Nicholias Dawning

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## Nicholias Dawning

### Aliases

The Sun King, Prince Dawning, The Golden Prince, The Golden Eagle, Dyani, Dichiali, Etu, The Natural Pinacle, The Radiant Prince, The Sun Knight, Nic

### Relatives

* Marcus Dawning - Ancestor
* Pelor - Father
* Katarina Dawning - Mother
* Elizabeth Dawning- Aunt
* Aariel Dawning - Wife
* Elizabeth Terrorblade - Cousin
* Aurora Dawning - Daughter
* Neaera Dawning - Daughter
* Theta Arcadia - Granddaughter

### Affiliation

Unity Party, Council of Light, Church of Pelor, Justin's Rebellion

## Physical Description

### Skin Colour

Light Tan

Nicholias Dawning is King of New Amaranthia, a member of the Giant Council, and a hero from the fall of Mount Unity.

## Appearance

Nicholias is a tall handsome man who is well built with golden tanned skin, shimmering blue eyes with no pupils or sclera. He has golden brown hair in a wave to the right, and a short well kept golden brown beard. He has golden tatoos all over his body that glow when he is accessing his powers, such as the golden energy wings he can generate from his back. In battle he wears pure white dragon bone armour with gold trim, while out of battle he wears the clothes of a nobleman in shades of gold, blue, and white. Since mount unity he is always wearing a golden circlet on his head.

## Biography

### Early Life

Pelor, the god of the Sun, fell in love with Katarina Dawning the queen of Amaranthia and courted her as his wife, soon she was blessed with a child. The god and his chosen wife gave birth to their son, Nicholias, during the summer solstice. Nicholias grew up in the golden city with many friends, his closest friends were Jack Bittersheer, Latona Arcadia, and Marris Attalan. He first met Jack at the age of ten, when Jack was being bullied by Draco Darkpeak and Nicholias stood up for him, he was aided in standing up to Jack by a mysterious black haired boy, who would later be revealed to be Saul. Nic and his three friends wished to grow up and become heroes that protected the world from all evil. He trained in combat in Heropolis alongside Latona, and studied in Whitehelm with Jack. As Nicholias grew, his celestial heritage came to show, his looks and power were known across Unitas.

Nicholias left Amaranthia on his 14th birthday to set off on his heroic adventures with his girlfriend Latona, who he was in a non-monogamous romantic relationship with. The two eventually came across a small village being terrorized by a barbarian horde. The duo were unable to take on the horde by themselves, but were able to trick their leader into participating in a one on one combat with Nic, where the loser would leave the city. Nic managed to barely beat the captain of the barbarians and sent them on their way. The couple then parted ways for a short time and Nic came across a group of people who were seeking protection as they traveled to Karning. Nic joined them and kept them safe on the road as they were attacked repeatedly by a roaming cannibalistic tribe that had taken root in the area. One night they managed to take a small girl so Nicholias followed them and slaughtered the whole camp bringing the girl home safe. He finished the trip to Karning and stayed there for a short period of time to help the locals smoke out some slavers and ship them out of Dondar.

Nic eventually made his way to a village outside of Durgair where he joined forces with a dwarven mercenary named Andila to rid the countryside of a pack of dire wolves killing off the villagers. Nicholias later recieved an invitation to a ball at Summershore hosted by Gaspard, where he met a beautiful woman named Lianna. Gaspard later regretted inviting the Golden Prince as he was caught getting too familair with Lianna, who was Gaspard's betrothed, a fact not known to Nic. Latona sent word to Nic that she missed him and that he should travel to Heropolis. He did, and after a short period of relaxation, Heropolis was attacked by a sea monster that Nic and Latona slew. The two continued their relationship even taking a trip to Amphitrite in the Nimiane Archipelago, where Nic befriended the prince of naiads, Caspian Nimison. This was one of Nic and his friends many trips to Amphitrite where Nic eventually developed a sexual relationship with Caspian and a few other Naiads. On one of there return trips they stopped off in a western port of Dondar and were delayed there as the city was being pillaged constantly by a cluster of goblin thieves. Nic, Jack, Marris and Latona helped free the city from the goblin theives. At this point Nicholias and Latona decided to end their relationship and return to being just friends as they no longer felt a romantic attraction to each other.

Nic continued on his journey by traveling with Jack to Whitehelm and staying there for awhile, once he hit the road again he came upon a small town that was constantly losing children. Nic decided to stay at the local inn and investigate it, eventually it was discovered that the children were being kidnapped by a blind witch and being used in an ancient arcane ritual to prolong her life. Nic fought the old hag and won by slicing her head off as her body turned to dust. Nic later returned home as he often did between adventures to visit his mother.

That was when his greatest adventure began, he was home visiting his mother and a local farmer came to the palace requesting his aid with a great terror ravaging the country side, the monster had slaughtered many people from the village. Nicholias set off at once to end this fearsome beast, as he traveled the area he ran into a beautiful white elf named Aariel, the two of them decided to hunt the monster together as her prophetic visions had lead her there. They began to track the beast and soon discovered it was a Basilisk. They stalked it to it’s mountain cave and after climbing the mountain and entering its den, Aariel distracted the snake as Nic slew the monster. They made camp for the night in an nearby cave, and by the fire light they made love for the first time. Aariel departed off to complete her destined quest and promised Nic she would return. Nic also set off for home but chose to take a detour through Mount Unity as a golden eagle with lightning at it's wings led him there.

### Reclaiming Unity

#### Mount Unity

Nicholias had to take an ancient tunnel though the mountain as the main tunnels were occupied, once he entered Mount Unity there was a tremor that blocked off the exit behind him. As Nic continued down the path he came across two skeletons and a kolbold, Nic made quick work of his enemies splitting the kobold in two and shattering the undead. A disheveled human approached him from the other side of the small cavern, this man recognized Nicholias, but Nic was unsure who the man standing before him was. The travel worn man revelead his identity, he was Elijah Shieldheart, going by the name Carver Lockard. The duo were soon joined by a rock gnome named Carol Shimmersong. Nicholias attempted to woo the young gnome but his advances were completely missed by the gnome.

The trio continued down the tunnel until they heard a loud explosion from up ahead. They followed the sound and came into a large cavern with a half-orc woman standing alone in it. He introduced himself in a flirtatious manor which was not well received but she did give him her name, Liz Terroblade. After Liz slung some insults at an elf who was not present, the elf, Maiyr came out of a different tunnel to defend himself. After their brief introduction conversation, Nic and Carol heard combat in the distance, so the group followed the sound and came across a struggle between an elf named Xanaphia, a human named Morah Dantalion, and some undead. The party quickly dispatched the undead. Nicholias and Elijah recognized the name Dantalion, and Morah recognized that Nic was a Dawning and began to hurl insults, Nic was unimpressed with them but later had to defend Morah from an enraged Elijah. Nic also convinced Morah to stay with the group after that incident.

The adventurers continued down the ancient hallways of the mountain until they came to a large canyon where a female half-giant and a human woman were engaged in combat with a horde of goblinoids. Nic and Liz joined they fray, followed closely by the others, eventually two more humans, Nerisaga Silverkin and Saul, joined as well but they were rather exhausted and failed to contribute. The battle was also joined by another elf, a good goblin, a dromite, and another human woman. After the party finished off the goblinoids the floor collapsed beneath them. Nic, Elijah, Carol, Nerisaga, Maiyr, Xanaphia, and the other elf woman, Keylara plummeted towards the bottom of the hole.

