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Episode 15

## "I want to burn Grindwall to the Ground"

* We kill the werebeasts and bury Aurelius, Olivia cries. We then leave the mansion, journeying back across the quarantine district. On the way we are attacked by werewolves and choose to run rather than try and fight them in the fog.
* We get back to the city proper. We run into Rikki who asks us to get Orienna to leave, because he's worried about her.
* Vahlka and Olivia buy and newspaper and discover that a week passed while we were in the void. The newspaper mentions that a criminal named Verde has stolen the Green Dragon Mask from the wizard school in Elchezar.
* The Nightwardens appear to have entered the city. From a distance we see Dirga and Osyna having a tense conversation with Marisa about the Nightwardens right to search certain parts of the city.
* We head back to Ori's apartment and meet up with her. Olivia convinces her to come with us when we leave Grindwall for Tamvrien.
* The party stays behind while Vahlka moves ahead to talk to Anika about orders, she hands over the evidence she found in the quarantine district. Anika is grumpy with her, but is grateful to get that much. Vahlka collects Boris and meets back up with the party at Wyssa's shop in the market district.
* We hop on the boat and head toward Tamvrien - with the goths hiding below decks and sulking about the entire trip.

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Marcoth Shadowbane

## Relations

### Family

Ursula Shadowbane (Wife), Vahlka Shadowbane (Daughter), Andrith Shadowbane (Daughter), Ender Shadowbane (Son), Andromache Shadowbane (Daughter)

## Game Statistics

### Stats

*Unknown*

**Marcoth Shadowbane** is the father of player character Vahlka and her three siblings.

## Appearance and Personality

Marcoth is a small and delicately built drow man with violet eyes. He stands just a bit shorter than Vahlka. He has been described as "pretty but useless" and was treated as such by his wife, Ursula. His children take more after him than their mother in appearance.

The party has not met Marcoth and Vahlka has hardly described him in detail. She has not seen him in about sixty years.

She has suggested he was kindly and soft-hearted for a drow. Marcoth directly intervened when Andrith was born prematurely and Ursula thought her so weak she should be culled. Vahlka has suggested she is far more fond of him than her mother.

## Trivia

* Marcoth was described by Dex as "nice enough by normal people standards that the drow didn't like him much."
* Vahlka's little silver clasp she wears on her braid was given to her by her dad when she was very young and she's kept it for over a hundred and eighty years.
* His relationship to Andromache and Ender is assumed, it is very possible that Ursula has remarried in Vahlka's absence and he is not their father.
Sirius Silvertongue

Sirius Silvertongue is a silver dragon and a cleric of Bahamut. His lair is the city of Tamvrien, which he rules along with his close friends Minerva and Allohine. Sirius first appeared in Barkley Bayle's dream with Mysa'aor, where she saw a vision of him (in human form) and his compatriots discussing how to protect Tamvrien.

## Appearance and Personality

Sirius's polymorphed form is a human man, dressed in robes of Bahamut and wearing a silver symbol of the dragon god. He is older, with dark hair bearing streaks of gray. Dex has described him as old Matt Mercer. In his dragon form he presumably looks like a typical ancient silver dragon.

In the vision seen by Barkley, he seemed reluctant to leave Tamvrien, wanting to stay in the city to protect it. We know that Sirius opposes efforts to remove the red dragon mask from the Museum of Eternal Wonders.

Lucius described Sirius as "Very boring." He appears to be very studious.

Barkley attempted to convince Sirius to use a high level spell to restore Deacon's ears, but when he wasn't willing to do it right away, Barkley got mad.

Sirius has been hiding from the cult, who seem to want his skull for their Tiamat raising ritual. He helped the party in the Battle of Oasis by casting a high level Aid spell on them before they left.

## Backstory

Mf'ing ancient silver dragon.

Boyo made the mistake of loving a paladin and then paladin died and now he's old and grumpy.

## Relationships

He is friends with Minerva and Allohine. He was apparently very close with the gold dragon Eldrehain.

## Relevant Quotes

* "He's VERY BORING" -- Lucius about Sirius
Erathis

## Erathis, the Great Builder

Erathis is the goddess of civilization, order, invention and engineering in Teshol and realms relating to the Tesholan Earth.

## Culture

Erathis is the favored deity in Grindwall, and largely the only deity. She's also a favorite of the Architect's Guild in Elchezar.

Erathis has very few dedicated festivals, though she has many dedicated temples. Rather than celebrations, the building of the temples themselves is supposed to celebrate her. Many temples to Erathis are, in fact, *torn down* annually and then rebuilt newer and greater.

Virgo is the Tesholan sign of Erathis. People born under it are considered sharp-minded and detail-oriented. Unusually, scholars in Teshol have found that people born under the sign of Erathis are actually less likely to be mages than those who are not.

## Details

* ALIGNMENT: Lawful Neutral
* DOMAINS: Knowledge
* CHAMPIONS: Unknown
* RELATIONS: Avandra (lover), Melora (lover)
Episode 100

## Summary

A plan to infiltrate Deephold and rescue Anika is hatched. With the aid of a broken and rewired retriever, Barkley turning into a spider to steal a key, and Vahlka pretending to be Osyna... For once, nothing goes horribly wrong (yet).

