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Hoard of the Cold Sun (ToD Storyline in Eberron)
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<blockquote data-quote="Gradine" data-source="post: 7342825" data-attributes="member: 57112"><p><strong>Dramatis Personae</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>Dramatis Personae</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong></strong></span></p><p><strong><u>Player Characters</u></strong></p><p></p><p><strong>Merla Tealeaf</strong></p><p>NG Female Lightfoot Halfling Bard</p><p>Bardic College: College of Glamour</p><p>Faction: The Twelve (House Jorasco)</p><p>Faction Boon: Least Mark of Healing</p><p>Origin: Breland</p><p>Merla is a healer by trade but an entertainer by passion. She’s been sent from rural Breland to Windshire in western Aundair to tend to the injured that have been piling up as a result of cultist raids in the region, as well as to investigate the activities of said cult, The Cold Sun. Merla has an exceptionally large vocabulary; unfortunately for herself and others around her, she doesn’t really understand what a lot of those bigger words actually mean.</p><p>Connections: One of Merla’s best friends growing up was a House Lyrandar scion named Jonas, who was torn between his duties to his family and his desire to join the clergy of the Sovereign Host. His first solo mission was a flight to Frostfell, from which neither he nor anyone else from his expedition ever returned. (Jonas will be replacing Talis the White in this adventure)</p><p></p><p><strong>Rylorn d’Tharashk</strong></p><p>CN Male Half-Orc Warlock</p><p>Pact: Celestial (HL, Imprisoned Angel)</p><p>Former Pact: The Undying (Larloch, Archlich of the Nightwood)</p><p>Pact Boon: Chain (Tressym)</p><p>Faction: The Twelve (House Tharashk)</p><p>Faction Boon: Least Mark of Finding</p><p>Origin: The Shadow Marches</p><p>Rylorn is a bounty hunter in House Tharashk who has long been troubled by his family’s ancestral worship of Khyber fiends. He enjoys his work and is good at it, so his family has agreed to give him some degree of autonomy in return for occasionally doing work for the House from time to time. He has recently returned from a mission in Karrnath with a new faith (Blood of Vol) and patron, a powerful lich named Larloch. He has been sent to Windshire by his House to investigate cult of the Cold Sun activity and, if possible, capture their leader.</p><p><strong>Chapter 3: </strong>Rylorn was commanded by Larloch, through a dream, to kill everyone in the Cold Sun camp and raise them from the dead to begin building a new undead army. He wa also visited in his dreams by a vaguely angelic shape calling themself "HL" that offered him a new pact, which he chose to accept. "HL" claims to be trapped in a place called "The Forge of Fury".</p><p>Connections: Rylorn’s current contract is to capture Frulam Mondath.</p><p></p><p><strong>Kazimierz Thibideux (of the Menthis Thibideuxs)</strong></p><p>LG Male Tiefling Warlock</p><p>Pact: Archfey (Dziwożona, Archfey of the Fluffy Confines, Spirit of Cuteness and Charm)</p><p>Pact Boon: Tome</p><p>Faction: The Flamewind Sorority</p><p>Faction Boon: Minor Magic Item (Bag of Holding)</p><p>Origin: Sharn</p><p>Kazimierz is an orphaned Tiefling whose only memories are of Sharn, when he arrived as a small child. His parents disappeared at an early age, and was raised collectively by a migrant community in Cliffside. At the age of 8 he was adopted by the wealthy Thibideux family, who has provided him the best education money can provide. Kazimierz (Kazik for short) is a researcher at heart, with a particular interest in the planes. His previous adventures with the Flamewind Sorority helped him procure a Bag of Holding, primarily to bring with him his copious manuscripts and notes. On a trip to Thelanis, he was badgered into forming a pact with Dziwożona (pronounced JI-vo-ZHO-na), an Archfey spirit of Cuteness and Charm, which appears primarily as a jackalope with a red top hat. The spirit found the image of a Tiefling in a tweed suit utterly adorable and cajoled him being as charming as possible to spread his cheer throughout Eberron. Kazik mostly only agreed because the creature offered to help him finish his research paper.</p><p>Connection: Kazik’s sponsor in the Flamewind Sorority was a Morgrave faculty member named Leosin Erlanthar. Kazik left as part of Leosin’s entourage to Windshire to investigate the Cold Sun but fell behind in Passage to conduct some additional research. Kazik has few memories of his biological parents, but what memories he has involve talk of a tiefling named Rath Modar, who seemed to be somehow responsible for his parents arriving as refugees in Sharn. He has not been able to find any more information about Rath Modar.</p><p></p><p><strong>Norixious Anakendrick</strong></p><p>CG Female Dragonborn Rogue</p><p>Draconic Heritage: Black Dragon</p><p>Roguish Archetype: Swashbuckler</p><p>Faction: The Flamewind Sorority</p><p>Faction Boon: Minor Magic Item (Sharn Feather Token)</p><p>Origin: Sharn</p><p>Anakendrick (Clan name Norixious) grew up on the streets of Sharn with a small litter of dragonborn hatchlings left to fend for themselves. Like many orphans, she turned to a life of crime to provide for herself and those in her care. She was eventually caught by a visiting professor of Theology named Quentin Stormcrow, who ended up helping Anakendrick reform and put her talents to use as an employee of Morgrave University and the Flamewind Sorority. Quentin has been studying Cult of the Cold Sun activity in the Shadow Marches, and has sent Anakendrick to investigate their increased activity in western Aundair.</p><p>Connection: Quentin replaces Amoffel in Chapter 4’s “Payback” mission, and is another party contact with the Flamewind Sorority. Anakendrick grew up with another black dragonborn hatchling named Rezmir (Clan name Norixious), who was a kind of big sister who cared for the other hatchlings, but whom she has not heard from in some time.</p><p></p><p><strong>Brother Alwyn</strong></p><p>NG Male Wood Elf Monk</p><p>Monastic Tradition: Way of the Open Hand</p><p>Faction: The Eldeen Enclave</p><p>Faction Boon: Feat (Magic Initiate - druidcraft, produce flame, goodberry)</p><p>Origin: Valenar</p><p>Brother Alwyn is a Tairnadal elf, who was chosen to honor the patron ancestor Astriana the Wayward. Millenia ago, Astriana turned away her back on the frivolous wars of her people, becoming an exile destined to be long forgotten by the Tairnadal. Centuries later, a Gatekeeper druid arrived in Aerenal with Astriana’s body, claiming that she had sacrificed herself to save the world. Alwyn has chosen to honor Astriana by turning his back on Tairnadal tradition, and make his way to the Eldeen Reaches or Shadow Marches to become a Gatekeeper himself. He spent 50 years wandering Khorvaire, eventually finding his way only very recently. A Gatekeeper by the name of Kaeli took him and trained him, then sent him to Windshire to investigate reports of nearby attacks by the Cult of the Cold Sun. Alwyn is helpful to a fault; he will always help out when asked, though he sometimes takes his requests a tad too literally.</p><p>Connections: Kaeli replaces Ackyn Selebon in Varna (which takes the role of Baldur’s Gate in this adventure), and is the party’s main contact with the Eldeen Enclave.