Tetora

Art from Ep. 73

## Intro

An island surrounded by a towering wall, with a volcano located at the center. The wall is tended by numerous guards and long range and anti-aerial weaponry, including archers, ballistas, and cannons, and is apparently capable of being engulfed in flames (without harming its sentinels) when there is a perceived attack on the island.

Tetora is inhabited exclusively by dragons, dragonborn, and dragon kin. Non-draconian visitors are not allowed. Its borders are fiercely guarded by scouts, who require all travelers to submit to a Draconic Blood Test, in which a sample of blood is dropped into a vial full of dragon scales. No reaction indicates a "pass," but if the blood is entirely non-Draconian, the vial will burst into flames, and the Tetorans will attack.

The island is divided into four provinces surrounding the central volcanic mountain: Joi, Ashiko, Sora, and Tsunam.

## Notable Locations

* Two docks
* Jio - a gated community

## Notable Events

### Episode 71

After returning to Boulderay from the Buh-Bayou, the Infinights are faced with the entire town apparently engulfed in complete darkness. After a short and confusing battle the darkness lifts, revealing around half a dozen grey-skinned elf-like humanoids clothed in shadow from head to toe, armed with pitch black blades, wearing hooded cowls, with glowing indigo eyes. After these enemies disappear, Bart's shadow stretches and reshapes into the silhouette of a long-haired woman with pointed ears and indigo eyes. She introduces herself as Inku, Queen of the Shadowmane, and invitates the party to visit her in Tetora, where she claims she has trapped Bart's parents "in the Shadowmane for eternity."

### Episode 72

After helping to tidy up several bits of business in Boulderay, the Infinights are led to a northern shoreline by Capt. Marrge where the Jebediah is waiting, carrying a number of familiar faces in addition to its usual complement, including Meld, Duncan, Bezzler, and Dr. Ahem (now able to walk in his new cybernetic armour). The doctor announces that they are to set sail for Tetora, where their goal is to do everything possible to get the Infinights past the fiercely protected border. He informs them that only those of Draconic blood are allowed within. We learn that both Dr. Ahem and Duncan have spent time in Tetora, but since Duncan lived there longer he will accompany the disguised Infinights as a cultural guide. Their goal is to find Inku and stop her nefarious activities there, while the others head north to Ürbloom to recapture Hugh Männer. The two teams will stay in touch via Sending Stone.

While aboard the ship the Infinights meet with Bezzler one last time to get new equipment and upgrades to their existing equipment. Shortly after completing these transactions the Jebediah comes into view of Tetora, and the team have just enough time to don various disguises before a scout ship approaches and they are boarded by two silver dragonborn scouts - Nikotimed and Gyupo (sp). The scouts interrogate the crew and demand any of draconic blood step aside to submit to a Draconic Blood Test.

The test involves dripping a blood sample into a vial full of dragon scales; if there is no reaction when the two touch, the donor is confirmed as draconic, but if there is a combustive reaction the donor is determined to be a non-draconic invader. Duncan passes the test easily, and Bart manages to successfully cast Minor Illusion to make it seem like nothing happens, though the scout wonders why the vial gets so warm. However, when Gum Gum offers his sample it bursts into flames, and the scouts declare him an imposter. Just before they can sound a war horn, Mudd stuffs Gumbo into it to silence it, and a battle ensues.

### Episode 73

A protracted shipboard battle ensues, which they escape from thanks to the intervention of a number of Giant Owls summoned by Mudd. They pass over the heavily fortified walls of Tetora and land on some strangely abandoned docks.

Upon arriving, the Infinights make their way up a paved road toward a gated community called Jio. Upon entering a clay courtyard they encounter a battle between green Dragonborn and shadowy figures, and a dragonborn falls to the ground in front of them silently begging for help.