## Recap

* Lucius and Nero team up and try to hotwire the retriever. He asks Lucius to scry on Osyna, who we see walking down the hallway into her office. She sits at the desk, attempts to write something, writes a couple sentences, and then gives up on whatever she's writing and paces back and forthin apparent frustration before smashing something off of one of the shelves. Sits back down and kicks her feet up on her desk.
* Vahlka then suggests we scry on Anika - we see her alive in a very dimly lit cell, magically darkened. Alive and breathing, chained down, but seemingly not doing well. Her hair has not been cut but we cannot tell if she has a black eye or not.
* Nero, Olivia, and Lucius set about trying to hot-wire the retriever but do a bad job. Dumbass circle.
* Godfrey offers to stay up and help Nero with the retriever and forgo his long rest since he can get most his stuff back with a short one. They finally succeed.
* Vahlka runs off to go collect the retrievers missing legs. While she's out a thick magical fog rolls in. Godfrey and Olivia try to contact her but fail. Vahlka senses a demon in the fog, and fails a madness save as she looks at the creature - presumably Obscura but makes it back to the cavern unscathed. When questioned she lies and says she is fine, but tells the others about the encounter.
* Nero and Katya each take a watch for the rest of the night.In the morning Nero informs us we need to steal a key from the nightwarden camp to get into the Deephold, and that he believes there ought to be one undefended in Kiare's tent. We scout out the camp for a few minutes.
* Barkley casts Polymorph on herself and turns into a giant wolf spider and heads into the camp alone.She is accosted by the spiders at the bridge, but she manages to disarm them with interpretive dance. She listens and hears someone talking inside one of the tents so decides to try the other seemingly empty one. She slips into a window in the side invisibly and steals two letters (1 and 2), the key into Deephold, and some of Kiare's fancy dresses. She slips out, then turns back into a spider and rejoins the party quickly.
* We discuss the letters for a bit before heading back and collecting the retriever and Katya. We head toward Deephold and are confronted with a bridge guarded by four elite guards. Vahlka transforms her armor to look like Osyna's battle regalia, loads the party into the portable hole, and then half bluffs/half intimidates her way past the guards and we end the session.

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Episode 87

## Summary

Another Chronatus puzzle is found, ending with a chess game that is anything but fair. As per custom, a triumphant party is showered with magic items.

## Recap

While the party walks through the Chezar grasslands during a torrential storm, heading towards Lorane, they notice three shapes struggling to fly in the wind. One of these shapes ended up being knocked out of the air

Storm was too bad to walk in so we found shelter

We chat with birds

Lucius scries on Kanna

Rain doesn't let up so Olly uses control weather

Olivia accidentally starts a goblin cult

We come across one of Chronatus's flags and go investigate

There's a tiny door we have to travel through - Barkley crawls through, Lucius, Astrid, Olivia, and Godfrey make their way through with magic. Deacon, Zholssen, Sylvanas and Kakere wait outside.

The first room has a series of riddles, where the answers could be drawn on stone plates with heat sensing areas on them by running a finger along it in the shape of a word

The next room is an active chess board, where the party plays chess against a statue of Chronatus. A gold dragon statue is the king, and Chronatus is is the queen. Godfrey becomes an opposing pawn, Olivia the queen opposite Chronatus, Lucius becomes a knight, and Astrid a rook.

Eventually, Chronatus cheats in the chess game. This gives Barkley the idea to cheat too. Barkley "takes" the queen and puts the gold dragon statue in checkmate.

As a reward for completing the puzzle, we receive three items: X-ray goggles (given to Barkley), The Robe of Eyes (given to Godfrey obviously, and its absolutely horrible), and the Ring of the Ram (given to Astrid)

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Episode 39: Bees???

* The party hangs out in the drow encampment - Vahlka and Barkley go to into the secret voice channel to attend dinner with the rest of the drow, while Olivia, Lucius, and Godfrey stay back and chat.
* Not sure exactly what went on at the dinner, but apparently Marli said that she always found small people ugly, directing the insult at Barkley, who later asked Vahlka if the drow thought she was cute. The answer was a resounding yes.
* Vahlka and Barkley bring back some big insect legs as food. Godfrey and Barkley eat them, Olivia blanches and refuses to eat.
* The party uses Sending to talk to Anika. Anika says she's alive but wounded and told the party to meet at an address in Elchezar.
* The party has a long rest
* The party decides, with info from Rystus Shadowbane, to go under the lake of Ilithid to get to their goal, rather than across the lake. They decide this despite the fact that Rystus warned them that underneath the lake is a hive of Ghost Wasps, enormous intelligent and aggressive wasps with poison and psychic abilities.
* Don't use fire, the party is warned. The bees and their hive are flammable. The party nods as though they understand but you know how it goes with player characters.
* Rystus, with Bright Eyes, shows them to the entrance of the hive and says good luck and leaves them
* Party attempts stealth. Fails.
* BEES. Barkley attempts to parlay with one. Negotiations quickly fail. BLOOD FOR THE HIVE.
* Battle ensues, with several PCs getting poisoned - Barkley is paralyzed by poison and carried off by a bee, practically dead. Vahlka saves her by using Command on the bee and ordering it to drop the gnome.
* Lucius sets a bee on fire, making the bee take huge damage but also causing the surrounding area to go up in flames. When Lucius tries to avoid his own firebomb, the bee gets an attack of opportunity and pumps a shit ton of damage into him. Party Members Foolishly Exploding Themselves After Being Warned Not To Count: 3/5. Godfrey and Barkley, the most pro-arson members of the party, are the only ones left.
* Due to the fire, Desdemona and Tristram are separated from the rest of the party
* Olivia stabs a bunch of tinier bees with Necrotaush, making a bee-kabab. Her mind tricks and poison damage aren't great against psychic bees. Godfrey is eldritch blasting. Tristram is stabbing one of the big bees with her giant pink sparkly Lisa Frank sword. Desdemona is hiding.
* Lucius's bee dies from fire damage.
* Vahlka gets paralyzed by poison. The second bee flees.
* Tristram picks up Desdemona and spider climbs around all the fire, uniting the party again. The party flees, taking the hallway away from where the escaping bee went. Vahlka has to be carried part of the way because she is paralyzed.

