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Dak Stumbleflask

**Dak Stumbleflask** is a dwarven drunken master monk who the party met in a tavern in Nexus Upsilon. He bought them drinks and asked Vahlka several pointed questions before challenging her to a friendly fistfight, which he then threw, allowing her to win and forfeiting because he's a high level monk and would fucking destroy her.

Later we discovered Dak was part of the Resistance, and seemingly knows Andrith quite well,

## Appearance and Personality

Dak is a stout and fairly muscular Dwarven man who has been described as being quicker than he looks. He has a shaved head, tattoos, and a long dark beard.

Dak is coarse but friendly. He has a fondness for drinking and friendly brawling, and seemingly more than a cursory interest in Vahlka - often plying the paladin with drinks and badgering her with question. Most likely due to his relationship with Andrith.

## History

Dak has not talked much about his personal history, but he has suggested that he doesn't get along fantastically with the other monks of the Shaded Valley. He mentioned that he had a brother.

He seems to be more direct and aggressive than them and said they ought to "stop running and face their problems with their fists like they trained to."
Summary of Chatzy 4

Post Episode 13

* Olivia makes Vahlka cry because Vahlka is a huge nerdo who is sensitive about her Nero.
* Deacon does damage control.
* Olivia tries to find Aurelius with little success so she instead, bothers Deacon instead.
* Vahlka hatches an extremely harebrained scheme to get Morgana out of prison.

NEXT EPISODE - NEXT CHATZY RP
Dragon Mask

Several dragon masks exist as ancient artifacts, relics from the Scale War. They are sacred to the Cult of the Dragon, and used to summon Tiamat from her prison.

## Mask Locations

After the Scale War, legends say the masks were divided up between various powerful cities and kingdoms to prevent them from falling back into the hands of Tiamat's worshippers.

 Blue Dragon Mask
 Green Dragon Mask
 White Dragon Mask
Episode 97

## Summary

Magical tower shenanigans ensue. In an attempt to find a working portal to Thanatos, Olivia and Barkley spy on a conversation with Orcus himself in attendance. He finds them and they’re pursued, but the party is able to find the portal control room nonetheless. There’s no time for long goodbyes, however, and Lucius departs.

## Recap

* We approached a strange magic tower that seemed to be upside, which we got inside with some cunning use of the portable hole and the flying carpet. However, we got separated from Calliope and Thresh.
* Descending or ascending the stairs seems to teleport us to a random level of the tower rather than go in any logical order. We go "up" a floor and get in a fight with a bunch of minor undead, ghosts and banshees.
* Found a room with a library and lever, did not pull the lever. Vahlka sets the room on fire cause she's angery about necromancy and a big fool.
* We head down a level, back to the one we started on. Vahlka kills a zombie real fast. In the distance we hear a deep harsh voice talking about meeting with someone. He insists that if "the dragon wants something then she ought to come to him". Vahlka pokes her head around the corner and sees that the figure is speaking to Sara in a room full of powerful undead - a large number of Bodaks and a single Vampire but she cannot see who the figure is around the corner. We argue for a bit, then send Olly and Barkley ahead to sneak up invisibly and spy on the conversation.
* They discover the figure is Orcus, who natural 20s his perception check and locks eyes with them. Olivia and Barkley both fail their madness save and dimension door back to the party on the stairwell, who run, have a scooby doo moment where they end up back on the same floor again twice before finally ending up on another one.
* We end up on a different floor where it is obvious Calliope and Thresh have been fighting. We find Calliope on the floor who explains a bit about how she has figured out how the tower works. There's a control room that swaps where the portal is and where it leads to.
* We explore the floor a bit more and find the control room. Lucius says his goodbyes to the party then leaves with Calliope to do SOLO SESSION.

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Episode 163

## Summary

We travel northward to the leyline nexus to bring Boulder there so she can empower her amulet so she might save her people from their imprisonment inside the mountain. We then fly eastward to the Blood Peak, scouting out Daggerspine's lair. Barkley is nearly caught by the dragon but manages to slink way, while she's retreating she spots a kobold who gives her a few scraps of information about how to get in.

## Recap

* Securing Samara and having collected the full set of Skysquad, the airship heads further north so that Boulder may channel the leyline at the nexus. The party is immediately confronted by three large nexus dragons, who seek to send them away.
* After a bit of interrogating, the dragons are convinced to allow Boulder through. Barkley is also able to accompany her, but Lucius' attempt to do the same is met with hostility. As a result, the pair go on ahead as the rest are forced to wait and hope for their safe return.
* With the support of Barkley, Boulder is able to successfully charge her amulet at the leyline.
* Boulder and Barkley return back to the waiting group. Instead of going straight to where Boulder's people are located, however, they decide that it's best to take care of the dragon problem first.
* After arriving at the Blood Peak, the first arguments of many are had once the airship docks about what to do with Daggerspine. Barkley goes to scout on her amphithere, but fails to maneuver out of sight from the dragon and is harassed by the mountain-sized beast.
* Barkley lands in an attempt to escape detection and is met by a kobold who's quick to insult her stealth technique. She proceeds to annoy him into telling her more information and he lets slip that there's a door in the volcano, presumably leading into the dwarven city and the Soulforge. He also cautions that she wait until the dragon is asleep to proceed further.
* Lucius summons the Magnificent Mansion for extra security just in case, as they chart their possible course forward.

