"I think Indomitability is the spirit of Innenotdar now, or at least part of it. I'd never really thought about it, but I guess there isn't much left of the Spirit of Innenotdar. It's been burning for as long as I've been alive. I can't imagine there's much left," Tiljann says.
There's plenty of light left in the day, and the party's spellcasters have expended a total of one first level spell, so you ask Tiljann for directions to Timbre's tree. It's about a mile from the village along a now-dry creek bed. She offers to lead you through the seela village to where the creek bed meets the lake, but is still unwilling to visit Timbre. The village appears to have 40-50 seela living there in a mix of stone houses and caves. Most of the seela you see are depressed and dejected, staring off at the surrounding forest or shuffling about. But a good-sized minority of them are still bright-eyed with the obvious interest in life of active artists.
The trip up the narrow and deep creek bed is quick. The creek bed itself consists of dirt and rocks, and so is safe from flames, but it's narrow and flames press in on you from both sides. The gorge ends with a beautiful stone staircase that leads up to a 30- by 50-foot clearing surrounded by burning roses and thick trees, beyond which is a hill, completely engulfed in fire. The hill is 40 feet in diameter, surrounded on all sides by walls of fire. Atop the hill is an old willow tree, almost identical to the
stone willow in the fountain in the Elven village. Curled beneath it is a woman whose wooden flesh flares with horrible fire.
The clearing itself is fiery, its grass flickering with fire that looks hot enough to hurt all of you despite your protections expect for Hollister. At the end of the clearing stand a pair of dire boars whose fur is burning like the surrounding forest. They eye you warily as you reach the top of the stairs.
Standing at the top the stairs you think you hear the forest cry out, but then you see the mouth of the burning woman at the base of the tree speak the words you hear. She cries out for help, for release, in pain, and in love for those lost. Liiros, Arshen, and Shaylir all hear her call out for Anyariel.
[sblock=Hollister]Hollister's
mage armor is still up, but odds are it will have dropped by the time you finish up here and then get back to the seela village.[/sblock]