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Marisa Lilygrave

art by Dex

Marisa Lilygrave is a red wilder Gunslinger, and the leader of the Grindwall Iron Guard.

## Background

Marisa's background is mostly unknown. She is apparently an unbonded red dragon wilder.

## Appearance and Personality

Marisa has fire-red hair, and stands at about six feet tall. She wears a black coat to make her stand out as the leader among the rest of the guards' bright blue. She has a rifle known as Foeslayer.

She appears stern and commanding.

## Trivia

* Marisa is the first wilder that players personally encountered in the game.
Episode 35

## Episode 35 - Early Bird Gets the Worm!

* The game picks up where we left off, with the northmarch party trapped inside a chamber with Verde and Noir, with Verde wielding the newly acquired Necrotaush, and Minerva stuck behind Noir's prismatic wall spell.
* Most of this is combat so I won't get into too much detail. Shiver is super strong from the potion she drank in the previous episode, and is credit to team when she summons a whole pack of wolves to gang up on Noir. Bran is an NPC so he forgets how to do magic and just swords the whole time. Olivia yells uselessly at Verde and gets a little bit stabbed. Awoo does the bird-bard-barian thing and axes. Macey does what Macey does and uses her crossbow. Noir is a pain in the butt with spells.
* Marchosias and Olivia deliver a one-two punch to Verde. This came first in in the form of Marchosias's Fear spell (probably the MVP move of the fight), which made the bard drop his new sword and run. The other half of the combo was Olivia's Polymorph spell which turned Verde into a tiny worm. Verde was out of the fight - Olivia picks up the sword triumphantly and starts moving to go pick up the worm to take him captive.
* Awoo realizes that Olivia can't get there fast enough and that Noir is going to get there before her, so instead he dives in, grabbing the still-polymorphed worm in true bird fashion.
* Minerva begins to break through the Prismatic Wall.
* Noir is ready to move out, Misty Stepping across the room to grab Awoo and Verde both. She then plane shifts away to the hells with all three of them in tow after Awoo fails his charisma save.
* Minerva busts in but it's too little too late - Verde, Noir, and Awoo are all gone. Minerva realizes that the Cult is in the Northmarch and that Whitehill and the Stone Earth House are in danger, so she rushes everyone to leave with her and head back to town to save the villagers.
* Everyone climbs on the backs of Haven and Minerva to fly. Olivia attunes the sword. We are all upset about Awoo!

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Hadernyx

Hadernyx "The Dream Eater" is a shadow demon that existed in the void. When the party came near a Fiend's Mirror in the basement of Merlin Laroth's mansion in the Grindwall quarantine district, they were pulled into his domain. Hadernyx put most of the party under the effect of illusory dreams while he presumably fed on their sanity. Barkley, the only party member not under the effect of the dreams, began the rescue of her friends by entering strange mirrors to her friends' dreams, and stabbing the person or item that was anchoring the illusion. The party then fought Hadernyx as he mimicked their abilities. After being defeated, Hadernyx claimed he would see the party again.

First Appearance: "Episode 13: I want to stab him in the butt!"

## Quotes

To Vahlka: "You revel in the thought of strength, but you have none. It is an illusion. They say the lone wolf catches no prey."

To Olivia (in the form of a vicious mockery spell cast from the shadow-demon version of herself): "Aimless, wandering daughter. You act but do not think. It is you who will bring ruin and pain upon those who care for you."

To Olivia: "You bring the wolves to your door, but how can you protect them? Frail girl."

To Mysa'aor: "Prince of nothing. You squandered the affection of those who loved you. Now you are void."

## Other Information

From a book found in the quarantine district estate: "Hadernyx -- There is a passage on a Balor from a long time ago called "Hadernyx the Dragon-Slayer" who killed the dragon Eldrethine in his lair in the drakelands and then took it over. The dragon was killed during the Scale War by several agents of the Shimmering Convergence, most notably struck the killing blow by a young brass dragon named Chronatus. The dragons trapped him, though historically the details are unknown, and he was said to have faded forever, unable to reform in the abyss."
The Black Cat

"The Black Cat" is a title for the person who is at the head of The Claws of Bastus. It has been confirmed that the Black Cat's acutal identity is Nero Duskheart.

He wears a black, catlike mask with no eye holes. His weapon is a black bow, seemingly made of onyx and carved with hieroglyphics, with black arrows.

## Other Interesting Facts

* The Black Cat really fucking loves cats.
Nero Duskheart

Art by Dex

**Neronvain Duskheart** (frequently shortened to Nero) was a Drow Nightwarden who was a close friend of Vahlka Shadowbane. He has been confirmed to be The Black Cat.

