The Crusaders of the Dragon

The Crusaders of the Dragon is the, 2019, third campaign in Dorun, including 5 players. The Maelstromyr include Oroe Merlot, Saldon Lohic, Alcain Innsmouth, Jorey Zealotous, and Yuki Derindel.

## Pre Campaign

In the cultural capital of Dormort, Greenest, a festival is to be held. It is in celebration of the turning of the millennium. The elfen ladies: Elia and Yuki Derindel seek adventure. The novice illusioner, Alcain Innsmouth, seeks mystery. The Blue Paladin, Sgt Saldon Lohic, seeks to help those in need. Jorey Zealotous, true to his clergy, wishes to document something spectacular. Oroe Merlot wants to watch the little people pretending not to be animals at heart.

None know exactly what they'll find... at the festival of fire.

## The Mithril Vault

### Session One: The Festival of Fire

Elia, Yuki, Saldon, Oroe, Jorey and Alcain meet beside the ghoul-haunted wreck of Leosin Erlanthors carriage. Inside they find a mithril vault containing missing relics from expected to be delivered to the festival of fire. The festival was enjoyed by the party for a while. A dwarf sang them an authentic song, Uildan relics were shown off and enjoyed by the masses and a halfling named Ousten Fry sold magic weapons before disapearing in a hurry. After the pleas of Mayor Binner, the party followed a scouts directions to find Leosin. Leosin was left crucified in an empty camp. Leosins captures had immersed themselves in the celebration and at that moment were raiding the town of Greenest. They were looking for the vault. The party signed a contract with him to save him and Greenest in return for the contents of the vault. The town was burned and after searching the manor, they found nought but a mimic, whom Elia befriended. A great shadow was cast over the town, parting the ash clouds. The party realised a dragon had come to Greenest. Cultists in the streets, wearing patch worked skin garbs, and wielding small stilettos killed those who didn't flee the celebration. The party managed to make a cultist talk who said he worked for the beast with ten eyes, Yuki concluded that this was Xanathar, Jorey concured . The vaults contents were distributed to the party. Inside was a deck of many things. This must have been what they were looking for. For now however, the party didn't know why.

### Session Two: Long Trails and Tall Tales

The deck robbed Oroe, then gave him lightspear. The deck took strength from Saldon and then he grew hot. The town was no longer alight and the people were encamped in Greenest walls, many still partying, but Saldon felt off. He asked the party to accompany him home as he felt wrong in the head. Elia set off to Uild to speak before court as Yuki and Oroe led the party south to Grazen. Jorey was reluctant due to his passion for documentation, but decided that it was his duty to represent Uild and go where the deck went. Outside the town, a mysterious basket-headed, witless, fur man named Carl joined the party. Carl seemed strange and out of place, but also wise. The party discovered the secret of Old God Grove after a brief sermon, a tomb guarded by trials of six virtues. Inside was the crypt of Abies Nobilis. His scripts were buried with him and the party took some scrolls and two tomes. The book of inevitable truths and the book of determined truths. Further down the road, a felled carriage contained the dwarf singer from the festival, Bars the Bard son of Tard the Bard, son of Lars the Bard. He had been robbed by a halfling who was looking for the mithril vault. It was Ousten Fry, the halfling who had sold Jorey a magical weapon named Whelm, a hammer. The party were bewitched and almost defeated by him, but Alcain and Yuki saved the day with his illusions and her angelic light. Oroe made the killing blow with his spear. Jorey just pulled through from having his throat slashed open. Saldon & Jorey, drew from the deck...

### Session Three: The Beast With Ten Eyes

Saldon was gifted a paranormal vizier and the power to alter the fate once. Jorey was promised a loyal fighter to stand by his side, though nothing happened immediately. Yuki ensured Jorey was safe, then conjured a magical hut to rest everyone in. In the morning, the party were awoken by the arrival of Elia and Palma Nobilis, the party stopping overnight had given them time to catch up with them. Elia brought a snowshoe Cat-ogre for Yuki that she called Tommen. Palma immediately sprung to Jorey and Alcain and began to mentor them. She came to join in the investigation into the attack on Greenest. On horse and carriage they began the pass around the ember hills. Their journey was interrupted by the arrival of Joreys summoned companion, Ho'ew, a snowy white owl-aarocockra. She was light-hearted but harsh, she claimed to be brought from the future by the deck, stuck by an eternal cycle and bound by blood oath to secrecy. The convoy moved onto Shallot where the party spent an afternoon enjoying a burlesque show. Afterwards the party were haunted by a figure that cut Alcains hand and caused him to bleed over his yellow prayer beads. The figure was a mask wearing a cape. Oroe began to sense a great amount of danger around them and feared the party were being followed. Alcain put on the mask and heard it whisper to him: 'Alcain, the yellow tides are washing over you'. When Yuki pulled the mask from him, Alcains blindfold was torn off too, revealing a creature with a hundred teeth (that had been sunken into Alcains face) on the underside of the blindfold. The mask then emitted an ungodly light that sent the consciences of Alcain and Jorey into a dark place (believed to be the far realm). The pair were roused and fled Shallot, fearing that they were being followed. The party then arrived in Grazen and Carl leaves wordlessly and ever cold to Saldon. where Saldon learned he was an adopted goblin and near the end of his lifespan. In primal desperation and curiosity, he drew ten times from deck, emerging from a void hole in the ground... the king of the east. Yuki realised that Xanathar can't be the beast with 10 eyes as he has 11 eyes and ten eye stalks. Jorey concludes it must refer to Tiamat. Palma says that geographically, it's only possible for them to be coming from west of Greenest, Berrins.

