Wir – Eyre 11th, 999 YK
Wednesday – April 11th, 999 YK
Late Evening
[The group finally reaches Sharn, and discovers plague has befallen the tower of Tavick’s Landing. Residents of the tower have either been quarantined or evacuated. While searching for Urlev in Sharn, Ahti is visited by a blue robed mage, named Arcanis, who tells him it is time that he learn the secrets that his master Malharath possessed and more. Ahti dismisses the mage’s ramblings.]
[The group locates Urlev in Skyway after a brief stop at a House Tharashk enclave. Urlev is glad to see Vhorgaash’s return. He is also relieved to learn that he has found both Ahti and Morthos, one of whom is fated to be the One Tortured By Shadow. Urlev tells Ahti that his mentor Malharath perished after contracting a fatal plague as a result of his combat with the wraith Allaantia. Urlev speculates that the plague which recently hit Sharn just days ago, means Allaantia has likely found Urlev and is somewhere in Sharn. He has made arrangements to travel west to the Shadow Marches and hopes to receive protection from House Tharashk Triumvir Maagrim. He intends to leave at dawn.]
[Over the two weeks, the group rides through Yadvin’s Expanse, Breland’s vast country plain. It is spring, but the land looks withered and ill. They ride pass several farms and see malnourished livestock, failed crops and blight.]
[On the fifteentth day, the group witnesses another Syberis shard fall from the sky. Later that same evening, while the party sleeps, Morthos is visited by a eerie vision. He sees the shadow of a female tiefling and goes to investigate. He is shocked to see that tiefling looks nearly identical to his long dead mother. She introduces herself as Sraosha, his mother’s name. She also calls herself the Seeker of Ruin. He greets her wearily. They discuss many things, but Morthos learns she is not happy that he has abandoned his proud tiefling heritage. She is deeply disturbed by his transformation into a Revenant. After their brief conversation she disappears.]
Sul – Therendor 15th, 999 YK
Sunday – March 15th, 999 YK
Afternoon
[More Siberys shards continue to fall from the skies.]
[The groups rides west stopping at a small hamlet not far from the Mournland’s borders. While there they are met by another stranger. A woman named Selia, the Merciful. She too takes an interest in Taveah. Taveah permits Selia to bless her child. She becomes angered when the group mentions Iannar and warns Taveah to stay away from him. Selia disappears without a trace.]
[The group presses forward to Vathirond. Once there the find the Haruspex Assembly headquarters, or at least its remains. The building has been razed to the ground. Vhorgaash suggests to find a House Tharashk Enclave in hopes of learning what has transpired and the location of Urlev, the Gatekeeper who sent he and Kerrik to Farlnen to find the one tortured by shadows.]
Wir – Therendor 4th, 999 YK
Wednesday – March 4th, 999 YK
Late Evening
[While camping in the Nightwood Forest the party is greeted by a mysterious stranger named Iannar, the Tempest. He calls himself a Child of Eberron and takes a peculiar interest in Taveah and her child. By morning the stranger vanishes.]
Zor – Therendor 5th, 999 YK
Thursday – March 5th, 999 YK
Morning
[The party reaches the border of the Mournland. The mist is cold to the touch and smellz of death. The dead gray mist coats everything with distilled despair. The group is unnerved to learn that the mist has spread and encroaches on the Karrnathi border. As the group enters the mist, another Siberys shard falls overhead.]
[The party traverses the strange deadland. Thousands of soldiers lie as if they had died mere moments ago on whom were once the battlefields of baltered Cyre. The dead, or their spirits, sometimes rise to continue fighting the war. Rampant arcane energy has mutated the monsters that live and hunt here. Those same arcane forces shape unnatural weather and deadly terrain, and sometimes take on a semblance of life itself.]
[The group leaves Lord Torin’s chambers and makes their way out of the prison via the underground. They eventually reach the Low District Ward in Korth and find a curio named Rare and Exotic Leaches. Once inside they are met by a halfling woman who takes them below to a secret and heavily fortified lair.]
[Waiting for the group in this lair is Thraxis, brother of Miklos.]
[Thraxis tells the group that Miklos heard of their capture and enlisted his brother’s aid. They also learn that Thraxis has been operating in Korth on behalf of the Trust. Zilargo is keenly interested in the recent increase in Karrnathi military activity.]
[Thraxis tells the group that a halfling woman named the Midwife will assist them in getting out of Korth. She is a master forger and can provide new identities for all… for a price of course.]
[Initial discussions about how to escape Korth are had. Thraxis suggests avoiding the main roads and border checkpoints in Karrnath. The new identities will be fine outside of Karrnath, but the group’s profile is too high in the nation. The Mournland is one of the proposed escape routes.]