## Appearance & Personality

Nero is a tall, lithe and graceful drow man of thin stature. He has bright orange eyes and long white hair. He wears leather armor and a full face mask -- He wears a black, catlike mask with stilted eye holes. His weapon is a black bow, seemingly made of onyx and carved with hieroglyphics, with black arrows.

Vahlka has described him as being charming, talkative, and both the smartest and stupidest man she's ever met. Yet, Nero did not speak much when we saw him last. He seems to bear Vahlka at least some affection still, as he recovered Boris off the black market and gave him back to Vahlka. He also treated Barkley kindly after her mother's death.

## History

Even Vahlka doesn't know much of Nero's backstory. He was born lower class in Umbravall. Became a Nightwarden. Apparently was roommates and friends with Anika Venomblood.

Met and had a rather extended friends with benefits relationship with Vahlka about thirteen years ago. Six years ago he and Vahlka were ambushed by sand elves and Andarsella in the Vastlands, Vahlka fled and left him to die, but he was apparently captured instead.

He spent some time in Aket'o as a slave. His throat was damaged and he now speaks in a raspy forced tone. At some point he left the city, formed a close relationship with Andarsella, and killed the previous Black Cat and took his position in The Claws of Bastus.

## Trivia

* Nero nicknamed everyone and Vahlka picked up the habit herself after his death. His nickname for Vahlka was "Doll."
* Nero's full name is shared with the green wyrmspeaker of old, as such, he greatly prefered his nickname.
* Nero's anshi was a hawk.
* He's Purble.
Kosith

Kosith is a rakshasa from the Nine Hells who is also a former prisoner of the Deephold. The party first encountered her in Tamvrien in Episode X. Vahlka  noticed that her deephold necklace was lighting up in the theatre district of Tamvrien, so the party tried to locate the source of the glowing. Boris lead the party to the rakshasa inside a theater, and Olivia spotted the mysterious figure running out of the building. The party chased her into an alleyway and managed to catch her prone before eventually convincing her to talk.

Later, the party found her as she was being assaulted by devils. The party fought the devils trying to make it to Kosith, but though the other devils were defeated, Kosith herself escaped. A note on the body of a tiefling from the fight made it clear that the Cult regards Kosith as a traitor and would like to see her killed.

## Appearance and Personality

Kosith's true appearance looks like an orange, humanoid tiger with backwards hands and black hair on the back of her head. However, like most rakshasa's, Kosith is capable of shapeshifting. Like all Deephold prisoners, Kosith is missing an eye that was replaced with The Black Eye, though this solid black stone was only visible when the fiend was in her true form.

## Backstory

Kosith claims that her duty is to protect the dragon masks, because it is in the interest of her master Dispater that Tiamat stay bound in the Hells. According to Kosith, Tiamat has been a source of power for the Hells. A long time ago, possibly hundreds of years in the past, Kosith was in Umbravall checking on the status of the blue dragon mask, held by the Empress of Umbravall. While in the city, the raskshasa was arrested for "being suspicious", had her eye removed and replaced with The Black Eye, and was held in the Deephold. Kosith was freed from the prison when Andrith Shadowbane freed Daggerspine, destroying a great deal of the prison and setting loose a variety of creatures and criminals.

The rakshasa is looking for a portal to her home plane the Nine Hells. Due to the nature of The Black Eye, she is unable to plane shift or be banished to her home plane.The only way for her to return is for her to move through a portal.

## Relationships

The party isn't super fond of her. Vahlka wants her dead, the rest of the party was wary of her at best.

Kosith is clearly an enemy of the Cult of Tiamat.

## Trivia

Rakshasas are known of course for their unique jazz hands.

* The players who are in both the Heroes of Legend campaign (set in Teshol) and the Rise of Tiamat campaign (set in Faerun) encountered Rakshasa's on the same week.
Sayda

**Sayda** is a female Kumi-ho the party encountered in Episode 105, where she stalked them curiously for a time before they managed to elude her.

The party was tasked by Hypatia to bring her Sayda's tail, in addition to a list of other demon body parts, in order for her to scribe a spell that would allow them to pass into the Court of Stars.

She appears to be, at least at the moment, acting as a sort of diplomat between Graz'zt and Obscura. The party found her schmoozing up to Graz'zt at the Dark Prince's party in Episode 108, though what her goal in doing so is remains unknown. The party lured her out of the party and attacked her, but the Kumi-ho managed to elude them by casting fly and jaunting to the ethereal plane.
Jethnik Hadryon

Jethnik Hadryon is a non-player character in Dexter Fawkes's *Heroes of Legend*campaign in the setting of Teshol. Jeth is a member of Andrith Shadowbane's adventuring party. He is a half-orc and a former black dragon wilder.

## Appearance

Jethnik is a very handsome (OR AT LEAST VAHLKA THINKS SO) and physically imposing half-orc. He is large and tall (7ft tall) and has tusks, and he has a braided beard and dreadlocks. His primary weapon is a bow and arrow, and he is accompanied by his ranger companion - a black panther named Kitty.

## Personality

Jeth comes across as very mellow, or 'zen'. He is generally friendly and had no trouble getting along with the party after Deacon introduced them, though he had reservations about the party's trustworthiness. He seems to be fairly wise and is generally a likable person all around. He is also a person who very much loves cats, and in particular, his gigantic armored black panther.

