Session Seventy-Three Summary (Graveyard of Empires: After the Fall)

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Session 73, December 1 2021

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Introduction

We continue at 12:00PM on the 29th of Laurilden (00.000.10.02 on the Apocalypse Clock) with the party having concluded their extended discussion with Azrael and Jardin about the nature of the threat to Meidia and what might be done to foil Asmodeus's dastardly plot. While Kauri and Oskar accompany the Dragon Emperor down into the archives to find records from the dragons' war against the Matriarchs and Alisceon Hayne retrieves some healing elixirs from the storerooms, the rest of the party follows Jardin to the dervish cells to settle into their temporary home. The plan is to leave in a few days to assault Hdrasta before heading off across the ocean to raid the Inquisitorial Library for information on Medial Dimensions ...

As agreed at the end of last session:

  • Kauri & Oskar and Velkin go with Azrael the Dragon Emperor to look at things.
  • Allician Haynes healing potions.
  • Jardin leads rest of party to Dervish cells to rest.


Contents of papers for Kauri:

i.) The Matriarchs are ancient heroes who sacrificed themselves to preserve the knowledge of their people. They are the guardians of knowledge, wisdom, courage, and good health.

ii.) The Matriarchs called their original acolytes to the Great Mountain before they cast off their mortal forms, teaching the earliest Daughters and Sons secret wisdom that was used to fight back the wilderness’s monsters and establish a realm of peace surrounding their holy mountain.

iii.) Eventually, though, the Matriarchs grow ancient and chose to sacrifice their living form to become eternal guardians. They were able to continue shepherding their acolytes, who consulted the Matriarchs’ wisdom in prophetic dreams and visions.

iv.) When the Dragons came from the Outer Darkness, the Matriarchs helped lead their living acolytes in war against those abominations. Despite their great wisdom and goodness, though, the Matriarchs and their children were almost undone by the unnatural power of the dragons.

v.) Some, like Oswitha’s children, fled the dragons; others, hid themselves on the holy mountain; most marched to their deaths in an attempt to destroy the Outsiders.

vi.) When it was over, the Dragons had triumphed. However, the Matriarchs were kept hidden and safe. They whispered in the dreams of their children, keeping alive the memory of freedom – both through the Dragon’s realm of terror and the Dwarven Empire that succeeded it.

vii.) Finally, when the Matriarchs’ great-great-grandchildren won their freedom from Outsiders, the Mothers called a new generation of acolytes to the Holy Mountain. There they lived lives of simplicity and hard work, guided by dreams and visions filled with the Matriarchs’ wisdom.

viii.) The ascetics of the Caverns of the Dead taught me and Azra about the Mothers. Neither of us attained the same degree of enlightenment they enjoyed, but we were improving. When the earthquake killed them, we tried to continue our meditations on our own, but it was hard.

Druul takes Brendil to his room and gathers up a bouquet and asks Ceres to breath ice on them, and Druul says, 5 gold for your lady? Brendil pays and delivers them.

She gives him a stony look as Brendil hands them over, but does not knock them out of his hand.

Brendil bows and she points at Brendil then points at the door. Then he hears a bunch of laughter and giggling.

Lungmold relays to Tyrial that any way shape or form to get the information on time travel from the dragons.

For Next Session:

  • Tell Azrael about Jax to work on the pylons and the snowflake thing.
  • Azrael did make a sketch of Hdrasta. Just general shape of main entrance.
  • Velkin will ask if there are any stashes of weapons that will affect the DVLs. Most Imperial weapons were DVL stuff.
  • The door One Horn can't open has three depressions the stone key around his neck looks like the stone on the bracer that Brendil now has. So we need one more.
  • Perhaps the Harpy lair or Myrientaxus' old lair?