Plotlines

• Deal with the plague cult and shit, and then be promoted to be doing work in a forward base that will be the bastion
• The plaguechanged will be
  • will be front and center for the border struggles
• Aschenwalds moved to Regnum Aurelia with the knowledge of the ascension ritual, taking everything with them
  • nivarian empire instead turned to the weapons, wanting to find and use them.
• Emperor uses the praetorians to kill someone from the aerarium
  • find some note “our gods are not gods?”
  • excuse is that they were dabbling in spellplague stuff.

Valen wants some spelltouched item from the Azure bloom, and Luana can get it - its a thing that stabilizes wild magic, but he can twist it to something to stabilize his undeath, allowing him to ignore some of the downsides of vampirism.

• its the same thing the azure bloom is using to stave off the plague

Thorian in one of the ruins/villages

• Samosek? his experiments taking over ruin

Sequester general

• Xin zhao/zaahen

Toad was investigating Samoseks ascension ritual thing, so was at the old capital

Someone within Regnum Aurelia is instigating a war?

• someone asks the party to help assasinate corrupt senatemembers.

Demon infused rock is valuable, quarries

Stories with Nivarian empire getting a weapon, a host for him, but then as the party faces him in a border skirmish, he loses control and rips apart the nivarians

riots about decision to ban spelltouched stuff

Nivarian adventuring group

ball where those behind skirmishes show up and can be dealt with

belaern evil guy is cause of the curse?

Praetorians are kinkou order?

Team from nivar is searching for the tomb of xerath, can even work together to get betrayed

nivarian advisor hiring adventuring groups to cause chaos along the border?

• The skirmishes are a cover for the adventuring teams going in to loot the ruins inside regnum aurelia, trying to find regnum aurelia stuff.

Luana’s city got plagued by Zynquar’morin cuz caecus worshippers/blasphemers, evil bel guy showed up, both were wronged by morins, he supplies supersoldiers, they work together, bel wants to stop him.

Adventures in Faerun

The Weeping Goddess

• Aelthar setup

In For a Penny

• Riot stuff

Well of Lies

• Ruin around C42

Shadow of the Watch

• Caravan bringing in supplies doesn’t arrive, and feys in the forest that the bastion uses for materials are the peeps

The Tenebrous Stone

• Could be smth with this around C42

Disinterred Danger

• Definitely one of the ruins

Wolves of Amphail

• This but also werewyvern?

Safe House Standoff

• Black tide kidnapped

Tears Fall

• Maybe smth moonstone? with luana

Dragon Orb

• Idk could be worked with

The Ashen Faithful

• I mean fuck yes

Sunward fortress (dragonlance)

• moonstone
• nivarian infiltrators turned to slaad.

Lore

Silent Wing

• Ahmya looking for Esharim stuff cuz of Malevors obsession
• The top guys within the guild know about the Silent Wing’s search, because someone told them, but the guild also doesn’t wanna look too much into it. They also don’t officially know that Ahmya is the SW leader.
• People who look into the Silent Wing either stop, disappear or die.
  • While people think they’re killing people, the SW is actually usually recruiting them.

Arc ideas

• Nivarian Empire Skirmishes
  • They set up base right across the border
• Finding Esharim ruins, same esharim zombies, Ryn recognizes
• Dawn Empire dude wakes up from Sequester once the Esharim start returning
• Esharim returning
• Ahzuram reincarnating/ascending
• Dami’yin being freed.
• Nivarian/Regnum war
• Underdark stuff?
  • Strange artifacts
  • Duergar
• Vampires

Arcs in order

• Set up the archaeological base C-42, start exploring the area
  • Old teleporter that starts acting up
  • start having skirmishes with nivarian empire forces, who are interested in the area also
• underdark stuff with luana, some tie in with strange artifacts perhaps
• finish up azure bloom, also, vampires? with d’aramis not getting the thing from azure bloom, they team up perhaps
• back to c42, find new ruin that has esharim guy, start waking up progress, dawn age hero comes out from sequester spell to kill esharim
• dami’yin being ree, ahzuram reincarnating
• esharim start returning
• clash between aelthar, the guild, the silent wing, rydel, sequester hero, and players, different factions wanting different things with the esharim
  • some esharim also wanna get back to their conquering, while others dont want to anymore, because theres only a few hundred of them left at most.
• feralin start returning as well, like aatrox with his weapon in league
  • “The weapon was a prison, sealing his consciousness in suffocating, eternal darkness, robbing him even of the ability to die. For centuries, he strained against this hellish confinement… until some nameless mortal was foolish enough to try and wield the blade once more. Aatrox seized upon this opportunity, forcing his will and an imitation of his original form onto his bearer, though the process quickly drained all life from the new body. In the years that followed, Aatrox groomed many more hosts—men and women of exceptional vitality or fortitude. Though his grasp of such magics had been limited in life, he learned to take control of a mortal in the span of single breath, and in battle he discovered he could feast on his victims to build himself ever larger and stronger. Aatrox traveled the land, searching desperately, endlessly, for a way return to his previous Ascended form… but the riddle of the blade proved unsolvable, and in time he realized he would never be free of it.”
  • possibly start this even earlier with the guy learning to do this stuff and wanting to free his brothers
• dami’yin and ahzuram take different sides of regnum aurelia nivarian empire war (dami’yin - nivarian empire, ahzuram - RA)
  • the emperor of RA has been learning about the ascension stuff while empress of nivarian empire wanted to instead find the feralin weapons
• the feralin start to free themselves, big war
• eventually, or even at the same time, the esharim that remain wanna free caecus and still destroy all the gods, so stuff might happen there. because caecus’ domain is the astral sea, stuff could happen there tying in with the feralin as well

Magic items