At the base of the hole Nicholias spotted a golden circlet and grabbed it, upon touching it he collapsed to the floor unconscious. After they all regained consciousness they noticed physical changes from the group that had fallen down the hole. Nicholias' eyes had changed they had become a solid shade of blue that matched his previous irises, but seemed to have a light in the center. He had also become stronger and slightly bigger. Before anyone could discuss the changes Nerisaga attacked Keylara, Nic lifted Nerisaga up and Elijah stood before her. Even though she was removed from the combat she continued to hurl racial insults. The elves had become worked up so Carol focused on calming them while Nic and Elijah calmed Nerisaga. Elijah was able to discover the exit of the cave with help from the elves.

#### Dondar

Once outside of the cave the party noticed that Mount Unity was now a crater, Nerisaga immediately took off for a city visible in the background. Nicholias made a more direct advance on Carol which caught her off gaurd and caused her to run away in embarrassment. Not long after she took off the party heard Carol scream. When they caught up to Carol they found her being lifted up by a group of men. Nic attempted to use his royal lineage as leverage against them, but the group did not recognize his noble standing. It seemed as if it was going to take a violent turn so Nic turned to Elijah for support but he was gone. Right before a fight could begin Elliway showed up and he and Nic were able to calm them down. Elliway revealed to the party that it had been a year since they disappeared. Elliway took them to the king of all humanity David Hammerhome, David blew Elijah's cover and Elijah was forced to tell his true origins to the remaining members of the party. Nicholias told the story of what happened in the mountain at David's request, and in exchange David told the party about all that had transpired since the mountain collapsed a year ago. The continent had broken out in war between almost all of the nations, plague and disease had begun to spread across the land, and the church of Tharizdun had risen. The church of Tharizdun, led by Lucille Eventide, had attacked Amaranthia, slaughtering most of the people including Katarina, and had torn down the city. David suggested the group head for Olyanor as Nicholias was public enemy number one. At Elijah's request David readied horses and suplies for the group, during this time the party headed to the blacksmith where they ran into Nerisaga again. At the blacksmith's shop Nerisaga's past is revealed to the group when they run into Caldwell Shattersun, a person from her past. Nicholias and Elijah had a long talk in which they decide to bring Nerisaga along with them even though she had slaughtered a large number of people in her past.

The group departed the Kingdom of Stoneshade, and made camp that night, during the night they were attacked by the undead. Nic is able to defeat the skeletons attacking him and rescued Carol. During the conflict Maiyr was injured and transformed into a Dragon, he returned to his elven form after the battle. The group then continued on their way to the border of Dondar and Olyanor.

They soon arrived at the Kingdom of Trineantis, once there Nic ran into an old acquaintance named Justin Stoneskin, he was leader of the eastern forces. He warned Nic not to make a scene, so the group decided to hide in Nerisaga's family's secret forge. Once there Xani requested that Maiyr and Nic go and collect herbs so that she could make health potions, which they did. As the night came Nerisaga requested the groups assistance in meeting with her past lover Brigitta Trineantis, the princess of this kingdom. A few members of the party sneaked into the castle, while Nic waited outside with Neri. When Brigitta arrived she brought Justin with her, Justin and Nic had a brief conversation in which he was warned again not to make a scene. Most of the party then headed to the tavern where Nic approached two attractive women and went home with the both of them shortly after.

The next morning Nic decided to continue the fun from the night before for a bit longer before Elijah showed up at the girls' house to collect Nic. The two friends traveled down to the market so that Elijah could procure some various dark items. While in the market an arrow was shot at Nic and barely missed his head. A group of people came out of the shadows and introduced themselves as the Blackthorn, an army of Tharizdun worshipers. A fight began and the missing members of the party hid nearby. Nic and Elijah started off rather successful, but soon they became heavily outnumbered. During this fight a spunky fireborn named Adara, and a half-giant named Bidziil showed up. The small group were still losing as most of the party remained in hiding, but Maiyr had begun to use his archery skills to assist them. The group didn't come out and start helping until Nicholias was badly injured and healed by a health potion administered by Neri. After being healed, Nic killed the leader of the Blackthorn troops, and only one remained, the group decided to interrogate him, but he managed to escape using a magical dagger. Justin had held off the army from interfering but even he couldn't hold them back much longer. The party fled the city heading closer to the Olyanor border.

The party made their way to Nerisaga's family's old home. On the way, Nic and Adara had become very fast friends. Once there, Nic asked Maiyr if he would like to go out into the woods and experiment with his new found ability to become a dragon and Adara tagged along. On the way back Nic and Adara fell behind and decided to have casual sex. Later that evening Aariel appeared, she approached and smacked Nic before almost crying about how she had thought she lost him. The two took off into the woods alone to have a private moment. During this talk the two decided to pick up where they left off and had a passionate sexual interaction. When the two returned to the cabin Nic had to separate Biddy and Neri before they killed each other. The next morning Maiyr introduced the party to Kirx, the goblin from Mount Unity, and set off on the road again getting ever closer to Olyanor.

Right near the border of Olyanor the party was attacked by a pack of demons lead by an imp. During this battle the group discovered that Maiyr was not the only one that could transform, but Kirx too could change when badly injured. Kirx became a demon once he was greatly injured and helped to quickly end the fight.

#### Olyanor

The group shortly after entered the forests of Olyanor and Nic drifted off to sleep against his will. When he awoke he found himself and the party in the royal hall of the palace of Olyanor. Before them stood Queen Elaria, and Chamberlain Aramil. Nicholias asked for her aid in retaking the human territory back from the church of Tharizdun. Elaria stated that she would offer the elves' aid if the party was to do a quest for her. Nicholias and the party accepted the quest which was to go to human territory and hunt down a fugitive who left with some humans, they were also tasked with retrieving two crystal rings. During this encounter the party also had to stop Dilly from dissecting and experimenting on Kirx.

That evening, the group separated to experience the one night they were granted stay in Olyanor, and Nic and Maiyr went to the elven tavern, where he spotted a silver haired elf woman. While at the tavern Nic noticed he was being followed, like the rest of the group, by Riderron, an attractive red haired elf, the male twin of Zephyria. Nicholias approached Riderron and the two hit it off, as the evening continued the two eventually decided to go to Riderron's place and get to know each other more intimately. After their steamy interaction Nicholias headed back to the house given to the party for the night where Aariel was sitting waiting for him. The white elf asked to speak to Nic alone and the two retired to a private room. There Aariel expressed her emotions, a rare thing for white elves to have let alone express, she loved Nic and wished that their relationship would be more then a casual affair. Nic reciprocated her feelings but he explained that he could not commit to a relationship with her when she just vanished without warning, he needed to be able to rely on her. She explained that once her destined quest was over she would be there always but couldn't until she had completed her fate. The two agreed to stay as they were until that day. The two finished their night by embracing each other in the moonlight and making love. When Nicholias awoke the next morning she was gone.

The party, sans Elijah, returend to the palace where they were greeted by the Queen, the Chamberlain, the two twins, and Dilly. Dilly offered them a new experimental form of travel that would get them part way across Dondar. The group accepted Dilly's offer and stepped through a portal.

#### Return to Dondar

On the other side of the portal the party fell from the sky into water, Nic caught Adara in the air using his celestial power to generate wings of light from his back. The party swam, or flew to the shore, once there Nicholias recognized his surrounding and told the group that they were in Summershore. Knowing that this was unfriendly territory the group quickly looked for an escape from the kingdom, the party headed straight for the docks.

On the way to the docks the party noticed that there were slavers selling in the market, the group decided to interfere when they noticed that one of the slaves being sold was Xani. During the fight Xani was freed, along with the other two slaves, a goliath panda named Mei, and a domestic catgirl named Kiki. The catgirl had attempted to free the others but only managed to break Mei's lock, but Nic was able to bend the bars while Maiyr freed Xani. After dealing with the slavers the party wasted no time in getting to the docks and securing safe passage on a pirate ship captained by a man named Larkin.