</p><p></p><p><strong>Herb Nepeta Cataria Sparklegem</strong></p><p>CG Male Forest Gnome Druid</p><p>Druid Circle: Circle of the Shepherd</p><p>Faction: The Eldeen Enclave</p><p>Faction Boon: Feat (Linguist)</p><p>Origin: Zilargo</p><p>Herb spent much of his adult life as a member of The Trust, the spy network and secret police of the gnomes of Zilargo. A life-long love of animals and more recent run-in with fiends changed his life, however, and he turned his back on the Trust to become a Druid. He went to the Eldeen Reaches, where he quickly became drawn to the Greensingers and travel throughout Thelanis, the Faerie court. His unique skill set (including being a polyglot) has made him a valuable agent for the Enclave in international and extraplanar incidents. He’s been sent by his mentor, Kaeli, along with another pupil, Brother Alwyn, to investigate the activity of the Cult of the Cold Sun near the border with Aundair.</p><p>Connections: In addition to Kaeli (see above), Herb’s past with the Trust will give him passing knowledge of Jamna Gleamsilver, as well as Radacere Perethun, a retired legend, both of whom the party will meet in Chapter 4.</p><p></p><p><strong>Betty “Coop” Cooper</strong></p><p>LG Protector Aasimar Cleric</p><p>Divine Domain: Life</p><p>Faction: N/A</p><p>Origin: Karrnath</p><p>Coop grew up as a normal human living in what she thought was a normal Karrnathi town near the border of the Mror Holds, famed only for their maple syrup industry (dwarves love syrup, you know). However, it turned out that many members of this small community were actually hiding quite a few skeletons in their closets (in some cases literally, because, you know, Karrnath). A particularly traumatic incident led to Coop making contact with a Trumpet Archon from Shavarath named Forsythe Pendleton (or FP for short), instilling her with an even stronger moral compass and sense of what’s right and what’s wrong… for herself and for everybody else. The two formed a partnership that has led Coop to wander Khorvaire in search of injustices to correct. Her self-righteousness and the Archon’s influence may sometimes cause her to “go Dark Betty”, temporarily replacing her Protector Aasimar racial features with those of the Fallen Aasimar.</p><p>Connections: None.</p><p></p><p><strong><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><u>Background</u></span></span></strong></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">These NPCs are appear in the backgrounds of the PCs, but haven’t appeared in play yet.</span></span></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Jonas d’Lyrandar</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Male Half-Elf Cleric</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Faction: The Twelve (House Lyrandar)</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Origin: Stormhome, Aundair</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Current Condition: Missing (Presumed Dead)</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Jonas is the second and only other son of the house patriarch Netheril d’Lyrandar. He had confided in his close friend from the Twelve he had known since childhood, Merla Tealeaf (a minor scion of House Jorasco), that his dreams were to one day be free of the family business and join the clergy of the Sovereign Host. These dreams were unfortunately dashed when his brother, the oldest child and presumptive heir Thomas, disappeared and was promptly excoriated by their father. With his Mark of Storms he was immediately taught how to fly the mighty elemental airships, but his first solo mission, piloting an expedition to the Frostfell, ended in disaster, and not he, nor his ship, nor anyone else from the expedition ever returned. In the three years since, he has been presumed dead, and Netheril has instead turned towards grooming his daughters for leadership.</span></span></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Larloch</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Undying Patron - Archlich</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Faction: Himself</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Origin: The Nightwood, Karrnath</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Current Condition: Scheming</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Larloch is an archlich in Karrnath conducting studies on the nature of magic. A messy bounty hunt ended with Rylorn d’Tharashk stumbling into Larloch’s chambers, where he was granted the choice between service and power or a swift death. Rather liking being alive, Rylorn chose the former option, and Larloch indebted Rylorn to his service as a Warlock with the powers of the Undying. His reasons for doing so have so far been left uncovered.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><strong>Chapter 3: </strong>Larloch commanded Rylorn to kill the remaining Cold Sun cultists and raise them as undead creatures to begin building him an army. Rylorn refused, choosing to accept a path from the angel "HL" instead.</span></span></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Dziwożona</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Archfey Patron - Fey Prince of Cuteness and Charm</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Faction: Himself</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Origin: Thelanis</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Current Condition: Adorable</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Dziwożona is the Fey Prince of Cuteness and Charm, and appears as a jackalope in a red top hat and bowtie. He badgered his way into becoming a patron for Kazimierz Thibideux, while the latter was composing a research paper on Thelanis. Like the Archlich, Dziwożona’s motivations have so far been kept entirely to himself. Unlike the Archlich, however, they are much less likely to be sinister in nature. One would hope, anyway. Kazik’s only instructions so far have been to be as charming as possible in his travels throughout Khorvaire.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span><strong></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Quentin Stormcrow</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Male Half-Elf Archivist</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Faction: The Flamewind Sorority</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Origin: Fairhaven, Aundair</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Current Condition: Alive</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Stormcrow is a member of the University of Wynarn’s Theology Faculty and considered their foremost expert on Sovereign Host Studies. During a stint as a visiting faculty at Morgrave University he became initiated into the Flamewind Sorority and also took under his tutelage a young Sharn pickpocket named Anakendrick Norixious. Quentin has recently taken an interest in the activities of the Cold Sun Cult in the Shadow Marches, and sent his protege to Windshire to investigate in Aundair (as Quentin would rather not return to Aundair anytime soon, for reasons he has been keeping to himself).</span></span></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Kaeli</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Female Half-Elf Druid</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Faction: The Eldeen Enclave (Gatekeepers)</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Origin: Eldeen Reaches</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Current Condition: Alive</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Kaeli is a tough-as-nails old druid living in the Eldeen Reaches and serving as a mentor and leader of new recruits to the Enclave, even those who do not become Gatekeepers. She’s dealt with more aberrant incursions that likely anyone currently living. Her two mentees, Brother Alwyn and Herb, have been sent across the border into Aundair to investigate Cold Sun Cult activity.