The Cobalt Caravan

**The Cobalt Caravan** is a party of adventurers consisting of Calamity James ("Cal"), Clara Bedivere, Hadiya Pashar, Jian, and Meraki and accompanied by Hadiya's daughter Zara and Cal and Hadiya's ex-partner Lucas. Originally, Clara was not a member of the caravan and was a late addition which joined the party at Threshold.

## History

   The party was first informally formed during a "people smuggling" effort where Hadiya, Jian, and Meraki helped to smuggle Cal across a border in a carriage. Notably, Jian at this point was also a hired mercenary for Hadiya before eventually deciding to join the party.

Before entering Threshold, the party engaged with further with and seemingly killed the people smugglers. At some point, they traveled northward and encountered the Brown Man as well as potentially Queen Elenora, where local loggers were ignoring deals made with the fae and later subsequently killed. Meraki rejected her interest in the situation and the party returned to Threshold, where Jian stole a box. At some point, a dragon was fought and killed.

Later, Clara joined the party after noticing an upcoming hobgoblin raid. Here, the party was officially formed as it is known today with the help of Magistrate Cobb, and Clara bought a plot of land. During the stay in Threshold, Nym, later revealed to be an agent of the 5, attempted to murder the Cobalt Caravan in their After saving the town of Threshold, the party moved on to Letheril's Forge, where they encountered Vrelka and Gloriana the Fang, worked to close the portal to the Swamp of Oblivion, and attended a festival. At the festival, they participated in and won an arena fight and a scavenger hunt. Clara won an eating contest, and Clara and Jian participated in a sword dance.

Later at Letheril's Forge, the party traveled to the local mountains and caves, attempting to investigate incidences of multiple disappeared miners and, to Vrelka's warning, an ancient civilization of celestials. Clara was quickly killed by intellect devourers, and after she was revived, the party returned and discovered the mines had been overtaken by mindflayers. After quick thinking to banish the angel Pharazel by Hadiya, the situation was resolved.

Noticing the Cobalt Caravan's achievements, the 5 invited them to a masquerade gala celebrating the 10th anniversary of the founding of the country of Sovereign. After buying appropriate clothes, the party attended, discovering several important facts. Namely, they learned that Queen Elenora had grown angry over Meraki's inaction, that Jian's parents had lost their status as nobles after Jian fled from an arranged marriage, that Gallo and Earlmund were fighting for leadership in the temple of Avandra, and that Clara's family, in her absence, had taken over the gap left by the Vicenases. Additionally, it was revealed that Clara's friend Chua, assumed dead, was likely alive and the sister of member of the 5 Sora Kimbatuul after Sora was mysteriously killed at the end of the party.

Jian, who had attempted escape when seeing his parents at the gala, was arrested and, somewhat ironically, thrown in prison with his parents, who were suspected for the murder of Sora. Hadiya, who had helped him run, was held under suspicion as well. After Nykkan aided Hadiya and Hadiya made a convincing argument for Jian and the party's innocence, the Cobalt Caravan was freed and instructed to stay away from the case of Sora's murder. With their newfound freedom, the party sought to answer some mysteries. Meraki spoke to Rrath and discovered that the portals were numerous, that the land of Sovereign had recently come out of a strange kind of timelessness, and that the branch wand given to her was the portal key to close the Beastlands, Melora's realm, which is at risk of enclosing on Letheril's Forge.