The party enjoyed their month long voyage across the seas on Larkin's ship and many of them grew closer to each other and to the crew. Nicholias had bonded with a pirate named Grant who was a Pelor worshiper. Near the beginning of the trip both Mei, and Kiki would show their appreciation for the rescue physically, separately and then together. While on the boat one night Nic, Adara and Kiki had an intense and sexual evening. Eventually Nic and Grant began a sexual affair that would last the remainder of the voyage. Nic and Adara grew even closer on this trip and Nic helped her by being her wing man. First he attempted to help Adara win over the affection of a ship hand named Brenn, but that failed horribly, an event that would cause Nerisaga to bond with Brenn over their dislike for Adara. Eventually Adara would set her sights on Kate, a blonde pirate woman that Nicholias had attempted to flirt with on day one. With a little help from Nic, Adara and Kate began to get more intimate.

Larkin and his crew ended their trip at the kingdom of Karning. While in Karning the crew had a few smaller adventures, they went to the tavern and met a red haired woman named Nephy, along with a less then pleased man named Nathaniel. They found a proprietor who was once in possession of both of the elven rings, he told them that one was stolen by a halfling and the other was sold to a dwarf named Hoddyn. They soon ran into the lady of Karning, Viola Adressar, who informed them that they would be best to leave the city and told them to be gone by days end. The party took her advice and rented a few horses and took off towards the border of Hrothgar, to the Kingdom of Durgair, on the way they would meet back up with Aariel.

Once the party arrived in Durgair, they ran into an issue with some slavers that resulted in a skirmish, during this conflict they beat the slavers and met back up with Elijah. While in town they met up with an underground church of Pelor run by Tricia, and Corona, Corona was a friend of Nicholias' from his youth in Amaranthia where she was being trained for the Dawngaurd. They were hiding in the basement of Cloud Tavern, other members included the young man from Karning Nathaniel and his sister Emmellyne. Tricia revealed to Nic in a private meeting that the Blackthorn were causing problems for them in Durgair. The party spent a portion of the night making a plan to lure the Blackthorn out so that they could eliminate them. Nic spent the rest of the night helping to raise the morale of the pelorians.

The next day they set their plan in motion, Nic summoned a golden eagle and attached a daylight spell to it, while Carol made the whole city aware of the presence of the Golden Prince. It was all going fine until the army showed up to support them. A figure in black armour showed up and slaughtered most of the army while the party retreated. Tricia later informed the party that the man in armour was the Nightingale. Since the Blackthorn presence was dealt with in Durgair the party decide to continue onwards to Hrothgar the land of the Dwarves. Tricia told the group of adventurers of a secret tunnel under the border that led into the mountain home of her dwarven lover Darwin. The party rode off towards the border and could see the humans and dwarfs fighting over the border in the distance. The party arrived at the location of the secret tunnel and went through it into dwarven territory.

#### Hrothgar

They arrived on the other side in the back room of Darwin's home. There they met both Darwin and Hoddyn, Nic passed on a golden ring to Darwin that he had made as part of a set, the other was with Tricia. The party then traveled through Hrothgar to Hoddyn's home, once there they waited for Hoddyn to arrange a meeting with the king. At Hoddyn's place the party ran back into Liz who was staying there at Hoddyn's request because he had become infatuated with her. After Hoddyn returned from King Prytis Longbeard, the party asked Hoddyn about the elven ring he once purchased and with Liz's sway he provided it for them. The party then met with Prytis, he and Nic were able to make a deal in which they would deal with a dragon assaulting the Crimson Perch and in turn Prytis would assist them in reclaiming humanity from the Tharizdun worshipers. Prytis had seen what his influence had done in the past as was more then willing to contribute. While in town Nic ran into his old friend Andila and secured her mercenary group as assistance against the dragon, with the promise that they could collect the monetary reward. That night Aariel had a vision which completed her destined quest and promised to Nic that she would now and forever be at his side. As she was now able to provide something stable in his constantly changing life the two swore themselves to each other, and made love for the first time as betrothed.

The group marched on the Crimson Perch alongside the dwarven mercenaries, once they arrived they were met with a small army of drakes. Nicholias and Elijah took a defense stance at the entrance to the cavern blocking the drakes from getting to the remaining members of the party. The party was able to defeat the drakes and that is when they ran into the red dragon Feraak. Nicholias acted rashly and stormed the dragon headfirst which resulted in him eventually falling in combat as the remaining members of the party remained at a safe distance. Eventually several other members of the party would join Nic in death such as Aariel.

Once the battle was over Nic and the other dead party members were brought back by a man named Antali using a magical forge called the Soul Forge. After the party was fully revived and healed they were given a magic mirror that acted a portal to the Soul Forge in case anyone was to die while they were not near the Soul Forge. The party stayed behind at the Crimson Perch for a few days to help rebuild what Feraak had destroyed. During this time Nerisaga managed to convince the group that Kiki worked for the Blackthorn which explained her frequent disappearances and why she broke the locks of Mei's cage when they first met her. The party then returned to the dawrven king and with his blessing set on past Hrothgar to the land known as the Anthill.

#### The Anthill

The party made their way out of the Dwarven mountains and onto the mountain range known as the Anthill, once they entered the tunnels they were immediately approached by dromites. The dromites lead the group to their queen, Veene. Veene was willing to give the party one way passage through the mountain in exchange for a favor. The favor was to go to the land of orcs and collect a dromite egg that had been stolen long ago. At this time Nic spoke up and managed to convince Veene to give him Azubuike, as she was going to execute him. Nicholias and Az became fast friends in a ward and mentor like relationship. The party continued to make their way across the continent and headed into the rolling plains known as the Little Hills.

#### The Little Hills

The group made their way past the different domains of the Little Hills until they made it to the land of the halflings where the were met by President Ago, who hired them to assassinate the leader of a rebel faction attacking the capital. There was a brief disagreement that night in which Carol used her magic to calm Maiyr.

The next morning the party found a note from Maiyr and upon reading it, it exploded damaging members of the party. The group then hunted Maiyr across the Little Hills but the trail went cold in tallfellow territory as he had used magic to teleport.

The party returned to the capital and learnt that there were two assassination plots in motion one was for David Hammerhome and the other for Ormag, Liz's father. This news caused the party to splinter more as Liz, Kirx and Keylara left for orc territory to warn Liz's father and Elijah used his secret connection to teleport to Dondar and try to save David.

The remaining party members traveled through the Deep Hills to get to the rebels, in the tunnels of the Deep Hills the party was met with resistance and had to remove the obstacle. Once the party got to the rebels location they were met by the rebel leader Algo who was once Carol's mentor. After sitting down and talking to Algo, along with information the party gathered in the capital, they realized that Algo wasn't the problem it was Ago. The party teamed up with the rebellion and marched on the capital. Outside of the capital the rebel clashed against the president's army. During the conflict Algo managed to kill Ago while the party held of the president's army. After the dust settled and Algo took over the party was offered a place to stay and decided to rest for the night.

That night Adara came to see Nic and told him that she needed to leave, she had to spread her wings and find Maiyr, she took great offence to his actions the previous day. They parted as close friends promising loyalty to each other. Later that night after Nic and Aariel were intimate she left for a moonlight stroll and Nic was awoken by a man who had climbed through his window. It was Emeth Mechapes, and he was there to remove Nic from the equation for awhile. Emeth placed his hand on Nic's shoulders and everything glowed.