</span></span></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><u>Allies</u></span></span></strong></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">“FP” Forsythe Pendleton</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Trumpet Archon</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Faction: Celestial Army of Shavarath</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Origin: Shavarath, the Endless Battle</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Status: Possessing Betty Cooper</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">FP is a Trumpet Archon who has attached xemself to Betty “Coop” Cooper, transforming her into an Aasimar, and contributes to her even stronger sense of right and wrong and justice. Only Coop can appear to hear and speak to xem, and xe has a seemingly strong interest in seeing the righteous protected and the wicked punished.</span></span></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Lady Cara of Aundair</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Female Human Noble</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Faction: Aundairian Nobility</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Origin: Aundair</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Status: Alive</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Lady Cara is a minor noble who rules over Windshire and the surrounding countryside. She is a bit sheltered thanks to her comfortable and isolated lifestyle. She is, ultimately, deeply concerned for the people of her land and regularly asks the party to protect or rescue them from the clutches of the Cold Sun cult.</span></span></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Escobert “Big Red” d’Kundarak</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Male Mountain Dwarf Warrior</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Faction: The Twelve (House Cannith); Aundair</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Origin: Mror Holds</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Status: Alive, Surprisingly</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Originally from the Mror Holds, Escobert was sent from an early age to be a castellan at Windshire. He is ever weary of threats, and worries that neither Lady Cara nor the soldiers under his command are truly ready for any kind of danger. He presumably sacrificed himself tackling a kobold dragonshield off of the Windshire Keep’s sally port ledge, but was ultimately found and saved by Betty “Coop” Cooper and returned to the keep by the end of the Cold Sun Cult’s assault.</span></span></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Sergeant Vasila Markguth </span></span></strong></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Female Human Soldier</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Faction: Aundair</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Origin: Karrnath</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Status: Alive</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Vasila’s family were Karrnathi refugees who fled as deeply west as they could go within Aundair in order to avoid the anti-Karrnathi sentiment found along the nation’s eastern borders. This landed them in Windshire, where Vasila’s parents eked out a pleasant living under the auspices of Lady Cara. Vasila has distinguished herself with her aptitude at coordination, training and defensive planning. Her combat skills, on the other hand, leave a lot to be desired. This ineptitude was in full force as the party rescued Lady Cara’s servants from her manor, and Merla and Herb convinced her not to go face Cyanwrath by herself in order to save her sister, niece and nephew.</span></span></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Jerred d’Cannith </span></span></strong></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Male Human Magewright</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Faction: The Twelve (House Cannith)</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Origin: Sharn</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Status: Alive</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Jerred is a Cannith magewright and distant cousin to Merrix d’Cannith who is nearing the end of his contract in Windshire. He proved pivotal in helping repair the sally port gate at the Windshire Keep while it was under assault. He also serves the party as a magewright, attaching dragonshards they find to improve their equipment, and letting them know about the nature of other interesting items they find. While certainly courageous, he prefers to avoid combat wherever possible, and has little talent himself in that regard.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><strong>Chapter 2: </strong>Jerred is impressed with Anakendrick's new <em>byeshk shortsword</em>, an item that according to Jerred should not exist; the blade is too new, and has none of the typical qualities of Dhakaani craftsgoblinship. He is able to attune <em>dragonshards </em>to equipment to create magical equipment. Wants the party to bring him any more <em>byeshk </em>weapons they find.</span></span></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Harley d’Ghallanda </span></span></strong></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Female Halfling Dragonmarked Scion</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Faction: The Twelve (House Ghallanda)</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Origin: Unknown</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Status: Missing</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Harley is a member of House Ghallanda with a unique ability to produce </span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><em>Heroes’ Feasts </em></span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">that allow weary adventurers to take a long rest in a much more compressed period of time. She was nowhere to be seen after the attack on Windshire. She has a habit of appearing in the strangest places...</span></span></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Nasim Waladra</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Female Half-Elf Graduate Student (Geography)</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Faction: The Flamewind Sorority</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Origin: Sharn</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Status: Alive</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Nasim is a student of Morgrave University who travelled with Professor Leosin Erlanthar to study the attacks of the Cult of the Cold Sun in western Aundair. She finds Kazik in the aftermath of the cult’s attack on Windshire to let him know that Professor Erlanthar was captured and taken hostage by the cult.