2025-01-29 – Wed City of Arches

Sidequest Six

  • Andrew Armageddon – Former special gentleman friend of Velinda Thrade.
  • Kendal Olamaer KO – Has memories of the wars that took place in Sunken Revvia so many centuries ago. It was horrible.
  • Lana – This place is far more corrupt than the Lower Reaches. There's a delicate order here built on power.
  • Myralus – Feels the celestial pull of Vrys
  • Ozara – Can feel the holy light of Vrys flowing out of Gray Reach.
  • Zillian – Feels the sadness and curruption beneath Vrys

Strong Start

Velenda Thrade and the Light of Vrys versus the Sword of Krash

Scenes

  • Battle between the followers of Vrys and Krash.
  • The sneaking wererat, Skryff the Unseen, friend of the Kobolds of Fallen Avantys.
  • Windswept forgotten fountain of Karigulon the Dread Fang – Gnoll Demon Prince.
  • Meet with Krash or Vrys
  • Krash's Quest: Slay Ouryvax the Sallowsworn.
  • Vrys's Quest: Recover the Golden Bell of Canvela held in Heart's Splinter by the hag Mother Sevella.

Secrets and Clues

  • Velenda Thrade was expelled from the Mages of Kartan for digging too deep into forbidden lore.
  • Thrade considers herself on sabbatical, investigating the being known as Vrys – a celestial of the Army of the Blue Star.
  • Thrade mettles where she should stay objective. She loves manipulating a situation.
  • Sunken Revvia is a battlefield between three entities – the hobgoblin warlord General Krash, the cult of Vrys, and a terrible black dragon named Ouryvax the Sallowsworn who commands trolls and stone giants out of the ruin called Omen's End.
  • Krash will give the location of the Ruined Keep of Grayon if the characters slay Ouryvax the Sallowsworn.
  • Vrys will give the location of the Ruined Keep if the characters promise to use the key to return them back to the heavens.
  • A kobold village named Fallen Avantys serves as a refuge for kobolds among the warring factions of Sunken Revvia.
  • Followers of Vrys worship the celestial at the ruins of a tower called Gray Reach.
  • When the Nameless King claimed the lands above more than a thousand years ago, Revvia became one of his primary residences, and an enclave of servants, soldiers, thralls, and other low folk.
  • Mages, warlocks, and sorcerers devoted to the Nameless King conducted fell experiments, rituals, and conjurations in Revvia, creating or summoning monsters of terrible power and disposition.
  • Dozens of humanoid and monstrous warlords have attempted to rule over Sunken Revvia in recent centuries, but have been destroyed to the last.
  • Before the coming of the Nameless King, a battle was fought in Revvia by the fiendish blue dragon Xrake the Relentless and the archmage Tryvanus of Krate. Their conflict tore a rift in the city known as Xrake’s Scar.
  • Knights of the nameless king have opened a portal to Arkus in sunken Revvia.
  • The children of ibraxus are in Sunken Revvia as well, operating out of the Profane Cathedral.

Monsters

  • Cultists of Vrys CR 1 AC/DC 12 HP 33 Atk/Prof +5 DPR 12 Atks 2 × 1d6 + 3 – Blind
  • Hobgoblin Dreadspears CR 1 AC/DC 12 HP 33 Atk/Prof +5 DPR 12 Atks 2 × 1d6CR 1 AC/DC 12 HP 33 Atk/Prof +5 DPR 12 Atks 2 × 1d6 + 3 – Phalanx Impale
  • Dreadfang Gnolls CR 2 AC/DC 13 HP 45 Atk/Prof +5 DPR 17 Atks 2 × 1d6 + 6
  • Dreadfang Commander Faceripper CR 4 AC/DC 14 HP 84 Atk/Prof +6 DPR 28 Atks 2 × 1d6 + 11

Treasure

  • 97 SP, 2480 GP, 122 PP
  • 5 × 100 GP ruby gemstones
  • Bag of Beans
  • elven ancient quill that casts Scrying once
  • Cloak of Elvenkind
  • Blinding Breastplate +1

Notes

  • Lavsha Whiteglacier –– white-scaled kobold saved by the characters outside Gray Reach.
  • Tasia –