Session 58

**Session 58 of the Eden campaign** took place December 22 (In Erideon afternoon of Oct 10).

## Summary

Huron is faced with a dark remnant of his past whilst trapped in Vidine's nightmare. After being released, he joins the other members of the Tennega Division in mourning their dead. Asutali travels back to the Proving Grounds and produces a spell of incredible power.

## Synopsis

### Memories and portents

Huron awakens in an ashen illusion of Vareaux. In it, he interacts with the spirits of those responsible for its burning: the stoic Felcart, the shattered Rinfryd, the bumbling Rustin and the sidekick Shylva. Huron ignores the provocations of Rustin and Shylva, two sidekicks, and talks with Felcart.

They were all killed about a year ago, possibly by Vidine's cultists in an effort to bring their souls to the Nether, but that would imply that, even then, Vidine already knew of Huron's true identity... could Logarius have been aware, as well? Or was it that their memories were altered in the present? After all, they only remember being in the illusion but for a few minutes...

Felcart, a half-orc battlemage, is at first stoic and resolved in his cause. He may have been primarily responsible for the Burning of Vareaux, but he was only following orders, right? Over the course of his conversation with Huron, though, Felcart grows increasingly distressed over the futility of Vareaux's destruction, and the impossibility of peace in the continent.

Rinfryd, an elven pyromancer, was the principal architect of the destruction of Vareaux. Clearly haunted by the atrocities that were committed at her hands, she was clearly teetering on insanity by the time Huron arrived. However, Huron managed to comfort her somewhat amidst the bleak and barren hellscape of the nightmare.

Soon after, Vidine arrives on the scene in the guise of Branarth, the Lord Lautrec. She tempts Huron into violence, but Huron resists, noticing that something was amiss. After Huron calls out the illusion, Vidine reveals herself and summons the real Lautrec, killed in the Battle of Roulan and purchased from Romulus at a "bargain, only a couple hundred mortal souls." Lautrec, blinded and deafened, was unaware of the occurrences around him.

Vidine released Lautrec, who entered a discussion with Huron. Huron demanded answers. Lautrec, distressed and agonizing, struggled to provide them. In the end, Huron dealt a swift death to the man responsible for ordering the destruction of Vareaux, which earned Vidine's respect.

Vidine, looking upon Huron as an equal, deliberated with him about the fate of Erideon. Vidine claimed to have been eavesdropping on the doings of the Suspects for months, expressing her surprise at their incredibly rapid growth as adventurers and openly understanding that permanently impeding their dominance of the universe would be nigh-impossible. That is a task only Logarius of Tyrland could have performed, and his draconic form was destroyed.

Thus, Vidine informs Huron that the terrible things that are to befall Erideon are, in her belief, the Suspects' fault. She is neither joyful to do the things to come nor disheartened by them. She merely must do what she can to survive, when she knows that, sooner or later, the Suspects are coming for her soul.

Having said this, she releases Huron, Felcart, and Rinfryd from the illusion, which appears to have lasted but an instant in real time. Possibly even less than that.

## Quests

### Ongoing

* **The Soul of Altruism (Everyone):** Achieve mastery over the Good eyestones (green). The Green eyestones are possessed by: Taroverulus, of the Halls of Mandalos, Radovius, of the Silver Havens, and possibly Cassida, of the Hunting Grounds.
* **The Soul of Solipsism (Everyone):** Achieve mastery over the Evil eyestones (red). The Red eyestones are possessed by: Friede, of the Ashen Dominions, Vidine, of the Netherworld, and by Romulus, of the Red Realms.

### Character

* **And from nothing... (Jade):** Meet with Corlion to discuss the re-establishment of the Myrwood School of Eldritch Knights.
* **Home, at long last (Jade):** Now that you are in Keldar, begin and conclude the search for your missing family.
* **I'll make a man out of you! (Huron):** Train the Tennega division to a higher standard.
* **The False Brother (Ulfgar):** Investigate the Sons of Mzund further.
* **The Frequent Suspects II (Huron):** Unearth the final whereabouts of Branarth, the Lord Lautrec.
* **Unshackling Mortality (Asutali):** Discuss the two Great Arts of Soulcraft--Lycanthropy, and Vampirism--and their history, with Gwyon de Glauver and Gradius the Wanderer.

### Completed

* **Visions of the Past, Visions of the Future (Huron):** Escape Vidine's nightmare.