The Mad Menagarie

**The Mad Menagerie** is an adventuring party of multiple adventures coming together to wage war against a shadowy figure known as Estoshan, who has recruited multiple factions, monsters, and other powers to drown the world in darkness.

It is also the name of the campaign starring that party. It has the largest cast of any campaign in the multiverse so far, and the longest running, since August 2020.

## Character Masterlist:

**-Dav McKay: Half-elf rogue/bard, they/them (Mich) - active**

-Meena: Assimar bard, she/her (Clara)  - (tpked w/ the Chaos Brigade) DECEASED, REANIMATED BY SCRAPBEAK POST-CAMPAIGN

-Aria: Tiefling wizard, she/her (Annie) RETIRED

-Daidus: Triton fighter, he/him (Bennett) (tpked w/ the Chaos Brigade) DECEASED, REANIMATED BY SCRAPBEAK POST-CAMPAIGN

-Scrapbeak: Kenku artificer, he/him (George) (Chaos brigaded, but survived) MIA. A GOD?

**-Maximus: Dragonborn fighter/paladin, he/him (Nick) - active**

-Pold: Half Elf/Triton Abjuration Wizard, he/him (Cormac) DECEASED

**-Solara the Unyielding: Centaur paladin, she/her (Ash) - active**

-Mawmaw: Goblin Circle of Swamp Druid, she/her (Cormac) WENT TO THE ISLE OF WYVERNS

-Horziere: Tiefling gunslinger, he/him (Jake) RETIRED

**-Leandra Galanodel/Melanuxor: "Elven" doppleganger cleric, she/they (Annie) - active**

-Rowan: Lizardfolk warlock, he/him (Bennett) MIA/RETIRED

-Zhara: Yuan-ti fighter she/her (Clara) MIA/RETIRED

-Gath Free Vath: Sic'ran Ninja, he/him (George) MIA

**-Gromm: Loxodon Dark Knight, he/him (Bennett) - active**

-Evarion: Elven Wizard ??, he/him (Nick) MIA

-Volkair Rikliv: Fallen Aasimar Paladin (Redemption), he/him (Jake) FINISHED HIS REDEMPTION AND RETURNED HOME

**-Safi: Level 10 Doppleganger Fighter, he/him: gained through Knight, (Annie) - dead??**

## Summary of Campaign Events

In a town on the Menagerie coast, A small bounty is posted to investigate the strange overgrowth of a Temple of the Wild Mother. A handful of individual travelers, including Maximus, Scrapbeak, Dav, Aria, Pold, Daidus, and Meena, accepted this bounty and investigated the temple. After clearing out the vine monsters within and retrieving a ring emblazoned with a spider emblem, the party retired to Daidus's house for the evening, where followers of the Grey One. Sol and [another] joined up.

The party was directed to a Library of the Cobalt Soul in the city of Zadash to retrieve payment. Making their way there and encountering a patrol of the Knights of Tyr along the way. Entering into the Library, the group was payed for the earlier actions by Maxwell and subsequently hired to investigate similar oddities around Wildemount and the Menagerie Coast. These oddities were caused by a group known as the Children of Malice.

Investigating a suspected base of the Children located in a mine next, the party ran across more members of the Children, who were being led by a shadowy figure. This figure laughed and mocked the party, saying that *"Oh you Mad Menagerie of fools have no idea what you are in for".* The party adopted that name. Also in this mine was a map with a handful of locations circled.

In investigating these locations, the party unearthed a plot to create an unleash a Dracolich using a large, sacred ruby. This ruby was recovered by the group and locked in a vault of the Cobalt Soul. Shortly after, the group infiltrated the caverns nearby a fortress which served as a base-of-operations for the children. In the caverns nearby the fort. Trapped in these caverns was Valrin, the dragon the children were planning to kill and turn into their dracolich.

After speaking to Valrin, the party became aware that he was largely remorseful of his actions while he was spent as a member of the Knights of Tyr, and had sworn himself into the service of The Gray One after being trapped in the caverns. This gave him a large arsenal of weaponry pertaining to highly deadly necrotic spores, which proved to be a signifigent help when the party made their escape from the tunnels, freeing the dragon in the process.

At this point, im going to let whoever has proper notes of the campaign finish. Here is what I remember.

- We begin working for the Dynasty. Meet up with Horzeire, Rewarded with freedom tavern, which became our home base. I'm pretty sure that none of that is in the right order.

- We broke back into that fort to kidnap someone for the cobalt soul to interrogate.

- Callistus shows up, he is mind controlled by mind flayer, he is freed, and pulls the knights of out of Wildemount. Maxwell figures out who that shadowy figure is: Estoshan.

- Chaos Brigade blows up rexentrum at this point?

- Further skirmishes against the children of malice. Estoshan shows up a bit more.

- Daidus's ship sinks. We track down the monster that did it and break the collar off of it.

- Helm comes back, Theodore betrays us when we are sent in to investigate a city that was destroyed via that purple virus dragon. Arena fight with diablos, Ever watching nights show up, we all clean up the city from the zombie issue, Ever watching knights are directed to blow up that children of malice fort that Valrin was trapped in. They go do that.

- Keep fighting them by taking odd jobs from Maxwell. Battle and restoration of Rexentrum + that aftermath.

- We go hunting for a gemstones to help Mirus build their defense grid.

- Volkair shows up. Volkair also shows up.

- We put Volkair down. Volkair passes away in peace.

- Fighting estoshan. Rosonna gets blown up by dragon. We fix it.

And again: I know for a fact I am missing a whole lot.