## Recording

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Kord

## Kord, the Storm Lord

Kord is the god of strength, storms, and natural disasters in Teshol and other realms relating to the Tesholan Earth.

## Culture

Kord has no dedicated holidays, though his followers will occasionally throw celebrations for him during storms.

The most popular way to honor Kord is through brawling tournaments. His followers believe in action over idols, and thus there are very few dedicated shrines to him—though there are many dedicated mead halls.

Aries is the Tesholan sign of Kord, and people born under it are supposedly gifted with great strength, either of body or character.

## Details

* ALIGNMENT: Chaotic Neutral
* DOMAINS: War, Tempest
* CHAMPIONS: Unknown
* RELATIONS: Melora (sister), Moradin (lover)
Snow

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Tenebrous, also known by the pseudonym Snow, is a tiefling warlock and the white wyrmspeaker.

## Appearance and Personality

Tenebrous usually appears as a tall, elegant androgynous tiefling with white skin, horns and fingers appearing like they have been dipped in black ink. They typically wear a white mask that looks like an unexpressive face. Without the mask, Tenebrous is very cute, with freckles, glasses, and a gap between their front teeth. They are very young, only 21 years old. Tenebrous is in possession of the white dragonblade Braugtheros, which they can summon from a pocket dimension.

They seem to be very charismatic and enigmatic in personality. They seem to make a point of being more "civilized" than the other wyrmspeakers. They are extremely persuasive and come across as friendly and likeable.

## Backstory

Tenebrous has been mobilizing The Community of tieflings, attempting to get them to work for the Cult of the Dragon, in theory because the success of the cult would lead to an increase in social standing for tieflings in Teshol.

## Other Interesting Facts

* Tenebrous used to bring cupcakes to Tristram and Grim's house.
* Tenebrous is the child of Jovar, one of Grindwall's lead inventors and the creator of the clockwork guards that patrol the streets.
Corellon

## Corellon, the Brilliant Song

Corellon is the god of art, love, beauty and the sun in Teshol and realms relating to the Tesholan Earth.

## Culture

Corellon is the main deity of the Celestial Triad, and the primary deity of elves. Unlike his sister Sehanine, who prefers tributes to involve quiet reflection, Corellan's tributes are often grandiose displays of art or dance.

In the more underworld parts of High and Wood elven cultures, great, wild parties and orgies are often thrown in his honor, often with a lot of alcohol.

The festival of lovers in February is held in his honor, and indeed many of the typical 'favors' that young lovers exchange during this time have patterns or symbols of Corellon.

The elves have a lot of songs detailing Corellon's various adventures, exploits and romantic entanglements. The whole collection of ballads is called "*Divinia Rom'ai*" which translates from Elvish into, more or less, "The Divine Romp."

Saggitarius is the Tesholan sign of Corellon, and being born under it is said to bring good luck for your artistic future. The time when Saggitarius is in the sky is also considered, by elves, to be a period of high romance.

## Details

* ALIGNMENT: Chaotic Good
* DOMAINS: Light
* CHAMPIONS: Unknown
* RELATIONS: Sehanine (sister), Lolth (sister), Ioun (sister, adopted)

## Other

"Corellon" is old Elvish for *lovely, beautiful.*
The Raven Queen

The Raven Queen is the goddess of death, winter, fate and silence in Teshol and other realms relating to the Tesholan Earth.

The Raven Queen is the God that has had the most direct influence on events during the campaign. She has indirectly aided the party many times through Deacon's magic.

The party met the Raven Queen in the Void during Episode 73, in the ruins of a destroyed tower in a destroyed city. The Raven Queen spoke to Kassandra, a strange woman the party had met, telling her that she was far from her prison. Kassandra was revealed to be undead and then she disappeared. The Raven Queen also collected the Hand of Vecna from the party, and spoke to Deacon, telling him that it was possible that freeing him from Ravenloft had caused other complications. Finally, she reassured Barkley that her mother Maria Crowlantern was in the Black Garden, in the afterlife.

The Raven Queen appeared once more to Lucius after his death in Episode 110. Lucius played a chess game against her, won, and then was issued an ultimatum - give up necromancy forever or pass on then and there. He took the deal and all of his necromancy spells save Blight, which he begged to keep, were replaced with cleric spells.

## Culture

The Raven Queen is the primary deity of winter, and as such one day during the Winterdawn week is dedicated to remembering the dead and honoring family members who have passed on, called Garden Day.

Typical ways of honoring the Raven Queen's power involve lighting candles scented with *Graveblossom*, a flower that grows only where the bones of the living have been laid to rest—and which will not grow over coffins that will inevitably rise as undead. Silent vigils and temporary vows of silence are also typical of her followers.

One of the talismans involved in marriage ceremonies in Teshol is a raven draped in red ribbon, as a prayer that lovers not be separated early by death. In the rare instance that one of the marrying parties has died and been resurrected by magic, the raven is often replaced by a wolf or a snake.

Capricorn is the Tesholan sign of the Raven Queen, and legends say that She reincarnates the souls of her greatest followers during its time in the sky. As with most people born under certain gods' signs in Teshol, these people are considered to have that god's particular favor; in this case, with long lives and calm ends.

