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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(contact)" data-source="post: 463871" data-attributes="member: 41">Plot Synopsis for the Spoiler-ImparedThis is the relevant text, relating to the campaign's larger plot, from the group's adventures in the Heart of Nightfang Spire.  This is entirely of our own invention, and contains no spoilers for the module:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Later, they find a room containing the remains of a recent massacre.  Taran, ever the pragmatist, is searching the bodies for valuables when one of the corpses stirs and moans.  “Holy Mother of the Pasoun, this poor sonofabitch is still alive!” he shouts. Kyreel rushes to Taran’s side, and immediately cures the poor wretch.  Her healing magic brings the elven woman to consciousness, and after a few moments, the party hears her tale:  She is a priestess of a god she refers to as the Great Black Wyrm, or by the name Asharladon.  This tower is, in fact, carved from one of the castaway teeth of her draconic patron, and is itself an unholy relic.  She is not aware that she is no longer within the mortal realm, but recalls that her coven was attacked by elves sworn to Corellon Larethian.  She describes her religion as being native to the elven pantheon, and her master as the first of all dragonkind.  The rites she describes are evil to be sure, but she sees no contradiction in this fact.  Her religion, she contends, comprises the sum of the wickedness to be found within the elves. She has not heard of Lolth, but recognizes the deity by her former elvish name, Arunshee.  When told of Lolth’s evil bent, she claims that she cannot believe that it is true.  Arunshee, she says, was the goddess to the night elves— she points at Kyreel.  She was good and kind, a despicably gentle being. The name Palatin Eremath is known to her as well, and she agrees with the party’s telling of the great battle fought between Arunshee and her sister, but claims it was over a lover’s quarrel between Corellon and Arunshee.  She recalls Palatin Eremath’s eventual scorning of Corellon Larethian, and calls it a great day in the history of the elves.  She claims that her master Asharladon was the only elven deity to stand with Palatin Eremath, and this is why her coven was assaulted, and destroyed. She says that at the time they were attacked, the gods’ war had raged for long centuries as the mortals reckon time.  Palatin Eremath had been killed, and as an act of rebellion, the faith of Asharladon had built a great tomb for his last faithful on the very spot where Corellon Larethian struck her down—the Great Scar of the Dales.  For their temerity, the survivors of the raid were banished to a timeless demiplane and locked away for eternity. This news startles the group— not only is it untrue that Corellon Larethian defeated Grummush at this place, but their previously held belief that Palatin Eremath died from wounds given her by Arunshee is false as well!  In a fit of anger, Corellon Larethian attacked his wounded champion, his sister and consort.  He dealt her a mortal blow as a response to her disrespect.  Did the father-god then strike memory of her from the planes because of his righteous indignation, or merely to cover his guilt? When asked to name her wish for her own future, the elven priestess is clear and decisive—she desires to join her fellows in death, or unlife, as her god will have it.  Taran obliges, while Kyreel turns away. The deed done, Kyreel speaks briefly about the pantheon of deities native to the Ishlokian faith.  Before the goddess was known to Kyreel as Palatin Eremath, Ishlok was the name by which Kyreel called her.  Ishlok’s faith holds her forth as the mother of all things, but not as the only diety.  Ishlok had three children; Isk, a goddess of great compassion that was represented by the earth; Hustaire, an aloof and uncaring goddess, represented by the elements and magic; and a son, cruel and despotic, represented by the wicked actions of mortal kind.  This son was known as Iiam, and was said to be the father of evil dragonkind.  Kyreel ventures to guess that this Iiam was known to Palatin Eremath as Asharladon, and was slain for the crime of supporting her against Corellon Larethian. After all, if a goddess can rise from the dead, can she not reward those loyal to her with life after death as well? </li> </ul></blockquote>

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