It was now morning and Nic was standing in the room he was given, he left the room looking for someone when he came across Carol. Carol and Nerisaga explained that Nic had been missing for a year and that the party disbanded after he disappeared. The two of them had been living in the halfling capital together, that Az was on the outside of town meditating on the crystal ring and Aariel was nearby and checked in frequently for news on Nic refusing to believe him dead. Nic headed out to get Az and when he returned to the Capital word had already been sent to Aariel who was now returning. Nic and Az set off to meet up with her near giant territory, now joined by Neri who said goodbye to Carol.

#### Dragon's Teeth

The group met up with Aariel just outside of the Dragon's Teeth, she had been attempting to get past so that she could go to Thunderpeak and talk to Pelor so that he could reveal Nic's location to her, but was constantly stopped by the ongoing civil war in giant territory.

Nic and his party eventually made it to the giant council, a group of the leaders of the giants, comprised of Veahto, the last storm giant, Pitew, of the hill giants, and Hassun, of the stone giants. Nicholias attempted to gain the giants as allies in his war to reclaim humanity from Tharizdun but they were to busy with their own civil war between Paytah, queen of the fire giants, and the rest of the giant council. Nic and the party agreed to help make the fire giants see reason, but first they had to help secure passage for Amitola, Queen of the cloud giants as her people were having trouble with a group named Psiren who were kidnapping giants.

The party managed to make it to the cloud giants and with there help located Psiren's base. Once the group infiltrated the base they were able to strike a deal with Psiren resulting in very little death after Nic ordered Az to stealth kill their leader Syr. The deal they made was that the group would not all be killed if they left the giants alone, if they needed giants they were to take fire giants, both parties agreed upon these terms and the group of adventurers returned to the giant council with Amitola. During this time Nic grew close to many members of the giant council specifically Veahto, their leader, and Amitola. This friendship resulted in Nicholias being given an honorary seat at the giant council and a new title.

The party then marched against Paytah and her fire giants, after a few smaller conflicts the heroes with support from the giant council advanced on the final battle of the giant civil war. During this conflict several members of the party would die including Nerisaga and Pitew. The battle was won however when Nic commanded Az to strike down Paytah from a distance and then used his reputation during the giant civil war battles to intimidate the fire giants into surrendering. In the following days the fire giants would rejoin the giant council with their newly elected leader, Pitew and the fallen soldiers would be revived, and all would return except Nerisaga who ventured off on her own towards Dondar, leaving Nicholias in possession of the Forge Glass. With the fire giants now members of the council, the party was given access to their lands and traveled on wards into the land of the frost giants, where they would meet up with Elijah, who revealed that he failed to save David and that Arianna, David's wife, was an Eventide.

The party was greeted by Laufey leader of the frost giants shortly after making their way into their domain. Nicholias and Laufey came to an agreement that if they could get the monster living in the Eternal Forest to move her forest the frost giants would grant them passage and place a representative on the giant council. The party then ventured into the Eternal Forest not sure of what kind of monster lived in there.

The group cautiously entered the forest but that made no difference for once they were lead inside by some kiterits the forest itself came to life and trapped the party in the branches of the trees and in their roots. A beautiful green skinned woman came out of the forest, with a massive dire wolf and started to attack Aariel, Nic commanded Az to sink into the ground and be ready to save his fiance if need be. After finding out that the woman was mistaking Aariel for her long lost love Aariel Moonsong, the current Aariel's grandmother, Nic was able to calm the Green Goddess. After calming down it was revealed that Verdana, the Green Goddess, was Aariel's other grandmother, after a short but touching reunion the party had to talk business. Verdana agreed to move her forest to help Aariel if they could find a place for her to move it to. Before the party departed for the giant council, to find a new mountain for her to overtake, Nic decided that it would be a good time for him and Aariel to get married. Verdana married Nicholias to her granddaughter, and provided the rings made of iron wood and a crystal provided by Morah. The three then had a short but enjoyable family reunion in which Verdana told them of her old adventures with Emeth, Tupai Kiterit, Dench, and the original Aariel, as well as giving the current Aariel the original's magical bow. The party soon departed back to the giant council.

Once the party returned to the giant council and explained the situation they were able to find a empty mountain in stone giant territory that Verdana could have. The party returned to the Eternal Forest and told Verdana where her new home would be. Verdana proceeded to uproot and move the forest across the Dragon's Teeth, upon arriving at her new mountain she hollowed it out and re-rooted her forest inside the hollowed out mountain. Once the forest was settled two cloaked figures showed up, one Nic recognized from the night in the little hills and now also from Verdana's stories as Emeth, and the other was the silver haired elf from the tavern in Olyanor, Sylanna Blackhide. Verdana and Emeth left for a time and they returned she said goodbye to the party and turned into a massive and beautiful tree, and her dire wolf Faunen became a stone statue at it's base. The party soon departed the forest as did the silver haired duo.

By the time the group returned to the land of the frost giants Laufey and his people where already turning the coast where the forest once stood into a frozen tundra, the party continued on with Laufey's blessing and eventually made it to Thunderpeak, the tallest mountain on Unitas that was constantly struck by lightning. It was said that if Thunderpeak was climbed one could enter Pelor's godly domain. Nicholias and the party proceeded to climb the mountain that was once the home of the storm giants. Near the top of the mountain where the party decided to make camp, Elijah attempted to kick Morah off the mountain but he was caught by Rebecca, Nicholias proceeded to scold his friend for this action and attempted to make peace between them. Later that night while the party slept Morah and Rebecca left the mountain and the group.

The next morning Nicholias finished scaling the mountain by himself and walked up invisible stairs into his fathers realm. Nicholias and Pelor had a father to son heart to heart moment and Nicholias was relieved to find out that his mother's spirit was safe and happy in the realm of his father. Pelor then gave Nic some insightful wisdom and sent his son on his way. As Nicholias was descending the stairs a golden eagle made of light flew past him and into Crombern, land of the orc tribes.

The party all departed the mountain and made way for Crombern, as they crossed what was left of frost giant territory they came across a band of ice demons and decided to challenge them. The ice demons used their power to insight fear and caused the heroes to retreat, while retreating Elijah and Gali were slain and their bodies were taken.

#### Crombern

Shortly after making it into Crombern the newly reformed party arrived on the side of two warring orc tribes and Maiyr rejoined them. Nic uprooted a tree and attempted to get them to stop but it resulted in the party also being attacked. The group was easily able to overcome the orcs with the combined might of Nicholias and Maiyr. The party continued on and eventually arrived at Ormag's camp, where they were reunited with Liz and Kirx. Then after talking with Ormag and discovering that he was Nic's uncle through marriage, as he had married Katarina's sister, Elizabeth Dawning, the party decided to help Ormag bring Crombern under one rule.

The party partook in many battles with Ormag and his daughter, Nic's cousin Liz. While at camp with the orcs Nic became close to his newly discovered cousin and uncle. He and Ormag sparred a few times with Ormag winning, after Nic was no longer able to spar with the orcs because they were all afraid of his strength as he had beat them all easily. The group met and intermingled with Ormag's tribe the Fateslayers. Nic met an exiled fire giant named Surtur, and hired Surtur's friend Baelin the black smith to craft him a new suit of armour made from Feraak's bones.

On the battlefield the group eventually met up with Kiki and Mei again, the duo were fighting for the opposing orc tribe, but changed sides once they recognized their friends. The group of heroes now joined by the duo were easily able to defeat the other side. After the battle Nic confronted the two about their possible allegiance to the Blackthorn. Mei was able to prove her loyalty to the Unity Party and prove that she was not a Blackthorn, but she stated that she did not trust Kiki. Kiki was aggressive and rude with Nic and Maiyr, who were doing the interrogation, which caused them to not believe her innocence. Nic still angry with the death of Elijah executed Kiki. Nic did however take Kiki's ears as they had the relic she picked up from Mount Unity and he did not want whoever was stealing the bodies to get a hold of it.

