Ebon Ward

Title card for Ebon Ward, drawn by @BrinMataujall

Ebon Ward is an ongoing series that has been running on Surprise Round twitch channel, previously twitch.tv/warpedlamp, since September 25th, 2016. It is run using Pathfinder rules (of which most if not all can be found here) and makes heavy use of homebrewed setting, creatures and items.

## Overview

The Ebon Ward is a formerly government funded organization that would take in some of the things that go bump in the night in order to fight the more dangerous things that go bump in the night. Rumors surrounded the organization due to their secretive nature and trust began to waiver and eventually crumbled when a new organization of dastardly paladins (The Keepers) came about and essentially took the place of Ebon Ward within the government. However, Ebon Ward continued it's clandestine operations in spite of this.

A list of NPCs can be found here.

## Players

* GM: Will
* Majin - Suino Songfury / Bojack Vunderval
* Lamp - Maze Myers / Bossanova / Baoh St. Baoh
* Arim - Dia Diadem / Musty Macaw
* Roob - Gnash
* Oz - Laurent Redpath / Jasper Chiaroscuro / Zephyra

## Episodes

### Broken Wheel & Belgrin

See separate article for known details from the three sessions run before streaming began.

### Totor Tobble's Tower

On the Duchess's orders, the party (with Bojack swapping in for Suino) travels to Totor Tobble's Tower in the Sicklands in order to destroy it.

### Kragmar's Fissure & Yez'Modazz

After uncovering that a large amount of golems were being sent to a Bertrand Callabrook in Kragmarr's Fissure, the party (with Redpath swapping in for Jasper) travels there to investigate. Maze and Redpath go undercover as cooks at the Callabrook Estate, and discover the machinations of the woman known only as 'The Good Doctor'. The rest of the party is recruited by Luthion Haldear to solve a rapidly escalating crisis between Kragmarr's Fissure and the city beneath it, Yez'Modazz. They have about a week before the tzar returns to Yez'Modazz, and discovers his missing daughter. They descend to Yez'Modazz, accompanied by agents of the local government, Bossanova and Zephrya. They trace Yez'Modazz's problems to a portal to the Abyss, which connects to the museum and prison of a powerful kalayora daemon.

### Underpath

The party attempts to have a vacation in Suino's hometown, Underpath, only to be interrupted by a revenant attack they trace to a nearby facility manufacturing Ghoul's Red.

### Ebon War: A Prelude

The party travels up to Grabby's Reach to visit Eugene Verger and connect Ignille with a job, only to discover that the Keepers are trying to take custody of the incredibly dangerous platinum mask.

### Ebon War: The Keep

After a Keeper raid on Ebon Ward South, the party(minus Maze, with both Jasper and Redpath, and the assistance of a Keeper named Baoh St. Baoh) must infiltrate the Keep, free the imprisoned Ebon Ward members, and reckon with the consequences of their decisions about Andrin Dandarious.

### Ebon War: The Obsidian Spear

The party attempts to fulfill their promise and depose Sir Rupert Remmington, head of Ebon Ward Central.

### The Illicioti Estate

Redpath travels on to Melody Meadows and Sweetstone, and the group(minus Suino) attends a fancy party in Arva—— only to be followed by an old enemy.

### Sweet Stone

Jasper missing, the party travels to Redpath's hometown, Sweetstone, and attempts to rid the town of the mysterious affliction plaguing it.

### Castle Eryll: Jasper Solo Arc

Jasper infiltrates Castle Eryll with Luthion and discovers earthshattering revelations.

 109 | TBC? | June 19, 2022 | Twitch VOD
 Jasper and Cassiel discuss their options, Jasper mingles before the grand announcement, Jasper sneaks up to the third floor again, then sneaks down to the basement and discovers some shocking secrets. Jasper and Luthion reunite with Barrett and Katherine.

### Leviara

The party travels to Leviara to seek assistance dealing with the looming threat of the Good Doctor.

## Spin-off Series

Various side stories showing events happening elsewhere in the same world as Ebon Ward.

### 5e One Off

5e One Off is a one-shot episode that takes place on Behemoth, the continent far to the West of Goliath where the main series of Ebon Ward takes place. It is a relatively straight-forward dungeon crawl featuring story events that may-or-may-not be considered canon to the main story of Ebon Ward.

### Ebon Ward North

Ebon Ward North is a 9-episode mini-series that takes place in the Northern part of the continent of Goliath, following a team from the North Ebon Ward. Compared to the main series, its tone can best be described as "Survival Horror".

### Ebon Ward West

Ebon Ward West is a 5-episode mini-series that takes place in the Western part of the continent of Goliath, following a team from the West Ebon Ward. Compared to the main series, its tone can best be described as "Comedy Road Trip".

### Ebon Ward East

Ebon Ward East is a mini-series that takes place in the Eastern part of the continent of Goliath, following a team from the East Ebon Ward.

## Factions

* The Ebon Ward
* Eternal
* Mondegreen Druids
* Sundown
* The Keepers
* The Silver Hand
* The Pie Association
* The Good Doctor
* Underhand
* Yearn

## Locations

The main series of Ebon Ward takes place on the continent of Goliath, across which the five branches of the Ebon Ward are located. At least one other continent exists on the same world, which is called Behemoth and is located across the ocean to the east of Goliath.

A list of locations that the party has visited throughout the main Ebon Ward series, in non-chronological order.

* Arva
	+ The Illicioti Estate
* Belgrin
* Broken Wheel
* Ebon Ward Central (the Obsidian Spear)
* Ebon Ward South (the Onyx Maw)
* Fort Tress
* Grabby's Reach
* Kragmurr's Fissure
* Melody Meadows
* Sweet Stone
* The Abyss
* The Keep
* Totor Tobble's Tower
* Underpath
* Yez'Modazz
* Leviara
	+ The Hoard of House Herseff
* The Wandering Woods

## Trivia

* There is an Ebon Ward Wiki that was started at an earlier date.
* There is also an episode recap document written by SpriteYourRuler, which can be found here. It covers(as of March 2023) up to episode 42, and all of Ebon Ward North.
* With few exceptions, new episodes of Ebon Ward have been run on Sundays at 3:00pm EST.
* Will will occasionally answer lore questions on the Surprise Round discord, generally regarding information that the party encountered on a surface level, but which is unlikely to come up in the future in-universe. A fan-maintained lore document based on discord responses can be found here, warnings for spoilers for the entire series and that lore details are subject to change unless directly discussed on stream.
* 1 gold piece is the equivalent of a dollar