwhile, Team Nerd (Masina, Lu, and Paolo) go to talk to the Blank Scroll. They're unsurprisingly cagey about what they know and are going to require membership before saying anything.  They hear about a lecture series, but don’t attend.

The group goes to the merch area to look for possible gifts for Tami and Zuza, but they don't pick anything up for now.

Taer plays in a pick-up game with some of her childhood clanmates. Masina tells Kutrini about the dagger, and Kultrini makes it known that she wants it back - badly.  Astrid meets up with her new friend and asks him about the Rooks - he thinks that they're a little ridiculous and idealistic, but generally earnest.
Sevim

## Description

Sevim is a very intelligent golaith that has been hired to be a bodyguard for the auction for his looks. He finds it demeaning, but also it pays well enough for him to not care too much. He works through Eobard the Smiling

## Party Interactions

Masina talked to Sevim during the party, and tried to hook him up with Therelin, but took Therelin's confusion as a rejection. Sevim knows at least some of the places to look for good gossip.

## Featured Sessions

43. 06/04/2021 Session Writeup: Goliath guard. Smarter than he looks. Would be receptive to Therelin, except thinks he's probably a jerk.
Arga

## Description

Arga is the leader of the Iryk-Api, a eastern horse tribe that does a lot of trading with Lu's family. She is difficult to surprise; only partially because she uses her hawk, Red, to keep watch.

## Player Interactions

Arga and the rest of the Iryk-Api found the party after they had a run-in with a dragon, and after recognizing Lu, offered to allow them to travel with their group to HorseCon.

## Featured Sessions

26. 2/08/2020 Session Writeup - Half Orc. All Business. Leader of the Iyrk-Api
Godric the Human

## Description

Someone in Karlheinz's adventuring party, a fairly generic looking human wearing light armor and eating with a dagger.

## Party Interactions

The party met Godric (along with Emilio and Karlheinz) in a tavern, and then later met up with him at Eobard the Smiling's recruitment center to interview for some possible mercenary adventuring positions.

## Featured Sessions

34. 10/03/2020 Session Writeup: Human, probably a rogue with a shadowy past.
Therelin

A far too pretty depiction of Therelin, thanks Picrew.

## Description

A very average looking human who is somewhere between his mid-twenties to early forties, maybe, and a member of the rooks. He's very interested in food, very good at blending in, and apparently can appear to be creepy.

According to what he told Taer, he started his career fairly young, and originally worked jobs that would leave everyone feeling like they had the better deal.

## Party Interactions

The party met Therelin in the Rooks' camp on their way out of HorseCon. where he seemed to come out of nowhere like a creep. His job with the rooks is to help them figure out the best way to infiltrate the Path of Emanence - but also evaluate them as individuals to see if any of them would be good fits for the Rooks.

He has taken them to his favorite restaurants in Sarantium, chatted up one barkeep for information, and tried to keep Astrid and Taer from trying to enlist children. He as also acted as house Askares' man of business, going to both the tour of the Path of Emanence and the Skerlos auction.

He has also told Astrid and Taer some tips on how to be better at interrogation - saying the trick is to be whoever you need to be in order to make them like you.

## Featured Sessions

31. 07/11/2020 Session Writeup: Someone who understands the importance of quiet.  A human man, and a rook

32. 08/07/2020: Human. Maybe creepy, mostly just taking notes. Well traveled foodie, works for the Rooks.

33. 09/11/2020 Session Writeup:Member of the Rooks. Possibly creepy, possibly just nondescript, definitely a foodie.  Doesn't want to involve kids for some reason. Has a secret travel blog?

34. 10/03/2020 Session Writeup: Longsuffering hipster foodie rogue boy. Gives advice, likes makeovers

35. 10/30/2020 Session Writeup: Your fake man of business, but a real rook

36. 11/20/2020 Session Writeup: Sort of here, mostly trying not to ask questions. Rook.

37. 12/13/2020 Session Writeup: Your hired help and Rook. Okay with a crossbow, reads romance novels, and showing more signs of being a Theater Kid.

38. 1/15/2021 Session Writeup: Insightful guy (literally), but also the kind of person who cares about characterization and themes in a romance novel. NPC most likely to know a musical.

39. 2/6/2021 Session Writeup: Rook. Sometimes gives helpful advice. Sometimes gives less than helpful advice. Is at least along for the ride.

41. 4/9/2021 Session Writeup: Living rook, apparently great with ropes and not above showing off

42. 05/09/2021 Session Writeup: Human Rook. Good at his job, which mostly involves staying in the background and let other people attract attention

43. 06/04/2021 Session Writeup: Member of the Rooks. Would be receptive to Sevim's flirting, if he realized it was on offer.

