Children of Cyre - Campaign Journal

Season 1 - Those Left Behind

Episode 1 - The Murder of Efrain Candela

1st of Olarune, 998 YK (Late Winter)

• Elijah intervenes in a scuffle between the guards of New Cyre and a group of Goblinoids new to town. He isn't able to prevent violence from breaking out, but nobody is seriously injured, and the goblinoids are arrested under murder charges.
• The party chooses to investigate the murder, learning that the deceased is a explorer of the Mournland named Efrain Candela, and had apparently struck a bargain to lead those same goblinoids there, in search of an artifact from their dead empire
• Examining the murder scene, the party picks up some clues, including a part of a burnt journal with the words "...amulet.. is", and begins to suspect a stranger, recently arrived in town
• Canvassing the neighbourhood for information, the heroes are jumped by a group of thugs, led by Sol Monterossa, a notorious troublemaker.
• After thrashing the thugs, Beren questions Sol. Something about Beren seems to terrify the criminal, and he spills everything he knows about the man who hired him
• The characters immediately rent horses and set off North to Starilaskur, to catch the killer before he leaves on the next train to Cyre
• Boarding the train, the heroes confront the killer. After trading blows on the roof of the train, the assassin drinks a potion which he believe would help him escape. Instead, it leaves him dead.
• Investigating the body, the heroes find a strange amulet, as well as a note implicating a mysterious Lord of Secrets
• Bringing the body and the notes back to the New Cyre Guard, the goblinoids are freed from their charges
• The goblins are led by Pratea Thieg a dirge singer from Kech Volaar. After thanking the heroes for their assistance, she and her band depart New Cyre, and head for home

Episode 2 - The Ivybridge Horror

20th of Olarune, 998 YK (Late Winter)

• Kellah meets with Chief and Jerrah, who advise him on the distinctions between the goblinoid tribes, as well as how best to approach their life in New Cyre
• Cintia Siman, an elderly woman, comes to Elijah and asks him to investigate the disappearance of her nephew, Federico Siman, a former soldier
• Searching Federico's room, Elijah takes a rubbing from the desk that indicates Federico may have been approached by someone looking for a mercenary.
• The party travels south to Ivybridge, Federico's last known location. Along the way they rescue a nameless warforged who had been abandoned since before the war
• Arriving in Ivybridge, the PCs meet with the Mayor, Joachim Wojczek, and his family, and enjoy his hospitality
• After dinner, the PCs question the mayor's children. His son, Manfred, under pressure, threatens them, and says that Federico is dead.
• Exploring the town, the PCs are unable to turn up any clues until they meet with Father Morrus, a priest recently arrived in Ivybridge. He offers to setup a meeting with someone who could help
• The PCs meet with Tars Thorn, a mysterious figure, who offers to share what he knows of the town, in exchange for the party's assistance in rescuing his companions.
• The PCs journey further south to attempt to rescue Tars companions from a tribe of kobolds. The party engages the kobolds, and Kellah is killed, while Glint and Elijah are captured. Beren returns to Ivybridge to get help
• Glint and Elijah free themselves and Tars' companions, kill the remainin kobolds, and return to Ivybridge
• Tars tells the PCs that he and his men are members of an organization called the Swords of Liberty, and organization dedicated to overthrowing the monarchy and instituting a true democracy in Breland
• Federico was coming to Ivybridge to meet with Tars, and possibly to join his organization
• Tars also tells the characters that he has observed the villagers sneaking into the mayor's cellar late at night
• Beren charms and kidnaps Manfred, who, under questioning, reveals that the whole village belongs to a cult which worships a being called The Father, who lives beneath the mayor's house
• Furthermore, it seems that Federico had assaulted Manfred's sister, Irena, and that Manfred had killed him, and fed him to The Father to cover up his crime
• Sneaking into the mayor's cellar, the heroes find the villagers have been worshipping a terrible abomination, and destroy it
• Afterwards the Mayor confronts them for what they've done. Angry and saddened, the Mayor asks the PCs to leave, and never return to Ivybridge
• Upon return to New Cyre, Elijah meets with Cintia, but is unable to tell her the truth about the kind of man her nephew was, and instead tells her that he died fighting the kobolds.