## Details

* ALIGNMENT: Lawful Neutral
* DOMAINS: Death, Life
* CHAMPIONS: Deacon Rothford, Carrie Crowlantern, Vahlka Shadowbane
* RELATIONS: Vecna (nemesis)
Episode 90

## Summary

The calm before the storm. With the Abyss on the horizon, the Heroes decide to take some time off and say what may be their final farewells.

## Recap

* We begin by having a small beach party before Barkley leaves for her mission. Hijinxs ensue. Vahlka yeets Barkley 60ft into the water and cannonballs just as far via ring of jumping. Andy runs on the water and back flips into a cannon ball. Godfrey becomes a sea turtle (with a beard) and swims around. Deacon sits far away from the water with an umbrella like the goth nerd he is and continually readies destroy water in case someone splashes him - Vahl threatens to just wrestle him into the water.
* The next day we Vahlka and Lucius head to Oasis and talk to their respective boys. Nero doesn't have any malice towards Vahlka and explains how he came to be the Black Cat. She takes Boris back from him and makes her peace with him. Lucius meets with Shadow and gives him the letter and a hug.
* The next day Vahlka meets Deacon at the Night Circle and asks if he'd like to get back together - this time for real. He accepts and the goths have a cutesy picnic date.
* Olivia tries to get to Sri'syr to contact her dad, but neither the Watcherium nor Perrin are able to help her so she ends up unable to go.
* Barkley returns and greets the party warmly minus Godfrey. She demands answers from him. Godfrey shares his backstory and grandpa candy. Barkley doesn't really forgive him for anything and tells him he's got to earn her trust back if he wants it.
* We buy a couple magic items (Fork of the Glutton and a Midnight Candle) and some mundane shopping then head to Ysgard.
* We're greeted by Nidhogg again upon arrival who informs us that to get through a portal to the lower planes you need clearance from two of the champions in the city. He explains that the Champion of Melora has embarked on a grand hunt in the forest and that the Champion of Kord is busy with the Valley of Heroes.
* We head to the Valley of Heroes but the guard tells us Caelynn is likely to be busy for "awhile". We decide to leave that be for the moment and head into the forest to instead look for the Champion of Melora. Barkley manages to track down the giant boar and the druid fighting it.
* We fight the boar and Vahlka slays it with an opportunity attack when it tries to charge past her and attack Godfrey.
* The druid agrees to help us, she gives us her pass to get into the Valley then asks to split our group in half. She takes Olivia, Barkley, and Deacon with her to finish her hunt. Vahlka, Lucius, and Godfrey head back to Asgard to track down Caelynn.

## Recording

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Episode 111

## screaming into the abyss (2 snack breaks)

* Finish a short rest.
* We head back toward Hypatia's tower, avoiding the demon horde around us. We spot a brightly colored thing on top of a nearby rise. Godfrey grabs it with mage hand. It is a staff, painted a bright metallic blue with an orange cloth tied to it, sitting on rock next to it is a sandal. There is blood on the rocks Barkley believes is about three days old. After a bit of discussion we decide to leave and not investigate further.
* We get back to Hypatia's, she greets us, then asks that we give her a few minutes - she retreats into one of her back chambers and we see an unfamiliar humanoid back there before she shuts the door. We invade her kitchen and help ourselves to her abandoned lunch and the rest of her fridge.
* We babble about rocks for a long while...
* Godfrey approaches the closed door that Hypatia disappeared through and uses his X-ray vision, on the other side of the door he sees a strange man with a cat's head with bulging eyes. He comes back and tells us about it. Godfrey is SPOOKED for the first time in his life. We eavesdrop a bit and gather that the man is harassing Hypatia about some sort of deadlines.
* Hypatia returns after awhile. She says the man was her advisor. She says his name, but it sounds like a sneeze. We dub him Professor Achoo. We hand over the Cubi hearts, which she puts in a tupperware and then in the freezer. We ask if she's seen any sign of Sayda, but she says she hasn't. We ask if she has anything prevents ethereal travel but she says she doesn't.
* She tells us that we could potentially substitute another Elite Demon's body part for Sayda, any of the nine kumiho or another elite. Vahlka brings up the idea of trying to find out her true name to get an edge over her. Hypatia tells us that would be difficult but advises that we might have some luck if we appeal to an ancient fey spirit it might know the name since Sayda and the other kumiho were once fey spirits.
* Godfrey asks about the shell around the Court of Stars, Hypatia explains that the prismatic barrier is old magic and not easily bypassed. It's innate to the court of stars, a part of the plane. She explains that the Court of Stars was like a seed, and the rest of the Demonweb Pits grew out of it like a plant.
* She also tells us where we can find the demonic fish eyes - a place called Amphibitown in a lake nearby. We cackle about Amphibitown the entire rest of the session. She advises we bring money, and that we avoid The Ocean Floor. She cryptically warns that "The ocean goes down a long way and you don't want to find yourself at the bottom of it."
* Godfrey sure did say a lot of words and drove Hypatia nuts...
* We turn in for the night and each have a hot shower and the most restful sleep we've all had in awhile.
* We get up, discuss what to do for a bit, ultimately landing on the idea of going to Amphibitown and getting the fish eyes next.

