Session 7: Uun, the Shadow Elemental
Afternoon, 19th Summer Prime, 498 CE
- Ekhart, Revana, and Sang discussed the best way to make a distraction for Cid.
- They eventually decided on Ekhart casting a thunder spell that caused damage all through the camp.
- Before anyone could react, Cidmuir cast a spell from his tent that seemed to open up a gate to the Faerealm.
- Immediately, a giant shadow enveloped the camp and turned the Silent bandits turning them into shadow creatures.
- The party then began to fight several Shadow Mephits (the Silent bandits) and one Shadow Knight (the Silent leader).
- After a long grueling battle, the party finally defeated the shadow creatures.
- Ekhart woke up Cidmuir from his concentration, which caused the gate to close.
- For some reason, this caused Sanglant to shoot into the Faerealm.
- This also caused Revana to go unconscious.
- Sang realized he was in the Faerealm.
- He also realized he had never REALLY been to the Faerealm before, and had only been projecting his spirit into it, but now he was really there.
- He saw a lot of crazy things, including flowers that turned into butterflies, and a giant whale that swam through the sky.
- He also met Uun, the Shadow elemental.
- Uun explained that he was a Shadow elemental, which meant he was made of pure conflict. He only wanted to test other in battle and had no desire to fight Sang himself.
- The two talked briefly about the nature of the Faerealm, and Uun mentioned that Sang stunk of the Water fae he had met before, and noted that he had been marked by both her and now him.
- Revana woke up in a vision.
- She was in the knot of a giant tree, with a large crystal heart covered in vines.
- As she tried to touch the crystal heart, she felt something stirring awake.
- She turned around and looked out the exit of the knot, she was greeted by the eye of a giant creature the size of the horizon.
- The creature identified itself as Terra, Rev’s goddess.
- Rev asked what has been going on with the Sleeper, and Terra said that she has not been in contact with any Sleeper for hundreds of years.
- Terra explained that someone was trying to rip her apart, and this would kill her.
- Terra told Rev that she is not first in Laef’s heart, which is why Rev became her primary walker.
- She told Rev to look for the “Man Dressed in Flame”.
- Ekhart and Cidmuir were left to talk alone.
- Cid explained where he had been for the past few months.
- He had left the University to look for funding for his research to open a gate to the Faerealm, leaving because their mother did not approve of the idea.
- He met Laef in a city outside of Ortello, who explained that she was looking to stop someone who was trying to destroy the world.
- Cid infiltrated the Church, posing as a priest and faking his credentials.
- He got in contact with Cardinal Redrose, and learned of his plans to “close the Faerealm.” Cid began his research in earnest, pretending to be working for Cardinal Redrose.
- Cardinal Redrose grew impatient with Cid’s progress, so demanded another priest begin working on it.
- Cid gave Brother Waybrush some bad research notes, and two quartz crystals with what he thought were the most harmless spells; Continual Flame, and Enlarge/Reduce.
- After his research went nowhere, Cid gave Brother Waybrush some more crystals, a broken caster’s quartz that used to contain the Suggestion spell, but was useless now that it was broken (as far as Cid thought).
- Cid then found that there was a large amethyst deposit in the Shadowfen thicket so he took up residence in Ambermoor to finish his research.
- When Cardinal Redrose called him back to Ortello, Cid met with the Silent and convinced them to kidnap him, in exchange he would help them succeed at toppling the Ambermoorean government.
- As the Ambermoor guards drew close, Laef offered her service to give herself up to the guards to prevent them from finding the Silent camp.
- Ekhart then fed his healing potion to Laef, which caused her to wake up.
- Cidmuir cast a spell that summoned Sang back into the physical world.
- Four of them left the Silent camp and met back up with Bravick, and returned to Ambermoor.
Evening, 19th Summer Prime, 498 CE
- The party, along with Cid and Bravick, returned to Ambermoor.
- Cid and Rev left to get Laef out of prison, and Ekhart and Sang returned to the Windscene Tavern.
- Cid met with Lady Zara Adir, the Count Adir’s eldest daughter, and had Laef freed from prison.