Aerois - Chapter Twenty One: The Valley of Death

Katie Morrison as Aila

 Kim Richards as Nova V'ger

 Rhiannon Frost as Sentry

 Tom Hazell as Qillek Ad Khollar

**The Valley of Death** is the twenty-first chapter of the Aerois campaign. It was broadcast live on both the Yogscast Twitch channel and highrollersdnd Twitch channel between 22nd May and 11th September 2022, and consists of fourteen episodes.

*In Chapter Twenty One, the party and their Guardian allies travel through the jungles of Jakkesh to face the most dangerous titan yet, Kellara the Spirit Guide.*

## Summary

Guardian scouts report that they have found the sanctum for Kellara’s knightly order – it is in the thick jungles of Jakkesh, and Valla believes that this is where the breach point to her demi-plane will be. Quill and Lucius get visions from Siaska, but Nova has one from Kalus who tells her about the threat that Atelicus offers them, and even offers to help them. He also tells Nova that the plan to teleport Vortinssar back to Genas may result in the destruction of the city.

As they prepare to head to Jakkesh to face Kellara, Lucius requests assistance from Valla to turn him back into an Elf: she is largely successful but overshoots a little and makes him into an angsty teen Lucius. There is an attempt to train the Wolf Pack and Lucius destroys a flock of rare magical birds before Valla completes his return to his normal age. The party arrives at Jakkesh to find that a large swathe of the jungle is now enshrouded in magical darkness – they find the Guardian scout camp abandoned and survive multiple waves of attacks by undead before being saved and reinforced by the returning Guardians.

Escorted to the forward camp of the Guardians that have been scouting the area, the Champions realise that something is stalking them and discover that it has been infecting the Guardians with some sort of disease. They send the injured Guardians away, hoping that they will escape while they take a few specialists and continue on to Nightbloom Hold. They are ambushed by The Stalker, a Wild Elf and Knight of Kellara now in a sickly and pestilent form. After a vicious fight, the party manages to take The Stalker down, but they are severely weakened and need to rest. Quill uses the Eye of the Storm to find out more about Kellara’s four main knight commanders and finds out that they are in for a tough time, needing to combat knights of War, Pestilence (whom they have just temporarily defeated), Famine, and Death.

The party moves on to the keep, storms it and fights against the remaining three knight commanders . Nova uses a signal to the Stormchaser to help her destroy a giant tree that seems to be partly responsible for the magical gloom. One by one, they defeat War, Famine, and a re-born Pestilence. Their last obstacle, Death, is overcome, and they call on Valla to open a gate to Kellara’s demi-plane.

Kellara proves to be a difficult opponent, shrouded in shadow armour and protected by banshees – through the clever use of her lantern and motes of light, they manage to attack her and push her into her martial form. Kellara transports them away from Valla’s protection to the Path of Light – the route to the afterlife that lies beyond the Cradle. They fight against Kellara, Sorrow Incarnate, eventually managing to defeat her and send her back to the loving embrace of her mother, Siaska.

The party retrieves the Guardian scouts that had escaped the camp and heads back to Horizon.

## Major NPCs

List of major NPCs encountered in this chapter.