Session Twelve

Immediately, combat begins between Urson's men and Ankholt, who now has the massive wolf from the island alongside him. The group expresses hesitance on what to do, but Godiva healing Ankholt causes Urson to strike against them, saying "no child of his" would aid a lycanthrope. This encourages the party to retaliate, beginning to pick off Urson's men while the two fight.

Ankholt is able to take now Magna. Nim offers to revivify him, and the decision is left up to Godiva, who implores him to do so. Godiva tells Ankholt that Urson is their last remaining family member, stating that Ankholt has his own pack now, even after the death of his father, but Godiva's own "pack" is gone, and Urson is all they have left. Ankholt, with some hesitation, relents, and says that he will not immediately kill Urson again, only if the party gives him the Wish spell to wish his own father back.

The group debates, and a narrow, tense agreement is reached, with only half of the party outwardly agreeing to give Ankholt the wish. Finally, the group continues on to the Temple that had previously been guarded by Urson's men, at last ready to deliver the Moonthrob Pearl.

The first temple door depicts an engraving of the Lunar Queen and her pet wolf, who closely resembles the wolf Ankholt had fought for dominance. An engraving on the door shifts to be readable in the viewer's native language. It reads:

"*Her wish was granted, and at the end of it all, there was but one.*"

The group navigates the temple, laden with moon-themed traps. They pass two more doors. The first shows a large male and a smaller female figure. The man is hunched in pain, carved of alabaster. The woman is shown with hands of the same material. It is unclear whether what she is doing is helping or hurting him. The door has another inscription:

"*For ages, the second was under the first's thumb. Her sacrifice was easily done."*

The final door before the last room shows the two standing on either side, with the Lunar Queen standing beside a seemingly gloating male. The final inscription reads

"*In the beginning, there was a pair. The first was a king, who made the other despair."*

The group reaches the final room of the temple, and comes upon a large room with three alabaster pedals, and walls carved with mon based iconography. After solving the last puzzle, the pedastals disappear, and one large pillar replaces them. Nim gives Ankholt the pearl.

As soon as Ankholt places it in the correct place, it expands into a fifteen foot satyr, pearlescent and featureless. He introduces himself as "The Man on the Moon," who Ankholt earlier named as his god. The being names Ankholt his "champion" and sics him on the party. He obliges, saying that he cannot defy his God. The group attempts to take steps to contain him without hurting him and the God quickly becomes bored. He says he will send the group back to entertain him more elsewhere, while in the meantime he "has a sister to kill."

Suddenly, we are transported back to Korstone, after delivering the Saga Stone to Urson. The confrontation is cut short by Leif Dagamar bursting in, telling Urson to come out and look.

In the sky, there are two moons, one three times larger than the other.