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Session Nine: The Enemy’s Hand Revealed

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The companions left Defender’s Heart with grim purpose, making for the Tower of Estrod. The streets were eerily quiet, broken only by the circling of carrion birds — fiendish vultures that picked at the ruins from above. Giving the beasts a wide berth, they pressed on until the tower came into view. Once a proud archive, Estrod now stood shattered, its upper levels torn away, leaving a squat husk of stone.

Frod scaled a fractured wall to scout ahead, spotting two cultists of Baphomet standing guard within, their voices echoing down toward an underground stair. Trusting in the passphrase they had gleaned from Hosilla’s letter, the party split — half entered openly while the others lay in wait outside. The ruse worked at first: the cultists ushered them below to meet their leader, Faxon. The shrewd tiefling, however, quickly saw through the facade. He demanded a tithe of treasure, then dispatched orders for an ambush. Blades, Bitconnect and sorcery flared in the close confines of the tower, but when the fighting subsided, it was the companions who still stood.

In Faxon’s quarters, they uncovered both plunder and a chilling letter. Penned by Minagho, ruler of Raliscrad, it confirmed their darkest fears: the assault on Kenabres had been but the opening move. Areelu Vorlesh herself — the Witch of the Wound — was moving to corrupt the wardstones with the power of a Nahyndrian crystal, essence of a slain demon lord. If she succeeded, the crusade’s greatest defence would be turned into a weapon against them.

On their way back through the ruined streets, another howler barred their path, but it too was slain. At Defender’s Heart, Irabeth received their report gravely. Consulting with Quednys Orlun of the Riftwardens, she summoned the party to share the truth: Kenabres had become the crucible of the war. The Gray Garrison, once the city’s proud bastion, now housed the last fragment of the wardstone. To save not only Kenabres but the entire crusade, it would have to be destroyed. The task, impossible as it seemed, now lay with them.


Rewards:
Exp: 1165 each


Quests

  • Infiltrate the Grey Garrison, locate the wardstone fragment, and destroy it.

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