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Episode 53

## i yell

* We check out a glimmer that Barkley found in the mud, Olivia swims down into the pond and pulls free a broom that seems magical. We stick it in the bag to worry about it later.
* Head farther in, see echoes of the Andrith party interacting with something in the wall.
* After a bit of search Barkley finds a wurm corpse that has had its eyes cut out. Her and Vahl head back to the wurms we killed and cut out one's eyes. When we place the eye in the stone hand, a passage opens beneath the skeleton.
* opens cavern beneath
* dragon council
* echo crow fight
* find door thingy
* OPEN DOOR THERE STAFF
* The first appearance of Broomba, true hero of this story.

## Recording

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The Grasp

The Grasp is an affiliation of necromancers. The group formerly was referred to as "The Grasp of Vecna", and was strongly afilliated with the god of secrets, but more recently they have begun to allow necromancers of multiple faiths into the fold.

It was implied that The Grasp is working with the Cult of Tiamat in order to raise the dragon goddess and attempt, like many other groups, to promote someone in her place (possibly Vecna?)

It was revealed recently that Osyna and The Grasp do not get along well. She seems to have some sort of antagonistic relationship with Vecna.

**Known members:**

Kiare Feltouch

Aisling

**Implied members:**

Merlin LaRoth

Aurelius

Raza Denhevan
The Shadowbane Family

The Shadowbanes are the family of player character Vahlka Shadowbane, the eldest daughter of the Shadowbane clan. Members are listed below by their relationship to Vahlka.

## Immediate Family

Ursula Shadowbane (Mother)

Marcoth Shadowbane (Father)

Ender Shadowbane (Brother, Younger)

Andrith Shadowbane (Sister, Younger)

Andromache Shadowbane (Sister, Youngest)

Boris Shadowbane (Spider Son)

## Extended Family

Agnes Shadowbane (Maternal Grandmother)

Rystus Shadowbane (Uncle, Mom's Side)

~~Jendryn Shadowbane~~ ~~(Aunt, Mom's Side, Turned into a Drider and slain by the Party)~~

Allegreyana Willowstride (Sister-in-Law, Married to Andrith)
Andrith Shadowbane's Adventuring Party

Andrith's adventuring party is a group of major characters in Teshol.

## Accomplishments

According to party members, they killed the young white dragon Grenn, and at least one unnamed young black dragon. They also attempted to kill the adult black dragon Crow, but failed.

The party has had at least one death.

## Members

It consists currently of beastmaster ranger Jethnik Hadryon, death cleric Deacon Rothford, wild magic sorcerer & archfey warlock Allegreyana Willowstride, gunslinger fighter Reanna Ironhand, necromancer Perrin Weaseltongue, and open hand monk Andrith Shadowbane herself. Former members include Marshall Fyrevail, C. Valerius Cassian, and Ter-Gorrah.
Episode 22

SHOPPING EPISODE!!!

* The party goes to Wyssa's shop in Tamvrien. They shop for a long time, buying potions, diamonds for revivify, and other items. Most noteably, Olivia asked if there were items for dealing with cold and Wyssa came back with the most amazing and perfect and beautiful Boots of the Hinterlands which Olivia had no trouble persuading Lucius to buy for her
* The party went to get a breastplate for Barkley, going to the armorer's shop where a friendly white half-dragon mentioned that he sometimes collaborated on magic items with Wyssa, and that he'd recently made a horn for a half-elf guy that Wyssa had enchanted.
* The party went BACK to Wyssa's and Olivia paid Wyssa a lot of money to tell her about the item she'd made. She said the item was a horn that renewed the users uses of Bardic Inspiration - CONFIRMING VERDE AS A BARD!!!! Olivia's player screamed.
* The party was uncertain as to what they were going to do, but Olivia suggested that they visit Temerity before Olivia had to leave for the Northmarch, so the party went to the university. They met Temerity in her office - the tiefling was searching for her missing mimics before a class. The party warned her about the cult's activities and she answered a message spell from Olivia asking about Bran, saying that she hadn't seen Bran 'since he went up north'
* Olivia got a Sending from Minerva telling her it was time to come back to the Glass Palace. The group headed back to the group.
* Olivia said goodbye to her friends, hugging everyone including a reluctant Vahlka. Then she hopped on Minerva's back, they both went invisible, and they flew away.

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Episode 43

## Episode 43: Chaotic Good Snooping

* Party was met with a hive tender who guided them out of the Ghost Wasp hive and to the next nexus.
* We head directly to the tavern, there are only three rooms - we rent two of them. The other is taken and locked behind a complex padlock.
* Barkley and Olivia want to investigate the locked room of course. Vahlka plays the lawful wet blanket and tells them not to. They insist, and she is far too tired from just dying to really care enough to try and do anything more to stop them so she just chugs some vodka and goes right the fuck to sleep.
* With a series of inspired lockpicking checks they manage to get the door open and discover the room is rented by Tenebrous. Inside is a audiograph machine, as well as some bloodied green cloth - presumably belonging to Verde.
* With a bit of help from Godfrey, they manage to figure out the machine and listen to several audiographs that Tenebrous left behind. Revealing a bit about their motivations, position within the Cult of the Dragon and revealing that Tenebrous seems to be friendly with both Grim and Verde, who are heard talking in the background of the recordings.
* They put the room back how they found it. Then come back to the party's room and talk to Vahlka and Lucius about what they learned. We agree to set off first thing in the morning to avoid any trouble/catch the wyrmspeaker's trail.
* In the morning we discover several things were stolen from us. Including Creed's arcane focus and the white rose pocketwatch we found in Deathcrawl's hoard.
* Following Des' lead, we head down the Dead Road past Nexus Omega and after a few acrobatics/athletics checks manage to get past several obstacles.
* Barkley, stealthing along on the ceiling with her spider climb boots, is accosted by a stealthy figure who warns her that there are people camped down one passage who may try and kill us, and that we can avoid them by taking a different route. It is suggested that this person was a Tiefling Monk - but they gave no name.
* We head down the suggested path after a bit of arguing and find a ruined dwarven city, lanced through with strange crystalline structures that seem to have "infected" the city - most notable is a single dilapidated tower with a bright light at the top.
* We head into the tower, at the top we speak to a creature named Gryven. Who, in exchange for Godfrey's magical raven figurine, tells us that another approached the tower earlier asking for the mirror as well and that they were about fifteen minutes ahead of us.

