October 19th, 2025
Forte, Itinerantur 6th, 1194 (Continued)
Ralzer breaches the portal first. On the other side the gravity is not as strong and there is a huge iron black figure walking towards us. Once it gets closer, Ralzer can tell that it’s a construct of some kind.
It says that the lattice has been activated and asks who awakened the stone choir, while looking at Ralzer. He hasn’t had any visitors in several hundred thousand years. Ralzer identifies himself as Scion A-117 and it seems focused entirely on Ralzer.
We learn that this is the Node Core, the 8th Harmonic Node Core prototype, and it is to align frequencies along leylines. It’s been slowly degrading over the last 34 thousand years; output is at .07% and needs repair. We ask for guidance on how to fix it, and it beckons us to follow.
It points out some pylons nearby, flickering lights in the distance. Ralzer inspects them and briefly splits again, like when we first activated the gate. The custodian says a harmonic key is required and that it no longer exists.
There is a knowledge depository called the Mnemarch Archive, but it’s location is not known. Upon mention of Kaajh’Kaalbh, he recognizes the name and that it’s last known location was imprisonment within a null-dimensional construct, with a low probability of containment.
Ty asks what the Architects look like, and is told that they are humanoid, but larger than any of us. The custodian’s existence being over 100,000 years may confirm the rumors about the Architects being the creators of life.
He is familiar with harmonic lattices and describes them as being long range communication devices, and then shows us a map of the leylines across Moravia. Many of the nodes match up with areas of intrigue that we have been to.
Ralzer channels mythic energy into the pylons and repairs some of it. The custodian says that further repair may lead to system collapse. When this node was first brought online, there was a fracture in alignment and it killed the two Architects assigned here. No one has been here since.
When we leave, the portal does not take us to where we were; it looks like a volcanic region. We enter a building and there are forms of large fiery gorgons that occasionally race down a bridge as we approach. One of them turns Ty to stone.
The bridge leads to a room with a fire giant and a large forge. He seems slightly annoyed that some mortals have disturbed his work, but is otherwise not aggressive. Sigmund takes this opportunity to fix Ty.
Apparently, the fire giant occasionally gets commissions from higher beings for weapons. This place is called the Crucible of Echoes and he is Thordun. Ty asks if he can make mindstone daggers, and Thordun says that he would not make such a thing. For the Architects, he made the Axes of Genesis, which are tools to carve worlds. They can split open a plane and change it. He made this for the original Architects, but hasn’t seen one for about ten thousand years.
Ishtar asks if Thordun knows of Fire Lord Khorzath. He remembers him as being powerful and enjoying his power. The elemental lords banded together to take him down, some say with Namas’s help.
To make a weapon to kill a god, he would need the breath of a dying star and a willing, knowing sacrifice.
We plane shift back, then word of recall to Silverdale, then wind walk to Ironwald Downs.
Bellum, Itinerantur 7th, 1194
Overnight commune results:
1) Are there any of the original architects still alive? — Unclear.
2) Were the architects the original race that discovered Kaajh’Kaalbh? — No.
3) Did the architects seal away Kaajh’Kaalbh because they could not destroy him? — Unclear.
4) Did the architects create the prison that Kaajh’Kaalbh was put in? — Unclear.
5) Is the individual who created the monoliths also an Architect? — Yes.
6) Is the void realm that Greynor keeps going on about the same place that Kaajh’Kaalbh was imprisoned? — No.
7) If not, does this realm have any current connection to Kaajh’Kaalbh? — Unclear.
8) Is Kaajh’Kaalbh still contained? — No.
9) Are the Nodes part of the sealing that keeps Kaajh’Kaalbh contained? — No.
10) Is our world, Moravia, the containment vessel for Kaajh’Kaalbh? — No.
11) Are the Forsaken a split faction from the original architects? — Yes.
12) … a split faction from those who would come to call themselves the Architects? — No.
13) Is Ralzer a clone of an original Architect? — Yes.
We will head to the ruins that Greynor visited long ago where he found the void realm, they are not far out of town.