## History

Jeth is an unbonded black dragon wilder, meaning that at one point he was essentially the brainwashed pawn of a black dragon, living amongst a tribe of druids, barbarians, and rangers who were supernaturally enhanced and mind-controlled by their dragon lord. At some point, he travelled with Andrith Shadowbane to become unbonded and free from his previous bond.

He first met Andrith's party when they were looking for the black dragon mask. Jeth was, for some reason, a captive from his tribe - he escaped, but Andrith and company did not know that he was not part of the tribe, and so she attacked him and broke his nose.

At some point, he and the rest of Andrith's party slew the white dragon Grenn.

## Relationships

Jeth is extremely close with his enormous black panther, Kitty. He apparently spent his entire share of the white dragon horde on buying mithral armor for Kitty.

Deacon Rothford has stated that Jeth is his best friend. The two appear incredibly close and obviously trust each other a great deal, including being physically affectionate to one another.

Jeth appears to be good friends with Andrith, they traveled together to become unbonded to the dark forces that affected their lives.

Vahlka Shadowbane has a ... romantic (if we're being generous) interest in Jeth, and has stated she wants to "climb him like a tree". Jeth is gay and Vahlka does not realize this because she is a -1 insight moron.

## Other Interesting Facts

* Cannot hit a single fucking attack but that's okay we love him anyway.
Episode 78

## T-rexes and TPKs

* We meet Andy and Deacon when we come back to the Knock-Out Pit to collect Kalesius. Deacon says he cast a divination spell and it told him he could find what he was looking for in the Beastlands. He would not say what it was. He and Andy both offer to join us in the Gauntlet as well, but we stick with the original plan and take the level 20 and well-statted fighter rather than bird nerd or 6 con monk.
* This was just a bunch of pretty meaningless combat I don't want to blow by blow so here's just a list of what we fought each round:
	+ Round 1: Dire Wolf, Harpy, Ghoul
	+ Round 2: Black Dragon Wyrmling, Bugbear, Salamander
	+ Round 3: ogre, owlbear, lion
	+ Round 4:  rhino, ettin, nightmare
	+ Round 5: werewolf, water elemental, bone naga
	+ Round 6: Chimera, Troll, Red Dragon Wyrmling
	+ Round 7: Hill Giant, young black dragon, mansquito
	+ Round 8: T-rex, Stone Giant, Mammoth
	+ Round 9: Hydra, **Shield Guardian, Clay Golem (These two were not killed.)**

Highlights: Everyone except Vahl and Lucy polymorphed into a motherfuckin' T-rex at some point. Vahlka flirted with Kal over a Mansquito corpse. Barkley was the last man standing.

* We all die.
* We wake up at the grand tree in the center of Ysgard and head back to the tavern to meet back up with Deek and Andy. We earned 690 coins.

## Chat Log

https://docs.google.com/document/d/16Ty3PmzNcIH\_Bjm8KbUMzzzIrXh0Zu7zRJ1X5\_VASWU/edit?usp=sharing

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River and Wraith

River & Wraith's Token Art

 A pair of fox demons who serve Obscura. They were tasked with retrieving Barkley after her betrayal of Obscura.

The party first encountered River and Wraith in Ysgard, when the pair of them tried to kidnap Barkley to take her back to the Abyss. The party fought them off, but River and Wraith said that they'd meet again. This promise was fulfilled when the party saw the pair in an inn in the Abyss, searching for Barkley still. The party avoided the couple and left town, and later found the couple in the woods along with Wisp and some Tormented Apostles. The party snuck up on them and engaged them in a very tough fight that ended with both River and Wraith being permanently destroyed.

River fights by throwing cursed fire. The fire continues burning until a person takes their action to put it out, and friends can only put out a person's fire by using Remove Curse. Each time a person takes fire damage they gain an additional "stack" of fire, which means the fire will do more damage with each stack, on every turn. Wraith fights using charm effects, spells, and his claws.

River and Wraith were very in love. At one point they were human, but after River was killed because his neighbors thought his bardic magic was evil, River was furious and made a deal with Obscura to kill everyone in the town in vengeance in exchange for her soul, so that she and Wraith could have an eternity together serving Obscura. Barkley learned this because after the party killed the couple for good, they left behind an orb of memories that she observed before it faded away to dust.
Rashi

Rashi is a green dragonborn monk who began the game trapped in the brig of The Lady's Vengeance along with Salty Stella, Olivia Rousseau, Kakara and Barkley Bayle. She helped the party fight in the mutiny of the ship, along with pirates Morgana One-Eye and Salty Randal. She accompanied the party to Banar's Landing, through the Sleepless Mire, through the Void, and to Grindwall, but after experiencing Grindwall briefly, she apparently decided that traveling with this group was a terrible idea. She hasn't been seen since she declined to enter the Grindwall sewers to get into the city proper.

Rashi is known for catching bullets, dabbing, and having a crush on Morgana.
Episode 96

## Summary

The fight to stave off the Abyssal madness comes to its tipping point. The party fights off the hideous spawn of the River Styx to gather the flowers that grow along its bank - a key component in making a potion that helps an individual from madness. Afterwards, after finding a treehouse for shelter, everyone struggles to keep their minds intact. Olivia in particular is affected, and Vahlka is rightfully concerned.