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Ursula Shadowbane

## Relations

### Family

Marcoth Shadowbane (Husband)Vahlka Shadowbane (Daughter)Andrith Shadowbane (Daughter)Ender Shadowbane (Son)Andromache Shadowbane (Daughter)

## Game Statistics

### Stats

*Unknown*

**Ursula Shadowbane** is the mother of player character, Vahlka and her three siblings.

## Appearance and Personality

Ursula is extremely tall for a drow woman, standing nearly six feet tall - and she emphasizes this with her big hairstyle and by wearing heels.

The party has never met Ursula, but Vahlka has described her as demanding, extremely emotionally distant, and cruel. She abused both Vahlka and Andrith as children both emotionally and physically. Vahlka was absolutely terrified of her as a child.

## Trivia

* Ursula has been described as "your typical disney villain but also your mom."
* Ursula's first anshi was a brown bear, her second a gold dragon wyrmling named Thirteen.
* Dex said "she's a CR 1/8th Noble but with a pit fiend's fear aura."
Deephold

The Deephold is an enormous prison in the underdark, run by the drow of Umbravall. Prisoners of the Deephold have a single eye remove and replaced with a magical device called a Black Eye which allows Nightwardens to track them with their insignias. If the Black Eye is removed after being implanted, the prisoner dies within several months to a year. As such the device prohibits normal teleportation magic to different planes, as it will remain behind on the Material Plane.

It is rumored that some parts of Deephold extend into the Abyss - a great deal of the prisoners are driven insane by the proximity.

## Known former or present Deephold prisoners

Daggerspine, an Ancient Red Dragon.

Andrith Shadowbane, Vahlka's younger sister.

Amber Vaillow, a Lich.

Kosith, a Rakshasa.

~~Baurogh~~~~, a Beholder.~~
Fiend's Mirrors

These magical mirrors appear to be entryways and exits to the void. Each mirror supposedly needs a power source, typically a connection to a god, to activate them. These mirrors appear as full length mirrors with gold frames, adorned with the image of a winged serpent. Permanent mirrors are typically paired in groups of 3 - when one mirror closes, another side opens.

Known Fiend's Mirrors:
Episode 131

## Enjoy the Worms You Have

* After some brief discussion, the party decides to head to the underground lake - where Tagi believes the remorhazes make their nest. She agrees to lead us there, but sensibly wants no part in the fighting.
* Tagi leads us through the goblin tunnels. We polymorph Lucius into a hawk so he will fit and Boulder is forced to squeeze through awkwardly. We emerge onto a narrow ledge, which we bypass with some difficulty, tying some of us together. Olivia slips off the icy ledge but casts levitate on herself.
* Another ledge presents a challenging climb, which polymorphed Lucius and Barkley bypass by letting Boulder carry them up. Deacon turns into a bird and hitches a ride on Vahlka's shoulder rather than have to climb. Andy runs up the wall. Olly, still under the effects of levitate, pulls herself up with her hands. Vahlka and Boulder just climb with their Big Mauscles. Tagi remains at the bottom of the ledge and hides, telling us she'll come back for us when we're done down there.
* We peer down into a big hole that provides entry to a cavern with large lake, which is partially frozen. Two groups of kobolds patrol the shores, but there is no initial sign of any worm activity. Lucius and Deacon both fly down on their own as they are currently birds. The rest of us climb on the flying carpet and fly down - abandoning any pretense of stealth as we do so.
* The kobold use warhorns to sound an alarm and we are beset by WORMS. Olly stands on the carpet and throws firebolts and polymorphs one of the worms into a fish. Lucius throws some lightning bolts. Andy spends far too much time getting her ass kicked by a single determined kobold. Deacon gets his ass kicked by worms. Vahlka heals her helpless boyfriend and sister. Barkley and Boulder are both eaten by the big worm until Barkley explodes out of it with destructive wave, killing it.
* We all fly back out of the hole and regroup at the top. We hear the sound of something very large moving around down below, but Vahlka cannot see it in the darkness and mist. We rejoin Tagi and make our way back to the goblin village to rest.
Castra Dame

Castra Dame was a female Drow paladin turned vampire spawn, who was seen working alongside the Cult of the Dragon outside of Tamvrien. She was leading the efforts to turn clerics and paladins in Tamvrien into dragon-bonded blue wilders (bonded to Dazzlegleam) that would in turn be used as agents of the cult in their respective churches.

