91a: Where is Your God Now?

Raleth 30th
the second and third gates

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Experience: 1,833xp (69,996 total; LEVEL UP 16!)
Second Gate battle, 8600
RP Bonus, 2400

Magic: longsword +1 x 10 (360gp each), hide armor +1 x 10 (360gp each)

Coin: 812 gp, 240sp, 1200cp (Nors and Alliance mints)

Loot: thistle sword (equivalent to a sharp sewing needle), pair of faerie wings (1000gp, consumable, +2 to Nature checks for rituals), holy symbol of Chernobog x 10 (each a tangled fusion of thorns, horns, teeth, feathers, dander, claws, bones and thistles collected in a medicine bag)

New Companions
Durward Fonnig Fignose: A forest gnome with dark brown hair dusted gray at the temples and tanned skin reminiscent of bark, he stands no more than four feet tall, in silvery plate with a similarly silvery tree emblazoned on the chest, marked with black-green leaves. He is a durward of Eglantine, charged with helping protect the city gates, but was lured away by taunting Brittleblossoms and kidnapped by the gnarlhags. He was used as bait to lure Gliadim out, the cult's sacrifice of choice. He was thankful for all the group's help and willing aligned with them, despite Rogar's presence and Arinew claiming to be the son of The Queen of Summer's Song. He wields a spear expertly, given a colorful flair with Kiri-Raina's ribbons.

Ezark Thagnbrood (pending more knowledge): Ezark Thagnbrood is plated in coppery scales edged green with verdigris, shorter and thinner than Rogar, with a stout, curved snout and bright amber eyes. His ropey head-tails reach down to his waist, pulled back, braided and set with the vertebrae of fallen enemies. He wears war-torn leather armor riddled with thorns and brambles after so many fey fights. A curious symbol has been scarred deep into his left cheek and inlaid with copper (no doubt an excruciating procedure), reminiscent of a dragon’s head. In his left palm, a bronze symbol has been melted and fused, also a vaguely draconic image.


New NPCs
The Briar Witch: Pale, briar-and-dead-leaf-covered nymph looking like an angular, black-eyed elf with long, wet, midnight hair, she led a Chernobogian congregation in what would have been the ritualistic sacrifice of Fonnig Fignose. Able to teleport between trees and change her shape, she managed to flee from the party, along with an unnamed Brittleblossom.

Gliadim (pending more knowledge): A pale, handsome summer sidhe dressed in black plate etched with the same silver tree emblem as Fonnig's breastplate. Arinew saved him from suffocating beneath the fallen Chernobog statue. He'd set out to free his friend Fonnig from the gnarlhags, but ended up captured himself, the cultists' original target all along.

Next Session
92a: Faced with the curse-wielding Eiath Gwyllion, coupled with a stone golem and two trained owlbears, the party looks to defeat the last of the shrine's inhabitants with the aid of Fonnig and the freed Ezark.