After returning to camp Nicholias heard rumors that a golden sword of light was stuck in the ground near the border of the Squall, and that no one was able to move it. Since this location seemed to match up with where Pelor's golden eagle landed Nic wanted to investigate, figuring that the sword was a gift from his father and that only he would be able to lift it. He requested the aid of Maiyr, who during their adventures since they departed had become a close friend to Nic rivaling Jack. Together with Az the three set off to collect Nic's sword. Using extensive hiding spells the group flew overhead and spotted the sword. While Maiyr distracted the army with magic Nic landed and grabbed his sword, as he expected he was able to easily lift the blade and when he did it doubled in size becoming a bastard sword. The trio quickly took back to the skies and returned to Ormag's camp. At the camp Nic saw reason with the help of Maiyr and got a member of the Fateslayers to reincarnate Kiki, who would come back as a half orc, they also resurrected Mei who fell in battle and she also came back as an orc.

The whole camp eventually marched on the army that Nic, Maiyr, and Az snuck up on. The heroes eventually won this fight with Nic slaughtering the opposing army leader with his new found sword, Day Bringer. During the battle, a small group of enemy orcs went to hunt down Aariel without Nic noticing and managed to outnumber and kill her. Once Nic made it to where Aariel had been perched sniping, he noticed she was gone and the orcs told him they killed her. Her body was obviously already taken. Nic ripped the blood soaked bark off the tree and went to Sylanna, another member of the Fateslayers, and begged her for her help. At first she was hesitant but he was able to convince her, stating the her father Emeth, a fact he deduced by there similar appearance and the close relationship, would not want Aariel to be lost because of how close he was to the original.

#### Saving Aariel

Sylanna turned into a dragon and carried Nic and his bark across Crombern and the Dragon's Teeth, Maiyr tagging along. Once they got to the giant council he requested their most powerful cleric to resurrect her using the blood. The giant's were unable to produce a strong enough cleric so he made his way to Verdana's forest where he begged the goddess to save her grandchild, but she gave no response. He used the Verdana tree to travel to Olyanor alone to request their aid. The elves were unable to resurrect her but directed him to a spot in the woods of Breslin where powerful resurrection magics and psionics were being used. By the time Nic arrived it was already finished and Aariel was revived along with Elijah and Gali. They were joined by Adara, Emeth, Theo and Ella. The party returned to Anora the capital of Olyanor and made camp at Dilly's house, who had passed away along with Adara's friend Kerach, to bring back the others. There, Nic and Aariel revealed what they knew about his past to Emeth and he revealed to the party that it was his wife Tyria Mechapes that was orchestrating all the chaos. Tyria had been possessed in Mount Unity by an evil entity some time ago. Nephy showed up shortly after and Nic discovered that she was also Emeth's daughter. The party soon headed back through the Verdana tree with Adara. Once back in the Dragon's Teeth, Adara and Maiyr met for the first time in over a year and she attacked him, Maiyr killed her in retaliation. The party returned to Crobern where the Fateslayers' druid reincarnated Adara as a human.

#### Return to the Anthill

Once the party were all in Crombern with their party fully alive and healthy, Az approached them and informed them that he had news on the quest given to them by Veene the dromite queen. The group was interested in what he had found and he led them to a tent in the back of the camp where there was a scuffle taking place. In the center of the scuffle was a female dromite named Lakki, she was red and had wings unlike the others, the egg that they had been sent to collect had hatched. The group was unsure of what to do next, and sought Az's perspective on the situation. He advised them that they should help Lakki ascend to the throne of the Anthill, as the current queen ruled through mental manipulation and Lakki would free the dromites. The group agreed on Az's decision and set off towards the anthill. Once there, the group faked allegiance to Veene to get close to her where Nic managed to kill her, freeing the dromites. The dromites quickly swore allegiance of their own free will to Lakki. The Unity Party soon departed out the other side of the Anthill leaving Az behind to help reform their society.

#### Path of Purity

The group pressed onwards back into Hrothgar where they met up with Prytis once again, he offered them a quicker way of travel via his Grand Forge, a mirror that traveled between his castle and the castle of Heropolis. The group were happy to use it and Nic wasted no time jumping through.

He arrived in Heropolis immediately, knowing his way around the castle he checked the obvious rooms that his friends would be in and found them in the council room. He pushed the table out of the way with one hand and lifted Jack up in a massive hug, followed by hugging Latona and Marris. After their brief celebration Nic sat down for what remained of the war council. After the council was completed Nic went to a private room with his three childhood friends and drank the night away regaling each other with the tales of their adventures since they all last gathered.

The following morning Nic, and Nerisaga went to the church of Pelor where he was reunited with Tricia and Corona, after being briefed on their struggles and success he asked if he could take a cleric with him on his journeys as a ward and scribe, so that the tales of his adventures could raise the morale of the Pelorians. They agreed with this idea and directed him to Emmellyne and Anya. Nicholias decided to take Emmellyne and was able to convince her to come along with their party.

Nicholias and many other members of the Unity Party attended the following war council, where they agreed to take on a mission for Justin's Rebellion, they were to head down to Marshbarrow and remove a sect of the church of Tharizdun named the Path of Purity.

The party departed the following morning and made good time to Marshbarrow, once there Nic got in touch with the King Tristan and arranged for a place to stay. The group departed for the location of the sect and took out their first search party effortlessly. They interrogated a scout and learned that there were two other search parties. Nic, Aariel, Liz and Emm, went after one search party while the rest dealt with the other. Nic and his group were able to dispatch their scouts in one swift action and returned to Tristan's castle for the night and wait for the others. While waiting in the castle Nic visited the library inspired by his recent visit with Jack and did some research, during his study period he found out more information on psionics and started developing his skills as a slayer, and he dug into the Dantalion family where he discovered that Morah was a couple hundred years old and therefore not fully human. The remaining members of the group would return shortly after and they would rest for the night.

The following morning the full party departed for the Path of Purity, once they got there they were able to defeat the full sect with minimal problems, Nic killed the leader and several high ranking mages. During the battle Adara died again and was reincarnated by the orc druid who showed up during the battle along with Gali and Afareen.

After the battle was over the land reacted to Maiyr's presence and began to project images, these images showed them that the elven fugitive that stole the ring was in hiding just outside of Marshbarrow. Through the flashbacks they were able to discover the answer to Elaria's quest and decided to complete it. The group returned to Heropolis and set sail to Olyanor.

#### Return to Olyanor

After docking in Olyanor the party made there way quickly to Queen Elaria, once there they told her what they saw in Marshbarrow and she seemed to be happy. She then revealed that Maiyr was her biological brother and she abdicated the throne to him. Shortly after this Nic convinced Elaria and her court to get a magic mirror of communication for the giants, orcs, dromites and halflings, so that they could all communicate since, humans, elves, and dwarves already had them.

Once it was announced that Maiyr was taking the throne, Aramil, Elaria's chamberlain, used his magic to blow up the palace damaging many inside. The party was mostly unhurt and proceeded to hunt him down after making sure that the wounded from the palace would be safe. They followed him to Dilly's house and through the Verdana tree, once the arrived at the Eternal Forest they saw that Aramil had been tossed clean out of the forest. They attempted to continue hunting him down but lost the trail when he used a teleportation spell. The party returned to Olyanor and helped clean up the palace and soon departed with Kirx heading for Deep Anor.