While the party was in Tamvrien, the cult kidnapped Deacon, torturing him for information about Andrith and the white dragon mask. On Castra's orders, the tips of Deacon's ears were cut off as part of the torture.

The party first saw her when Olivia and Jeth scouted invisibly into Dazzlegleam's lair. She and Verde were in an argument and Verde started fighting her, weakening her. The rest of the party followed after Olivia and Castra was fought, killed, and beheaded while Verde fought for a moment and then fled.
Episode 63

## At the Precipice

* We kick off the fight with the Cave Wyrm. We do our best to avoid the worst of the poisonous traps inset on the floor and manage to kill the Cave Wyrm and the mummies that the fight disturbs. Vahlka goes down but Isil picks her up again.
* After the fight we loot the corpse of the man who the wyrm attacked and find a note from Tenebrous.
* Barkley tells Vahlka that she sending'd Deacon asking if there was anything he knew that might help Vahlka's withdrawal symptoms and he apparently told her dragon blood can ease it. Vahlka drinks the wyrm's blood without much hesitation and only token bitching.
* We move on and manage to avoid most of the catacomb's guardians. After a few hours we decide to set down for camp and find a pool of water. Lucius decided to check and see if there are any secrets behind the waterfall and OF COURSE THERE ARE. Behind is a small overgrown cavern with a shrine to Fenryon. Everyone takes a bath and settles in for the night.
* After a little bit it becomes apparent it will be a very rough night for Vahlka as she fails another exhaustion save in her sleep. Barkley and Olivia stay up throughout the night and take care of her as best they can. She manages to shake off two exhaustion levels with a natural 20 con save.
* After a full rest, we gather camp again. Vahlka tells the party she saw and spoke with Fenryon briefly, though she doesn't say much about what the conversation consisted of.
* We travel on for a few hours before finding a stairway up, discussing some of our plans of what to do once we are in Oasis. We find ourselves in a mausoleum, Barkley notices a cat perched in the crypt but none of us think much of it and Vahlka forces the door open.
* Upon stepping out of the crypt a group of monks accompanied by a single sphinx, named Neferta the Honest form a perimeter around us. They treat us with suspicion and immediately arrest Isil, who has apparently violated her exile by entering the monastery. Neferta does not seem to care that none of us knew that's where the tunnels led to.
* Neferta tells us we must stay close and puts us in the care of a monk to escort us, Mak-rehe. Mak-rehe leads us to a nearby brothel/tavern?? and takes care of our rooms for the night. We've a short conversation where Vahlka snaps at Godfrey for revealing too much information.

## Chat Log

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Maria Crowlantern

**Maria Crowlantern** also known as **Magpie** is a forest gnome rogue working with the Claws of Bastus.

## Appearance and Personality

Maria is described as looking much like her daughter Barkley, with brown hair, fair skin, and large green eyes. She wears leather armor, a black feather adorned cloak trimmed with gold runes and a white bird-like mask. She wields the magic dagger Anxucotl. She fights stealthily and seems to have a bit of magic.

Maria is very frustrated and concerned by her daughter's behavior but has relented that she cannot actually stop her from doing dangerous things. She is very protective of her daughter and rather secretive about her past dealings.

## History

Magpie told Barkley that she was once a notorious thief in Sri'syr. She worked for the Claws and did a great deal of deeds she is not proud of. She stole from a nobleman and got in trouble with another crime sect called the Nixum Arcanum. She essentially went into hiding to avoid the people after her, and moved into a secluded and hidden small town in the Elder Woodlands - where she had Barkley. She claims a year after Barkley ran off the Claws killed the people who were after her and she was told it was safe for her to operate freely again.

It's been implied Maria was very controlling during Barkley's childhood, did not want her daughter to ever leave the town in the woodlands, and rarely discussed her profession with her daughter.

## Trivia

* Maria is presumably related in some fashion to the other Crowlantern we've met, Carrie.
* Like every gnome, she's very good and I love her.
Orion

Orion is a tiefling bard, and part of Snow's group of friends/operatives. He seems to be an archetypical mischievous flirt. It was implied that he was originally from Grindwall and came from a lower class background.

The party encountered Orion during their final hours of their Undark mission for Mysa'aor, shortly before exiting the underdark via fiend's mirror.
Ender Shadowbane

## Relations

### Family

Vahlka Shadowbane (sister), Andrith Shadowbane (Sister), Andromache Shadowbane (Sister), Ursula Shadowbane (Mother), Marcoth Shadowbane (Father)

## Game Statistics

### Stats

*Unknown*

**Ender** is Vahlka's younger brother and a wild mage sorcerer. The two barely know one another, as Vahlka left home and cut ties with her family a few years before he was born.

Rystus described him as being around 60ish years old, quite charming, and as a mage who had difficulty controlling his innate magical talent. He apparently turned himself into a sheep when trying to show off for his uncle.

The Claws of Bastus had a contract out for Ender's life, but it was annuled when Vahlka dueled Tython in Episode 18

The party encountered Ender and his sister Andromache during the battle of oasis in Episode 71, where they fought against the party alongside Dirga. The party was able to non-violently neutralize the siblings with the use of the spell phantasmal force. After Dirga was slain, the pair of them fled.

