Argilak (or Argolak)

## Post Kerfuffle

Argilak was once human man. He lived with his mother and sister Amsar during in the time just after the Great Kerfuffle. A warlord named Dorian came to power and demanded high taxes to be paid by all of his subjects. To save their mother Amsar and Argilak sought the power to take Dorian down themselves. They came across a dying God who had been weakened during the Great Kerfuffle. They God taught them how to consume the heard of a God to claim its' power.

After collecting more and more hearts, making them both more powerful then many Gods, they were able to challenge a Dorian and defeat him. However, Argilak wanted more power. He continued to hunt down Gods to steal their hearts. Amsar believed they no longer needed this power, as they had completed their task and this disagreement eventually drove them apart. After their fight, Agilak split off to collect more heard and consolidate his power and Amsar went to live in the Hornhill Mountians. He found many Gods who had been weakened by the Kerfuffle and took their power. Eventually the power became too great and he needed a way to contain it. He began to learn Astromancy to store his power in the stars and access it when he needed it.

He soon began to collect a following of those who saw him as a God. To consolidate this power he developed the persona of "The Deep One" and used his magic to make himself appear more squid like. Soon half of the continent was under his control and Amsar could no longer turn a blind eye. A massive war broke out between the two armies and the two siblings finally came to blows after months of war. While she was not able to defeat him on her own, she was able to stall him for long enough for Alexandria to cast a banishment spell locking him away. However to lock him away in his own plane, she too had to be locked away.

## The Three Sisters

Although he was trapped in pocket plane, able to create nothing but empty books and douchey martini glasses, he was still able to reach people in the material plane through their dreams and through the power he had left in the stars. There soon came three sisters, Maralyn, Caitlyn, and Ashlyn, who would prove to be powerful Astromancers. Slowly, one by one, he began to twist them in their dreams. He promised them power and status and a place in his new world when he returned. They set up the organization known as the Starlit Coven, and made sure it was based on lies, which give him power.

They used their knowledge of the stars and a circus fortune teller to discover a way to bring Argilak back from his interplanar prison. There was a list of people who needed to be sacrificed so the sisters began putting things in motion to make sure people would die at the correct time. Ashlyn became a strange Hag named Odalia Mellow who the part met on their first trip to the Theivesberg Coven. After a muder mystery adventure it was reviled that she had killed Regina Pearcrow in an attempt to begin the prophecy. The party murdered her (along with Sarah Jessica Parker who had done nothing) but the prophesy had been set in motion. Maralyn took her place a the queen while Catilyn became everyone's favorite bouncy Hag, Hganess.

## The Campaign Starts

They party first heard of The Deep One when Abbott Costello was killed. He was killed in the siege of the monastery during the chaos and his blood was used to draw The Deep One's constellation on the wall. Very little was heard about him until the murder at the coven, where the second sacrifice to committed and the party was completed and the party found the prophesy that Maple had discovered:

> Abbot, Elder, Scholar, Saint
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> The Beast Among The Stars Awakes
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> When Blood Is Shed And He Is Called
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> The Gift of Darkness Comes To All
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> Rebel, Farmer, Dragon, King
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> An Anceint Power It Shall Bring
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> An Ancient Power Soon Returns
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> To Claim The World Or Make It Burn
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Frey also chose to cast detect thoughts on the squid giving her and Argilak a mental bond that he would exploit for some time after, He taunted her in her dreams, tempted her with deals and at one point possessed her at Cordray University causing the part to preform an exorcism to free her. The scholar was killed while everyone got drunk, the saint was killed off screen cause Jonesy's a dick, but the Rebel was where things got interesting.

## Frey's Deal

When the party went to saved Beeps and everything went sideways Calliope decided the only way out was to shatter his staff, killing both herself and also Frey. Maple, in grief and panic, attempted to access the power of the Deep One to save them both (this was dubbed Voidmancey by Astrid). She offered herself in service of the Deep One to save Frey but Frey wasn't ready to let them happen. She offered herself in exchange form Maple's freedom and Argilak Accepted.

After making her deal with Argilac, Maple was returned to the group with no memory of Frey's intervention or even that she had interacted with the Void. She however, could no longer use her Astromancey. At Argilak's instruction Frey snuck into Strong-Jaw's room and (while disguised as Firbble for some reason!?) killed him in the night to help bring about the completion of the prophesy and subsequently the end of the world. She was however caught and forced to explain what had happened resulting in a big old argument with her friends.

To keep Maple safe from Argilac Frey wiped her mind of ever meeting the party. She bought her a house in the Fae Wild and told her she had been sent there by Regina Pearcrow (who is dead mind you) to study Astromancy (which she cannot do) in the Fae Wild (where there is literally a daily trivia game about the party's lives). It was an airtight plan. With Maple no longer in immediate danger Frey was free of her agreement.

## Completion of the Prophecy

The next name on the list was the Farmer, who happened to be Yabbie's father Harlan. He was first killed by Kyle, a minion of Argilak who had infiltrated his brain and forced him to end his own life. The party would soon learn that Kyle was one of many Kyles that Hagness had been made to control the population just was they party saw in the Darkest Timeline. There were three different kinds: the little works like Kyle who can control people like Harlan and Max, the squids the grown inside you Alien style like the one that cause Yabbie and Astid to cut off their arms, and an attempt at creating a version of Zia from the pieces left behind be Argilak like the one that attacked the party in the depths of Argilak's temple.

Harlan's first murder was of course time traveled away by Zia. But Harlan was killed anyway by Evil Quid Yabbie when she drowned him in the Fae Wild Swamp. The Dragon fell very early. The Dragon of the Ice Fangs was a fire breather for the circus that Maple used Voidmancey on during the Ringmaster's dream visions. While she thought she had killed their circus performer, she had actually transported her to Argilac's plane where she would wait for her execution.

The final sacrifice was carried out by the party themselves when the killed King Blackwood and freed him from his prison. He was however, not expecting to be brought back in the Fae Wild and so was weakened when he was brought back. He has since been trapped in the Wilds, gathering strength, Kyleing Toads, and getting ready for his next move

## The Darkest Timeline

Okay this this technically never happened but it's worth talking about.

You see there was a room underneath Amsar and Agrilak's house that was just meant to be a fun puzzle where you grow a tree to get to a ledge but instead the party decided to use it to go back in time to the fight between Amsar and Agirlak before they parted ways. AND THEN they decided to intervein. Frey cast Detect Thoughts which gave them a link between their minds Argilak would exploit for would exploit for months to come. Calliope then came out of their hiding spot to tell him not only that they are from the future but also that what he was doing was justified and good. This brought on an anaglyptic future in which only Alara, Ella and Justin remained in a world that had gone dark. Zia and Astird used their wish to make it so the party never went back in time. While all the events of the past hour had been erased the strengthened connection between Frey and Argilak stayed.

This would also serve as a pretty cool way of setting up stakes as the party now knew what would happen if they failed.