Campaign Journal #6 - The Northern Bridge

1st to the 4th day of Patchwall, C.Y. 591

Gate and Dragon

1. Party battles the gate captain Mereclar, his Howler mount and the freaky ogre, Wormspike at the Main Gate.


2. A rogue named Oli comes upon the party with a wild tale about a green dragon west of the Main Gate. He (Oli not the dragon) joins the party.

The Northern Bridge Complex

1. The group returned to the area east of the Earth Temple and encountered a group of ferocious apes. Made camp that evening in their lair.


2. Party encounters the kobold detail at the Northern Bridge. Oli manages to free their pet chimera.


3. The surviving kobolds alert Oomarthis, the duergar Bridge Captain, and his barghest companion. The bridge forces are routed, but the barghest escapes.


4. A messenger on his way to the Water Temple is intercepted by the party. With a little persuasion, he surrenders his letter to the group. It is addressed to Kelashein, High Priestess of Water, and it is from someone in the Outer Fane named Varachan. Along with the letter is a scroll of disintegrate.


5. Vannay realizes there is a coded message within the letter. It is from “a friend” and it says to help “water quench fire”. It also mentions something about “holding the keys”.

Through the Looking Glass

1. Party returns to the grimlock cave, and Vannay begins scrying on the author of the letter.


2. Vannay sees three people beginning some sort of ceremony. One of them (the one being scried) is a man in his early thirties. The next one is an older man with hard features and gray hair. Both of them wear symbols of the black obex. The third is a comely younger woman with a symbol of the Elder Elemental Eye with a red diamond hanging beneath it. They are all wearing purple and black cloaks with the black obex embroidered on it. The room they are in appears to be quite cold, because their breath is clearly visible.


3. The woman begins reading from a scroll handed to her by the older man. She said, “Dread Tharizdun, power of the Elder Eye, I, Tessimon Dephnami Ignatia, am Champion of Elemental Evil. I am here to do your bidding.” After speaking these words, she is enveloped in black fire and falls to the ground. She appears to be still alive.


4. At this point, the older man sees the sensor. He writes a warning against further action by the party and shows it to the sensor. He then begins casting Locate Creature. At this point the younger man leaves the room.


5. On the return trip to the mines, the barghest shows back up and begins attacking. The party has him at the point of death, but he is able to dimension door away (again).

Ladies of the Lake

1. The party returns to the NBC and encounters a huge three-armed giant looking creature. He gives them a good fight, but Victor manages to stun him. Delvanos then is able to bring him down with his archery skills.


2. The party begins traveling east towards the Water Temple. They find a group of blood-soaked corpses and follow the grisly trail to a nest of Owlbears. The party has little difficulty dispatching them.


3. The party then finds a large pool. What appears to be a young woman, begins asking them for help. She is on a column in the center of the lake. The party prepares for water combat, and begins crossing. A hideous female creature tries to drag Uthgar under the water, but is not successful. The group quickly realizes that these “ladies” have a powerful gaze attack, so they close their eyes. Uthgar manages to close with the one on the column and kill her.


4. Vannay was severely weakened by the appearance of the other woman, but not before he is able to summon a shark. The shark combined with the efforts of other party members is able to slay the creature.

Report from the Council Arcanum – Part Two
By Tulliver Brandeen

The capture of the Elemental Princes using the binders is reckoned by historians as the beginning of the Suloise Imperium. The binders passed in and out of history for the next millennia. Power passed between the Suloise Houses, and it is believed that the ones controlling the binders held the power.

The tribes of Bakluni chafing under the yoke of the Suel, unite in order to secure their freedom. These events occurred in 3971 S.D. (Suloise Dominion), which was sixteen centuries before Common Year One. During the War of Seven Score Nights, one of the binders is captured by the Bakluni Chieftan. The mere threat of using it, ended the war and caused the Suel to cede a major portion of their northern territories to the Bakluni.

Over the next milennia, war was widespread between the Bakluni and Suel. The Suloise Imperium was slowly falling into corruption and decay. Large groups of peoples fled the wartorn areas and settled in the Vale of Luna and surrounding lands during this time.

In 5031 S.D. (-466 C.Y.) the Great War begins with the slaughter of nine thousand Baklunish soldiers in Salhaut Pass. The next sixty years sees a degree of slaughter and high magic heretofore unknown. Finally, the most powerful of the Suel Mages gather their magics and unleash the Invoked Devastation upon the Bakluni. Every city was razed to the ground. Thousands upon thousands perished in this display of arcane might. A group of Baklunish priests gathered at the Tovag Baragu, the holiest of Bakluni sites. It is believed that they used the power of the binders to release the Rain of Colorless fire upon the Suel. The priests were consumed in their efforts and Tovag Baragu was no more.

The Suloise Empire had stood for over five milennia. All other civilizations were dwarfed by its arcane power and longevity. What remains of this once great land is now marked by cartographers as the Sea of Dust.