Endworld Skies

## Introduction

The ground shakes. It was the third time today. Buckland scoops up his glass to save it from a fall -  a fine Mroran like that can’t afford to go to waste. After a swirl and a sip, he replaces the toothpick between his lips, brushes a strand of dusty blond hair from his face, and leans against the hitching post.

“Now y’all understand Hope ain’t got the kind of funds to be dealin’ with this more ‘n once. These tremors keep coming, faster ‘n’ faster, and folks are gonna start wanderin’ back down to join our friends in Newthrone.”

He spits.

“Don’t got my eyes on the moons and the stars like some folks, but I reckon you don’t need to be a diviner to know that new tower up in the Endworlds got somethin’ to do with it.”

“So get out there and earn your fee, Wayfinders. Save my town.”

## Expedition Summary

Keen to get on the road, the Wayfinders follow the road north out of the town towards the presumed epicentre of the tremors - a newly-discovered tower in the foothills of the Endworld Mountains.

Finding a sinkhole across the road, the Wayfinders seek a way around. However, Leo is distracted by a whimpering. These were the fake cries of a horrid monkey, and more of the creatures set upon the Wayfinders when the ruse was discovered.

Once the creatures were put down, the Wayfinders are met by a blue-scaled dragonborn who would not give her name. She was a hunter who carried no metallic weapons, and was prepared to offer her services as a guide in return for glammered fabrics (bought in town by the Wayfinders) and rights to harvest the meat and acid from monkeys. The dragonborn tells the Wayfinders of her people's tales of the new tower - the Sun Piercer. They are warned to avoid it, especially during tremors. Their legends attribute it to a ship that brought the dragonborn from Argonnessen, or a giant spear used by ancient god.

The group set off deeper into the jungle towards the Sun Piercer, and come across a giant beast with the ability to control metal. After a fierce battle, the dragonborn is impressed by the Wayfinders, and reveals her name - Kiryx.

Not far from the tower, the group are approached by a peddler selling unusual wares that she claims to have recovered from outside the Sun Piercer, including a rock with an illusion that encourages people to ignore it, and a blue-green gourd. Maezyr buys the gourd and has first taste - finding that it colours his fingertips and allows him to use some minor druidic magic. Kiryx warns the group not to trust the peddler - Verity - because she is a tricksy yuan-ti. But they do, because they're the good guys.

The next day, the Wayfinders leave Verity and approach the Sun Piercer tower. They spook a clutch of beetles hanging around outside, and leave Kiryx outside to start some spelunking. After nearly losing Maezyr down a chute of loose earth, they come down to an underground chamber that looks an awful lot like a giant nest. The beetles attack them there, and Sandra finds that their bite has a minor petrification effect.

In the midst of the battle, the Wayfinders attempt to distract the beetles by stabbing the wall - as they suspected, it bleeds. Then its eye opens. Then the world falls apart.

The Sun Piercer is revealed as the crest of a kilometer wingspan pterosaur - and the Wayfinders awaken from their unconsciousness attached to its wing. They climb their way back to the body, and slip past a pair of giant remoras that are attached to the pterosaur's pack. Leo hears Kiryx shouting for help, and discover that Kiryx is trapped on the giant pterosaur's tail. Renvar takes a rope to her, and pulls her back - but the remoras attack! The battle goes well at first, but the tide begins to turn, and the Wayfinders jump off the Sun Piercer's back to the jungle below.

After a moment to catch their breathes, the Wayfinders discuss what happened and come to the conclusion that the Sun Piercer has awoken because someone or something has stolen its egg from the nest - and Verity must be the culprit. After a rest, they follow her trail back to the town in Hope, and confront her in a tense standoff in the street. She confesses to stealing the artifact to turn a prophet, and an intense magical battle ensues.

Eventually, Verity is defeated despite her incredible power as a geometer wizard. Bucklands means to brand her for the danger she put the town in, but the Wayfinders negotiate a lighter sentence - she would have to work to rebuild the town. Leo suggests he will have work for her after she's done, and Sandra means to quiz her more about their shared magical tradition.

The Wayfinders and Kiryx take the rescued egg back to the Sun Piercer's nest to offer it to the totem pterosaur. Leo flies it across the crater, while Renvar, Sandra and Maezyr defend it from hungry beetles and remora below. The egg hatches, and the baby Shelbert calls for its mother. The Sun Piercer returns, picks Shelbert out of the old nest, and returns to Lammania through a portal of its own creation.

The tremors are stopped. The world is saved. In thanks, Kiryx takes the Wayfinders to meet her people, the Aasterinian dragonborn nomads.

The End!