===== Session 8: Freedom and Parting =====

=== Night, 19th Summer Prime, 498 CE ===

    * A boy arrived at the Windscene, delivering a letter to Sanglant.
      * The letter was from [[wiki:npcs:fredrick_vanden|Baron Vanden]], who had opened an account with the Golden Bank for Sanglant.
    * [[wiki:npcs:laef|Laef]], [[wiki:npcs:cidmuir_mayze|Cidmuir]], and Revana returned to the Windscene.
      * Cidmuir told the party that [[wiki:npcs:zara_adir|Lady Zara]] had agreed to free Laef, but would tell her father and [[wiki:organizations:church_of_light|the Church]] that Cidmuir had died in the raid on the Silent camp.
      * Cidmuir also presented the party with the reward for dealing with [[wiki:organizations:the_silent|the Silent]].
      * Everyone discussed what they knew regarding the Faerealm and the Church, and Cidmuir went over what happened to him again.
    * As they were talking, Revana and Laef both suddenly went into fits of extreme agony.
      * Unbeknownst to them, some unknown calamity was happening in the Faerealm that was harming their god.
      * Rev and Laef were eventually stabilized, and Sang popped into the Faerealm to see what had happened.
      * Sang saw hundreds of little creatures running away from the south east, where a huge chunk of the Faerealm appeared to be missing.
      * Rev and Laef excused themselves to go outside to pray and see if they could reach Terra.
      * After a few hours of meditation and prayer, they felt no connection with their god.
      * They could sense that she was still alive, but she was not communicating.
      * Laef gave Rev her [[items:cloak_of_thornwood|Cloak of Thornwood]], telling Rev that she needed to be careful.
    * Back at the Windscene, Sang appeared back in the material plane, much to Cidmuir’s amazement.
      * Sang explained his connection to the Faerealm and that the monks of [[wiki:places:tol_enay|Tol’Enay]] had a spiritual connection to the Faerealm.


=== Morning, 20th Summer Prime, 498 CE ===

    * The next morning, Cidmuir announced that he and Laef were going to travel to Tol’Enay where he would learn more about the Faerealm from the monks there.
      * Sanglant expressed concern over Cidmuir’s social skills and warned him to be respectful.
      * Cidmuir exclaimed that he was good at pretending to be respectful, missing Sanglant’s point entirely.
      * Cid gave Ekhart one of his [[items:twinned_book|Twinned Books]], so that they could keep in contact.
      * Laef warned Rev that [[wiki:country:ortelai|Ortelai]] wasn’t as accepting of outsiders as [[wiki:country:voltana|Voltana]] was, and that she should buy a scarf to cover up her ears.
      * Sang left to head to the Golden Bank, to open his account.
      * He found that he was also given a stipend to buy new clothing.
      * Sang and Rev went shopping for clothing that would help them blend in more.
    * Cidmuir and Laef left the city traveling north, as Revana, Ekhart, and Sanglant left east toward the city of [[wiki:places:crossroads|Crossroads]].


=== Afternoon, 20th Summer Prime, 498 CE ===

    * As the party was traveling toward Crossroads through [[wiki:places:amber_farmlands|the Amber Farmlands]], they came upon a small crowd of people gathered around a ruined carriage.
      * The carriage was missing it’s occupants and the horses that drew it.
    * A Golden Road Guard, Trent, told everyone to disperse and that there was nothing to see.
      * He was an idiot, as there was clearly an interesting crime that had happened.
    * Ekhart investigated the inside of the carriage.        
      * He found that none of the money or fineries were missing.
      * He also found a mysterious letter.
    * Rev looked around the path and found signs that someone or something was dragged off to the north.
    * Ekhart thought that the boy that was mentioned in the letter could be the Boy Emperor, [[wiki:npcs:edwyn_falstani|Edwyn Falstani]].
    * Thinking they could make allies with the [[wiki:organizations:falstani_royal_family|Royal Family]] by saving him, the party headed up north off the path to see if they could rescue the boy and the Knight that was protecting him.

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