Talsil 28th
the deep path to demise
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Experience: 3100 xp each (71,606 total; LEVEL UP 16!)
Ambush Battle, 6300
A Reasonable, Young Vampire (Maarth negotiation), 600
Gregtchen Battle, 1200
RP Bonus, 1200
Coin: 17pp, gp, sp, cp and 1 emerald (1000gp)
Magic: +3 holy symbol of Tenebrous, +4 Pact Hammer
Loot: drow priestess's severed head (Izzy)
New NPCs
Drow Priestess of Tenebrous (unnamed, dead): Resident priestess of Tenebrous in the fallen library, a drow who adamantly believed in his divinity and possessed an array of killing powers which she attributed to him. She was taken as a prisoner for a time, but after all Isabella's promises and anticipation of her torture and execution, Diana saw it merciful to kill her during a battle under the guise of accidental.
Gregtchen (dead): A slimy, green hag lurking in the mineral pools beneath the fallen library. She took great joy in terrifying Isabella and nearly drowned Renato.
Demise: One of the most skilled assassins in the entire Ordo, considered the very best drow killer, and their defacto leader. Many suspect she is a Lord of the Night, a member of The Shadow Cabinet, though it's yet to be confirmed. She's dressed in painful and revealing bondage, leathers, piercings, six-inch-heels, with flowing, red hair and unusually black eyes. She offered Renato a chance to give up his revenge and join them, then sicked Zulthanza on the party while she attended to more pressing matters with the envoy of spiders.
Envoy of Spiders: Once a lovely dark elf with chunks missing from her jaw and shoulder, bite marks its seems, wrapped in gossamer web. She represents a 'new player' in the Ordo's transformation from neutral order to dark religion.
Tenebrous (implied): Taras, the last surviving shadow dragon. At the end of The Demon War, he was aged from a wyrmling to an ancient wyrm in the fabled 'Pyramid of Time' by Shalraza herself. He had been the familiar of the dragon sorcerer Nailo, a late ally of the Saviors, but turned on them for his and his god Kultuss' greater glory. He was defeated and sent fleeing back into the shadows by King Matthias, who always felt the fight unfinished. There were frost giant parties that hunted for the shadow wyrm, and a great reward set for information on his whereabouts, but Taras was not found- or heard from- until nearly two years ago when his brood Zulthanza and Marzonn were discovered aiding the since-defunct Hand of Doom. It seems he has entered some agreement with the Ordo Templi Nox, posing as their dark god in their evolution from neutral assassins to dark religion.
Returning NPCs
Zulthanza: A matured purple dragon, daughter of Tenebrous, aiding the Ordo's religion which worships her father. She was last seen by Isabella in The Screaming Caves, still little more than a wyrmling. Somehow Zulthanza has aged hundreds of years to maturity in only a year and some months.
New Hooks
Spiders Envoy: Who or what does this envoy of spiders represent? In what capacity is this 'new player' as Demise put it involved with the transmogrification of the Ordo into a dark religion?
Developing Hooks
The Dark Religion (was Lost Souls): The outer god of the Ordo, Tenebrous, has been revealed as the shadow wyrm Taras, one of the most powerful ancient dragons left in Creation. In collaboration with The Shadow Cabinet, Taras has begun garnering souls and worship, empowering the assassin order with devoted followers and expanded influence across the worlds. As Demise explained, where once the Ordo was limited to fear and contracts by kings, high priests and planar lords, they now command a death cult of myriad dark followers. It is their intention to use this burgeoning religion to eventually achieve dominion over all.
Next Session
89b: The Dark Three face their most difficult foe yet, the sleek, shadowy deep dragon Zulthanza, over fifty feet long and fifteen feet tall, armored in dusky, purple scales, warded by serpentine tail, promising the sting of a thousand needle-like teeth, the rip of hooked, angular wings and blasts of swirling, hallucinogenic breath.
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