The Story So Far

## What We (The Party) Know:

Gira, Poppy and Dusk wake up in a tavern in Elethlum. They are given a choice between two commissions. The first to go help a small girl with bandits at her village. The second to follow a shady figure to his client. The trio agrees to help the shady figure if he gets the little girl help.

Crown Prince of Elethlum commissioned the trio to escort Neeka, the captain of his guard, on what he openly called a wild goose chase. The mission is to find and retrieve a Princess of legend to become his bride. The king does not like how close his son and Neeka have become so he orders her on a fool’s errand. The party travels to the renowned Library of Yin'Hyr. Along the way they are ambushed by bandits that are later revealed to be disguised guards from the royal palace attempting to assassinate Neeka.

Stopping in the small travel town of Whitleham, the party stumbles upon a slave auction and Gira goes: "Hm. Target practice." And they yeet those poor suckers out of there. Gira quite literally breaks the shackles chaining the slaves together.

On the road they encounter the wreckage of a merchant caravan. Bodies are missing their heads, carts are destroyed and sitting in the middle of the wreckage, innocent and docile, is a single goose.

That night the party discovers that Neeka may be preggo with the crown prince's bastard child. Whoopsie.

They pass the burning city of Nosindo, currently being ransacked by orc hordes.

They encounter a frost giant named Nork who is on his way south to visit his cousins.

The party stops at \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ in the desert, the last city before the library. Gira and Dusk take Neeka to a physician to confirm her pregnancy and Poppy attempts to rob the market. They find Neeka is a few weeks along and Poppy is almost caught by the guards.

The party was attacked in the night by an assassin who fought with poisoned blades and dissolved into ashes upon death. Neeka reveals he is a part of the mythical Order of the Deathless, an assassin guild thought not to exist. They regenerate their bodies to continually hunt their marks. To evade them is to only delay the inevitable.

The party reaches the library and begins researching. Gira finds a fancy scary poison and its antidote, Poppy finds a romance novel and Dusk finds trap doors in the floor. They meet a group of students, Kenneth, Kalista, Lancel, and Xena (Gradwin, Mora, Lance and Xen from Cyprian huhuhuuuu), who help them navigate the library and find information on their princess. The party determines the Protectorate is their next stop. Lancel wakes up Gira to lead her into the Forbidden Texts Section™. She wakes up the rest of the party and they sneak their way to the FT door. After watching someone activate the rune door into the wing, Lancel attempts to do the same. He fails, and activates the trap doors in the floor. He turns invisible and bounces. The party sneaks their way back to their rooms. In the morning upon leaving, they are met with a pair of Keepers who cast Zone of Truth and interrogate the party.

The party makes their way to Dreghedild. They stop for a day or two to plan their next steps. While at the tavern they overhear news of an arena fight happening that day. Neeka seems interested, Gira seems appalled. Neeka drags the party to see the fight and they see a fighter named Arena kick the ass of the town’s champion. After the fight, Neeka, who recognizes Arena, introduces her to the party. Arena joins, both to protect Neeka and take the challenge of fighting the Order of the Deathless.

After gathering supplies the party plans their route and leaves the city. They woke up one morning to find their camp in the middle of a faerie ring and Poppy missing. Poppy did leave a note “My Queen needs me, brb.” The party decides to continue on without her. Poppy knows where they are going and will hopefully meet them at their destination.

They passed through the now-ruins of Nosindo.

Poppy returns to the party after almost a month of traveling. She had been yoinked to the Summer Court to fulfill a quest for her patron, Queen Titania. It is discovered that while the party traveled for almost a month, Poppy only spent three days in the fey wild.

They find the ruined city of princess Simone. They fight three dragon wyrmlings and arena accidentally leaves a knife behind. This is a surprise tool which will harm us later. Diving into the dungeons below the ruined castle they find Princess Simone and her lover? Advisor? Wizard Pet Man? Rothlam. They had been trapped in suspended animation for millennia. A young adult dragon returns to the nest and in their hurry Arena takes charge of the transportation spell location and takes everyone back to her home manor in Elethlum.

The party meets Arena's dad and summons the crown prince to give him the news of a job well done. The prince requests an audience at the Emarla Residence, instead of the castle, surprisingly. He reveals that his father, the king, had betrothed him to a princess from Cheforte. The wedding would be in a week. The party advises the prince not to go through with the wedding and Neeka to stay in Elethlum until the situation is resolved.

During this time the party investigates how to stop a Deathless assassin. Clues lead them to the Merchant's Guild inside the city, where they find that Arena's mother is not only the new Head of the Guild and the one who commissioned the Deathless but also that she had recently called the Deathless off the hunt. She had been scrying on the party since they accepted the commission and, in fear of harming her daughter, called off the Deathless when Arena joined the party.

The party found a secret base underneath the Guild housing a cult of magic-users praying to an unknown entity, casting strange rituals. The Order of the New Dawn. Arena's mother is a high ranking official.

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We learn there is an eclipse happening in a month. The Order of the New Dawn is preparing something for it. The planes will be aligned for the first time in a thousand years and the cult of spooky mages has plans.

The last day we are in Elethlum we meet Xandor, an eccentric old man wearing yellow and gold robes who commissions us for a object retrieval quest. We ask questions. Something isn't right. He isn't telling us the full story. He eventually gives in when we mention the eclipse and what we've found in the Merchant's Guild. He reveals that the objects we are looking for are weapons that will help determine the fate of the world. Taking a moment to think, we go our separate ways. We find Rali! Arena's long lost gf. Well. Ex-gf. It's complicated.

The weapons are in Voltheim, Poppy's home city. She is distressed. We head out. We travel. He tells us three out of four of us are reincarnated heroes of past 1000 cycles. The fourth is Dawn, who is in the service of the Raven Queen, working for the enemy. The heroes have repeatedly tried to seal the great enemy behind a Tear to keep him from merging the planes together. We realize the BBEG is the same wizard who merged the planes together at the Great Cataclysm many millennia ago.

We meet Tahm Kench. Gira is almost licked to death but decides not to take his deal. Arena stabs him.