Session 10

Maddrian returns home to an empty house. He wanders around the house robotically for a few weeks before finally working up the nerve to go into Accalia's study. He begins reading everything he can possibly read. He tries to find some way to bring her back, but fails.

After some months, Sura comes to visit. She tells him that a dog has been sitting outside. He goes and let the dog in, and it promptly curls up on the rug. Sura gives him some Sending Stone, from the Crystalline Academy, which she's helped to start. The dog begins to follow him wherever he goes.

Meanwhile, Ruby spends some time making her way home. She finds a book in her pack, called The Legend of the Dawnbringers. It describes Maddrian, the kindest and sweetest Aasimar ever. And Queen Signe, the ascended Archfey, so powerful that she came through every obstacle. And finally, Ruby, the star-speaker, a staunch defender of anyone who needed it.

Queen Signe returns to the Feywild. She rules for a while, before deciding it's time to find a way to fix the rift in her people. She takes the material from Osiron and forms it into the head of a Raven. Maddrian arrives just then for a visit. She invites him to come for a gathering later, which is to be a bit of a rite of passage.

He stops by for some dinner with Aero and Assara, who informs him that they are expecting a child. They tell him they are going to make a quick trip to the Prime Material Plane for a festival. Before he goes with them, he sneaks his way back into Signe's castle and gives her a huge hug goodbye.

Osiron finds that, one day per year, the barrier to the Prime Material Plane weakens enough for him to send an avatar of himself through. He goes through, visiting Ruby on her travels, with most of her hair chopped off. They sit close and snuggle up and talk for a while, before Osiron gets pulled home as the solstice fades. Ruby eventually returns home, finding herself quite famous, and her race blessed by Avandra.

Signe finds herself surrounded by dedicate souls, her Shadar-kai. They perform a ritual to pave a path from the Fey to the gates of Arvandor, harnessing incredible raw power. In the process, though, some of her followers begin to siphon off power for themselves, and she sees the symbol of Nerull against them; she smites them with all of her wrath. In the process, the wrath corrupts the magic, and she ascends to godhood as the Raven Queen, but lands in the Shadowfell.

After Maddrian spends quite a few years training soldiers, one day he's travelling with Sura, and they come across a small hamlet being attacked by bandits. He leaps to their defense, but in a moment of hesitation in which he refuses to kill one of them, he gets run though and is killed. The first thing he sees is Accalia's face, as they embrace and she tells him how proud she is of him.

Sometime between Signe's death and Maddrian's, Osiron goes and visits Maddrian, paying his respects at Accalia's grave. They talk about the events of the years. He reveals that the dog is actually one of his archons, who volunteered to accompany Maddrian. They discuss Maddrian's vision, especially the one involving the death of a god in the Shadowfell. Maddrian tells him that he doesn't believe that that vision has come to pass yet.

Ruby goes to visit her mother, seeking forgiveness for having left in the middle of the night. Her mother assures her that there's nothing to forgive, asking her to read a copy of The Birth of Light and Truth to her, which she does.

Aravad goes to visit the Shadowfell every year. He's built a reflecting pool for Sarenrae, and a greatsword in memory of Signe. One year, as he's visiting, Asmodeus approaches, wielding Aravad's scepter - a scepter that only Ahrdinea could have given him access to. Several of Osiron's archons stand with Asmodeus, surrounding Osiron. The fight takes days, but Osiron eventually falls. As he does so, his domains of kingship, humanity, and the sky begin to flow out of him. Kingship and Humanity flow into Asmodeus, corrupted into the domains of Tyranny and Monstrosity. Baathion transforms getting corrupted into Baator and the Nine Hells. All of Osirion's temples crumble to dust, and he becomes known only as he-who-was.

Ruby spends the rest of her days visiting temples. She has the scar on her left shoulder covered with the symbol of Sarenrae. She makes it a point to visit each crumbled temple of Osiron, collecting a bit of dust from each. When she comes to the end of her life, she asks to be buried with the book of the Dawnbringers, and with her jar of dirt.

During the course of Ruby's life, a new breed of creature is born - the celestials who followed Asmodeus have become fiends, and work to counter the work of celestials everywhere.