#### Deep Anor

Unity Party marched into Deep Anor and after a quick scouting mission they decided to storm the castle so that Kirx could challenge the king, a right he had earned by helping to slay the dragon in the Crimson Perch. After making it into the castle's main hall Kirx challenged Drak'mil, and was separated off from the rest of the group using magic. While Kirx was busy dueling the king the rest of the party was dealing with a horde of goblinoids who had been summoned by Drak'mil. The party was able to hold off the horde until Kirx managed to defeat the king and sever his head. The magic barriers dropped and Kirx proclaimed himself king of the goblins.

The party had two countries left to unite before reclaiming humanity, and it had become an even more pressing matter as they had recently discovered through Xani that to defeat Tyria they had to reunite all the countries of Unitas. The group decided to press on wards to Old Anor home of the drow and then the Squall. Liz decided to stay behind with Kirx and help him reestablish society in Deep Anor. Maiyr had to return to the elves but before he left he created a permanent telepathic link with Nicholias.

#### Old Anor

As the party wandered through Old Anor they came across a strange girl dressed in white named Eden, she proceeded to warn the party not to move closer to the capital as it broke Saul. Nic contacted Maiyr and explained the situation via telepathy and asked him to assist them. The party would continue moving forward and closer to the drow capital run by Kazmir, until they came across a figure in the distance on his knees. Nic flew forward and approached the figure but once he did he dropped down to his knees.

Nic was now a ten year old once again, and in a unfamiliar location. He began to look around before Aariel also appeared as a ten year old. The two began to look around and soon stumbled upon a young elf, they were able to recognize that it was Keylara. The two managed to help Keylara sneak through the jungle and steal a dinosaur egg, once the egg was stolen and brought back to Keylara's village the couple began to fade back into their own time.

Once they returned a they realized that everyone else was still in the empty minded stance including Maiyr who showed up after Nic time skipped. A pale woman appeared before them floating with long shimmering black hair, she explained to them that they now understood the Shadewalker, Keylara. The couple explored the area and realized they could not go past the magical incantation ring that had sent them back in time. Slowly over the next couple days everyone awoke from their trance and they learned that Kirx was the Infernal Emissary, Saul was the Man Outside of Time, Rebecca was the Flame Wreathed, Gali was the Lightning Bearer, Neri was the Bridge to the Dead, Nic was the Natural Pinnacle and Carol was the Clairaudiant. The party at first was unsure of what to do with Saul as he had an evil aura to him but after the diplomatic actions of Maiyr and Nerisaga, the group decided to allow him to continue on with them.

The party continued on to the capital and witness the beginning of a arcane ritual, the sky was dark as green lightning cracked across it and bodies fell from the sky. Once they got to the capital the party saw a ring of drow chanting while a sole drow stood in the center with a dagger over top of a sacrificial drow. The party attempted to stop the ritual by killing the man in the center but it failed as the drow making the ring committed suicide and ripped open a portal. From the portal a gigantic balor demon stepped out, the balor demon continued to summon even more demons until the party was heavily out numbered. Nic fearing the worst ordered the party to retreat while they still could.

#### The Demon Army

Emmellyne teleported herself, Nicholias, Aariel and Michael into the Eternal Forest, shortly after arriving Morah showed up and teleported Michael away and brought them Xani. Morah informed Nic that he had taken his group to Heropolis. Nic and Aariel requested Verdana's help but she was unable to respond.

Nic decided that the best course of action would be to split up, and they sent Xani the safe way to warn the dromites, halflings, and dwarves. While Nic and his party warned the giants, orcs, elves and goblins. Emm contacted Tricia in Heropolis to warn them of the demon army and then Kirx to ready him for the armies possible attack.

Nic flew to the giant council carrying Aariel and Emm and warned them about the demons, the council agreed to send help to the orcs so they could help them defend their borders. Laufey requested that some of the army stay behind and defend the coastal border. After the giant council was ready Nic took to the skies once again carrying the girls and traveled to Ormag's camp, where he told them of the demons and the giant support coming. Ormag readied his forces and prepared them to march when called upon.

The small party then teleported back to the Verdana's forest and then went through the Verdana tree to Olyanor. Nic had Emm scry Liz so that they could inform her that they were on their way, as she had marched on Old Anor alone. They discovered she was with Saul and the two of them were supposed to wait for Nic and the armies to show up. Once in Olyanor the party rested for the night after requesting that Maiyr return to the capital as Nic planned on marching on the demon army. Nic used the communication mirrors the next morning to contact the dwarves and dromites to make sure they were aware and prepared for the demon army if they were needed. He then contacted Carol while waiting for Maiyr to return so that they could march on Old Anor.

Maiyr returned and the group of heroes began to develop a plan to end the demon army if possible, Carol arrived shortly after and informed the party that the demon army had grow significantly since their escape. The group then discovered that they could potentially shut the portal if they destroyed a gem in the top of the arc. Nic, Aariel, Maiyr, Solanna, and Emm soon departed for Old Anor via teleportation.

Once they got there the group was quickly attacked by the demon army forcing Aariel and Emmellyne to retreat back to Olyanor. Maiyr disappeared and snuck past the army and began to attack the stone while Nic and Solanna drew the attention of the army. Solanna was knocked out of the sky by the demon's fire and saved by Nic as Maiyr destroyed the stone. The trio then decided it was time for them to make their escape and as the group began to teleport away Nicholias dropped explosive orbs of holy energy onto the army killing a few.

#### Taking Trineantis

Once the whole party was reunited in Olyanor they along with Elaria and the twins formed a plan to retake the human border city of Trineantis back from the Tharizdun worshipers. Nic had Emm scry Liz and tell her that the armies would take a while and not to approach alone. The group who went to destroy the demon portal would rest up as the armies on the border shifted in preparation from a midnight assault.

Emmellyne teleported Nicholias, Solanna, and Maiyr into her old home in Trineantis, she then retreated into the ground to meet back up with the advancing elven army, including the twins and Aariel. Maiyr cloaked the trio in an invisibility field and they advanced to the first wall surrounding the city, where Nic ripped the door out of place. Solanna then transformed into her true dragon form and flew the other two quickly to the outer wall of Trineantis where Nic proceeded to rip that door off its hinges so that the elven army could enter. The trio then turned and began to attack the alerted army of Trineantis.

Solanna began to breath ice on the soldiers that had managed to get past the first gate before Maiyr conjured a firewall trapping everyone in the city's inner wall. Nic began to attack the dragons flying over the wall, after defeating them it was revealed that they were humans being turned into dragons. Nic attempted to convince the armies to stand down as he floated above the city after slaying multiple dragons, some of the army surrendered but most of them continued to fight as a giant treent approached. Solanna then began breathing ice on the army inside the inner wall. The mages of the army all targeted Nic with all the lighting they could summon, but he was able to brush it off without taking damage. After their failed group attack Nic was able to intimidate the whole army into surrendering except for their leader, Tanner, who decided to stand down with his men.

The treent arrived and on its shoulder was a Shenten druid named Mao, with a pack of wolves circling the treents feet. The treent began to turn back into Mao's staff as Nicholias landed in front of her. Nicholias and Mao began to discuss the terms of surrender, the people of Trineantis would be kept safe and Nicholias would be acting ruler until Birgitta returned. Mao also had to help round up all the Blackthorn in the city for execution. Mao ordered the return of the villagers, led by Yumi, back into the city, once they returned the Blackthorn were rounded up and taken to the gallows where they were executed by Nic.

