Stars of the Dawn

Stars Of The Dawn is a questline run by Ethan. It follows the story of two Almighty Dawn soldiers, Elijah Sumter, and Jacob Castle, along with their squad.

The Hellbent Arc
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Episode One: Basic Training

Elijah Sumter, Jacob Castle, and Aloric Zaxby are assigned to a new base, where they reintegrate into basic training. They meet their squad leader, Sgt Louis Apple, and their squadmate, Bill Thompson, as well as the rest of the platoon. they also play football and jacob challenges a rude officer named duke bently to a duel and loses.

Episode Two: Battle of Rothburg

The division in Fort Cash get abruptly shipped out to the town of Rothburg, and upon arrival partake in a bloody battle in the trenches. Aloric stumbles upon the remains of Artur Wagner, who holds the Helix, some sort of artifact. after both sides learn of the artifact's presence, they both call in all of their reinforcements, and a full fleged all out earth shaking battle commences. after Aloric faces off with a demon lord, he sacrifices his life to deliver the artifact to the almighty dawns outpost.

Episode Three: The Hellbent

while coping with the loss of Aloric, Elijah and Jacob leave Rothburg on Malovar's personal Airship, The Hellbent. They meet Kachar, an Aarakokra sniper, secretly an assasin who is currently assigned to investigate the Dawn for a connection to an organization called "the gilded door", who joins them. Jacob experiences severe PTSD, Kachar is haunted by his past first assignment as an assasin, and Elijah reunites with his father. while on board, a demon named Zabraak sneaks on, and Malovar's right hand man, Zarlug, is actually a double agent. Also, Sam Sumter, Elijah's father, is in league with them, and is a member of the gilded door. Sam attempts to recruit elijah, but Kachar uncovers Sam's plot and confronts him on the bridge, and shoots sam in the chest. at this, Zarlug stabs Malovar and activated a message stone with the word "ragnarok", and destroys 44 Almighty Dawn airships while over Dustveil. Zarlug is killed, and the party fights Zabraak, and they throw him from the airship. Meanwhile, Jacob is attacked by a Teifling named Zabrun, who takes his finger and says "your family's debt is repaid." Afterwards, Malovar changes course from the City of Blood, to Stormfist Cove, his personal City-State. They land on the Nitail estate, and meet Malovar's brother, Damir Nitail.

Episode Four: A Matter of Honor

After a heated debate with Damir, the party is given a new mission by Malovar: Find the legendary blacksmith and warrior, Bor-Lan, and bring him to Stormfist Cove. Malovar plans to retire, and he says only Bor can officiate it. They travel to the town of North Bay, where it's said Bor is living. After searching the town to no avail, the party befriends a mechanic named Smokey. Elijah encounters a mysterious fisherman who gives Elijah a strange safe with a royal Ravenwing crest, along with some advice. Kechar runs into another member of the order of Osiris, and it is revealed that years ago, Kechar was ordered to kill a man who was transporting the bastard child of the king, who was killed by an evil group called the highwaymen who are working with the guilded door and also were the ones who took jacobs finger. The bastard child is revealed to be Jacob after he opens Elijah's safe. this implies fhat because the Highwaymen took Jacob's finger, they have access to the Ravenwing vault, which contains a multivoid shard which would give them access to the multivoid. when the safe is opened, theres a painting inside of an old petrified tree that smokey recognizes and takes them to in his fancy car. when they get there, they find only an old gas station with an old truck inside, almighty dawn gear, and a mysterious sword. when this sword is picked up, it flies over to the truck where two ghoulish clones of Jacob and Elijah are. the ghouls drive away, and the party chases them in smokeys car. a battle ensues and they retrieve the sword which says "Sumter" on it in ancient Grugon. when they return to the town, a guilded door member is there, holding the townspeople hostage. after a standoff, Bor comes out of hiding and rescues them. he then reveals Jacob's lineage to him, after implying Elijah also carries a great destiny. the party ask him to return with them to which Bor reveals Malovar plans to have Bor kill him in an orcish ritual, but eventually agrees.

Episode Five: The Gulshank

the party brings bor back to Stormfist Cove and he is taken away. the party catches up with the rest of their squad and they learn that Grunch has been acting strange and now has gone missing. they search the castle but cannot find him. they eventually find bor and bor reveals that he in fact helped build the castle and after hearing that grunch had mentioned something about a basement the last time he was seen, bor directs them to a certain bathroom stall where they find a talking toilet. they eventually convince the toilet to let them inside, and they find Grunch inside of a cursed vault of treasure completely unresponsive clutching some pearls. they take him out and they rest for the remaind

Demons In Chasehope Arc
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EPISODE SIX: DEMONS IN CHASEHOPE: PART ONE

elijah is confronted by an almighty dawn officer who makes it clear that he intends to halt Elijah's rise to the top of the dawn, and the party, with Ransey Salazar in tow, head off to Ravenwing. they arrive in a town called coswig, and the people there ask for help finding their lost townsfolk who had been kidnapped by the barmaids brother, thomas, who was possessed by a demon. they go to an old almighty dawn fort that was once used by Sam Sumter and Malovar, and they sneak around the fort to rescue the victims. as they confront Thomas for one last time, a man named Father Sheamus the Worthy enters the fort, casts the demon out, and the party kills it. thomas is saved and they return back to the town. Jacob is visited by Sheamus Balderdash, who warns that his father, Sheamus the Worthy, cannot be trusted. Sheamus also pleads with Jacob not to go to Chasehope. Jacob raises these fears to the party, and Elijah ponders the decision, and attends a church service also

EPISODE SEVEN: DEMONS IN CHASEHOPE: PART TWO

the party heads to chasehope and father sheamus teaches elijah how to do an exorcism. jacob helps leafen secure a date with an old flame, and then goes and participates in a street fight. the next day, elijah investigates the exorcism and finds that the evil spirit is from the clients older brother who suffered from madness and then dies alone in his basement. jacob, bill, and belbon go spy on leafens date only to learn his date is a wanderlei spy who attempts to turn them in. they escape and join up with elijah who then successfully performs the exorcism. later, grunch awakens, and leafen is struck by lightning after an attempted suicide but is not even injured although his hair is turned stark white. grunch acts strange and seems to have a slight mysterious power. after a week, father sheamus does 24 more exorcisms, and balderdash reveals to jacob that he did this to raise influence for a specific demon faction and is in fact possessed himself by a demon lord named Aragoth. balderdash begs them to help deal with the problem and the quest ends.