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span><strong><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Leosin Erlanthar</span></span></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Male Half-Elf Monk</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Faction: The Flamewind Sorority</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Origin: Sharn</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Current Condition: Alive</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Leosin Erlanthar is a professor of Field Research at Morgrave University, and is considered one of the foremost scholars on Khyber Cults. The recent uptick in activity by the Cult of the Cold Sun across Khorvaire (rather than centered in Q’Barra) has led him to organize a team of students (including Kazimierz as a research assistant) to investigate the activity. He’s organized his expedition to first arrive in Windshire to set up as a base of operations. He and his party arrived just prior to the assault, and he was taken as a captive by the Cult as they left the village. </span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><strong>Chapter 2: </strong>The party was able to rescue him from the Cold Sun camp.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><strong>Chapter 3: </strong>Leosin, still recovering from his wounds, asks the party to travel back to the Cold Sun camp to investigate a cave that seemed to be vitally important to the cult, and to their leader, Rezmir, in specific.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><strong><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">“HL"</span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Celestial Patron - Angel (Unknown Classification)</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Faction: Unknown</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Origin: Unknown</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Status: Imprisoned</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">HL is an angel who reached out to Rylorn through his dreams to offer him a path towards the light. HL states that they are currently imprisoned in a place called "The Forge of Fury". They are currently Rylorn's new Celestial pact patron.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><u>Enemies</u></span></span></strong></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Francine</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Female Human Cultist</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Faction: Cold Sun Cult, Talons(?)</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Origin: Unknown</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Status: Imprisoned (Windshire Keep)</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Francine was a Cold Sun Cultist leader who the party encountered in Lady Cara’s manor house. Brother Alwyn overheard some other cultists voicing concern over her loyalty to the Cold Sun, referring to her as a “Talon”. She held a </span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><em>byeshk shortsword</em></span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">, and seemed to have the power to inflict additional fire damage with her attacks, which was not a feature of her sword. The party defeated and captured her, and Merla, through subterfuge and disguise, was only able to get her to admit to serving the Cold Sun. </span></span></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Langdedrosa Cyanwrath</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Male Dragonborn Champion (Bronze Scales)</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Faction: Cold Sun Cult</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Origin: Unknown (Possibly Q’Barra or Seren)</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Status: Alive</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">The party first spied this fierce warrior pacing frantically on a hilltop overlooking the village of Windshire. Near the end of the assault, as other cult members began to withdraw, he approached the Windshire Keep with two underlings, Seren barbarians, who were holding on to hostages (a human woman and two human children). He demanded to fight the village’s champion in honorable single combat. Despite some subterfuge by the party to secure the woman’s release (he released the children earlier), he got his wish in a true one-on-one duel with Anakendrick, who was able to wound him fairly strongly before losing the fight. Langdedrosa appears to be obsessed with the story of Masvirik, the Cold Sun, and Rhashaak, and how Rhashaak defeated Masvirik in three duels, securing Masvirik’s imprisonment, though over time has become corrupted by the Demonic Overlord. He looks forward to his next duel with Anakendrick. He does not appear to give much deference to Frulam Mondath.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><strong>Chapter 3: </strong>After Merla charmed Cyanwrath's berserker companions, Cyanwrath found himself outmatched by the party. Anakendrick refused to face him in a rematch, and Coop was able to convince him to delay their rematch until Anakendrick is able to gain more power. Cyanwrath left the Cold Sun Hatchery, taking his companions with him.</span></span></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Frulam Mondath</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Female Half-Orc Cultist</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Faction: Cold Sun Cult</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Origin: The Shadow Marches</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Status: Alive</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Frulam Mondath is a half-orc from the Shadow Marches who has somehow risen to a position of some prominence in the Cult of the Cold Sun. She is briefly spotted overlooking the assault on Windshire, and again when arrives at the keep to chastise Langdedrosa Cyanwrath for ignoring the order to withdraw. Her robes are purple (in contrast to the blue robes of the Cold Sun) and she appears to lead this particular branch of the cult. Little else is known about her, save that she is wanted for crimes in the Shadow Marches, and Rylorn has a contract to capture her and bring her back, alive if possible.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><strong><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Azbara Jos</span></span></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Male Tiefling Red Wizard</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Faction: Unknown (Allied with Cold Sun???)</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Origin: Unknown</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Status: Alive</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Azbara Jos arrived the Cold Sun camp with a delegation of tieflings all wearing very distinctive red robes, which Kazik recalled his parents owned. He was sent on behalf of a "Rath Modar" to treat with Rezmir.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><strong><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Rezmir</span></span></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Female Dragonborn (Black Scales)</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Faction: Cold Sun Cult</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Origin: Unknown (Sharn?)</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Status: Alive</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Little is known about Rezmir; just that people call her the "dragon lady" and that Frulam answers to her. She was at the camp's location when the cultists and mercenaries returned from Windshire and she did not look pleased. Anakendrick did grow up with a dragonborn named Rezmir in Sharn; an older dragonborn who looked after the other oprhans of clan Norixious.