After taking the city Mao and Nic had a meeting where he reassured her that the safety of the people was a high concern of his and offered her a spot on his team of travelers after the civil war in humanity was over. She expressed interest as long as she could bring Tanner, and Yumi, her two traveling companions. Later that same evening Nic went to the local tavern and found Atlas and attempted to convince him to join the Unity Party, Atlas agreed to join once the group when they went against Auren leader of Brimstone, and that he would continue to help after that if there was payment involved. Later that evening Emmellyne teleported both of them and Aariel to Thecan.

#### March on Summershore

The trio arrived in Elijah's quarters in Thecan before he awoke, Nic woke him up and then began to inform him what they had done in the previous days, including breaking the demon portal and claiming Trineantis for the rebels. Elijah was up an ready soon, and asked Emm to heal a young boy for him, Emm departed and the rest of them headed out of the castle picking up a young woman named Anri on the way. The quartet headed to the bar and met up with Xeni. Neri, and Kay. Nerisaga was certain that Adara was going to attempt to kill her but Nic was unsure, and almost like clockwork Adara strolled into town in a new form alongside a chain devil. Nic quickly flew over to Adara and with the help of the now present Emm he was able to determine that even though her new blue fiery form gave off an evil aura she meant no harm to anyone in the Unity Party and she herself was not evil. Shortly after explaining this to a uncaring Nerisaga Nic flew off once again to meet with the rebel army that was marching on Thecan.

After doing quick greetings with his friends leading the army he put their minds at ease by explaining that the dragons flying towards them were Maiyr and Solanna. After arriving in Thecan Nic pulled Freya Stoneskin aside an inquired about her status as an Elan and how much everyone else knew about it. The rebel leaders soon called a war council in which they devised a plan that Elijah would fight Gaspard Swordhand in one on one combat, winner gets both Summershore and Thecan. Nic advised against this as he was afraid Elijah would not be strong enough to take Gaspard on alone when the two cities were on the line. Maiyr and Xeni were going to buff Elijah which gave Nic more hope.

The army soon arrived at Summershore where the duel was to take place and soon Adrianna Eventide and the royal army made their presence known. Justin arranged a parlay with Adrianna on Nic's behest after the duel no matter the winner. Elijah asked Nic to take down Gaspard if he fell to him during the duel and Nic agreed. The army watched as Gaspard burst into flames and the two clashed, by the end both of them were unconcious and being retrieved by their armies leaders, Gaspard had died but Elijah was only near death.

Shortly after the commencement of the duel the parlay was called as all of the citizens wishing to leave Summershore left. During the parlay Adrianna abdicated the throne and also gave up all the Eventide's rights to Duskhaven allowing the army to march on it.

#### Reclaiming Amaranthia

The army soon began to march on Duskhaven, during the march Nic caught up with his friends from his childhood and had a private conversation with Adrianna about how he planned on handling Duskhaven after they dethroned her mother and what she was capable as a fellow half celestial. Elijah soon caught up with the army and asked for the soul forge mirror so he could put Gaspard's body through it. Nic also stole away a moment on the march to take Aariel to a small spot he remembered from his youth that she would find romantic, and they had some much need alone time on the shore underneath the moon. As the army grew closer to Duskhaven Nic had Emm pass a message onto Trisha telling her to prepare the clerics and Dawngaurd to march as they were taking back Amarantia, and to tell the refugees that any and all who want to can live there in peace and to get those wanting to live there ready to march as well.

The army soon arrived outside Duskhaven and devised a plan that an elite group of soldiers would be teleported into the throne room in three waves. Nic was teleported to the throne itself where Lucille and her high ups sat. Nic wasted no time darting forward and slaying Lucille before she could cast any dark magic on the group, as his holy sword cut clean through Lucille he continued its swing into Aramil, killing him as well. This caused majority of the people near the throne to target Nic, but he managed to brush of their attacks and kill the horned demon Cornugon, before taking to the skies and intimidating the remaining people to stand down, they all obliged except for Cain, who was then killed by Maiyr, Auran, who had assumed his dragon form and fled when Lucille died, and Gibrial, who was cocooned and taken away by Morah. Once the surrender was complete Nic wasted no time putting Lucille through the forge glass assuring that she would not be resurrected. Nic explained to Adriana what he had done to her mothers body and offered her cloak to her so that she had something to bury. Nic then went outside of the castle and summoned a roc the two creatures floated above the sky as Nic ordered the surrender and evacuation of his kingdom, the armies of Tharizdun followed his orders and agreed to be out before nightfall. At nightfall Nic requested that Adara and her friend get rid of the people refusing to leave the city, and bring him any Blackthorn that remained. The black thorn that Adara brought to him he executed after gaining some information from them.

#### New Amaranthia

Nic and anyone willing to helped went and gathered up all the possessions left behind and divvy them up based off the number of citizens arriving with Trisha the next day. Nic also collected the daggers and began to test where their teleportation spells led them and eliminated any Blackthorns he came across. After keeping the useful daggers Nic would change their ebony hilts to gold. That night Nic would also help Aariel plant a garden in the center courtyard of the palace including the Verdana Tree.

The next morning Nic visited the near by farms that supplied the city and made sure they were willing to continue, after securing their products Nic returned to the city and began to remove all Tharizdun references. During this time Trisha arrived bringing with her the priest of Pelor, the Dawngaurd and all of the refuges from Heropolis that wished to live there. Nic arrived to greet them and was informed of Corona's passing and Grant taking leadership of the Dawngaurd. Nic made sure that Grant wanted to have the Dwangaurd resume their old role as city guard and royal army and he agreed, Nic wasted no time in announcing their position.

The first course of action once everyone was settled in was the coronation of KIng Nicholias and Queen Aariel Dawning of New Amaranthia by Trisha. During this ceremony Nic bestowed last names on Emm her brother, the Dawntracers, and Trisha, Daybreak. Nic also changed the name of the kingdom from Duskhaven to New Amaranthia.

The following days Nic would be very busy helping to rebuild his city both physically and community wise. During this time he traveled to Trineantis and reestablished trade deals with them, as well as find out that Birgitta and Nerisaga had become engaged. He attempted to make trade deals with Thecan but when he teleport-ed there Elijah had all ready left again. He requested Mao's help in restoring fauna and flora to the city, as well as asked her to help make sure that the farms were on track and that they had a diverse crop yield. With Xeni and Emm's help they were able to revive all of the fallen rebel soldiers from the battle and they too were offered homes in New Amaranthia, after they and all of the other citizens were settled into their houses Nic and his group distributed all of the possessions they had put aside evenly among everyone. He organized a council to help rule the kingdom consisting of himself, his wife, Emm, Trisha and Grant. He sculpted a statue of his mother to replace the one of Tharizdun that he had taken down in the square, he got both of old Amaranthia's main exports, enchanted arms and the arts, up and running, and he helped to get the kingdoms market going. Nic organized the priest to help run tasks and keep them on track and to help find out what skills the refuges had and what roles they had in their old lives. He also took down the hall that was damaged in the war and replaced it with a stone wall.

During this time Nic and Aariel summoned Emeth and told him of their plan to create a council of immortal creatures to prevent events like the Dondar civil war from happening again and invited Emeth to join them, which he accepted. Nic also inquired about the truth and wanted to take it but couldn't as he need to be conscious and aware to help rebuild his kingdom, but Emm volunteered to take it as she had the same goal of peace that Nic did and she was not as necessary in rebuilding. Nic and Aariel set of the morning of the lands meet with an unconscious Emm. Arriving early Nic wasted no time talking to the nobles he had previous relationships with and arranging trade deals.

#### Battling the Demons

During the lands meet Nic sat in his families old seat as acting ruler of New Amaranthia, and voted for Justin Stoneskin to be king, and for Adrianna to run Shepard's Run. After all of the empty seats where filled, the council agreed to ban together and march on the demons. After the lands meet the Unity Party agreed to attack the demons without the army the very next day to lower casualties.