Episode 3 - Slave Traders of Darguun, Part 1

27th of Therendor, 998 YK (Early Spring)

• Beren is approached by Videl Terrazas, a Cyran nobleman, who hires him to find his sister Francisca, and her son Bernardo.
• Asking around the villages north of New Cyre, Beren learns that Francisca had been seen travelling south towards New Cyre
• Beren also learns that a pair of men had been asking about missing people a few weeks earlier.
• The party travels back to New Cyre to question the men, who had come from the refugee camp
• While there, the party met with Prince Oagrev ir'Wynarn, who was attending to his people in the refugeee camp.
• The Prince took the time to thanks the party for the good work they were doing on behalf of Cyre
• Questioning the men, the players learned that a number of people had gone missing from the refugee camp over the past month or so
• Following some tips from the refugees, the party confronted a corrupt guard who had been working with the kidnappers. Kidnappers who turned out to be slavers, working from the North Wood
• The party travelled to the North Wood, and met with a group of druids who resided there, in the community of Seven Oaks. They learned that the druids prepared a magical draught from goodberries, and also that the slavers were likely hiding out in an ancient tower to the north, a remnant from the Age of Demons
• The PCs raided the tower, destroyed the slavers, and captured their leader, Belkas Mognof, a dwarf. They found a number of slaves being held in the basement of the tower, but learned from Belkas that Bernardo had already been sold to a hobgoblin named Reslit several days earlier
• Further questions revealed that Rekslit worked for the Warlord Kallad, who operated out of Rhukaan Draal, the capital city of Darguun

Episode 4 - Slave Traders of Darguun, Part 2

4th of Eyre, 998 YK (Mid Spring)

• The PCs spend a night recovering in Seven Oaks, before setting off for New Cyre, with Belkas in tow
• Nameless recovers a portion of his memory, recalling that he fought for Breland during the war. He also remembers working with his hands, and building things, and takes a new name, Mason.
• When they arrive in New Cyre, they turn Belkas over to Captain Reyes and re-unite Francisca with her brother
• Jimmy the Fence, while doing some business with Elijag, tells him that the gold ring they recovered from Belkas indicates that he's a member of the Aurum, a shadowy alliance of the some wealthiest citizens in Khorvaire
• The heroes, intent on rescuing Bernardo, journey south through Sterngate, and cross over into Darguun
• Reaching Rhukaan Draal, the characters being their search for Bernardo. It's not long before they come to the attention of Thallad, a servant of the Lhesh Haruuc
• Thallad leads the party through a back door into Khaar Mbar'ost (the Red House), Darguun's royal palace.
• There, they allies meet with the Lhesh Haruuc, who makes them a deal. He will arrange a fight in the arena between the PCs and one of Kallad's pets. Should they prove victorious, all of the recently taken Cyran slaves will be turned over to them.
• The Lhesh Haruuc also gives them a message to give to Prince Oagrev... "We have business to discuss", and says that he may have work for them in the future.
• The PCs are victorious in a vicious battle against a Manticore.
• The Lhesh Harucc is as good as his word, and hands over custody of the slaves.
• The PCs return to New Cyre, but shortly after crossing the border into Breland, they are overtaken by a group of Hobgoblins, led by Rekslit, who are determined to kill them and re-capture the slaves.
• Once again, the heroes turn out on top, and recover a magic sword from Rekslit, a weapon blessed by the Silver Flame.
• Finally returning to New Cyre, the character's are celebrated as heroes by the citizens of the town.

Episode 5 - A Requiem For Cyre

5th of Dravago, 998 YK (Late Spring)