## The Rise of Caltor

### Session One: The Berrins Conspiracy

After plotting a course, the party set sail to Uild, where they use aquamancers to sail upstream of the Celeste from it's delta. The Frosty Fleet was full of halflings, who were not at all keen of the weather and labour, but were merried by the likes of Lars and Yuki. Strange humanoid shapes animalistically stalked the fleet whilst sailing in the middle of Dormort, but Jorey was able to provide surveillance on them. They matched descriptions of a creature that an old Lord Commander had recorded discovering in Nurod. The morale of the halflings was tested by this, so the fleet hastily continued upstream. The party disembarked  at Glumblight, the furthest place that Saldons scouts had been able to track the cultists from Greenest. Glumblight was a wretched place, reduced by disease and poverty and cold. Through thorough questioning and persistence, Jorey was able to locate Jana Brewspiller, who he theorises to be his lost sister. She is the opposite of Jorey, wild, rude and broad. She had centuries of life on top of Jorey and treated him as an infant because of this. She tucked Jorey to bed, where he slept happily, but he would not know a gentle morning. Yuki, Oroe and Alcain plundered a dilapidated chapel, it's graves had been robbed and religious iconography had been scoured. Oroe and Yuki followed Jana the next morning after she acted suspiciously and eventually apprehended her. She was carrying a vault of warpstone. The party took the potions inside for themselves. Jana was imprisoned and cared for by Jorey in the bag of holding as the party followed Jana's plans to go to Berrins, a brightly coloured human city. By searching the Dormort geographical office and questioning Renshar Berrins, the party deduced that the floating island that once held skyreach was now a hill. It only appeared on records after skyreach vanished and filled in the space of a quarry. The hill is called Caltor. After asking too many questions about Caltor, the party are ambushed in the streets of Berrins, where a massive fight ensues. The last surviving cult member pleads for the life of his family. The Cult are planning to resurrect Tiamat on that very night. The party had to choose whether to save the people of Berrins and get the help of Armies to fight Tiamat later, or risk the innocent of Berrins and themselves, to kill Tiamat, before she can be summoned at Caltor...

### Session Two: The Bastion of Ten

The party found the splits in the ground that telegraphed the shifting where once there was a ravine and now it had been occupied by the floating island of Skyreach. It was rising apart from the rest of the earth as fast as paint dries, but it was lifting. The castle ruins were still there and a few pockets of conspirators were lighting bonfires, but the party swiftly rode beyond that. They came where the grand courtyard of Skyreach, where the entrance was now mounded and it's innards were sunken. A scheming troll was taking toll at this post, these warriors were not built for diplomacy with such simple beings and proceeded with little difficulty. Down the corridors span into hexes of trapped rooms. Eventually through the labyrinth, was a grand well that run upwards. A mischievous  kenku youth was pilfering nic-nacs their from the cultists supplies. He seemed sweet and Oroe took a liking to 'Kieth'. At the top of the well was a vortex of shadows and a party of fallen knights.  The last of Sigil's knights. They had slain and were slain by a shadow dragon. The last guard between them and the hoard. There, in the well of dragons was mounds of gold, in excess of anything found in the cumulative banks of Dorun. It slid into a central well, into the nine hells, and beckoned Tiamat. The Queen of Evil Dragons was summoned and the party readied themselves, some exiting the bag of holding, some casting enchantment on them self for protection. Each tried to concoct a plan, but what resources did they have to help them? Jorey had drawn from the deck in Berrins, breaking his arm and also granting him a wish. Unable to destroy Tiamat as she was, he made a wish for Bahumats aid. Bahumat (a mere concept by now) did not even have enough power to maintain a form, but the will of the wishkeeper was met as the minds of Dorun were pulled into prayer to empower the Platinum Dragon. He took his most dire form, holy rain that flooded the well, burning scales off of Tiamat. Oroe Merlot ,empowered by his chosen draught from the warpstone vault took his draconic form and met with his god as she reared her heads over the plateau of the well. The parties spells left no further marks on Tiamat and in despairation, by walking through a dimensional door, Alcain combined the magics of two un-immersible magic items. His Bags of Holding. He and Tiamat were sucked into the sphere of wormhole this created, sent somewhere between realities or outside of them. After mourning their loss and tending their wounds, the party revelled at the wealth they had access too. Little did they know, that in their effort to save the world from Tiamat, they had set things in motion, that should not have been...