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><strong><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><u>Other</u></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><strong><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Leenan Boulderfist</span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Male Minotaur Mercenary</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Faction: Lightning Fangs (Allied with Cold Sun)</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Origin: Sharn</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Status: Unknown</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">A boisterous and gregarious minotaur and leader of the Lightning Fangs mercenary group out of Sharn. Participated in the raid on Windshire. Thinks Merla is hilarious. Was last seen in the middle of a massive brawl between rival mercenary factions in the Cold Sun encampment.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gradine, post: 7342825, member: 57112"] [b]Dramatis Personae[/b] [SIZE=4][B]Dramatis Personae [/B][/SIZE] [B][U]Player Characters[/U][/B] [B]Merla Tealeaf[/B] NG Female Lightfoot Halfling Bard Bardic College: College of Glamour Faction: The Twelve (House Jorasco) Faction Boon: Least Mark of Healing Origin: Breland Merla is a healer by trade but an entertainer by passion. She’s been sent from rural Breland to Windshire in western Aundair to tend to the injured that have been piling up as a result of cultist raids in the region, as well as to investigate the activities of said cult, The Cold Sun. Merla has an exceptionally large vocabulary; unfortunately for herself and others around her, she doesn’t really understand what a lot of those bigger words actually mean. Connections: One of Merla’s best friends growing up was a House Lyrandar scion named Jonas, who was torn between his duties to his family and his desire to join the clergy of the Sovereign Host. His first solo mission was a flight to Frostfell, from which neither he nor anyone else from his expedition ever returned. (Jonas will be replacing Talis the White in this adventure) [B]Rylorn d’Tharashk[/B] CN Male Half-Orc Warlock Pact: Celestial (HL, Imprisoned Angel) Former Pact: The Undying (Larloch, Archlich of the Nightwood) Pact Boon: Chain (Tressym) Faction: The Twelve (House Tharashk) Faction Boon: Least Mark of Finding Origin: The Shadow Marches Rylorn is a bounty hunter in House Tharashk who has long been troubled by his family’s ancestral worship of Khyber fiends. He enjoys his work and is good at it, so his family has agreed to give him some degree of autonomy in return for occasionally doing work for the House from time to time. He has recently returned from a mission in Karrnath with a new faith (Blood of Vol) and patron, a powerful lich named Larloch. He has been sent to Windshire by his House to investigate cult of the Cold Sun activity and, if possible, capture their leader. [B]Chapter 3: [/B]Rylorn was commanded by Larloch, through a dream, to kill everyone in the Cold Sun camp and raise them from the dead to begin building a new undead army. He wa also visited in his dreams by a vaguely angelic shape calling themself "HL" that offered him a new pact, which he chose to accept. "HL" claims to be trapped in a place called "The Forge of Fury". Connections: Rylorn’s current contract is to capture Frulam Mondath. [B]Kazimierz Thibideux (of the Menthis Thibideuxs)[/B] LG Male Tiefling Warlock Pact: Archfey (Dziwożona, Archfey of the Fluffy Confines, Spirit of Cuteness and Charm) Pact Boon: Tome Faction: The Flamewind Sorority Faction Boon: Minor Magic Item (Bag of Holding) Origin: Sharn Kazimierz is an orphaned Tiefling whose only memories are of Sharn, when he arrived as a small child. His parents disappeared at an early age, and was raised collectively by a migrant community in Cliffside. At the age of 8 he was adopted by the wealthy Thibideux family, who has provided him the best education money can provide. Kazimierz (Kazik for short) is a researcher at heart, with a particular interest in the planes. His previous adventures with the Flamewind Sorority helped him procure a Bag of Holding, primarily to bring with him his copious manuscripts and notes. On a trip to Thelanis, he was badgered into forming a pact with Dziwożona (pronounced JI-vo-ZHO-na), an Archfey spirit of Cuteness and Charm, which appears primarily as a jackalope with a red top hat. The spirit found the image of a Tiefling in a tweed suit utterly adorable and cajoled him being as charming as possible to spread his cheer throughout Eberron. Kazik mostly only agreed because the creature offered to help him finish his research paper. Connection: Kazik’s sponsor in the Flamewind Sorority was a Morgrave faculty member named Leosin Erlanthar. Kazik left as part of Leosin’s entourage to Windshire to investigate the Cold Sun but fell behind in Passage to conduct some additional research. Kazik has few memories of his biological parents, but what memories he has involve talk of a tiefling named Rath Modar, who seemed to be somehow responsible for his parents arriving as refugees in Sharn. He has not been able to find any more information about Rath Modar. [B]Norixious Anakendrick[/B] CG Female Dragonborn Rogue Draconic Heritage: Black Dragon Roguish Archetype: Swashbuckler Faction: The Flamewind Sorority Faction Boon: Minor Magic Item (Sharn Feather Token) Origin: Sharn Anakendrick (Clan name Norixious) grew up on the streets of Sharn with a small litter of dragonborn hatchlings left to fend for themselves. Like many orphans, she turned to a life of crime to provide for herself and those in her care. She was eventually caught by a visiting professor of Theology named Quentin Stormcrow, who ended up helping Anakendrick reform and put her talents to use as an employee of Morgrave University and the Flamewind Sorority. Quentin has been studying Cult of the Cold Sun activity in the Shadow Marches, and has sent Anakendrick to investigate their increased activity in western Aundair. Connection: Quentin replaces Amoffel in Chapter 4’s “Payback” mission, and is another party contact with the Flamewind Sorority. Anakendrick grew up with another black dragonborn hatchling named Rezmir (Clan name Norixious), who was a kind of big sister who cared for the other hatchlings, but whom she has not heard from in some time. [B]Brother Alwyn[/B] NG Male Wood Elf Monk Monastic Tradition: Way of the Open Hand Faction: The Eldeen Enclave Faction Boon: Feat (Magic Initiate - druidcraft, produce flame, goodberry) Origin: Valenar Brother Alwyn is a Tairnadal elf, who was chosen to honor the patron ancestor Astriana the Wayward. Millenia ago, Astriana turned away her back on the frivolous wars of her people, becoming an exile destined to be long forgotten by the Tairnadal. Centuries later, a Gatekeeper druid arrived in Aerenal with Astriana’s body, claiming that she had sacrificed herself to save the world. Alwyn has chosen to honor Astriana by turning his back on Tairnadal tradition, and make his way to the Eldeen Reaches or Shadow Marches to become a Gatekeeper himself. He spent 50 years wandering Khorvaire, eventually finding his way only very recently. A Gatekeeper by the name of Kaeli took him and trained him, then sent him to Windshire to investigate reports of nearby attacks by the Cult of the Cold Sun. Alwyn is helpful to a fault; he will always help out when asked, though he sometimes takes his requests a tad too literally. Connections: Kaeli replaces Ackyn Selebon in Varna (which takes the role of Baldur’s Gate in this adventure), and is the party’s main contact with the Eldeen Enclave. [B]Herb Nepeta Cataria Sparklegem[/B] CG Male Forest Gnome Druid Druid Circle: Circle of the Shepherd Faction: The Eldeen Enclave Faction Boon: Feat (Linguist) Origin: Zilargo Herb spent much of his adult