## Trivia & Relevant Quotes

* Fluffy sheep boy.
* "He started it!" -- Barkley, in defense of why she was sacred flaming Vahlka's little brother while her baby sister tried to hit her with a halberd.
Daniel Erran

Daniel Erran is a half-elf druid, born in the city of Elchezar on the Chezarian Grasslands.

## Description

Daniel is roughly 5'10", a thin boy with long hair and short pointed ears. His eyes are purple. His normal outfit consists of a tunic and brown pants, with a long fur coat (in the same style worn in the north) that has many pockets sewn onto both the inside and outside of it.
Episode 77

## Lucius Pimps Vahlka to the Son of Zeus

* We arrive in Ysgard, and upon stepping through the portal are confronted by a white dragon wearing armor and covered in glowing runes. He introduces himself as Nidhoggr, and asks where we are headed and tells us a bit about the area. He informs us that if we wish to pass through the portal at the Great Tree we will have to pay 300 Champion's Coins and gives us a single one.
* We head across the rainbow bridge to Asgard. Upon arrival we spot a tavern called the Knock-Out Pit and Lucius leads the charge to head inside.
* We're greeted by a fire giant barkeep who offers us a free meal. In the center fighting pitch we watch a skinny man kick the ass of a goliath, when that fight is over he calls out for competitors. Barkley urges Vahlka to fight, but with some goading from the man we all end up in the ring.
* He introduces himself as Kalesius, then proceeds to kick our ASSES. Knocking Lucius out first before the half dragon can even do anything. He then takes out Vahlka, but not before she gets a few swings in.Olivia ties the fighter down with mind affecting magic for a bit, while Godfrey keeps trying to turn into a T-Rex and fight but keeps losing Concentration. Godfrey just barely loses to Kalesius, both of them having 3hp at the end of the fight.
* We talk to Kalesius after the battle, who gloats a little bit, then informs us that he is the son of Zeus. He is from a place called the Twenty Four Kingdoms, in Haor'sokk There's a bit of confusion, as the party knows nothing about the world outside the Ring of Storms and he knows nothing about the world within it. He tells us a bit about the various games within the city of Asgard.
* When we tell him we're from the Center of the World, he waves over a storm giant woman named Helga who comes forward and tells us that she is a cartographer. Her and Barkley hit it off intermediately. She tells us a bit about Njarsvyr and Yuan-ti.
* We decide to fight in The Gauntlet, an arena fight where you fight 10 rounds of monsters -- we do have a small argument over when. Olivia is in a rush to get this over and done with, Lucius wants to fight tomorrow, Barkley wants to spend some time with her new map-making friend, and Vahlka and Kalesius keep waggling their eyebrows at one another suggestively. Ultimately we end up agreeing to stay for the night and attempt the games tomorrow.
* Lucius, Godfrey, and Olivia go out and watch a few rounds of The Gauntlet, observing a group get slaughtered by a trio of monsters. Godfrey asks a guard how many people can compete and he informs them that the limit is six, Lucius has the brilliant idea that Vahlka will cunningly seduce Kalesius with her feminine wiles so he will fight with us in the Gauntlet, he asks Olivia to talk to him for him.
* The trio head back to the tavern and find Vahlka just sitting on Kalesius' lap and chatting and Olivia just asks him to participate with us. He checks in with his group, then agrees to fight in the Gauntlet without any actual prostitution on Vahlka's part.

## Recording

LINK.

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Ter-Gorrah

Ter-Gorrah is a gnoll paladin of Kord and former member of Andrith Shadowbane's Adventuring Party.

She was in the City of Dogs in the underdark when she received a message from Perrin to go bring Deacon to safety after he was feebleminded (Perrin couldn't come himself because when he tried he had a teleportation mishap that got him in legal trouble). The party reluctantly allowed her to take Deacon with her to the Altar of Storms in Elchezar to get Greater Restoration.

## Appearance and Personality

Ter-gorrah is a large and very imposing gnoll woman wearing full-plate armor and carrying a magical flail and a metal shield. She has a long mane of dark hair and jutting bottom teeth that give her a pronounced underbite and lisp.

Ter-gorrah is gruff but well-spoken, particularly for a gnoll. She is dutiful, honorable, and as one would expect for a Kord paladin - admires strength above other virtues.
Episode 132

## Yetis and Snowbolds

* We ask Tagi to lead us to the nearby yeti village. We reach a ledge and leave her at the top with a rope and the immovable rod.
* Olivia plays In the Hall Of the Mountain King on her harp and casts control weather to calm the blizzard outside.
* We head into the first of a series of caverns and fight some yetis for a bit before quickly realizing there are far too many for us to battle. We retreat the way we came, scrambling up the ropes with some difficulty.
* We instead decide to cause an avalanche and bury the village. We climb to the top of a ridge overlooking the village and Olivia casts a 6th level shatter. Both the yeti and the kobold village are buried in tons of snow.
* We head back into the goblin tunnels and discuss plans for awhile, agreeing to treat this foray into the dragon's lair as reconnaissance - and to attempt to take out the human man that Tagi described to us. Lucius hands the amulet Bahamut gave him off to Vahlka, who attunes to it. Then Tagi leads us to Winterscar's lair through a secret backdoor.
* We sneak through a series of frozen tunnels, taking out a sleeping yeti guard and getting in a brief conflict with a yeti and several kobolds. We encounter a large set of doors, frozen shut, and Vahlka cuts through them with Sethokesh. Then we break for the night.
List of Things Vahlka has Punched

