Session 26: The Traveler
Evening, 13th High Summer, 498 CE
- Cid explained quickly gave a run down of what happened in Tol'Enay.
- Cid explains that he arrived a few weeks ago along with Laef.
- Laef went to go and see if she could find the entrance to Dwarfheim.
- Cid trained with Langston, learning more about Ki.
- A dwarf known as the Traveler arrived in Tol'Delaar.
- The Traveler had some a crystal called aetherite that let him controls those around him.
- The Traveler and the monks of Tol'Delaar invaded Tol'Enay.
- Langston was tricked into touching the stone, and then helped subdue Cid who was also touched.
- Anyone who was touched by the stone became permanently under the Traveler's control.
- The Traveler only appeared to be able to directly control 2 people at a time, so Cid and Langston were simply waiting.
- Ekhart, Revana, Sanglant, and Remy decided to go and stop the Traveler and free the people of Tol'Enay.
- Sneaking to the top floor, the party got the jump on the Traveler.
- After a dangerous encounter, they managed to kill the Traveler and subdue his Tol'Delaari guards.
- The party secured the aetherite, freeing the hold it had on everyone.
- Sanglant and Revana left to the brewery to free the captured Tol'Enayan monks.
- Ekhart and Cid went to investigate the aetherite in closer detail.
- Together, they discovered that the aetherite appeared to be hardened, physical magical energy.
- Cid theorized that it may have been made from a mithril alloy.
- While they were working, Ekhart told Cid the nature of his birth.
- Cid, all things considered, took it very well.
- Not liking that his desire to go to the Faerealm was some sort of per-ordained machination, Cid rejected his life's dream of going to the Faerelam.
- Cid suggested that Ekhart use the aetherite to seal the Void, rather than himself.
- Ekhart could cast the spell that Cid was working on, and Cid wouldn't unintentionally get close to the Faerealm.
- When Revana and Sanglant returned, Sang and Langston left to work through Sang's blockage.
- Sang explained that the Faerealm appeared to be blocked.
- Langston told Sang the story of Tol'Enay's founder; Lenna.
- Lenna was the daughter of a brewer, in a small nowhere village.
- When Lenna was still young, her father was killed and her mother was taken captive, never to be seen again.
- Lenna vowed to make sure what happened to her would never happen to anyone again.
- She traveled the world, in hopes of becoming stronger.
- Lenna found herself in a forest of elves, where she saved them from an evil spirit; thereby learning that she can make the world better by changing it.
- Later, Lenna came upon a city made of gold, where she learned to lie in order to make the world better.
- Langston's point being that there are always two options:
- Change your world, or
- Change yourself.
- Sanglant, guided by Langston, again tried to enter the Faerealm.
- This time, when Sang reached the wall, Langston told him: change your world or change yourself.
- Sang opted to change himself, turning himself into water so that could fit through the stone.
- Sang learned how to modify his spirit in the Faerealm!
- For this achievement, Langston gave Sang the Wraps of the Master.