life as a member of The Trust, the spy network and secret police of the gnomes of Zilargo. A life-long love of animals and more recent run-in with fiends changed his life, however, and he turned his back on the Trust to become a Druid. He went to the Eldeen Reaches, where he quickly became drawn to the Greensingers and travel throughout Thelanis, the Faerie court. His unique skill set (including being a polyglot) has made him a valuable agent for the Enclave in international and extraplanar incidents. He’s been sent by his mentor, Kaeli, along with another pupil, Brother Alwyn, to investigate the activity of the Cult of the Cold Sun near the border with Aundair. Connections: In addition to Kaeli (see above), Herb’s past with the Trust will give him passing knowledge of Jamna Gleamsilver, as well as Radacere Perethun, a retired legend, both of whom the party will meet in Chapter 4. [B]Betty “Coop” Cooper[/B] LG Protector Aasimar Cleric Divine Domain: Life Faction: N/A Origin: Karrnath Coop grew up as a normal human living in what she thought was a normal Karrnathi town near the border of the Mror Holds, famed only for their maple syrup industry (dwarves love syrup, you know). However, it turned out that many members of this small community were actually hiding quite a few skeletons in their closets (in some cases literally, because, you know, Karrnath). A particularly traumatic incident led to Coop making contact with a Trumpet Archon from Shavarath named Forsythe Pendleton (or FP for short), instilling her with an even stronger moral compass and sense of what’s right and what’s wrong… for herself and for everybody else. The two formed a partnership that has led Coop to wander Khorvaire in search of injustices to correct. Her self-righteousness and the Archon’s influence may sometimes cause her to “go Dark Betty”, temporarily replacing her Protector Aasimar racial features with those of the Fallen Aasimar. Connections: None. [B][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial][U]Background[/U][/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]These NPCs are appear in the backgrounds of the PCs, but haven’t appeared in play yet.[/FONT][/COLOR] [B][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Jonas d’Lyrandar[/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Male Half-Elf Cleric[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Faction: The Twelve (House Lyrandar)[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Origin: Stormhome, Aundair[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Current Condition: Missing (Presumed Dead)[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Jonas is the second and only other son of the house patriarch Netheril d’Lyrandar. He had confided in his close friend from the Twelve he had known since childhood, Merla Tealeaf (a minor scion of House Jorasco), that his dreams were to one day be free of the family business and join the clergy of the Sovereign Host. These dreams were unfortunately dashed when his brother, the oldest child and presumptive heir Thomas, disappeared and was promptly excoriated by their father. With his Mark of Storms he was immediately taught how to fly the mighty elemental airships, but his first solo mission, piloting an expedition to the Frostfell, ended in disaster, and not he, nor his ship, nor anyone else from the expedition ever returned. In the three years since, he has been presumed dead, and Netheril has instead turned towards grooming his daughters for leadership.[/FONT][/COLOR] [B][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Larloch[/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Undying Patron - Archlich[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Faction: Himself[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Origin: The Nightwood, Karrnath[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Current Condition: Scheming[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Larloch is an archlich in Karrnath conducting studies on the nature of magic. A messy bounty hunt ended with Rylorn d’Tharashk stumbling into Larloch’s chambers, where he was granted the choice between service and power or a swift death. Rather liking being alive, Rylorn chose the former option, and Larloch indebted Rylorn to his service as a Warlock with the powers of the Undying. His reasons for doing so have so far been left uncovered. [B]Chapter 3: [/B]Larloch commanded Rylorn to kill the remaining Cold Sun cultists and raise them as undead creatures to begin building him an army. Rylorn refused, choosing to accept a path from the angel "HL" instead.[/FONT][/COLOR] [B] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Dziwożona[/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Archfey Patron - Fey Prince of Cuteness and Charm[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Faction: Himself[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Origin: Thelanis[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Current Condition: Adorable[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Dziwożona is the Fey Prince of Cuteness and Charm, and appears as a jackalope in a red top hat and bowtie. He badgered his way into becoming a patron for Kazimierz Thibideux, while the latter was composing a research paper on Thelanis. Like the Archlich, Dziwożona’s motivations have so far been kept entirely to himself. Unlike the Archlich, however, they are much less likely to be sinister in nature. One would hope, anyway. Kazik’s only instructions so far have been to be as charming as possible in his travels throughout Khorvaire. [/FONT][/COLOR][B] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Quentin Stormcrow[/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Male Half-Elf Archivist[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Faction: The Flamewind Sorority[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Origin: Fairhaven, Aundair[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Current Condition: Alive[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Stormcrow is a member of the University of Wynarn’s Theology Faculty and considered their foremost expert on Sovereign Host Studies. During a stint as a visiting faculty at Morgrave University he became initiated into the Flamewind Sorority and also took under his tutelage a young Sharn pickpocket named Anakendrick Norixious. Quentin has recently taken an interest in the activities of the Cold Sun Cult in the Shadow Marches, and sent his protege to Windshire to investigate in Aundair (as Quentin would rather not return to Aundair anytime soon, for reasons he has been keeping to himself).[/FONT][/COLOR] [B][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Kaeli[/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Female Half-Elf Druid[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Faction: The Eldeen Enclave (Gatekeepers)[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Origin: Eldeen Reaches[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Current Condition: Alive[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Kaeli is a tough-as-nails old druid living in the Eldeen Reaches and serving as a mentor and leader of new recruits to the Enclave, even those who do not become Gatekeepers. She’s dealt with more aberrant incursions that likely anyone currently living. Her two mentees, Brother Alwyn and Herb, have been sent across the border into Aundair to investigate Cold Sun Cult activity.