The party teleported there early in the morning and Nic wasted no time dashing into combat as soon as Saul had pulled of his part of the plan which was to go to the demons home plane and summon Andromalius back removing him from the battle. Nic teleported up to one balor demon after another slaying each of them with a single blow before eliminating everything around them as well. After slaying several of them effortlessly a majority of the demon army retreated in fear, leaving behind small groups that were chanting. When the chanting stopped they exploded and the ground beneath them crumbled leaving just a giant grater as the ocean began to rush in. Nic quickly returned to where the rest of the unity party was and grabbed the downed Adara and flew her to safety as Aariel and Emm escaped by sinking into the ground.

#### Returning to the Mountain

The group soon realized that the location where Mount Unity use to be had begun to act differently as dark clouds gathered over it. The group agreed to quickly make that their priority. Nic quickly checked on New Amaranthia before teleporting to Stoneshade and meeting up with Adrianna and asked where Emeth was, she told him he had gone into the mountain. Nic immediately wanted to rush the mountain but the rest of the party needed rest so they agreed to wait until everyone was at full strength.

Nic spent what could be his last night, as Tyria was unlike any other foe, in the embrace of his beautiful wife having at least one more night of passion. The following morning once everyone had awoken fully rested, they headed straight for the mountain as the human army had carved them a direct path, before entering Nic summoned the strongest celestial creatures he could and prepared for the battle. Once inside the Nic ordered his summoned Roc into the chamber but immediately lost contact with it. Nic decide that it had to be done either way and walked into the room, the rest of the party following behind him. After entering the chamber Nic found himself inside a invisible bubble looking out on a room of darkness where several other item wielders were also in bubble across from enemies possessed by the entity. Across from Nic was the resurrected Corona, and beneath him on the floor of the Chamber was Aariel, Emm, alongside a few other party members, across from them were a small girl with black eyes, a goliath panda, and a lizard folk, behind them was Emeth pushed against an invisible wall with Tyria standing in front of him.

Nic apologized to Corona as he dashed across his contained space and split Corona in two with two swipes of his sword, as he did both of them vanished, Nic reappearing on the main floor. Nic sent most of his celestial animals to eliminate the small girl as she was most likely a caster and the griffon to attack the giant panda, which was finished off by Anri as Aariel killed the lizard folk. Eliminating the enemies on the ground as the fellow members of the unity party joined them allowed the invisible wall between them and Emeth fade.

Emeth now able to touch Tyria reached out and grabbed his wife, as they touched there was a large explosion and both of their bodies fell to the ground as a giant creature made of hard light stood before the unity party. Nic teleported in front of the creatures face and for the first time in a long time he unleashed all his power and swung into the creature dealing massive damage and visibly hurting her allowing the rest of the item wielders, as they were the only ones capable of hitting her, to chip away at what little of health that was left. Kirx got the finale hit as he sent two arrows flying into the crack Nic had made and caused the creature to explode into purple energy. The purple energy wave washed over them and pushed back the darkness. The party now stood in the chamber that they got their items from, but the non item wielders were missing, the chamber looked far better then it had their first time they were there.

In front of them stood the beautiful black haired woman they had met in Old Anor when they were taken into the past lives of other item wielders, she gave them all a feeling of appreciation. Soon the beautiful woman was replaced by another woman with dark hair but this ones had wings, she informed the group that they had won this battle but the war was not over and she would just wait until they weren't in the picture anymore, and then faded away.

Nic rushed over to Tyria's unconscious body and picked her up, even though he was told that there was no evil aura other then a quickly fading one, Nic refused to let anyone else touch her or revive her as he feared what type of contingencies were placed on her mind by the creature, or if she would be hostile upon waking up as he didn't know what she would remember, or if she would attack since she didn't know any of them. Once they exited the mountain they quickly met back up with the non item wielders of their group and Theo. Nic had Emm cast a spell making sure Tyria wouldn't awaken till Emeth made physical contact with her, and as soon as Theo told them where Emeth was, he informed him via the earring that they were heading straight there. Upon arriving Emm replaced Adrianna in healing Emeth and once he was healed they woke Tyria up. Tyria was at first confused but Emeth filled her in by touching her hand. Emeth told Nic he would meet up with him the next day but Nic told him to take his time as he just got his wife back.

Nic, his wife and his companion soon returned to New Amaranthia after Emm resurrected Dilly and they made plans to meet up the next day to resurect the rest of the fallen loved ones that wanted to come back. The next day Nic and Emm traveled to Trineantis and met up with Neri and Elijah, once there Neri contacted the departed and asked who wished to return but none did as Corona wished to purify her soul in Pelor's realm and Elijah's father Marcus was happy in the after life.

Later that week Nic met up with Emeth, Aariel, Emm, and Tyria and began to put his plan of a guardian council of immortals into action by deciding who should join.

### Post Tyrian War

Nic continued to rule over New Amaranthia for the rest of his days aided by the ever changing city council usually consisting of the Pope of Pelor, and leader of the Dawngaurd, and a few select allies living in the city. Nic was a fair ruler who was loved by his people alongside his beautiful wife. The couple had two beautiful daughter, the first Aurora Dawning took after her father more with golden tan skin, long blond hair, a fondness for swords and an adventures spirit. She eventual assisted her parents in ruling the kingdom between adventures where she was often accompanied by Theo as the two began a romantic relationship. The second Neaera Dawning took more after her mother in both looks, with long silvery hair, pointed ears, and no discernible pupil, and in personality, with a strong drive to complete her fated mission and joined the church of Pelor quickly climbing it's rank until she was pope. Emm would pass eventually of old age and after many years Nic found a new companion named Herja who was a ghaele.

He also formed founded a group of immortal beings known as the Council of Light alongside his wife, Emm, and Emeth and his wife. Together the four of them chose which immortals to bring in and gathered them together. The council helped to protect all of Unitas, the Nimiane Archipelago, and Bretton. The council often found itself clashing against Brimstone and the newly risen god Samiel and his mind controlled army of offspring.

One day Aurora and Theo never returned from and adventure with no word of where they went, the coucil tried to search for them but couldn't find any trace of them, so they resorted to asking higher powers if they knew of their locatins, but not even Pelor or Noc could find them. Nic mourned the loss of his daughter alongside his wife but had to continue on after years of searching to no avail, but always kept her in his mind.

Eventually the council had the opportunity to strike at Samiel when he was weak and took the battle to Alighieri, in the plane of wrath, the gathered all of their agents, except Neaera who refused to go, and attacked. Once in the other plane the battle began and Nic was able to slay Samiel by burying his sword in his chest and pouring as much divine magic into it as he could killing the low level deity. Once the battle was over the council realized they were trapped on this other plane by a creature far stronger then even Samiel.

## Equipment

Nicholias has a golden bastard sword imbued with celestial power form his father named Day Bringer, and a enchanted set of armour made from bones of the dragon Feraak with gold trim, named the Suit of Radiance. He was once bonded with the ancient artifact Augur Verum, which is shaped like a golden circlet, and now wears a golden circlet in it's place that grants him telepathic communication between the members of the Council of Light.

## Powers

Nicholias naturally possesses a wide range of celestial powers that he inherited from his father Pelor, such as flight, the ability to summon celestial creatures to his aid, and celestial magic which got better when he began to train in the ways of a cleric.

He is a very adept and well trained fighter. He is also trained in the ways of a slayer granting him the ability to hide himself from detection and knowledge of psionics.

His time bonded to Augur Verum gives him a superior body and mind, along with an immunity to fire. It also gives him psionic powers.