Session 101

The party has an entire Nox to deal with, Sors channeling his ritual, and an undead Tiamat right in their faces. RIP them.

## Summary

The party begin surrounded by the five heads of undead Tiamat, with Sors having vanished, leaving behind a portal. While the bulk of the party remains behind to deal with the dragon heads, Teer and Belle head for the portal to interfere with the ritual. Teer, reaching the portal first, is hurled through the portal and ends up in a perpetual twilight, depthless space. He can see Sors, encased in arcane energies, with copies of the nine spheres surrounding her. Floating above them, is the ethereal form of Nox. Belle enters, ejecting Teer in the process. Over the course of the next few rounds, the party cycles through, slowly whittling Sors down and knocking her out. They then damage Tiamat's heads enough that they are all unable to use their individual breath weapons.

As Nox's control over Tiamat begins to wane, he launches one final breath weapon attack with all of the heads. Chrysa uses Wall of Force in order to protect everybody from the attack. As Tiamat's corpse falls away, the platform upon which the party had been standing on shatters. The Rotspire collapses as the party, their allies, and Nox fall. Nox launches an attack, slamming everyone to the ground.

Lysaro appears over Kiono, using Death Gate to parry an attack against Nox. Nox, having attacked one of Lysaro's champions, strips Nox of his powers. Though Nox accuses Lysaro of overstepping his own bounds, but Lysaro retorts that Nox has done worse. Lysaro holds up the Death Gate, whose blade swings open like a door, consuming the godly power of Nox. Lysaro apologizes for not having told them of his plan, but he was already bordering on interfering more than allowed. He heals the party and, taking Death Gate with him, departs.

Nox's power now gone, the dragon orbs crumble, and Akaros returns to Teer, restoring *his* power. Thus revitalized, the party begins to attack Nox, now standing more of a chance to defeat him. They do so handily. Nox falls to one knee, and Akaros frigging eats Nox the way he did once upon a time to a noise monster. As Akaros pulls away, a thread of emerald and black light is pulled from his form, causing his physical form to crumble. The essence of what was once the Dragon of Reform envelops Akaros. Another dragon forms, its body forming, somewhat smaller than Akaros once was, and very different. It has six eyes and six wings, but its scales are a deep emerald green. Its wings end in feathers, as does its tail. "It looks really fancy." Akaros, the Ascendant Dragon of Rebirth, looks down on Nox's form. Amid the crumbling bones is a fleshy, scaleless, bone-white dragonling, struggling to breath. Akaros turns to the party and requests a moment along with his brother. They grant him that time. Sors's skin is ashen and crumbles like old paper, so they decide to not move her.

Akaros tells Nox that he probably won't ever understand why Nox did what he did, but forgives him. Akaros blasts his breath weapon into the crater, opening it wider and leaving it a giant pit as the remains of the Rotspire collapse into the pit. The walls of the crater crumble almost perfectly cylindrically, revealing a long, winding staircase. Akaros explains that he isn't sure if he is still Akaros or if he is supposed to take up the mantle of the god of Rebirth. He also says he has a choice to make, whether to let the other dragons pass on or return them to life. After some discussion about it with Teer, Akaros uses his power to restore some of the orbs to their former form.

Tiamat, Cienat, Zamai, and N'viroth reform and depart, to resume their previous endeavors. The energy of Iermora and Culumog depart the premises. Anghadym's energy sloops right into Esteem. Esteem feels warm, as though the dominion aura from Anvuraak would no longer affect him. Marduk forms for a moment in front of Chrysa, hugs her, and his energy infuses her, and she becomes the eighth Bahamut. Akaros' Destruction energy suffuses Prisma! Akaros' emerald energy rushes off to somewhere else, but Akaros himself returns to Teer.

After checking on everyone, the party descends the staircase. Akaros gives a lore dump about Sors.

Nox lies broken on the stone and rubble and rot at the bottom of the pit. He focuses on breathing, his form singed by Akaros' breath weapon. Aedon steps out of the darkness and observes Nox's form. They say that he is the only form closest in energy to that of themself and their fatherself. They then absorb Nox's form, taking on draconic features, then returns to the darkness. The party, reaching the bottom, find a miraculously alive Haaken. Kiono, intending to align the local leylines if possible, finds that they actually run far below the surface, deeper than the bottom of the pit. Unwilling to pursue that at the time, they return to the Platinum Disc to rest.

N'viroth - vantablack scales with coins perpetually cascading from among its scales.

## NPCs

### Returning

* Tiamat
* Sors
* Nox
* Prisma
* Dort
* Chrysa
* Athoraz
* Bahamut
* Cienat
* Iermora (energy only)
* Zamai
* Anghadym (energy only)
* N'viroth
* Akaros
* Bahamut (as energy, deceased)

## Items

* Akaros (returned to Teer)
* Death Gate (taken by Lysaro)

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