## Recap

* We spend the vast majority of the session fighting the Styx spawn. There's some shaky moments for Vahl and Deek gets knocked out like three times in a row, but through some cunning use of Wall of Fire and Thresh being a tanky beast we pull through and manage to gather a whole bunch of the flowers Lucius needs to make the madness resistance potions.
* We spot Lolth again, passing by overhead and lingering over us for a moment. We spend several hours searching for some ruins Calliope believes are nearby.
* We spot a tree-house that has been abandoned and decide to hole up there for the evening. Godfrey tricks Lucius into wearing Godfrey Jr. for a bit because we don't know how rules work.
* Vahlka, Lucius, Olivia, and Calliope all fail a madness save. Vahlka and Calliope both wake up trembling. Olivia is having a very rough time and begins acting irreverently hopeless - seemingly able to take nothing seriously and laughing brokenly. Lucius is frightened of going out doors and aggressively gets in Olly's face about it. Vahlka casts lesser restoration on Lucius, who settles down and immediately starts making the potions.
* Deacon lesser restorations both Calliope and Vahlka's madness effect away.
* Vahlka insists she take a greater restoration potion, but Olivia refuses so Vahlka has to wrestle her and force feed her a potion.
* Barkley and Lucius manage to make six potions over the course of three hours. Olivia and Vahlka both drink theirs immediately.
* Vahlka and Olivia have a heavy discussion about spending their resources on Olivia, who feel it isn't worth it to do so. After a bit of conversation Vahlka manages to at least settle down Olly a little bit. Vahlka climbs back into the the treehouse and bangs her head on the wall. Olivia bangs her head on Thresh.
* Vahlka talks to the party for a bit. Expressing that she's concerned Olivia is not doing well, and that the insistence that we not waste our resources on her is a sign of a deeper problem. We communally agree to keep an eye on her.

## Recording

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Melora

## Melora, Woman of the Wilds

Melora is the goddess of wilderness, nature and the sea in Teshol and other realms relating to the Tesholan Earth.

## Culture

There is less organized religion honoring Melora, though sailors and druids are often known to build small shrines to her. She's widely regarded as a deity who prefers smaller offerings rather than grand gestures and great followings. Her priesthood tends to consist of individuals, rather than acting as an organization.

Pisces is the Tesholan sign of Melora. People born under it are expected to have good health, and sailors have a superstition that such folk bring fair winds when they're aboard ships.

## Details

* ALIGNMENT: Neutral
* DOMAINS: Tempest, Nature
* CHAMPIONS: Unknown
* RELATIONS: Kord (brother), Erathis (lover), Avandra (lover), Tiamat (nemesis)

## Other

Melora is known for being tempestuous and emotional.
Episode 55

* Party starts off with Isil after the sandstorm, looking for their lost items in the desert.
* They find Vahlka's insignia, one immovable rod, and part of her armor but that's pretty much it.
* We also find our bag of holding, with a letter from Crow and some "gifts": a severed hand, half of the Rod of Celestial Devourers, a tooth from a dragon of unknown type, and some glass shards.
* While they party is lookin for stuff, a gnoll war band comes chasing after some dudes. The war band then decides to chase after us too
* Cool fun chase sequence in Isil's cart fleeing from the gnolls. Skill challenge ish thing is happen.
* The party eventually beat/outrun the gnoll carts
* The party decide to go back to one of the overturned carts from the chase to rob the cart for supplies
* Lucius abso-fucking-lutely WRECKS them with a single fireball spell holy shit.
* We loot a few minor things from the cart, including a weird gross drum, a Vrock feather, some rations, etc.

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Episode 85

## Summary

A plan to escape through the sewers goes badly. Barkley is spotted by a drow priestess and everyone is chased by a retriever. Ultimately, Vahlka is spirited away by their mechanical adversary and the remaining party panics at her absence.

## Recap

- discuss the plan

- load the priests and party - barkley and lucy stay out of bag. Lucy is polymorphed into a raven. He and barkley sneak out of the cathedral

- barkley is spotted by a drow priestess. Her and Lucy book it into the sewer

- We chat about where to go then hear an metallic noise vahlka is paralyzed by a beam as a retriever

- retriever catches up and we FIGHT it

- it tries to plane shift vahl but Lucy counterspells it

- retriever grapples vahlka and plane shifts her away. olly & lucy try and counterspell it and fail

- the party takes the priests onward, arguing about where to go

- olly sendings des who comes to meet up with the group and guide them out of the sewers to the outskirts of the city

- Zholssen offers to help them avoid the yuan-ti encampments

- Party runs away into the woods.

## Recording

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Episode 65

## The Devil's in the Details

* We fight the Oblex. Lucius catches everything on fire. Vahlka, Mak, and Lucius all get their fuckin' asses kicked a bit cause the Oblex can easily do enough damage to burst anyone in the party down in one round. We play the "everybody use their bonus actions to heal" game and ultimately pull off a win after the slime tries to dimension door into another chamber to get away.
* We find a slime coated scroll case in its remains. Inside is a letter addressed to Lead Archvist Onarafel.
* Vahlka peers around for some information on vampires and Vecna's artifacts. She sighs and puts the books back but Lucius takes them anyway.
* We decided (some of us begrudgingly) to go deliver the letter to the Lead Archivist and inform her about what went on in the library. We travel to a fancy manor house and are greeted by a butler who escorts us upstairs to speak with Onarafel. We are trailed upstairs by her two spooky guard dogs.
* We question Onarafel about the slime. Olivia notices that Onarafel states that the slime was red, when we had not mentioned that fact, and messages Vahlka to ask her to divine sense. Vahlka does so and confirms that the woman and her two dogs are all fiends.
* Olivia uses a sending spell to contact one of the Conservators we met at the library and informs them of the devils.
* We try and diplomatically make our exit but Onarafel insists we stay for tea, ignoring our refusals. Her hounds taking defensive positions around us. The doors out have been locked. Vahlka and Olivia message cantrip and make a plan to dimension door away but Onarafel returns downstairs and threatens us, demanding that we stay and talk rather than try and teleport away.
* Godfrey immediately turns into a giant ape rather than listen to the fiend's demands and starts a fight.

