The Fifth Order: Questlog

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   **Session 1 (1st – 6th of Kadern, 1444)**

              The party arrived in Millethill on the 1st of Kadern – Kadernfest. They enjoyed the festivities until the celebration was cut short by an invasion force, numbering fifty men on horseback, which burned the outlying fields. A rider in black spiked armor crested the city hill, but fled as the party attempted to hit him. The party captured a rider who burned the boats, and discovered the black knight was a man named Akeron Grym. They kept the captive, cutting his boots in half as punishment.

              After four days’ travel with a fleeing farmer, the party made it to the nearby village of Barley Bluff. There, they chartered a ferry to continue their journey up the Andol River to Rankein. That evening, the party was beset by river bandits, which they easily dispatched. They saved one for questioning.

**Session 2 (6th – 12th of Kadern, 1444)**

 The party interrogated their bandit captive, discovering the bandits were simple river raiders known as the Ealderfolk. After six days of uneventful sailing, they finally reached the city of Rankein. In Rankein the party shopped for items, securing some and passing on others which were out of their price range. On the morning of Harvestbounty, the party spoke with Empress Monika Radumil-Ludan, and delivered the news of Akeron Grym’s Treason. She promised them a reward, but told them to be quiet and careful.

              That afternoon, the party entered the annual Harvestbounty Tournament. Bhaegar scored a staggering 32 points, while Stevyn and Wilhelm followed up with 22 each, and Caerbannog scored highest in archery. They then prepared for the final melee, to determine the ultimate champion.

**Session 3 (12th of Kadern, 1444)**

 The party is approached by a man named Kylon Ludan, the youngest son of the emperor and one of the best fighters in the world. He offers Bhaegar a choice; join Kylon’s team in the final round and cede the victory to Kylon, and Kylon would split the winnings and knight Bhaeger, or join the opposite team and lose the tournament anyways. Bhaegar and the party chose to side with Kylon. After they had won the tournament, Kylon knighted Bhaegar – making him Sir Bhaegar Alastor - and rewarded him with 500gp (which he split with the party).

**Session 4 (13th of Kadern, 1444)**

 The party decides to engage in some side quests, first clearing out a flooded basement full of water-sturges (where they found a Lucky Shortsword) for a tanner named Gundolf, and then performing a drug-bust in a slummy neighborhood. They burst into the house, killing everyone they saw and smashing through walls in spectacular fashion. They captured the half-orc boss and a sixteen-year-old kid named Petyr of Holt – which they dubbed Petyr Quarterpants, after they cut his pants into short-shorts, in a similar punishment to their now-ally, Bran Halfboots – and seized 300gp worth of refined Veridium dust. They turned the Orc in, who was hanged, and received 325gp as a reward. Bhaegar managed to pocket a tiny pouch of Veridium, equal to one dose.

**Session 5 (13th of Kadern, 1444)**

 As the party returned from their drug bust, they saw Akeron Grym in a jail-carriage, being taken to the Hanusplast with a guard of fifty armed horsemen, led by Highduke Ulrich Kreuzzig – a renowned general and warrior. Kylon intercepted them and exchanged strong words with Ulrich, but eventually let them pass.

              The party then went to the Westside inn for food and drinks, where they were met by two thugs and a bald elf with clipped ears – named Fiolhart. The elf wanted them to turn in Caerbannog , as he did not complete a task that their mutual employer had ordered. The party refused, and the thugs later attacked them in the alleyway. As the thugs were attacking them, a group of ten soldiers with no insignia arrived, and it started a three-way fight. Theodoric DaCavalier, Stevyn’s mentor, arrived with Kylon’s honorguard and cleared out the thugs and soldiers, summoning the party to meet at The Eisenfort, north of Rankein.

              At The Eisenfort, the party joined Theodoric, Kylon, and Aldo Kreuzzig – Ulrich’s son – to plan for an attack on The Andolfort, an ancient and contested site that Ludania had lost some thirty years ago. The place where Stevyn’s father had died in battle. The party agreed to join, and they planned to leave at dawn.

**Session 6 (14th – 18th of Kadern, 1444)**

 The party left at dawn, marching with Aldo until their road’s split, taking Aldo’s troops north to the Andol River Pass, and Kylon’s strike team – made up of himself, Theodoric, and the party – east towards The Howling Gate, a pass between the Shieldcrest and Ironwall mountains.

              As the party reached a small village, they realized it was under attack by Ealdmen and two captive Ettins, which were smashing buildings apart. They rushed in to defend, Kylon and Stevyn slew one while Bhaegar, Bran,and Wilhelm faced the other. Bhaegar was knocked unconscious, and healed again by Stevyn, who had killed an Ettin and tacked an Ealdmen to a fence with his dagger.

