Quest for the Relics (campaign)

Plot:

In the realm of Natudragonis, the tale that is told is the legend of Baltheus, an ancient knight who defeated a quintet of invading necromancers from a realm of evil using five relics.

5384 years after the death of Baltheus, Willy Gaffer, a Halfling, was going for a walk one day when an eagle captures his pet pig Hammy. They are both dropped off and land by the moat of Shintaro Castle.

A group of knights surround the duo. They send Willy and Hammy to King Magnus X and his adoptive daughter Princess Davina whose Elven clan were slaughtered by the Sorcerers. who informs them of a prophecy, which states that a Halfling will fall from the sky and will be sent by the king with an army to reclaim the Five Relics of Natudragonis and defeat the evil wizards led by the evil Rhaza-Dúg who are destroying the kingdom. Magnus, with the advice of Jaggen the good wizard, chooses companions for him. The Fellowship of the Relics originally consists of six heroes: Willy, Bonebreaker, the Captain of the Hippy Pigeon, Coinmuncher, an exiled goblin from the Goblin Cave Kingdom, Cryptic Destroyer, the Dragonborn of Mount Draco, Dennis, Cryptic’s strangely effeminate squire, Quantilius Dingle, the dwarf of the Granite Quarry, and Lumpy, the Elven sorceress.

The group first stops at the Albion Village where they stop for a short rest in a tavern, attend a joust and visit a blacksmith who gives Willy a bow and arrows. The journey then continues in the Lizard Fields where a witch known as “StoneHeart” is enslaving the Lizard-Folk. Lumpy challenges and defeats her in a wizard’s duel. They then set off over the troll-ridden mountain range of the Trololo Alps in the Frozen Wastelands, but Vecna summons a storm that whisks Willy away to the Skull Dungeons

On the way to rescue Willy, the group sever the limbs of a Black Knight that refuses to die and continue to the Skull Dungeons. There, Coinmuncher falls asleep on two Orcs, breaking their limbs, Quantilius solves a riddle from a Grim Reaper and Coinmuncher thwarts Mørke. After saving Willie, the Foundation Giant, Geób, hands the Gauntlet of Truth to Quantilius. Despite their victory, the group are confronted by Democolossus: the titan residing within the dungeons. While the others try to kill it with no avail, a mysterious Leonin knight fights the stone giant and crumbles it to ruin, but vanishes.

The Fellowship split up on separate ways. Willy, Lumpy and Bonebreaker confront two constitutional peasants, find a useless book that belongs to a bunch of monks and fight a bunch of spiders. After Coinmuncher, Cryptic and Quantilius return to the others, they decide to go into the Walheim Wood.

While travelling, Willy strays to follow a strange singing voice he constantly hears. Eventually, he is found by Æthkälryon, the Leonin who brought down the Colossus. Æthkälryon tells Willy that the voice belonged to the lady Aletheia whom he used to love but to no avail. In the end, she loved another. They travel to the Flower Fruit Mountain, where they meet Sun Wukong. Eventually, after defeating an iron minotaur who calls himself the Demon Bull King, both Willy and Æthkälryon return to the group, riding on the Monkey King's cloud.

The Fellowship reaches Walheim Wood, ruled by the Elf Gehendämiol. He privately informs Æthkälryon that he is the Chosen One who will wield the Relics against Vecna. He reveals that the Harness of Light and Hope could only be worn by a warrior of a lawfully good heart. The Magical Shield of Justice could only be wielded by a mortal if the Gauntlet of Truth on his or her hand was holding it. And to activate the magic powers of the Sword of Virtue, the Jewel of Honor was to be embedded into the top of the hilt of the sword. When united, these relics would form out of the wielder a mighty Paladin with extraordinary powers beyond those of mortals and they would be used to decimate all evil. However, Hellspawns raid the woods. After gaining victory, Bonebreaker and Quantilius are given a golden axe and scythe.

The party stumble upon the Goblin Cave Kingdom where they disrupt the annual Dance Magic Dance. The Goblin King focus Coinmuncher to stand trial for his return. After many failed attempts to prove Coinmuncher innocent, the enraged king almost sentences Coinmuncher to death. However, Willy steps in to save him, then gives a tearful, heartfelt testimony about what happened to the king on Coinmuncher’s behalf. The Goblin King is then forced to find the accused innocent and the goblins celebrate the announcement in a wild disco number.

Sailing the Sea of Nardliin, aboard a pirate ship, christened the *Hippy Pigeon*, the team introduce themselves to Captain Edward “Bluebeard” Depp. He tells that his crew are persecuted by other folk because of stereotypes, supported in song by the group. The Zilla Serpent then unexpectedly ambushes them, wrecking the ship and sinking the heroes underwater. The heroes are rescued by the nymph Nyad (whom Cryptic falls in love with) and taken to Atlantecanis. In the Palace, the heroes meet the Sea Giant Aquanokk, who hands the Jewel of Honor to Æthkälryon.

