Realms S1E86 Coming Together

The final arc of our story begins, after ten months apart following the defeat of Viktor Keiran, the Light Bringers are recalled to the Fey to discuss the latest threat to Ukodor, Riha herself. A dwarf wizard called Tormund joins the party when he reveals he has vital information to finding a book describing Riha’s magic.

### Player Characters Present

Jeidobii, Torq, Denahi, Cerise, Seian, Tormund

### Synopsis

The Light Bringers reunite after 10 months apart. Torq returned with the Goliaths’ to Motul, remarried and is expecting a child. Denahi returned to Motul to find her fellow tieflings and help them rebuild their lives now that the paladins hunting them have been defeated. Seian returned to serve his community, but sadly had been unable to communicate to his goddess, the golden dragon Athorra. Jeidobii began to take on his responsibilities as Warden of the Taarve. Traveling to different planes to understand his responsibilities. He and Jazelle agreed to go their separate ways though they both love their son Zelarosian. Cerise helped her fellow Ortu rebuild and regrow their lands, finally united with her family. Fecina asked Cerise to rescue a wizard who’d been trapped in the Fey for some time.We meet Tormund, a dwarf wizard, brewer of ales who had been banished to the Fey Ward by an Arch-Lich Vulraak over a hundred years ago when his group “The Travelers” failed to kill him.

The Light Bringers are summoned to the Fey city of Oriel by Fecina, a Tarvé and one of the most ancient beings in Ukodor, to attend the council of light. At the council they learn that Riha has a found a way to break her chains in Vecitius, and the Light Bringers are asked to learn all that they can about Riha’s plans and her corruption magic. Just as Jeidobii suggests looking for the missing Book of Corruption, a very old friend, Romyn, makes a dramatic entrance to the council and reveals that the very Lich that banished Tormund to the Fey has taken possession of the Book of Corruption.

The Light Bringers agree to go after this book and Tormund remembers an old contact Venri who helped them find this Lich in the past. Cerise uses her cubic gate to summon Venri to the Fey. Tormund takes them into his Magnificent Manor and they begin to question Venri. Venri informs them that Rujek, the Rakshasa who had offered them aid in the Fireward, had orchestrated the trap that killed Tormund’s past group and more than that is playing both sides in the war of devils and demons. He mentions the Queen of the Devils, Lady Orianna will be very displeased if she discovered Rujek's betrayal. When Tormund learns that Venri once had his mind possessed by Vulraak. Tormund takes away Venri’s mind-protecting head-band hoping to make contact with the Lich. Meanwhile Jeidobii and Cerise use their divination magic to gain more information on the Vulraak’s location and the Book. The divine that one Jeidobii’s Tiefling uncle had stolen the book and it was now on the far eastern coast of the Shadow Ward in Vulraak's new fortress overlooking the gate to the Abyss. After hours of waiting in isolation, Vulraak takes possession of Venri’s mind promises to see Tormund soon and leaves Venri apparently dead.