NDOS PC Notes

Notes

• Talin Oah, nephew...er, son of Griffin/Osciel. Half elf
• Beruniche, chief of Griffin's wives, ancient witch and enemy of the sidhe, having slaughtered many of them, married a Sindo crime lord
• Arrive in Tessa, a ruined area that we're looking at for resettling, if necessary. *Population put to sleep; Entropy
• Katrica City: population slain and turned to undead; said to have imprisoned Azathoth & Kashator
• Rika: population wiped out
• Entropy (banished beyond Manix); Unity (slain), Azathoth (responsible for curse when he died), Kashator (imprisoned in Katrica)
• Avelariet: rakshasa, ally of Osciel who helped him pull world into the abyss for Tiamat.

Elves & Fae

• Court of Sticks: pixies, brownies, a centaur tribe
• Tavari Tribe: Faen (met @campfire), Afen (saved from polymorph). Small elves
• Di-Artimi Tribe: x
• Utawi Tribe: elves least content with us settling; close to nature; Cima, female scout

Tessa

• Temple of Lathander dominated the city; seemingly missing
• Crumbled forward wall, but interior is in excellent shape
• Seamless buildings crumble like chalk, but brick and mortar are still solid

Along the Path

• See corpses along the path, of fae creatures strung up by oily black vines on blasted, blighted trees
• Finally come to a dryad corpse crucified on the road; her body is mutilated, and decapitated, with the head of a unicorn sewn on
• We pulled it down, buried the body and blasted the crucifix with holy light. "That for your false god!" cried Martinique
• Three days later, attacked by mossy skeletons

Current Quests

• Wolf fur, brambles from a twig blight and glass lily petals.
• Places to Examine
  • Crumbling keep (the Hag Kaetiss, 2 days to south)
    • Fought the hag (who tried to broil me in my armor), a corrupted satyr priest of the Gnarl and slept three brownies
  • Twofrog, abandoned village (3 days south)
  • Ancient shrine (half day SW)
  • Remnants of a cemetery (1 day west)
  • Gorge
  • Pair of towers (the Willful, allies with elves, 3 days north)
• Katrina's Flying Tomb (academy where Azure Mages are trained), the Tall House, outskirts of city

Twofrog, abandoned village

• Cursed village; group of the Vce-Otoa tribe have a camp investigating what's wrong with it; reports indicate the curse has been growing stronger; village has vanished once or twice; tell them we are friends of the Tovari
• Mai, priestess of Mystra; Cassimir, wizard, three apprentices (Cuno, the basin-bearer)
• Baker's family, Mayor's wife, Tanner's son, Old Margaret and her family, Mumbling Morrie (homeless dude)
• Azure Mages withdrawn two weeks ago; not sure who they were loyal to in the conflict between Queen Katrina Moonsinger and her Council
• Rose Mages: United Nations of Viziers - the Dean of Roses, big boss, Awdeny de Ceris Nightraven.
• Adorna, innkeep of bosoms
• Barbara, produce vender, vanished out of her stall. Discovered clawed-up canopy where she disappeared.
  • Mayor Townsend

Alder

• Elves from some tribes have bgun to appear at Malnova
• Elves from Tavari introduced to discuss boundaries and trade, and share stories of us, that we'd saved some of them and the fae, and stopped the hag
• More evles, the Di-Artimi, and Vce-Otoa, who told them we'd vanished into the pit-village
• Twig fort brownies and court of sticks came to set up dipolomatic relations after being rescued from the hag
• Construction in Malnova goes well, some lumberjacks and laborers were disappearing in forest - wolves, fae, orcs, a noblewoman was seen wandering the forst. Phanatons actively raiding to steal food and goods
• Horrifying masked noble with a batallion of undead to meet baroness and claim we are vassals, demanding taxes after one year.
• Alder brings news from Home:
  • Daltess is in ba condition. Received reports that we're not to receive aid, by order of king.
  • Plague has reached to Daltess; House Tamaryn is being blamed for it, for they smuggled the older brother from Talaria. Arrested heads of House with intent to execute.
  • King was assassinated by Griffin's patron, who took the queen and disappeared with NINJAS
  • Queen mother is now acting steward of Daltess.
  • Arch Prelate Father Shuni vanished from the Church once she took command. She put a bounty on his head originally, but the Church of Dom indicated that it would investigate, and dispatched a Justicar.
  • Black Queen called for the Tamaryn heads as an example. During chaos, they escaped or were assisted in their flight. Entire estate was emptied, and had been working on doing so well ahead of their incarceration.
  • Steward has placed a high bounty on their capture, and grand reward for return of queen.
  • Imp saw wagons heading West on the Old Road. Obviously wealthy, no heraldry, many chests and goods hidden, as well as a little girl hidden among the possessions.
• Shrine to the Morrigan, pagan goddess of Katrica Forest, destroyed by the Olympians. Said to have fallen in battle.
  • Was said to have been carried back by the terrible entity, corrupted and reborn as Kashator; came back with Azathoth, Entropy and Unity.
• Later a cult attempted to free Azathoth, who was defeated by adventurers. As he died he lay a curse that destroyed the city of Kavana (in Estland), laid the curse on Katrica Forest, and turned the Rose Wizards to stone.

Into Daltes

• Wisdom Ferox, old centaur woman with the Sticks tribe.