In the Dune of the Djinn, Bonebreaker unleashes a Genie called Asneez. Both him and Lumpy make torturous wishes on Coinmuncher. However, Willy sees that Asneez is turning the group against each other and Quantilius wishes for Asneez to get back in his teapot. The Sky Giant, Ärœmed arrives, rewarding the Heroes with the Shield of Justice

At the Spirit Graveyard, a strange Ninja informs them if you touch the stone knight, he may come to life. After a brief battle, Bonebreaker shoots the stone knight in the groin, reverting him to normal. An old vicar offers Bonebreaker a magical potion, which badly weakens him and suffers from extreme pain. The group then realise that the cure is at the Marsh of Sins. Once there, the group meet a Demogorgon but Quantilious and Lumpy kill it, curing Bonebreaker's condition.

It is revealed that Æthkälryon once arrived at the dragon-infested Mount Draco, Ÿnfernax, the Flame Giant, guides him to the heart of the volcano to the Sword of Virtue embedded in a stone pedestal. Æthkälryon pulls it successfully, revealing that he is the Chosen One. Feeling that they are close to fulfilling their goals, all the Giants gather to summon the creator-god-dragon, Inschgan, who congratulates them by giving the heroes a flight to the location of the final relic.

As the heroes fly on the dragon, a Lizard-woman by the name of Felerhsc decides to give Rhaza-Dúg the information in return for a reward only to be chained prisoner due to Rhaza-Dúg's hate for snitches.

In the Underworld, as the forces of GothRealm prepare their army, Rhaza-Dúg orders General Olog to send forth all legions and not halt the attack until Shintaro is taken, commanding the demons to slay everyone in their path. Olog asks of the Fellowship's fate, and the son of Vecna says that he shall break them. The siege of Shintaro Castle begins when the massive Demon army of Orcs, Skeletons, Ghosts, Trolls, Hellspawns, Dragons and Demons launches its assault using siege towers and huge catapults. Scaling siege towers are thrown up against the Walls and the monsters swarm up to engage the defenders. Despite Sir Coleman and Lord Windsor’s best efforts, the monsters manage to penetrate the main gate and soon the castle is overrun. The Mind Flayer decides that King Magnus should be thrown in as well, as he plans to "take over the Castle as Vice Supreme Dominator of all Natudragonis”.

Davina, the princess of Shintaro, catching up to the fellowship at Mount Draco, explains that Rhaza-Dúg invaded Natudragonis, reviving Vecna with the life force of the deceased sorcerers, and that she was adopted by Magnus after the Queen of dragons, Tiamat, massacred some of her people and killed her biological family, who were trying to hide the last relic, the Harness of Light and Hope.

After creating and magically summoning a giant suit of armor dubbed Olmort, Quantilius tells Coinmuncher and Cryptic to follow him, as they plan to break Magnus X out while Willy, Davina, Lumpy, Bonebreaker and Æthkälryon search for the last relic.

A jealous Mind Flayer prepares to plot to overthrow Vecna and his son when he notices an army arriving in the distance. It is the united People of Natudragonis, led by Quantilius, arriving at the moat. As Quantilius turns to face the hordes of GothRealm, the many heroes all charge towards the castle and their opponents. Then, the Hellspawns, at Olog’s command, fire their fireballs upon the good army, but it is no use. The Skeletons and Orcs all panic as the Armies of Natudragonis draw closer and Olog realizes that it is too late. The heroes crash into the villains and charge through their lines. The villains cannot withstand them, as they are all slaughtered and crushed. While the others slay what remains of Vecna's forces, Robin charges towards the keep with Coinmuncher, Quantilius and Wukong to kill the Demogorgon. Dennis, on the other hand, opens the dungeon gate, only rescuing King Magnus while leaving Felerhsc.

Meanwhile Lumpy, Bonebreaker, Davina, Æthkälryon and Willy arrive on Bahamut to the underworld. There, they find the now resurrected Vecna in the throne room. Willy alarms the enemy by shooting an arrow. The Maimed Lord rallies the evil sorcerers. Bahamut obliterates the remaining living sorcerers into nothingness while Lumpy throws a fireball at Vecna's body and blinding him, which causes Vecna top become vulnerable. As Vecna stands up, Davina weakens him with her sonic magic.

However, all is not as it seems, for Tiamat, the Queen of all Dragons emerges from the shadows. As this occurs, the Queen of Chaos continues to overpower the heroes, and reveals that she was responsible for resurrecting Vecna, resulting in everything influenced by Tiamat was all part of her design leading up to this moment.

However, Inschgan reveals that it is time and reveals the Harness from his chest while Æthkälryon, now turned to a holy Paladin with all five relics, slices Vecna in two with the Sword of Virtue. Following, Æthkälryon lunges for the killing blow on Tiamat, with Cryptic, Coinmuncher and Quantilius joining in.

Following their master’s death, all the agents of evil fall to the ground motionless and dead. Æthkälryon, Coinmuncher, Willy, Quantilius, Lumpy, Bonebreaker, Cryptic, Dennis and all the other good people all cheer in happiness. Back at the Castle, newly coronated Queen Davina rewards Willy Gaffer with a lot of gold and also a knighting ceremony. During the ceremony, Bonebreaker marries Lumpy; Cryptic marries Nyad; Radon and Depp reconcile; Coinmuncher is fully re-allowed to the Goblin Cave Kingdom; and Æthkälryon is made the new King of the Lundor Clan.

In the end, Willy Gaffer returns home with his newfound wealth and his pet pig, closing the campaign.