• Prince Oagrev requests the party's assistance. There has been a series of murders of Sharn of Cyran, and the refugees living there are living in fear for their lives
• Arriving in Sharn, the party visits Lord Jairan ir'Dain, the Cyran ambassador. He tells them about the murders
• Leaving the embassy, a large group of people are seen going towards the civic district. The party follows, and sees a public demonstration against the monarchy, by a group of people in favour of democracy
• The party heads to the Highwalls district to speak with the guards who are investigating the murders. They are thoroughly unhelpful
• The heroes learn little from examining the body of the latest victim, although the latest victim had some damage done to their throat, and combined with questioning the coroner, they learn enough to believe that the murders are the work of a serial killer
• Examining the scene of the most recent murder,they learn that there may have been a clue stashed in a dumpster in the alley which had been cleared in the morning
• The party tracks down the local trash collector, finds out where he dumps the garbage he collects, and then makes friends with a goblin who picks through the trash for a living (Rogar). They purchase his most recent finds, and acquire rope that was likely used to bind the victim
• Questioning the contacts of the victims, the party learns that all three had some connection to music and song. One had been a voice teacher, another claimed to have been a famouse opera singer, and the third was known to practice dwarven yodelling as a hobby
• From the voice teacher's relatives, they learned of a very promising young Cyran singer in town, and Beren and Elijah decided to scope out her next performance
• At the performance, they spot a warforged with a damaged voice modulator, who matched the description which Mason and Glint had acquired earlier from a bar in a seedy part of town. When they tried to question him, he fled.
• In pursuit, Elijah was hot on his heels, while Beren fell behind. Turning to confront Elijah, the warforged battered him badly before Beren arrived via sky coach and managed to chase him off
• The party got back together, and followed the warforged's trail into the district of Fallen, where they were assaulted by a group of deranged humans called ravers
• Continuing to follow the trail, the party confronts the Warforged serial killer in a abandoned temple of Olladra.
• Defeating the warforged, the party returns to New Cyre and is rewarded for their work by Price Oagrev.

Episode 6 - Not All Those Who Wander, Part 1

28th of Dravago, 998 YK (Late Spring)

• Beren is approached by Seeker, Merrix d'Cannith's right hand man, a warforged wizard.
• Seeker charges Beren with a mission: to recover and destroy House Cannith secrets, stolen by House Phiarlan before the end of the war
• They believe the information was being held in a House Phiarlan school, North of Kalazart, in what was once Cyre
• Mason, Elijah, and Glint agree to accompany Beren and Seeker into the Mournland
• After some trials, the party navigates through the dead grey mist, and travels on to Kalazart.
• While travelling, they are confronted repeated by the dangers and mysteries of the Mournland.
• Beren takes a locket from a mysterious house, occupied by a young woman and a dead child. Inside, he finds a picture of a man who looks just like him, along with the woman and their child.
• When leaving the house, a mysterious voice says to Beren "THAT LOCKET WILL BE THE DEATH OF YOU".
• In Kalazart, they locate the Entertainer's Guild, from which they recover directions to the school
• However, they disturb the ghouls that now rule over the dead city of Kalazart, and are forced to run for their lives. Luckily, a mysterious force seems to confine the ghouls to the city.

Episode 7 - Not All Those Who Wander, Part 2

10th of Nym, 998 YK (Early Summer)

• The party leaves Kalazart behind, and heads North to the school
• Arriving at the "Kalazart Academy of Music and Theatre", they begin searching the grounds
• An encounter with a banshee in one of the dormitories leaves the party in rough shape.
• They observe some horrendously mutated lions roaming the grounds, but avoid fighting them
• A note is found in the Dean's living space "Dean Volkoff, due to last week's incursion, we are changing the passcode to open the entrance to The Heart. The new code is the last two lines of 'Gallifar's Jewel'. Kindly destroy this note once you've read it"
• Searching the school itself, the party fends off a swarm of animated books in the library, and finds the music to the song "Gallifar's Jewel", but not the words
• A group of warforged is observed entering the school grounds, although the party is unnoticed. Seeker recognizes their leader as Glaive, one of the Lord of Blade's lieutenants.
• Further examination of the school turns up the words to the song as well
• Playing the music and singing the song in front of the statue Daeron Aeralithe, founder of House Phiarlan, opens up a secret portion of the school, guarded by a Helmed Horror
• Defeating the horror, the part begins to explore the lower level of the school. They find a room full of scrying devices, keyed to the Mark of Shadow
• Another room contains still-functioning communication devices. Mason accidentally activates one of them, and tells the agents on the other side that they are scavengers. The building begins shaking, as though someone had activated a self-destruct mechanism
• Moving quickly, the party finds a records room, and recovers a folder of information about Cyre, and about House Cannith. They immediately hand the documents about House Cannith over the Seeker, and then escape through a back entrace, shortly before the complex collapses on itself
• After putting some distance between themselves and the school, the part examines the documents about Cyre, and learn:
  • The in the last days of the war, Cyre was in very poor shape. If things had continued the way they were going, Cyre would have ceased to have been a nation within the next five years
  • That House Cannith was running some kind of secret project in Whitehearth, under the leadership of Merrix d'Cannith
  • That House Vadalis also had a secret project in their facilities North of Metrol
  • That Rakshasha had been seen operating in and around Cyre prior to the end of the war, although their goals were unknown
• The party quickly departs the Mournland and heads back to New Cyre. Seeker leaves the party almost immediately after crossing the boarder, thanks them for their assistance, pays them, and heads back to Sharn after destroying the documents
• Returning to New Cyre, Beren begins work on a shrine to Cyre within his home, using the artifacts he had recovered from the Mournland
• Glint presents Prince Oargev with a Cyran Guitar he had recovered from the school, while Elijah presents him with the information he had recovered.