44. 06/26/2021 Session Writeup: Doing his best to keep an eye out, be inconspicuous, and maybe get a date. Succeeding on two out of three.
The Divine Right

## Description

The Divine Right appears to be a loosely-affiliated group that is suspicious of science and the general trappings of civilzation, instead favoring a back-to-nature aesthetic. They also have a grudge against gnomes.

## Player Interaction

The players were contracted by Professor Zaur in Kotumi to help retrieve her notes on Kel of Myev, after they were stolen by the Divine Right. The party later happened upon a Divine Right affiliated tavern in Kotumi and accepted their help going up against the Path of Emanence. After the fight, Temitah and a few members of the Divine Right revealed that they were planning on posting evidence of what's going on at Kvari Keep and implicate the University and the gnomish community as responsible. The party attacked them and killed those members, and took their bag of holding, which included Professor Zaur's notes. The Divine Right were still allowed to debate Professor Zaur, though there was increased security on the scene to prevent the Divine Right from inciting a riot.

Later, in Sarantium, the party found flyers from the Divine Right entitled "Nature is Healing", detailing the ways that life in the city is naturally filled with dishonesty and recommending that people leave Sarantium.

## Notable Characters

Temitah - Former leader of the Kotumi Divine Right, now deceased

Dithas - Former member of the Kotumi Divine Right with some unknown affiliation with the local thieves' guild, now deceased

"Chester" - Former member of the Kotumi Divine Right

## Notable Locations

Kotumi
Sarantium
Yshmael of the Twin Paradises

Yshmael is a Solar from the Twin Paradises, one of the celestial planes. He has at least one son with a human.

## Player Interactions

The Thundering Jaimar first met Yshmael when they infiltrate Kvari Keep and Yshmael (with the help of K'thonis) destroyed the Path of Emanence's presence there. They agreed to come to a formal, written agreement where the party would help Yshmael and K'thonis infiltrate other Path of Emanence bases.

## Featured Sessions

09/22/2018

10/12/2018

05/31/2019 - Giant dude with wings, the less worrying one you signed a contract with.
Zuza

## Description

Zuza is a fairly nonemotive, cynical dragonborn from Melikov's Rest. While relatively young, she was encouraged to pass her coming of age quest very early and had been acting as a ranger for Melikov's Rest. After her parting with her familial tribe, she

## Player Interactions

The party met up with Zuza when she led them through their trials to meet Melikov. After the party finished their trials, Sophia sent Zuza along with Tami to Kvari Keep to find out what was going on. Zuza was much more wary of the group, the Path of Emanence, and the Divine Right than Tami, but panicked after the fight once Zuza realized that the Path of Emanence would retaliate against the followers of Melikov.

Once they realized what was going on in Kvari Keep, Tami and Zuza left to return to Melikov's Rest to warn the rest of the dragonborn that they should expect a possible attack from the Path of Emanence.

Once they got to Melikov's Rest, Sophia and the rest of the dragonborn condemned Tami for causing their former allies to treat them with suspicion. Zuza defended Tami and chose to follow her to HorseCon and help her with her attempt to join the Order of Enarei. While there, she found and decided to join the Lugati, a very secretive ninja horse squad.

## Featured Sessions

10. 07/21/2018 Session Writeup - Yulia’s daughter.  Unenthusiastic, but okay at shooting things.  Likes Datvig, okay with Tami, everyone else is on notice.

11. 08/18/2018 Session Writeup - Also dragonborn.  With Tami, but not on a coming of age quest.  Definitely not intense about it.  She walks away.

12. 09/22/2018 Session Writeup - Dragonborn. Realizes she's travelling with murderhoboes, trying to keep the people she cares about alive.

13. 10/12/2018 Session Writeup - Silver Dragonborn.  Feeling emotions. Does not like feeling emotions. On her way to Valkat

28. 04.10.2020 - Dragonborn Ranger. Doing some soul searching. Quiet

29 05/08/2020 Session Writeup - Dragonborn. Trying to help Tami out right now.

30. 06/27/2020 Session Writeup - Dragonborn. Having whole emotional arcs she's not telling anyone about. Probably a ninja now.

31. 07/11/2020 Session Writeup - Fully an adult! Striking out on her own! With a group of people who understand the importance of quiet!
Xanthi Skerlos

Xanthi Skerlos, a blonde half-elf woman

## Description

A half elf woman from a noble family, currently working as the gifts officer for the Path of Emanence.