              The party continued on, reaching The Howling Gate and setting up camp. Theodoric gave Stevyn his father’s sword – Jotunschlager – and told him to use it well. Bhaegar traveled up into the rocks, and found a bugbear hiding near a trench. Things escalated quickly, and Bhaeger cast shatter into the trench as a log broke loose down the hill, towards camp.

**Session 7 (18th – 21st of Kadern, 1444)**

 The party faced the ambushing goblinoids and slew them quickly, leaving Stevyn to dispose of the bodies. The next day they continued their march, reaching the coast at dusk, and setting sail with the cover of darkness towards the cliffs of the Shieldcrest Mountains.

              They climbed the whole next day, which was a brutal uphill slogan with multiple mishaps and dangers. They set up camp at the top, and continued at dawn, cresting mountain peaks, and navigating valleys until they made it to the pass where The Andolfot lay. They infiltrated the fort before dawn on the 21st of Kadern, taking down guards, sabotaging siege engines, slaying officers in their sleep, and organizing a regiment of rebels to help them from the inside.

              After the Skoths of the fort were alerted, the party along with their rebel band held the gate against 400 Skothik soldiers, until Aldo Kreuzzig’s troops reinforced them from behind, and took the fort in less than a few hours. The party was lauded as heroes, gaining epithets like “Bhaegar the Unyielding,” and “The Battlefield Butcher.”

**Session 8 (21st – 28th of Kadern, 1444)**

              After the party had looted the Andolfort, Kylon granted them a keep along the Klarwasser River, which had previously been owned by Akeron Grym, before his imprisonment. They then marched south with their 40 Skothik rebels – now called the Fearless Forty – and reached Rankein in a matter of days. On their way, they met with Kaihart Ludan, Kylon’s older brother , who chided them for their brash action in taking the fort without imperial sanction.

              Once in Rankein, the party shopped, haggled, and drank to celebrate their great victory – the latter of which was done at the Confluence Bar. They then stumbled to the Hanusplast and drifted off to sleep.

              As they were sleeping, an assassin came into Stevyn’s room and attacked him in his sleep, nearly killing him… but not quite. The rest of the party was alerted, and they managed to knock the Aarakocra assassin unconscious with the intent to interrogate him in the morning.

**Session 9 (29th of Kadern, 1444)**

 As Stevyn interrogated the Aarakocra – named Ornocles – the rest of the party went off and finished up their shopping lists. Stevyn discovered that the assassin had been paid by a mysterious figure in a black cloak, rapier at his hip. Before Stevyn could learn his identity, a dagger killed the assassin, and a Succubus charmed Stevyn into helping her later.

              Bhaegar and Caerbannog met with Adeus Radumil, the pontufex of the church, to discuss his worries about Kylon’s faith, and even the possibility of his heresy. After they concluded their meeting, the party was saved from another assassin by a woman named Lydda, who teleported them to Kylon’s room in the Hanusplast.

              The party then convened with Kylon, Ulrich Kreuzzig, and Emperor Henry VII to finalize the transfer of the keep to the party’s hands. As they were speaking, a ghastly white Bone Devil entered from the shadows of the room and attacked the party. Stevyn joined its side, as he was charmed by the Succubus previously. After the devil was defeated, and the emperor was delivered to safety, Bhaegar knocked out Stevyn, who was put in a cell for the evening.

**Session 10 (30th of Kadern, 1444)**

 After Kylon had secured Stevyn’s pardon, the whole party met with him and Lydda to discuss their plans. Stevyn let them know what he’d found from Ornocles, and they decided to investigate the feast hall where they had been attacked. They found an enetrance to the sewers, which led to the palace mausoleum, where they found cultists and a strange dead-raising fiend in a burial chamber. After they had dispatched the fiend, they called for Kylon and a digger crew to open the tunnel the cultists had collapsed. The party then rested, preparing to delve into the tunnel.

**Session 11 (1st of Mortun, 1444)**

 Once the tunnel was opened, the party traveled into the mausoleum chambers, fighting cultists and exploding barrels as they went. When they reached the final room, Kaihart and the succubus that had charmed Stevyn were standing on the dais where Hanus the Great was buried. Combat ensued, as Kylon was bound to the ceiling with an anti-magic net, and attacked by the succubus – spilling his blood into the sarcophagus. The party raged through Kaihart’s cultists, Bjorn putting on an amazing display of bear-form-prowess. Kaihart eventually fled, and Stevyn slew the succubus at her command, summoning a malicious red mist that flowed towards a chalk glyph on the far wall. Against the party’s best efforts, it reached the glyph and summoned a powerful Abishai named Regalzurax. They attacked him, but he managed to survive their onslaught and flee through a hole in the roof.

              The party and Kylon, led by Lydda – Kylon’s mother – went to the Seigplatz beneath the cathedral, as Kaihart gave his coronal address, becoming the emperor after his father’s sudden death. The party hit him a few last times, knocking him unconscious before they teleported away with Lydda, coming face to face with the fabled Vladimyr Grym.