Episode 8 - The Battle of New Cyre

16th of Lharvion, 998 YK (Mid Summer)

• A messenger shows up at Elijah's door one day, with instructions for Elijah and his friends to come to an abandoned farmhouse on the outskirts of New Cyre
• There, the party meets with Tars Thorn (ref. Episode 2)
• Tars informs the party that the Swords of Liberty have become divided. One faction, led by him, wants to seethe Swords take a more peaceful route to bringing democracy to Breland. The other, led by the Red Owl, seeks to bring democracy to the continent by the sword
• The Red Owl is planning an attack on New Cyre, in order to stir up tensions between the nations. The King's Swords are on their way as well, to confront them. Tars wants to help
• Returning to town, they find the knights of the King's Swords are already there. They are summoned to Prince Oargev's home, where they meet with the Prince and Captain Ellanar.
• The Swords have travelled ahead of a battalion of foot soldiers, and are starting to fortify New Cyre. Captain Ellanar requests the PCs travel to Rumford to recover a spy they had sent there who has information about the attack
• Reaching Rumford, the party finds the town has been attack, and razed. They encounter some looters, and capture one of them to interrogate.
• They learn that the attack to set to occur that very night. Elijah returns to New Cyre right away to warn them, while the rest of the party stays behind to try and rescue some survivors, including the spy, Marril
• After warning New Cyre, Elijah heads off to the Red Owl's camp, to confirm the details about the attack, and perhaps slow them down. With the aid of some animal friends, he does exactly that.
• The party returns to New Cyre, and draws up plans for the battle.
• That night, as planned, the enemy attacks, but New Cyre is ready for them. Tar's Swords of Liberty are there as well, mixed in with the Cyran forces. Combined with the strength of the Knights, as well as the warriors of Kellah's tribe, they are able to defeat the Red Owl's faction, but despite a confrontation in the middle of the battle, the Red Owl herself escapes.
• The party follows the Red Owl to a nearby cave, where she reveals her true form: that of the Rakshasa Zakya, "Bastinu", who was planning all along to use the Swords to through Breland and the whole continent into chaos, in service to her master.
• The party slays Batinu and returns to New Cyre. The battle has been won, but there were losses, Guard Captain Reyes was slain in the fighting.
• The party among other things, sets to work building a statue in the town square, a memorial to those lost in the Battle of New Cyre

Season 2 - Reforged

Episode 1 - The Hunt for Allies, Part 1

2nd of Sypheros, 998 YK (Mid Fall)

• Prince Oargev meets with Elijah and requests his assistance.
• He is trying to establish a base from which to mount expeditions into the Mournland on the Eastern border, since it is significantly close to Metrol
• He is negotiating with Lathon Halpum, the Leader of the Bladetooth Tribe in Talenta Plains for permission to use their land. He needs to travel their to finalize the deal, and would like for Elijah and his friends to accompany him
• Elijah comes to a deal with Crispin, his House Sivis contact, who hooks him up with forged travel papers for the Prince, so that they can travel incognito.
• The party begins the long journey to the Talenta Plains - they ride north to Starilaksur, and from there they take the Lightning Rail North to the city of Flamekeep
• In Flamekeep, most of the party takes a tour of the Cathedral of the Silver Flame, while Glint asks some questions at the House Vadalis guildhall
• They charter an Elemental Galleon, and cross over Scions Sound, turning away an attack by Wyverns
• Arriving in Korth, the party once agains takes the Lightning Rail, and heads South, to Gatherhold.
• Finally arriving in Gatherhold, the party sets out to the North, to meet with the Bladetooth Tribe