## Party Interactions

Therelin, Lu, Paolo and Masina met with Xanthi in disguise as they tried to investigate the Path of Emanence. She revealed that the Path of Emanence has extensive connections with Eobard the Smiling, along with connections with the nobility, including the Skerlos family.

Xanthi later took the group on a tour of the Path of Emanence and invited them over to the Skerlos estate for an auction.

## Featured Sessions

35. 10/30/2020 Session Writeup: Gifts officer at the Path of Emanence and Minor Noble. Seems nice.

42. 05/09/2021 Session Writeup: Half Elf. Works for the Path of Emanence, currently reconsidering her job.

43. 06/04/2021 Session Writeup: Half elf who works for the Path of Emanence, friendly but it's because it's her job.

45. 07/31/2021 Session Writeup: Stressed out but at least the night's over
Vudan

## Description

Vudan is one of the regular fighters at the Sarantine fighting pits - well known, and well regarded by the crowds (he has fans). He also has a flaming sword and some cool armor, which probably helps.

## Player Interactions

The party watched Vudan kill a number of wild boar during their visit to the fighting pits, which won Astrid some money.

## Featured Sessions

38. 1/15/2021 Session Writeup: Wood elf, fighting pit fighter. Good at putting on a show and has a flaming sword. Maybe has a theme song, one that everyone can clap to.
33. 09/11/2020 Session Writeup

## Session Summary

Zoe sends Paolo a message letting him know that if he wants access to the teleportation circle, he would need a reference - one that she's willing to give him in exchange for a favor - and they can stop by the temple of Sune for more information on what she has in mind.

The gang then decides to split up: Astrid, Taer, and Therelin go down to the docks while Masina, Paolo, and Lu head to a lending library. Astrid talks up a nihilistic Aarakrokra who tells her that if anyone was stealing children, they wouldn't bother taking anyone who has any ties - there's enough desperate children in the city. Taer talks to Maike, who mostly wants to know what Taer and the group has been up to, but also agrees to help murder anything they need her to murder. Therelin talks to the barkeep, who tells him that there's some people who have been preying on the desperate people in Sarantium, and seem to like the phrase "Nature is Healing".

Meanwhile, Masina, Paolo and Lu head to a fancier part, and cast seeming on themselves to fit in.  They end up at a lending library, where research happens! Masina looks up scientific papers by both the Order of Emanation and Elisio Levan. Lu looks for possible secondary Order of Emanation locations.

Paolo looks up gossip information and local events, and finds information on an Order of Emanation fundraiser.  They leave the lending library and head over to the Order of Emanation public front and intimate that they'd like to give a large donation to the Order, and get a 3pm appointment for the next day. They then scout the location.

Taer and Astrid ask Therelin how to be better and the whole peopleing thing, and they decide to try again. Astrid finds a kindred spirit in Karlheinz Flater, while Taer looks through some flyers - she finds one for the Divine Right, one of Ottilia Bengtsson (a self-help guru who seems affiliated with Ukka), and a number for nobles looking for possible guards.

The party then meets up and heads back to their rooms to pool their information.
09. 06/23/2018 Session Writeup

## Session Summary

The party set out for the Pilgrim's Pass through the mountains in the mid-morning.  A few hours in, they saw Bordar heading back into Kotumi with a group of other dwarves.  Taer tried to signal them using Thaumaturgy, but set off an avalanche instead. The party decided against trying to meet up with the group of dwarves, not wanting to explain how they nearly killed their part.  The party then found an abandoned campsite, and after taking a few smaller items, continued on. As evening approached, the group successfully hunted a wild goat and cooked it over a Farideh – produced flame.

The next morning, they passed by a sky burial site for silver dragonborn with a whistling sculpture.  As Masina tried to fix the sculpture, she accidentally plugs the holes, leading three adult griffons and a smaller griffon to attack.  Veronica died during the attack. Farideh carried Veronica’s body, and gathered rocks to stack on top of it. They ended up walking for a few more hours, but couldn’t find a decent clearing to sleep.  Exhausted, they ended up camping on the side of the road.