## Recording

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Andarsella

A Greater Sphinx the party met in Episode 18, who seems to be some sort of leadership in The Claws Of Bastus.

Andarsella watched as the party dueled her mate Tython and intervened when Vahlka attempted to kill the lesser sphinx. Vahlka has sworn that someday she will kill Andarsella, she has not elaborated why to the party but it can be presumed that the Sphinx caused her some sort of personal grievance when Vahlka was stationed in the Vastlands.

Her and The Black Cat seem to have a close relationship.
Andromache Shadowbane

## Relations

### Family

Ursula Shadowbane (mother), Marcoth Shadowbane (father), Ender Shadowbane (Brother), Andrith Shadowbane (sister), Vahlka Shadowbane (sister)

## Game Statistics

### Stats

*Unknown*

**Andromache Shadowbane** is the youngest daughter of the Shadowbane family. She was first found out about in Episode 38, when she was mentioned by Rystus. He described her as "tempestuous".

Little is known about her except that she is already a warden at the extremely young age of fifteen and was specially requested to join the Wardens by Osyna Bloodeye. She is still in the middle of her first Anshi and travels with her Anshi even as a soldier.

The party encountered Andromace and her brother Ender during the battle of Oasis in Episode 71, where they fought against the party alongside Dirga. The party was able to non-violently neutralize the siblings with the use of the spell phantasmal force. After Dirga was slain, the pair of them fled.

She seems to be very close with her brother Ender Shadowbane.
Episode 45

## Episode 45: Mists and Mirrors

* We decide to do a bit of recon before we start the ritual. Heading to the top floor and inspect there. It's creepy and weird. Vahlka spots some Vecna iconography and is immediately like "nope. lets go back down stairs." We search around a tiny bit more, finding nothing seemingly of great importance.
* We head back in and set up for the ritual. Blocking off the hallway with a large heavy bit of machinery and the use of Vahlka's web spell.
* Barkley begins the ritual - immediately the resulting magic draws the attention of a swarm of Chuul. Mostly small ones that are easily dealt with with the use of Lucius and Olivia's magic. Vahlka has a great time slaughtering an army of babby lobsters.
* Barkley uses the mirror's magic and Obscura's power to protect us as we complete the ritual. Summoning a Maiden of the Mists and a Haunted Vicar, strange fox-like beings that aid us during the battle.
* After about five rounds of fighting the Chuul, a beholder flies through the stairway. Vahlka immediately recognizes this as Baurogh, a Deephold Fugitive.
* Vahlka gets too spicy, as per usual. She catches a disintegrate beam and only survives due to the use of Barkley's preemptive Death Ward spell and a timely intervention by Godfrey.
* In a desperate attempt to keep the ritual going. Olivia taunts Baurogh into focusing on her, catches a death ray from the beholder, and is killed.
* Barkley completes the ritual and with one last surge of Obscura's divine magic utterly obliterates Baurogh - he crumbles to dust. Leaving behind only his Black Eye. Which Vahlka snatches up as proof the job was done.
* We immediately revivify Olivia. Barkley is met with Jorgmundyr rather than Fenryon. The ritual works without incident and we flee through the mirror as the academy now seems to be collapsing.
* Once in the void the party is greeted by Mysa'aor. He thanks us for our help and offers us a bit of information. He says that in the ruins of Old Glintveil is another mirror, which links to the realm of a creature known as Skintaker - a sort of oracle who "knows the answer to every question provided it is asked the right way" He suggest that Skintaker is dangerous, but perhaps worth the risk.
* Mysa'aor, after finishing his info drop, falls off the edge of the walkway and disappears into the mist of the void. We see a large bat-like form fly off.
* We travel through the void toward the next mirror - discovering that he has made a temporary mirror that lets out directly in Barkley's Apartment in Elchezhar. We all head through - Godfrey pauses a moment and remains behind to appreciate the Void for a moment. He hears deep low-pitched laughter in the far distance.
* We all settle down in Barkley's apartment to collect ourselves - grateful to be out of the Underdark and all alive.

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Teshol

Teshol map.

Teshol Map, including country boundaries.

### Leader(s)

Dorian DuRein, Osyna Blood-eye, The King Under Black Mountain, Marisa Lilygrave, Sirius Silvertongue, more

**Teshol**, also called "The Center of the World" is the continent on which the main campaign takes place. It has been, for about 5,000 years, segregated from the rest of the world by a gigantic, unending storm called the Ring of Storms.

Outside of the Ring of Storms, Teshol was once regarded as most likely being a barren, destroyed wasteland due to being the center of Tiamat's rise. Since then, the people of Greater Ouern who have either passed through the ring or been informed of the state of Teshol have been surprised to learn of its large population and varying countries.
Lady's Vengeance

The Lady's Vengeance is a pirate ship currently in lockdown in Grindwall Harbor. Its captain is Morgana One-Eye, thought to be alive and held within Grindwall's prisons.