Episode 2 - The Hunt for Allies, Part 2

10th of Sypheros, 998 YK (Mid Fall)

• While travelling to meet with the Bladetooth Tribe, the party narrowly avoids being trampled by a stampede of dinosaurs
• Arriving at the tribe's location, the party meets with Lathon Halpum, and while he negotiates with Prince Oargev, the Lathon's youngest son, Toebo, shows them around the camp.
• The Prince informs the party that he has arrived an agreement with the Lathon: the halflings will grant them the land he needs, if he can recover one of their holy sites from the monsters that have infested it
• At the prince's request, the party journeys South, guided by Toebo, to the holy site
• The holy site turns out to be a dinosaur graveyard at the base of a canyon. Down below, a temple has been built to Balinor
• As the party approaches the temple, Beren begins to hear a voice in his head, warning him away
• Inside the temple, the heroes are attacked by a horde of abberations. Deeper inside, they confront a mind flayer who had emerged from a crack in the earth, which appeared to lead down into Khyber
• Upon slaying the mind flayer, Glint permitted Cinder to feed upon the aberrations. After consuming the mind flayer, Cinder spoke, asking for "More".

Episode 3 - Murder on the Korth Express

18th of Sypheros, 998 YK (Mid Fall)

• The party returns to the camp of the Bladetooth Tribe, where they are celebrated as heroes for having cleansed the temple
• Glint discusses Cinder with some of the tribe elders, to see if they've ever seen anything similar come out of the Mournland
• He learns that there was another create like Cinder... it eventually became a horrible monster, and had to be killed
• The following morning, the Prince, Tower, and the PCs begin the long journey back to New Cyre
• While on the train from Atur to Korth, in Karrnath, the Prince gets into a fight on the dining car, when a group of Karrnathi soliders are overheard talking shit about Cyre
• During the fight, Elijah steals a bag fromt he Karrnathi Sergeant. Inside is a bejewelled skull. When the conductor arrives and breaks up the fight, the Prince asks Elijah to return the artifact.
• A few hours later, the sergeant is found murdered in his cabin, and the skull stolen. The conductor confines the Prince to his quarters, while the rest of the party investigates
• The party learns that the Paladin on board is on the trail of the vampire, who may be hiding among the other passengers.
• After examining the rooms and interrogating the passengers, the party learns that the Karrnathi Sergeant is the who murdered his commander. He was a member of the Order of the Emerald Claw, who killed him in order to advance his own position within the army, and to steal the artifact for his masters.
• The party finally finds their way home to New Cyre, and take a well-deserved rest.

Episode 4 - At What Price Liberty

1st of Aryth, 998 YK (Late Fall)

• A warforged named Gear appears in New Cyre and asks for assistance from Mason and Glint
• Gear was an indentured servant, who had recently fled an estate in Thrane, where his friends, inspired by servants of the Lord of Blades, plotted murder in order to free themselves
• The party ventured into Thrane to investigate the situation
• Upon arriving at the estate, the party immediately informed Lord Entarro of the Warforged plan, and convinces him to stay at the estate while they investigate
• The party begins questioning the warforged servants, and learns a little about the plan and the Blades
• The party heads into the Harrowcrowns, and spends a couple days there, looking for signs of the Blades
• Upon returning to The Estate, the party learns that Lord Entarro and his staff have fled, abandoning the compound to the Warforged
• After careful negotiation with their leader, Bastion, the party convinces them not to join the Lord of Blades, but instead to seek refuge in New Cyre
• Elijah searches the house, and steals the warforged's contracts
• Waiting until that night, the party confronts and kills the envoys of the Lord of Blades
• Locating Lord Entarro in the nearby town, Beren tells him that the Warforged had already left the estate for the Mournland
• Returning to New Cyre, the party learns that similar uprisings had occurred all throughout Southern Thrane, leaving the entire nation in shock

