Game 19

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**group todo:**

* Leave Boras Boragul’s discussing path forward.
* Decide to just see what happens
* Head back to the fire star chariot to finish business with Orren.

\*Damian attempts to identify Tyr’s old sword:

**A Vision of Tyr’s Past**

part one:He sees a light in front of him. It slowly comes into vision, the whole of the world swimming.You realize that you’re walking, you see in front of you a cracked earth, winding through. You look up and realize that he’s in his own body. Moving in stride with a figure. It is blotting out the sun, and the figure is completely dark. There is a ruined landscape of a caravan. The horses are dead, and baking in the sun. There is an incredible sadness and shame, and he realizes that he’s still keeping pace with the figure. The emotions are of this person in front of you. It picks something up, drops it. As you come past it you see some orcish writing. The figure in front of you is Tyr. He feels isolated and alone. As you walk up along side, there are deep gashes across his stomach. He looks in a bad way. He stops at a wagon. There is a dead mother holding a dead child. There is a squeaking. He reaches in, and he pulls out a gray pup, it wriggles in his grasp, confused. He places it inside his shirt. And the vision fades.

**History of the Knight Of Black Flames**

\*part two: you feel something there behind it. A deeper, residual influence. IT’s like a dissonant note played on a keyboard. As it creeps up, you want to look away. The shame is intermingled with that. You listen carefully, and you can hear it. It sounds like the bells from the flame knight. You move closer to it, but you don’t want to. As you listen carefully, you see in front of you another light. This one feels not quite right. You move toward it, as the bells become louder. YOUR EYEs flash open. You're screaming and crying, you’ve just been delivered. As you do, you hear a distant man’s voice as you hear a woman shout.

*“Get Onneran!”*  A man comes in with a spindly grey beard.

*“Twins! both!”*

A woman passes you in a cloth, and you see the form of your twin brother.

“Aumenator be praised! On the month of the sword, on the year of the sword. It’s a sign to be sure!”

“I will name you Sigmund (Damian). And you, Varrus.”

An old woman comes, a seer, as she comes over “Onneran, I see an incredible destiny in these two. An epic’s blademaster. They will be blessed under the light of light. Grow up to be just and righteous.”

\*part three: As you drift away from the experience, the wise woman leans in towards Onneran “So seer, what speaks to you on the destiny of my children?” “They both have an incredible destiny, and will indeed meet what I described. However, they will not reach it until they see the sign of the black flames.”

Later, two boys fight each other vigorously

*“Come on Sigmund! Let’s see what you’ve got!”*

He takes a swing, and Sigmund blocks and parries in the same motion, kicks Varus down. Offers a hand. You say

*“Someday Varrus, you’ll be as good as I. Afterall, how are we to be the world’s greatest swordsman?”*

Later you see Varrus in plate armor. The shame has returned.

*“It seems the Cormyrian army lays claim to our territory in the southeast...would you let them?”* “Brother, I don’t know. These border disputes have nothing to do with us.”

“Of course, but how do we distinguish ourselves?” You feel the yearning to fulfill your destiny. To seek out the black flames. Time itself flashes forward. You are a formation drill sergeant. You are on the edge of a floating city. Wind and banners flapping in the sky. You see a grizzled dark skinned Nethrelese with streaks of white at his temples.

“*Dogs*, today you make your first jump!”

You see Varrus, eager to go first. “Are you ready to fight and die for Netherese empire?” On his armor you see a symbol you recognize, symbol of the black serpent; the same symbol as was on the cover of the red book.

The sergeant leans in, *“You are ready to fight and die?”*

Varus nods fervently.

*“Then jump.”* the man gestures at the chasm on the edge of the floating city.

Varrus takes a running leap; Sigmund falls.

Varrus throws his meat with dextrous precision, Wyvern screeches and swoops under him. Sigmund does the same. They ride off laughing in tandem.

\*part three: Suddenly, you are completely transported. Wyvern is twice as large. You wear gold plated armor. You see the scorched earth over the formation empire. You see your brother alongside. there are hundreds of wyvern.

Varus veers off, headed for something you were not assigned to do. You had sworn to defend the Netherese at risk to yourself. You feel doubt and hesitation. Varus has already started to go. He does not seem to have seen a siege scorpion. Sigmund heads off to try to attack the scorpion. A bolt from another scorpion clips the wing of your wyvern. Just as you make impact, you see your brother and his wyvern impaled through the chest.

\*part three: it’s been some time. you feel stale breath and vomit. After the failed campaign in Rasaleth. (Major battle at a Corner border town that turned the tide of battle.) You have no desire to fight for the Netralese. You have shame and guilt for having turned your back on the Netherese empire. You drunkenly wander out. In the streets you can hear faint bells chiming in the distance. There is flurry of activity. Something is wrong, everyone is moving in a direction. *“What’s happening? What’s going on?*”

No one responds. They say she’s renounced the Gods!

“They say she’s the one to blame. The councils making their move. They’re burning her in the square”

“Who?!”

“The young empress!”

You get to the inner town square. There are statues of heroes past. Something is different. You can feel crowd turning violent. Screaming. You can see off in the distance, the heaving mass of the crowd. Temple of Aumunator, Figure tied to a pyre at the top. “Witch! Heretic!”

You walk forward, you fight your way to the front. You feel something instinctive. You fight to push past the guards. You feel heat emanate from under you. Rocks pelt you from angry onlookers shouting for justice. You shield this figure.You look directly in her eyes. They are not human. They are cold, and reptilian. The flames flicking in the black. She smiles hauntingly, saying something.

Just before you are burned alive, she says *“Even broken things have their purpose.”*

The fire and smoke turns to black and the last thing you see before you’re overtaken by the heat is a shadowy pillar that seems to lengthen and rise from the smoke into the sky, then, two titanically large emerald reptilian eyes open.

-After the vision ends, Orren looks impatient. Almost feral waiting for the outcome of the vision.

\*When Damian saw her before , she charmed him. He gave her his name. When he escaped the charm, she turned into a serpent and I fled. The boundary that sealed her, was broken. The boundary between this place and here, I destroyed.

\*Meanwhile, David picks the locks on his black chest. After discovering a false bottom, he pulls out manifests of various magic items that Boras Boragul has traded in.

\*Three humans at vote:

-Mysterious human staring at Brohian, had been talking to the Shieldbiter.

**Zatsi Brothers:**

Maven Zatsi;  younger: More outspoken

Eralin Zatsi older: more withdrawn

\*Afterwards, we make our way to the Hall of Justice

\*Right before the vote begins, dwarf storms in shouting, *“The drow are attacking!”*

\*David stole all of ???’s shit by piling it on her shield. He gave me her shield.

\*Known hunter in Silverymoon or Neverwinter? (Alcinous)

(The Hunters of Abraxas?)

(replace spare the dying with Toll the Dead)

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