The Threefold Sundering

Further adventures following the events of Azarr Kul's Ambition: this campaign path is an original Gaian adaptation of Expedition to the Demonweb Pits by Wolfgang Baur and Gwendolyn F.M. Kestrel.

In ancient mists of Gaia's early history during the time known as the Banespawn Wars, the goddess Irindix was blamed for sharing the secrets of deific ascension with the terrible, corrupt beings who would become the Elder Banes: Ethoar, Tyraudon and Yshunor.  As the story goes, Irindix was cast out of the Three Sisters triad for her crimes and spent long years in the dread darkness of the Underlands seething with hatred and contempt at the other Gaian deities for their actions against her.

Now, in post-Convergence Gaia, it seems the Dark Lady is on the move.  The Lolthblessed, a faction of drow loyalists pledged to the Spider Queen aspect of Irindix, are boiling up onto the surface lands, raiding and pillaging at a rate never before seen even among these demon-worshipping servants of evil.  Rumors are swirling of an Abyssal pact which, if enacted, could solidify the Spider Queen's holdings and allow her to eclipse Irindix's other aspects, the Dark Huntress and the Queen of Nightmares.  Are the three aspects of Irindix working against each other, or is there some larger threefold plot afoot?

Worse yet, dark and troubling events elsewhere across the planet have fractured the Northern Alliance.  Early in the year 23C.R., the young Dragon Emperor of Moridar, Royce Ralaevar, ordered his massive armies to occupy the nation of Hathorae in a hostile military takeover of an allied country, under the pretense of vengeance for his murdered family.  Given the choice to resist or acquiese peacefully, the war-weary citizens of Hathorae voted to allow the Moridarn to occupy their lands, but this choice led directly to the execution of their Supreme Elect, President Weylorn Orren, and the brutal oppression of the Hathoraen people by Emperor Ralaevar.  Disturbing rumors of demonic incursions are also on the rise.  Between the Convergence weakening the Gaian deities and the return of the militant dreamlord-demigod known as the Exile, the planar seals which protect Gaia are failing, and the eternal Blood War between the demons of the Abyss and the devils of the Nine Hells threatens to spread like a plague of violence across the vulnerable planet.

It is into these troubled times that the heroes of Slaughtergarde, slayers of Azarr Kul, champions of the Valley of Obelisks and the Elsir Vale alike, are thrust.  Less than a year later, only just having recovered from their taxing victory over Tiamat's chosen and his Red Hand of Doom goblinoid legions, the veterans of the Red Hand war are called upon to answer the drow threat to their lands and discover the meaning behind the movements of Irindix's most loyal servants.  

Campaign Logs:

• Session 11-8-08
• Session 12-6-08
• Session 1-17-09
• Session 1-24-09
• Session 1-31-09
• Session 2-14-09
• Session 3-7-09
• Session 3-15-09
• Session 3-28-09
• Session 4-12-09
• Session 4-25-09
• Session 5-9-09
• Session 5-17-09
• Session 5-30-09
• Session 6-13-09
• Session 6-28-09
• Session 7-11-09
• Session 8-1-09
• Session 8-29-09
• Session 10-17-2009
• Session 10-24-2009
• Session 12-12-2009

DM: Nick Mancuso 

Player Characters:

• Acacia Blackthorne, female whisper gnome ninja (player: Meredith Dunn)
• Altaer Twiceforged, male human Oberwaldir sorcerer (player: David Tomczyk)
• Ayotunde Taenic, female human Valefolk cleric of Shandae (player: Kate Harris)
• Jack Dunstan, male human dreamtouched fighter/warlock (player: Jan McMahon)
• Kaelin, (fe)male human dreamtouched crusader/bard (player: Bronwyn Beistle)
• "Rockbounder" (Gorram Rockbounder Ogolakanu), male goliath sanctified one (player: Jose Ortiz)

Gaia's Dream

"Loneliness - Patience - Wisdom - Happiness"