The party woke up late in the morning to find that Veronica’s bag was apparently by someone walking by as they slept.  After they crossed a missing bridge, they finally made their way up to Melikov’s Rest, where they were greeted by two guards, and a silver dragonborn named Sophia.  Sophia gave them a brief overview of the town and the inhabitants, and let them know that they could be granted audience with Melikov, but they would have to undergo some tests first.  The party tried to find a quiet spot in the hot springs, but found two older dragonborn speaking there instead. When they went to dinner, Taer overheard some debates about Melikov’s works, including something about the Annals.  They were given rooms for the night at Yulia’s place, and borrowed Yulia’s volume one copy of the Annals to learn more about what Melikov apparently believed. They learn that, according to the Annals, Melikov’s key traits were compassion, selflessness, and ingenuity.  Masina is told by a mysterious voice that Kel of Myev was a hit at court, doing great experiments with fire and ice, replicating dragon fire, and losing a lot of money at cards. After that, the party rested for the night.
43. 06/04/2021 Session Writeup

## Session Summary

The day of the auction, Lu decides to change money. The tellers take note of the amount.  Masina goes to the temple of Oghma to talk to Amity, a member of The Blank Scroll. Amity informs her that they have managed to investigate the claim for the tower of dreams, and was able to verify her claim. Masina is offered access to the Blank Scroll's library, but is also told that there might be the occasional mission given to her to accept. Masina asks Amity about the Path of Emanence, and she finds out that the PoE has been scooping the Blank Scroll's acquisitions.

At the auction, the party sees the list of items up for bid:

* A few paintings - 250 gp starting bid

* Artifacts from Hisal
	+ A magic blade - 5,000 gp starting bid
	+ Sending Stones - 1,000 gp for the set

* A full review of wards on your establishment by Elisio Levan - 500 GP Starting Bid

* A manual to create golems, along with the golem supplies.  Must supply your own spellcaster and volunteer guard to bind - 10,000 GP Starting Bid

* A lunch with the Praetor Anthos - 100 gp Starting Bid

Lu, with truesight, notices that the Praetor is suspiciously high def.  Masina talks to Sevim and gets some gossip - House Laskares is likely to be trying for their own little bit of espionage tonight. There is also a suspicious one-eyed elf they've met before. Paolo talks to Eobard the Smiling and makes sure he knows their (fake) names. They reconvene with Therelin to swap stories. Taer, Masina, and Paolo hear murmurings about Valkat and discussions about replacing the workers with golems.
Amity

## Description

Amity is a friendly but pragmatic tiefling and member of the Blank Scroll. She was in charge of admissions during HorseCon.

## Player Interactions

Masina talked to Amity about a tower of dreams to the west of the horsecon grounds in a bid to gain entrance and access to the Blank Scroll. Amity told her that they would investigate, and Masina should seek out a Blank Scroll location to find out the results.

A few weeks later, Masina found Amity at the temple of Oghma in Sarantium. Amity informed her that they had looked into the tower of dreams, found that it was a real place, and approved Masina's membership to the Blank Scroll.

## Featured Sessions

30. 06/27/2020 Session Writeup - Tiefling.  Member of the Blank Scroll.  Seems reasonable.

43. 06/04/2021 Session Writeup - Member of the Blank Scroll. Somewhat receptive to Masina's flirting
Eliso Levan

## Description

Eliso is an elven warlock that the party has heard about, but has not met as of yet. He is originally from Sarantium, but has a vacation home in Valkat.

## Player Interactions

Eliso first came to the player's attention when his name appeared on the list of possible lawyers from the Bard College in Kotumi. His description was "*The great elven warlock Eliso Levan has a vacation home in Valkat. Has supposedly gained great power by outsmarting devils".*

Later, in Valkat, Eliso's name came up in conjunction with the ghost ship in Valkat's harbor: the ship's manifest mentioned him as the owner, and there were instructions mentioning that the ship was filled with his personal slaves.

In Sarantium, the party met Eliso at an auction, found him incredibly obnoxious, and kept Astrid from killing him right then and there.

## Featured Sessions

22. 09/27/2019 Session Writeup - Not met, but seems like he was kind of a scumbag.  Planned to sell refugees into slavery. Warlock with a summer home.

44. 06/26/2021 Session Writeup - The elf responsible for poisoning Astrid's hometown. Slimy, and not dead. Yet.

45. 07/31/2021 Session Writeup - Scumbag that makes deals with devils, might mess with him in the end.
Ivan Ivanson

Ivan Ivanson was a student at the bard college at Kotumi. He offered a reward for information on who killed Ivan Dmitrison - his father.

## Party Interactions

The party approached Ivan Ivanson in a bar to ask about the reward he posted. It turns out that Ivan was asking about the whereabout of Ivan Dmitrison, who the party had killed earlier that week. The party then tried their best to avoid Ivan Ivanson through their time in Kotumi.

Eventually, Ivan Ivanson must have found out the truth, as he set a trap for the group as they left Kotumi with two of his bard friends. The party defeated the group of bards, killing Ivan Ivanson.

## Featured Sessions

05. 02.09.2018 Session Writeup

15. 12/08/2018 Session Writeup