## CATCH THESE HANDS

1. Erasthekon, punched in the snout - Vahlka broke her hand...
2. Kosith, punched in the gut and tackled to the ground.
3. High Inquisitor Valeana Luxand, punched several times in a bareknuckle sparing match. Vahlka was destroyed.
4. Castra Dame, punched in the face and then a pathetic attempt to grapple her. Vahl immediately got smited.
5. Kosith, punched AGAIN. Kosith tried to cast Harm on her but AHAHAHahahaha i'm immune to disease, bitch. GET GOOD.
6. Kasun, who Vahlka smite-punched and then immediately got knocked out by werewolf claws.
7. A Black Pudding, melting her gauntlets.
8. Deathcrawl, punched down and then stood on triumphantly - immediately fell off next round when he got up.
9. Warden Aisling, then broke all her fingers.
10. Dak Stumbleflask, who let her win a bar fight.
11. A single but very lorge bee.
12. Shoulder checked a Nightwarden Elite who thought shawty couldn't jump and knocked her on her ass.
13. Godfrey, when he lied to her about not knowing what Olly and Barkley were up to.
14. An undeserving and unsuspecting tree.
15. Lucius, when he was an asshole.
16. A Worm Knight named Jared. Actually roundhouse kicked in the face but who is counting.
17. Dirga Whitespine, because I can grapple as a bonus action when I do that.
Episode 6

## Episode 6: RIP Salty Randal

This is the sixth episode of the "Heroes of Legend" campaign. The party, consisting then of Barkley, Rashi, Olivia, Kakara, Vahlka, and for a brief moment Stella, participated in this episode. At the beginning of a battle with the giant black glass-stone fire spider thing, Salty Stella disappeared through a trap in the floor.

During the fight, Olivia became petrified into a strange, black statue, like the other statues of adventurers that were in the room. Strangely enough, Wyssa had sent the party with a vial of unknown potion which turned out to be a stone to flesh potion of exactly the right type to undo the effects of the petrification. I suppose Wyssa had a good guess about what the party would be facing! Lucky guess! Definitely no sinister way to know something like that.

After the party restored Olivia, they went to look for Salty Stella. Apparently she had fallen through a trapdoor in the floor. The party used rope to get her out of there, and then Barkley and Olivia went down into the hole to light it up and check it out. There was also a wall with a slot in it (I think it had a mural on it?) and eventually they tried to put Barkley's magic coin in the slot and it opened up into another room (also had a mural?? dragons).Underneath there was a dead body (some sort of cleric maybe?) who had a weird bag (of holding!) that the pair of them stole. They also argued about rocks, and accessorizing I think.

The party also searched the body of the spider and found one of Andrith Shadowbane's magical knives (Mercy) and also some DOCUMENTS!

After the party left the tomb, Stella just turned away from the party and walked the fuck away in the opposite direction through the swamp, headed to...........somewhere .................... (the elemental plane of salt). The party then returned to the nightwarden camp, retrieved Tauro and Boris, Vahlka's spider, and started heading back to town on the boat. They were planning on resupplying and telling the people about the missing blacksmith, but things did not go as planned.

When the party arrived in town, there was a confrontation near the docks. The party went to investigate, just in time to see Salty Randal get shot down by a red-haired wilder woman with a gun. This was Marisa Lilygrave, the captain of the Iron Guard, and she shot down Morgana One-Eye, accusing her of piracy.

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Episode 5

## Episode 5: "Lolth, why have you forsaken me?"

This is the fifth episode of the "Heroes of Legend" campaign. The party, consisting then of Barkley, Rashi, Olivia, Kakara, and Stella, along with a new party member, the drow nightwarden Vahlka Shadowbane, entered the statue of the winged serpent statue. Vahlka had been sent by Shad'ro to .... supervise the party. Inside the party was attacked by strange, glowing spiders. Most of the episode was spent in combat with these creatures, which were clearly elementals. The party learned of Vahlka's tendency to roll low and began the habit of swooping in to protect a very fragile Olivia.

Once the fight against these spiders was complete, the party moved into the next room of the dungeon. This room contained a tomb of some sort, and the whole room had writing scrawled into it in Ignan.

> IF YOU WANT TO CHALLENGE ME, LORD OF THE VOID, YOU WILL DO SO ON MY TERMS. DRIFTER.\* LIAR. MANIPULATOR. GATE WALKER. PRINCE OF NOTHING. DO YOU REMEMBER CIRION? CASTOR? TIRAYN? LILY? OR MAYBE KITTA? ELDREHAIN? AS THEIR DEATHS WERE ABSOLUTE, AND FINAL SO WILL BE YOURS. AND YOU, MORTALS I KNOW YOUR HEARTS YOU WILL LEARN FEAR
>
>

It was later assumed that the Prince of Nothing the note referred to was probably Mysa'aor.

The party investigated the tomb. If I remember correctly there was a fancy sword in there??? (It's been a while sorry). When the party worked together to get the lid of the tomb off, an enormous fire spider attacked! And that's where the episode ended.

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