Episode 5 - The Trial of the Crown

9th of Vult, 998 YK (Early Winter)

• Pratea Thieg, a Dhaakani Dirge Singer, and a friend of the party (see S1E1), arrives in New Cyre, near death
• She has uncovered the resting place of Arkantaash, the Ashen Crown, an ancient symbol of goblin royalty, and asks the party to recover it for her
• The vault in which it is sealed opens for but four hours each year.
• Leaving Pratea in the care of House Jorasco healers, the party travels southwest, using Pratea's journal as a guide
• Arriving at the vault, the party endures many trials and challenges, but in the end, overcomes, and acquires Karruk's Circlet, one of the components of the crown
• Returning to New Cyre, the party learns that Pratea passed in their absence.

Episode 6 - The Crown of Two Nations, Part One

12th of Vult, 998 YK (Early Winter)

• The party decides to speak with Prince Oargev about their recovery of the Ashen Crown
• The prince believes that he can use the crown to negotiate the release of the Cyran slaves who are living in Darguun - their presence is a liability for the Lhesh Haruuc, and he desires the crown greatly
• The party and the prince decide that the best thing to do is to recover the remaining parts of the crown, before they open negotiations. He believes that two pieces of the crown can be found within Morgave University's Hall of Relics
• After travelling by lightning rail to Sharn, the party meets with the Cyran amabassador, Lord Jairan ir'Dain. Lord Jairan puts them in touch with a diviner, Rygar Parntast, who may be able to help them find the remaining pieces, as well as Daen Rhuli, a member of Morgrave's department of acquisitions
• After offering up a great deal of information about the vault where they found the crown, as well as a great deal of ancient goblin coin, and several dhaakani artifacts, the party arrives at a dealw ith Daen Rhuli. It will take a month for them to finish appraising the items, but then they will be exchanged for Ashurta's Blade and Murkoorak's Orb, the two relics held by Morgrave University
• The diviner Rygar Parntast is able to trace the magic of the crown, and the party learns that one piece is held by the Lhesh Haruuc already, and the final piece can be found within a village of lizardfolk, within the Khraal rainforest, deep in Darguun
• Chartering a House Lyrander airship, the party flies to the Khrall rainforest, and drops into the lizardfolk town. The pass through the town without leaving a trace, and make their way to a temple towering nearby
• Inside the temple, the party finds a young black dragon, Parinath, who is guarding some kind of seal, of which the final relic, Lurtaan's Cord, is a part
• After some tense negotiations, the party convinces Parniath to allow them to attempt to place a pair of their own magic items into the seal so that they may take the cord.
• Beren is successful in doing this, but he casts his mind into the seal, and it is temporarily broken by what he finds there
• The party returns to Sharn, and then two weeks later, returns to New Cyre, having locked the pieces of the crown within a House Kundarak vault

Episode 7 - The Crown of Two Nations, Part Two

19th of Zarantyr, 999 YK (Mid Winter)

• While waiting in Sharn, Glint invests some gold in the business of his goblin friend (garbage-picking)
• Prince Oargev begins negotiations with the Lhesh Haruuc
• Shortly after returning to New Cyre, Elijah is approached by a mysterious woman. Believing her to be a spy, he tries to lie to her, but she sees through his flimsy lies, and divines the truth
• Later, Elijah follows her from the inn to the House Sivis enclave, where she disappears. Crispin refuses to give any information on the matter to Elijah
• Beren has a letter written up, sealed by House Sivis, and sent to Fort Zombie, trying to throw their followers off their trail
• Warforged show up in New Cyre, likely servants of the Lord of Blade
• Members of the Khesh Volaar also appear in New Cyre, seeking to learn what has happened to Pratea
• The party retreats to the farm, and from there, ambushes the warforged. TO their surprise, it turns out that their leader is a Rakshasa Zakya
• The negotiations with the Lhesh Haruuc bore fruit: in exchange for the crown, he agrees to release all the Cyran slaves, and to grant them the land in Northern Darguun.
• The party travels to the Breland-Darguun border, and gives the crown to the Lhesh Haruuc. Finding him agreeable, they travel to Rhukaan Draal for the coronation
• However, during the coronation, the Lhesh Haruuc's heir strikes him down, and the party rushes to the stage to intervene
• Killing the heir, the party is relieved to learn that the Lhesh Haruuc is still alive. He swears that his people will be loyal friends to Cyre, and thanks them for saving his life

