May 13th, 2023
Forte, Frigus 22nd, 1193 (Continued)
We rupture the remaining 13 akata pods without incident. While camping, Sigmund magically reads the rest of Tolm’s journal while the rest of us work on the tunnel.
Tolm seems to have had an apprentice for his gardening exploits. Past the gardening entries, his writing gets more and more disjointed. While he was exploring some caves north of Ironwald Downs he found, what he called, a predictive calendar; this sounds like it might be the same place that the ancient heroes fought the Heralds. Tolm deciphered enough of it to conclude that it predicted the Silence in Heaven, an era in which the gods warred and ceased contact with the mortal realms. One prediction is that our current era would have massive vegetation growth and stunted magic.
Tolm writes about about the “True Gods” and how our gods may not be gods at all. He found the akata pods in a far off land and had them transported to the fortress via the underdark. He met people from the western marshes of Halbrook, whom gave him that staff. They worshiped the “Star God” and were working to gain it’s blessing. They claimed that the marsh came alive due to this Star God.
Tolm also investigated the dwarves that were here and followed them to the Gannet Mountains. There should be enough details of the location to find it as well.
Bellum, Frigus 23rd, 1193
We continue to work on the tunnel while Graynor and Sigmund attempt to convince Queen Mozdrog to let use seal up their tunnel to the underdark. They speak with Thauglorauthamiir and fail to negotiate it’s sealing. After sealing the basement tunnel, we leave for Ironwald Downs.
Terra, Frigus 28th, 1193
We arrive at Ironwald Downs and inform Nadal of our trip (GM: I don’t think you talked to Nadal about the calendar) to the predictive calendar and buy provisions.
Iustitia, Frigus 29th, 1193
We begin the long trip to the northern caves, which will take about 25 days by horse.
Bellum, Comitatus 7th, 1194
The flora around us becomes suddenly very vivid in color with an unusually deep hue. Sigmund recognizes it as spellgorging, where the plants will absorb magical effects as they are being cast. The affected area is about 2 miles, which is far larger than normal for spellgorging.
Mors, Comitatus 9th, 1194
We see a small leafy creature cross our path that looks like it’s running away from a larger version of itself. Later, we are charged by what looks like a lion made out of leaves and thorns. Sigmund thinks it’s a kind of living topiary, which are usually created like a construct, but can emerge naturally in areas of the fae.
Iustitia, Comitatus, 22nd, 1194
We come upon the ruins of a village, about a day away from the cave. Graynor says that the area kind of reminds him of the village in which his former group found the portal to a void realm. While searching the area, a band of Taers assault us– they’re pretty nasty, but we prevail. We find a nice-ish building to camp the night in.
Mors, Comitatus 23rd, 1194
We find a cave with an unreasonable amount of ice. While exploring we encounter 2 ogres.