EPISODE EIGHT: DEMONS IN CHASEHOPE: PART THREE

the party reluctantly agrees to help Balderdash, Jacob meets a man named Allagash who he believes to be god, and they gather some supplies from Father Sheamus' vacant room and head off for the cathedral. they enter the cathedral and find it abandoned. they find a tunnel under the altar, which leads to some catacombs. they find a single door with a key in the lock. when turned, they hear a laughing, and then go through several illusions set in their most painful memories. Jacob must relive the battle of rothberg, elijah must relive his fathers death, leafen mist relive his sisters grisly murder, grunch relives the events under stormfirst cove where he was attacked by some dark monster, belbon must relive his imprisonment on a slave boat, and hakshi must relive the battle of cold ridge. the party escapes the illusions and confronts Father Sheamus in the real sanctuary, and after some emotional exchanges between him and Elijah, the demon comes out and they fight to defeat it. though Elijah nearly dies, they kill the demon and then prevent Balderdash from executing Father Sheamus. Sheamus has a few parting words, and then passes away. They bury him on a sacred hill outside of Chasehope, and then go to meet Lewis Hill of the Drylanders, their contact. he says he will take them to Ezgog the Goblin.

EPISODE NINE: EZGOG THE MIGHTY

the party meets Ezgog the mighty. A goblin from the north who has vowed to reclaim his ancestors lost land. The party meets a goblin named fletch, who immediately strikes a chord with Jacob. the two spend time together and develop a quick bond over fishing. meanwhile, Elijah meets a goblin named Kasper. A tough veteran goblin with a huge ego. at the end of the quest, Jacob and Fletch challenge Kasper and Elijah to a game of Sling. Jacob and Fletch win on a last second goal and they return to camp victorious. but as they enter, Ezgog is waiting for them, and this does not bode well as leaving the camp grounds is a violation of Goblin Peace

EPISODE TEN - WHISPERS IN THE DARK

ezgog lets them off with a warning, and the party is tasked with taking an outpost along the Gorro Road. before they set out, Fletch is encouraged to read some poetry to his crush, which backfires horribly. Jacob goes after fletch when he runs off, and the two have a heart to heart. the party then goes to take the base, and does so successfully, although Jacob's behavior in the mission causes a great deal of conflict with Elijah. this altercation between the two spills over to Jacob arguing with Hakshi, until Grunch tries to settle the matter. Jacob and Hakshi continue to be difficult, and Grunch loses his temper and unleashes some sort of curse that paralyzes the two with fear. they all start to realize something horrible is happening. this goes on for a few minutes, until Grunch grows frustrated and confused. he has a quiet moment and then mutters "Loktar", his husband's name which he had previously forgotten, and disappears, leaving the party in magical darkness with magically induced fear for up to 12 hours. when the darkness subsides, Jacob and Bill have a talk where its revealed that Jacob had intended to kill himself with his pistol, but "didnt have the guts". Bill then reveals that he had found Fletch and Belbon and knocked them unconscious to spare them from what was happening, and then turned his gun on himself, only for it to be out of bullets. the two find a morbid irony in this, and the party returns to camp.

EPISODE ELEVEN - Leader of Men

the party sets off to take the second outpost along the Corkbed river after a week of recovery. the mission again goes well until Jacob accidentally shoots at Hakshi, who disappears into a building. at the end of the conflict, Hakashi emerges from a door behind Jacob and blasts him with his Trench Gun, sending him toppling over the rampart. Jacob is saved by his protective armor, and Fletch emerges from the door, oblivious to the situation. Jacob climbs back up to the top to see Hakshi pointing his gun directly at Fletch. Jacob and Hakshi go back and forth and then Hakshi points the gun at Jacob. Fletch then pulls out a grenade and pulls the pin, holding the switch, saying that if everybody doesnt calm down he'll blow the grenade. Suddenly, a shot rings out and Hakshi catches a bullet to his neck and falls from the rampart. The party turns to see Bill sitting on a telegraph line with a sniper rifle. Jacob runs down to Hakshi only to see him trying to escape, and shoots him in the back as Hakshi falls into the river. the party takes a moment to collect their wits, and Jacob and Elijah start to argue, with Jacob blaming Elijah for the situation. Elijah finally snaps, screaming at jacob and admitting that he may not be the best leader of men, but he is trying. Bill helps to settle things down and gives a speech that encourages everybody. the party then goes after Hakshi, only to find that he not only survived, but has disappeared into the wild. but when they arrive back at camp, Hakshi is there waiting for them, saying that he gave Malovar his word and that he wont abandon the mission. they reach a shaky truce and they report to Ezgog. Ezgog informs them that their area has been intruded on by an Orcish War Chief named Wakazam. Ezgog confides in Elijah that he believes he will die as he must face Wakazam in a duel for the honor of his camp. he asks Elijah and Jacob to go retrieve a boss coin from Makkij's tomb, as he has been operating without one all this time.

The Helix Arc
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Skyrest Arc
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Rook's Rest Arc