## History

The party's journey began in the brig of The Lady's Vengeance. Olivia, Barkley, Kakara, Rashi, and Stella awoke caged in the bowels of the ship with no recollection of how they got there, somehow sold into slavery. As they were attempting to escape, they ran into Morgana One-Eye and two of her fellow pirates as they were attempting a mutiny, and also as a storm broke overhead. After a short scuffle that left one of Morgana's companions dead, the two groups agreed to work together.

Morgana usurped the captain with the help of her loyal crew members and the party, and then sailed the ship into the nearest available port: Bannor's Landing on Shark's Maw Island. Before they were able to leave, however, the Iron Guard swept into town and took control of the port. Marisa Lilygrave shot Salty Randal dead and left Morgana bleeding out on the docks as the party ran for safety. Both Morgana and The Lady's Vengeance are thought to have been moved to Grindwall.
Episode 50

* Head toward Tyren, on the outskirts of town find overgrown farmhouse with large drake footprints. Barkley tracks it toward town where we find it dead.
* Head into the town, a guard named Ysabel inform us weird plant monsters are up to shit, they've been defending the walls.
* The party talks to Javier, the head of the guard. He tells the party about a dragonborn wizard who was acting suspicious.
* We talk to the innkeeper, look at the dragonborn's room and find his cloak. We track him out of town w/ Boris
* Boris leads us to a cave inside we find a prone dragonborn tied up, Vahlka burns a divine sense and detects three vrocks on the ceiling
* The party fights the vrocks
* The party rescues Gaius - he tells them there's a blonde man in town that is actually a monster. We suspect he's talking about Javier.
* We head back to town with gaius, polymorphing him into a salamander when we get close and keeping him in Olly's pocket.
* we double back buy rooms at the inn, drop gaius-amander off in a room. Leave Dogs and Boris with him.
* We go and question Ysabel, who tells us the guard captain is someone she's known for years
* We go confront Javier at the cathedral of Pelor. He tries to get us to back down and leave but we refuse and we fight.
* Javier reveals himself to be a strange glabrezu demon, and calls in two hezrou allies. We fight them. Deek and Olly get the shit beat out of them. Rey screams profanity and jams her gun a bunch. Lucius magic missle spams. Godfrey fists demons.
* lots of counterspellin'
* Vahlka gets the hdywdt on the glabrezu by grabbing him the nosering and jammed Seth through through its open mouth. "bye bye"

Q**uotes of the Night:**

 "I hate when grandpa pulls out his tentacle whip."

"The lizard lays on the pillow dramatically."

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Kasun Redhand

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Kasun Redhand is a half-drow blood hunter, and a guild member with the Order of the Sharpened Claw, as well as being a werewolf.

Kasun traveled with the party for awhile while they journeyed through the underdark. During the fight with Aisling, she was hit with a prismatic spray spell and banished to another plane - we have no knowledge of her whereabouts now and she is ICly presumed dead by all but the most optimistic party members.

## Appearance and Personality

Kasun is young, wild-haired and dark-skinned. She is about six feet tall, dressed in a dark leather coat. Her face is scarred and decorated by a tattoo of large fang-like teeth.

Kasun is rough mannered but affable. She's rowdy, enjoys a fight, but is largely pretty easy going - and seems to have a rather simple outlook on most matters in life.

## Quirks

* Kasun struggled to read and count much past twenty or so.
* Has a ridiculous Australian sounding accent and I love her.
Episode 23

## Johnny Two-Daggers

* The party, now sans Olivia, pursues Anika's encrypted message. Leading them to a hidden bar in the undercity where they meet with Anika and two other nightwardens.
* We talk with Anika for a bit before the other two Nightwardens + surrrounding bar patrons, who all seem to be rogues, turn on us.
* Johnny Two-daggers lives a brief, but fulfilling existence of memery.
* The Nightwardens turn out to be Vampire Spawn. Anika yells "TRAITOR!!!!" like the ridiculous stormtrooper she is because her -2 insight ass didn't realize that.
* Anika and Deek both kick some ass and take some names if I remember right.
* Vahlka nearly gets killed by a nasty combo of hold person + vampire bite.
* Lucius or Godfrey (I forget) banishes the person that is holding Vahlka and we manage to kill all the aggressors save him and a few escapee rogues.
* We capture the banished cleric, but attempts to intimidate or persuade information out of him fail. Vahlka suggests torture to get more information from him but Deacon puts his foot down and refuses to let her do that. She relents, and we compromise by handing him over to Allohine for safekeeping.
* Anika warns Vahlka that Osyna wants to "have a talk with her" and that she ought to lay low. She suggests we go talk to Kasun, who she suggests can help Vahlka lay low and stay away from the vampires for a little bit.
* Barkley takes all the dead rogues daggers and becomes Barkley "Thirty-three-Daggers" Bayle.

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Episode 86

## Summary

The party, sans Vahlka, continue on through the Chezarian grasslands. They come across several yuan-ti slavers and their captives before engaging in battle. After struggling around the yuan-ti collars that allow them to control individuals, Lucius is almost killed by archers but healed by the earlier rescued priests. A hill dwarf by the name of Astrid also temporarily joins the party. They eventually succeed in either killing or driving away the yuan-ti and their carts are subsequently looted/destroyed.

## Recap

A complete recap of Episode 86 doesn't exist.

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