**Session 12 (2nd – 3rd of Mortun, 1444)**

 After a brief tactical meeting with Lydda, Kylon, and Vladimyr, the party was sent to their keep to prepare for the meeting to convince King Hoylan Valenheir to join the southern Ludanian Empire with them. At their keep, the party spent the day dealing with the villages issues and making friends. They convinced Hal that the wine could still be sold damaged and killed an Owlbear for Yon Schaffer – adopting its cub, despite its initial fright.

              The next morning, the party teleported to Valenmur to speak with King Hoylan. After a brief deliberation, Hoylan agreed to join them if they could provide him 1000 troops to man the border, and suitable matches for his daughters, Ninnevyh and Heather. The party celebrated by starting an eating competition in the Goodberry in Valenmur and went to bed stuffed.

They all awoke in a shared dream, in a realm of shadow and ash. Kaihart’s voice echoed from the top of a basalt spire, as he tried to persuade them not to trust Kylon, and to join his side. The party was wary, and after Stevyn tried to probe into the mind of Regalzurax, the fiend and Kaihart disappeared, calling forth an ancient evil known as the Nightwalker. They wounded and turned the beast and found a way to exit the dream through a spherical white crystal that was both in the dream and the real world.

**Session 13 (4th - 5th of Mortun, 1444)**

   The party, after waking from their night of incorporeal confrontation, decided to try to destroy the small sphere that caused them to wake up in a shared dream. When that failed, they allowed Lyda to teleport them to Berchsted, so they could begin the trek to the subterranean city of Mandvar.

              After saying goodbye to Lyda - leaving the sphere with her – the party set off onto the Undermountain Highway, passing various guards, merchants, and terrain obstacles on their way. After passing over the Blacklake Bridge, they were ambushed by goblins and ogre cannoneers. Stevyn was knocked unconscious from a lucky cannon shot, but the party managed to dispatch the creatures.

              Two days of hiking had led the party to the columnar city of Mandvar, where they spoke with King Bren Karregdyrn, convinced him to join the fight, and were assigned the duty of forcing the goblins to the south to surrender and solidify their truce. They then equipped the party with magic items and explosives, to aid in the trip.

**Session 14 (6th - 8th of Mortun, 1444)**

 The party traveled from Mandvar to the southern edge of the Blacklake, where they discovered an abandoned goblin camp and a trail leading out of the mountains towards Muspelveller, their target. They marched on, taking another goblin encampment by surprise, and slaughtering the residents, leaving one hobgoblin alive.

              After a bout of torture and manipulation, Stevyn convinced the hobgoblin that he was, in fact, the god of death. The party then sent the hobgoblin into Muspelveller’s camp and had him preach about Stevyn while concealing multiple pounds of explosives. Caerbannog hit the hobgoblin with an eldritch blast, detonating the explosives and dealing 206 damage to everything in an 80ft radius. It devastated the camp, and formed a large crater in the ground, which just so happened to wake up the fort’s primary resident: Volarfammet.

**Session 15 (8th of Mortun, 1444)**

  Volarfammet launched from his lair and set to a counterattack on the party, as they harried him with the help of Ridzpetram, the young copper dragon that had been masquerading as a dwarf since the abandoned camp. After a long and difficult fight with Volarfammet (and the gruesome death of Ridzpetram at his hand), the party felled the dragon. Caerbannog fired the final shot through the dragon’s eye, dropping it and gifting the party with supernatural boons in the process.

After a preliminary looting of the dragon’s horde, the party was interrupted by a large force of goblinoids blocking their exit, extending a truce offering.

**Session 16 (8th - 15th of Mortun, 1444)**

After refusing to surrender to the Goblinoids, the party battles off the

**Session 17 (15th - 30th of Mortun, 1444)**

**Session 18 (30th of Mortun, 1444)**

**Session 19 (30th of Mortun - 2nd of Trema, 1444)**

**Session 20 (3rd - 4th of Trema, 1444)**

**Session 21 (5th - 6th of Trema, 1444)**

**Session 22 (6th - 7th of Trema, 1444)**

**Session 23 (7th - 10th of Trema, 1444)**

**Session 24 (10th of Trema, 1444)**

**Session 25 (11th of Trema, 1444)**

**Session 26 (11th - 25th of Trema, 1444)**

**Downtime Sessions (25th of Trema, 1444 - 18th of Kikera, 1445)**

**Session 27 (18th of Kikera, 1445)**

**Session 28 (19th of Kikera - 4th of Nixa, 1445)**

**Session 29 (4th of Nixa - 6th of Nixa, 1445)**

**Session 30 (6th of Nixa - 15th of Nixa, 1445)**

**Session 31 (15th of Nixa - 18t of Nixa, 1445)**