[/FONT][/COLOR] [B][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial][U]Allies[/U][/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]“FP” Forsythe Pendleton[/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Trumpet Archon[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Faction: Celestial Army of Shavarath[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Origin: Shavarath, the Endless Battle[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Status: Possessing Betty Cooper[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]FP is a Trumpet Archon who has attached xemself to Betty “Coop” Cooper, transforming her into an Aasimar, and contributes to her even stronger sense of right and wrong and justice. Only Coop can appear to hear and speak to xem, and xe has a seemingly strong interest in seeing the righteous protected and the wicked punished.[/FONT][/COLOR] [B] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Lady Cara of Aundair[/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Female Human Noble[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Faction: Aundairian Nobility[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Origin: Aundair[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Status: Alive[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Lady Cara is a minor noble who rules over Windshire and the surrounding countryside. She is a bit sheltered thanks to her comfortable and isolated lifestyle. She is, ultimately, deeply concerned for the people of her land and regularly asks the party to protect or rescue them from the clutches of the Cold Sun cult.[/FONT][/COLOR] [B] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Escobert “Big Red” d’Kundarak[/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Male Mountain Dwarf Warrior[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Faction: The Twelve (House Cannith); Aundair[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Origin: Mror Holds[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Status: Alive, Surprisingly[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Originally from the Mror Holds, Escobert was sent from an early age to be a castellan at Windshire. He is ever weary of threats, and worries that neither Lady Cara nor the soldiers under his command are truly ready for any kind of danger. He presumably sacrificed himself tackling a kobold dragonshield off of the Windshire Keep’s sally port ledge, but was ultimately found and saved by Betty “Coop” Cooper and returned to the keep by the end of the Cold Sun Cult’s assault.[/FONT][/COLOR] [B][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Sergeant Vasila Markguth [/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Female Human Soldier[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Faction: Aundair[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Origin: Karrnath[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Status: Alive[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Vasila’s family were Karrnathi refugees who fled as deeply west as they could go within Aundair in order to avoid the anti-Karrnathi sentiment found along the nation’s eastern borders. This landed them in Windshire, where Vasila’s parents eked out a pleasant living under the auspices of Lady Cara. Vasila has distinguished herself with her aptitude at coordination, training and defensive planning. Her combat skills, on the other hand, leave a lot to be desired. This ineptitude was in full force as the party rescued Lady Cara’s servants from her manor, and Merla and Herb convinced her not to go face Cyanwrath by herself in order to save her sister, niece and nephew.[/FONT][/COLOR] [B][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Jerred d’Cannith [/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Male Human Magewright[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Faction: The Twelve (House Cannith)[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Origin: Sharn[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Status: Alive[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Jerred is a Cannith magewright and distant cousin to Merrix d’Cannith who is nearing the end of his contract in Windshire. He proved pivotal in helping repair the sally port gate at the Windshire Keep while it was under assault. He also serves the party as a magewright, attaching dragonshards they find to improve their equipment, and letting them know about the nature of other interesting items they find. While certainly courageous, he prefers to avoid combat wherever possible, and has little talent himself in that regard. [B]Chapter 2: [/B]Jerred is impressed with Anakendrick's new [I]byeshk shortsword[/I], an item that according to Jerred should not exist; the blade is too new, and has none of the typical qualities of Dhakaani craftsgoblinship. He is able to attune [I]dragonshards [/I]to equipment to create magical equipment. Wants the party to bring him any more [I]byeshk [/I]weapons they find.[/FONT][/COLOR] [B][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Harley d’Ghallanda [/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Female Halfling Dragonmarked Scion[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Faction: The Twelve (House Ghallanda)[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Origin: Unknown[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Status: Missing[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Harley is a member of House Ghallanda with a unique ability to produce [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial][I]Heroes’ Feasts [/I][/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]that allow weary adventurers to take a long rest in a much more compressed period of time. She was nowhere to be seen after the attack on Windshire. She has a habit of appearing in the strangest places...[/FONT][/COLOR] [B][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Nasim Waladra[/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Female Half-Elf Graduate Student (Geography)[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Faction: The Flamewind Sorority[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Origin: Sharn[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Status: Alive[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Nasim is a student of Morgrave University who travelled with Professor Leosin Erlanthar to study the attacks of the Cult of the Cold Sun in western Aundair. She finds Kazik in the aftermath of the cult’s attack on Windshire to let him know that Professor Erlanthar was captured and taken hostage by the cult. [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial] [/FONT][/COLOR][B][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Leosin Erlanthar[/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Male Half-Elf Monk[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Faction: The Flamewind Sorority[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Origin: Sharn[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Current Condition: Alive[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Leosin Erlanthar is a professor of Field Research at Morgrave University, and is considered one of the foremost scholars on Khyber Cults. The recent uptick in activity by the Cult of the Cold Sun across Khorvaire (rather than centered in Q’Barra) has led him to organize a team of students (including Kazimierz as a research assistant) to investigate the activity. He’s organized his expedition to first arrive in Windshire to set up as a base of operations. He and his party arrived just prior to the assault, and he was taken as a captive by the Cult as they left the village. [B]Chapter 2: [/B]The party was able to rescue him from the Cold Sun camp. [B]Chapter 3: [/B]Leosin, still recovering from his wounds, asks the party to travel back to the Cold Sun camp to investigate a cave that seemed to be vitally important to the cult, and to their leader, Rezmir, in specific. [B][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]“HL"[/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Celestial Patron - Angel (Unknown Classification)[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Faction: Unknown[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Origin: Unknown[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Status: Imprisoned[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]HL is an angel who reached out to Rylorn through his dreams to offer him a path towards the light. HL states that they are currently imprisoned in a place called "The Forge of Fury". They are currently Rylorn's new Celestial pact patron.