Episode 8 - A New Home, Part One

5th of Olarune, 999 YK (Late Winter)

• The party travels east from New Cyre, into the new lands of Northern Darguun which has been granted to them
• Claiming the territory surrounding a bridge crossing a major river in the region, the party slays a pair of trolls living under said bridge
• They decide to call the new land Cyre, and it's capital is New Metrol
• Exploring the surrounding area, they learn of a goblin tribe living near New Metrol which refused to abandon their homes at the command of the Lhesh Haruuc. The party decides to make friends with them, for now, and doesn't force the issue of them becoming a part of Cyre

Episode 9 - A New Home, Part Two

1st of Therendor, 999 YK (Early Spring)

• The party spends a couple of months exploring the area around New Metrol, and civilizing portions of it, building up the city, and setting up farms in the surrounding lands
• They travel to Fort Gorgonhorn, and explore the path between it and New Cyre. The fort is abandoned, save for a pair of goblins who are guarding the place to hand over to the representatives of Cyre
• The guards warn of monstrosities coming out of the Mournland, and of a small nation of Fire Giants living in the mountains North of New Metrol
• Clearing some of the area, the party slays a group of Otyughs, and a family of Owlbears
• They take the Owlbear eggs home, and hire a member of the Handler's Guild to watch over them, and train them when they hatch
• The PCs also see a Huge Black Dragon fly overhead at one point, flying to the East. They notice that it does not appear healthy: its wings are tattered, and its ribs are visible

Episode 10 - Hearts & Minds

1st of Dravago, 999 YK (Late Spring)

• Taris comes to the Councillor Glint, and asks for permission to build a shrine to the Silver Flame in New Metrol. Glint permits it.
• A Brelish ambassador comes to New Metrol, to express Breland's displeasure over how the Ashen Crown was handled.
• Magister Gear asks for guidance on how the kingdom's technology should develop, and focuses on civil improvements.
• Seeker arrives one day at Beren's door, carrying a letter from Merrix d'Cannith. In it, Merrix orders Beren to start spying on the government of Cyre, and to assist Seeker in capturing an escaped warforged, by the name of Shard.
• The party hunts around New Metrol for leads, and, after nearly being tricked by him, captures a minion of the Lord of Blades named Satchel
• Seekers uses a strange scarab device to seemingly dominate Satchel, after which, Satchel tells them everything he knows about where Shard went
• The party chases after Shard, and surprises him and his companions outside the border of the Mournland. They are all captured and subdued by Seeker using scarabs
• Before Seeker departs, the party notices that he also appears to bear one of the mysterious scarabs on his back

Episode 11 - The Will of Kings, Part One

• The goblin village from Eastern Cyre has been wiped out, and the goblins fled to New Metrol, looking for safety
• A terrible hydra had come out of the Mournland, and destroyed their homes
• The party fought and killed the Hydra, but Cinder was killed
• Glint spent some time communing with nature, and Cinder reconstituted itself with the body of a Giant Wolf Spider
• The goblins were re-settled in the abandoned village south of Mournguard.
• The Prince is summoned to Wroat, to meet with King Boranel and discuss the future of Cywould like re
• The party travels with him, and brings with them a contingent of warforged guards
• Arriving in Wroat, Ruken ir'Clarn invites the characters to meet with him ahead of the meeting with the King, but they reject his offers of assistance
• Meeting with the party, Mason is surprised to learn that the King knows him as Adamant, and wishes to discuss some things with him
• The King wants to reclaim New Cyre, and make Cyre (the nation), a protectorate of Brel and
• After negotiation for a while, the party considers a temporary claim for five years, with the option to renew, or to become an ally thereafter. In exchange, Breland will have mining rights to Western Cyre, re-claim New Cyre, and Oargev will take one of the King's daughters as a wife.
• The party ends the meeting, and discusses their options.