[/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT][/COLOR] [B][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial][U]Enemies[/U][/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Francine[/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Female Human Cultist[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Faction: Cold Sun Cult, Talons(?)[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Origin: Unknown[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Status: Imprisoned (Windshire Keep)[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Francine was a Cold Sun Cultist leader who the party encountered in Lady Cara’s manor house. Brother Alwyn overheard some other cultists voicing concern over her loyalty to the Cold Sun, referring to her as a “Talon”. She held a [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial][I]byeshk shortsword[/I][/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial], and seemed to have the power to inflict additional fire damage with her attacks, which was not a feature of her sword. The party defeated and captured her, and Merla, through subterfuge and disguise, was only able to get her to admit to serving the Cold Sun. [/FONT][/COLOR] [B][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Langdedrosa Cyanwrath[/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Male Dragonborn Champion (Bronze Scales)[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Faction: Cold Sun Cult[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Origin: Unknown (Possibly Q’Barra or Seren)[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Status: Alive[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]The party first spied this fierce warrior pacing frantically on a hilltop overlooking the village of Windshire. Near the end of the assault, as other cult members began to withdraw, he approached the Windshire Keep with two underlings, Seren barbarians, who were holding on to hostages (a human woman and two human children). He demanded to fight the village’s champion in honorable single combat. Despite some subterfuge by the party to secure the woman’s release (he released the children earlier), he got his wish in a true one-on-one duel with Anakendrick, who was able to wound him fairly strongly before losing the fight. Langdedrosa appears to be obsessed with the story of Masvirik, the Cold Sun, and Rhashaak, and how Rhashaak defeated Masvirik in three duels, securing Masvirik’s imprisonment, though over time has become corrupted by the Demonic Overlord. He looks forward to his next duel with Anakendrick. He does not appear to give much deference to Frulam Mondath. [B]Chapter 3: [/B]After Merla charmed Cyanwrath's berserker companions, Cyanwrath found himself outmatched by the party. Anakendrick refused to face him in a rematch, and Coop was able to convince him to delay their rematch until Anakendrick is able to gain more power. Cyanwrath left the Cold Sun Hatchery, taking his companions with him.[/FONT][/COLOR] [B] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Frulam Mondath[/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Female Half-Orc Cultist[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Faction: Cold Sun Cult[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Origin: The Shadow Marches[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Status: Alive[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Frulam Mondath is a half-orc from the Shadow Marches who has somehow risen to a position of some prominence in the Cult of the Cold Sun. She is briefly spotted overlooking the assault on Windshire, and again when arrives at the keep to chastise Langdedrosa Cyanwrath for ignoring the order to withdraw. Her robes are purple (in contrast to the blue robes of the Cold Sun) and she appears to lead this particular branch of the cult. Little else is known about her, save that she is wanted for crimes in the Shadow Marches, and Rylorn has a contract to capture her and bring her back, alive if possible. [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial][B][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Azbara Jos[/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Male Tiefling Red Wizard[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Faction: Unknown (Allied with Cold Sun???)[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Origin: Unknown[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Status: Alive[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Azbara Jos arrived the Cold Sun camp with a delegation of tieflings all wearing very distinctive red robes, which Kazik recalled his parents owned. He was sent on behalf of a "Rath Modar" to treat with Rezmir.[/FONT][/COLOR] [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial][B][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Rezmir[/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Female Dragonborn (Black Scales)[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Faction: Cold Sun Cult[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Origin: Unknown (Sharn?)[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Status: Alive[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Little is known about Rezmir; just that people call her the "dragon lady" and that Frulam answers to her. She was at the camp's location when the cultists and mercenaries returned from Windshire and she did not look pleased. Anakendrick did grow up with a dragonborn named Rezmir in Sharn; an older dragonborn who looked after the other oprhans of clan Norixious. [/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial] [B][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial][U]Other[/U][/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Leenan Boulderfist[/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Male Minotaur Mercenary[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Faction: Lightning Fangs (Allied with Cold Sun)[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Origin: Sharn[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Status: Unknown[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]A boisterous and gregarious minotaur and leader of the Lightning Fangs mercenary group out of Sharn. Participated in the raid on Windshire. Thinks Merla is hilarious. Was last seen in the middle of a massive brawl between rival mercenary factions in the Cold Sun encampment.[/FONT][/COLOR] [/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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