C2 Session 18

General Summary

They hear bells above chiming, people are moving around
  • People are shouting about an attempt on the queen’s life that was luckily thwarted by the guards
  • They are looking for two dragolians and one tabaxi
  • They decide to rest for the night in the safety of the cellar and Daemon says he will bring them to Fio in the morning
  • Before they go to sleep, Henry opens his bag and takes out scroll cases of notes and an intricate tome
  • He casts identify on it and finds it to be an atlas of endless horizons
  • They look at the notes and they don’t make any sense to anyone but xodon
  • All of the notes are written in thieves cant
  • Notes on the blueprints for the rivendale tower, the environment before the construction of the tower
  • There are thick bundles of notes on the darklings, and found that their source of magic altered based on the plane of existence they were on
  • People born on the material plane cannot use the magic from the feywild
  • Reimun experimented and was moving things in between space and time, combining the pools of magic from different planes
  • As they are looking through the notes, there is a footnote written in the margin talking about the transmatic plane, a plane between time.
  • It is written in dragolian and in a completely different handwriting
  • It reads: “Suppose one reigns from this realm, those who think they share a pedestal with god are those who are put far below the earth, Erased from history, and truly forgotten. Is that fate any different than the reality you claim. Is the one who rules that reality the one who can give you fate worse than this. Watch your words, Guard your Thoughts.”
  • It is the last note taken on this space outside of time, as if Reimun got too close to something, and someone else checked him
  • As Henry is reading the notes, everything goes white
  • Everyone else sees his eyes go black and begin bleeding from every orifice
  • Koin runs over to stop him from falling over
  • Henry doesn’t know who he is anymore
  • He is afraid, and has to get away from him
  • He looks up to see a tabaxi holding his darkling brothers, slaughtering them
  • Athe tabaxi, with a scar on his face, tells him he was supposed to be the elder
  • Says he cannot fight him and must get back to the tower
  • He begins running and the man chases, but he is faster
  • He remembers being born into the world and being made elder for protecting all of his brothers
  • He does not know what to do besides try to make it home and protect the rest of his brothers
  • He is running through the forest and is blinded by adrenaline, not noticing the bodies
  • He moves up through the tower and sees that everyone there is dead
  • There are three figures around him: a short haired man with a dagger, a white haired man with a ponytail, and another different tabaxi chasing him
  • He doges and almost kills him, then feels a sword in his chest
  • He puts darkness around the one casting spells at him, then runs into it
  • Feels the sword in his chest again as light begins emerging from his body, he is reminded that this world is only war, and he explodes into light
  • Henry feels flashes of light, memories that he does not remember, but all of the involving Reimun
  • Many different creatures one or two interactions with him
  • They stop
  • He is standing in a chamber alone
  • A tabaxi child walks up to him in rags and chains
  • A voice that isn’t his speaks, but it comes from his mouth
  • It says “you will be strong one day Reimun, yes… very strong”
  • A blue skinned arm reaches out and caresses his head
  • Henry suddenly remember the only person with that accent(the same one as Reimun’s) he knows, Zedek
  • In the flashes, henry sees zedek training Reimun how to tie other souls into his own
  • Throughout the lifetime he lives, he learns every dunamancy spell he can
  • He also learns that Zedek lived in a laboratory that teleported a lot but accidentally locked himself in Xyria and began pulling things to him to experiment on
  • Henry can infer that whoever wrote the footnote had something to do with the man inhabiting this realm out of space and time
  • He knows that Zedek was powerful, but not powerful enough to make Reimun as powerful as he is
  • Art is a study, you cannot surpass the teacher by only studying what they teach
  • Reimun is one of the most powerful mages he has ever seen
  • Conjuration is a very picky school of magic, and Reimun has a lot of knowledge about conjuration and planes
  • His technique has a signature, and it is not his own
  • Henry knows of the man named Aidren who invented plane magic, and Reimun would’ve had to be there to know how to do his magic
  • Henry saw through the eyes, and knows that Reimun, through training from Aidren, stood in Amulet and cast the spell that injured Aidren so heavily, the one to instill the pools of magic from each plane into Aidren
  • The frosty blue eye that Reimun possesses is Aidren’s eye, a present from the man outside of time
  • Henry deduces that due to needing fey blood to use dunamancy, that he must have some essence of fey blood in him
  • They all finally go to sleep and wake up in the morning well rested
  • Koin bargains with Daemon for a siege ballista to no avail
  • Daemon says they should set foot for the city of Fio
  • Xodon asks Daemon if Poco is in Fio, which he confirms
  • Fio is a privately owned city, owned by Formun Oindre
  • Daemon grabs Xodon’s shoulders as to use him to channel the teleportation to Fio
  • Seven rings light up around him and Koin and Henry step inside as they are transported to a warmer environment
  • Xodon recognizes it as his home, but he notices that there is smoke all around and there are seven ships on the coast, of the dragolian armada, but they are all much bigger than that of Ildrae’s fleet
  • Henry knows a bit about this fleet of ships
  • He knows this fleet belongs to captain Whitefang, a brutal pirate, and a wanted man in Dragol when Henry was a child
  • He is the only man in Dragol to steal an entire dragolian boat and pillage and kill an entire city with just that one ship
  • He doesn’t take prisoners, so his skillset is unknown
  • When he was caught they planned to execute him, but instead put him under eternal indentured servitude to the armada, and captain Waydrane made him a captain
  • The ship he controls is called the hollow’s tear, and the ships are in great condition, but he is known for never cleaning up blood
  • As a result, the sails, mast, and deck are spattered in dried blood
  • There is lots of destruction and battle occurring at the shore, but not to the extremity of Thera
  • Fio is a powerful city with powerful guard called zxaralites
  • Fast and tough warriors, second only to the beastmen of Auding
  • Henry is shocked to see elves and gnomes and dwarves in the city, which are more often considered to reside in dragon
  • They are different, with either black, grey or white skin
  • Xodon knows they call themselves the shader kai
  • They all look at the battle, remembering that the events occurring are identical to those described in the letter they found a while back
  • They watch the guard fight whitefang, slashing through the zxaralites with ease
  • He is accompanied by two martially adept soldiers
  • One with long black hair firing a modified crossbow that is constantly firing arrows
  • The other is wearing deep shining purple armor and wielding a sharp blue sword
  • Henry casts haste on Koin and moves forward a bit
  • Koin begins sprinting towards a pocket of enemies off to the side, attacking and killing on instantly upon arrival
  • Xodon begins moving towards Whitefang
  • The swashbucklers throws away his crossbow and pulls out two more, beginning to move towards Xodon
  • Henry moves forward to backup Xodon
  • Koin moves in to kill more of the enemies
  • More battle takes place across the city and they are slightly in the advantage
  • The swashbuckler attacks him, suddenly appearing in the sky above Xodon, firing 12 arrows down at Xodon, then kicking at him but missing before moving backwards a bit
  • Xodon moves in for an attack, slashing him with both his swords and biting him, inflicting both a curse and a wound, bloodying him
  • They suddenly see funnels of wind rise up and sets of swords and shields fly up, the enemy wizards disarming the guards with wind
  • They all see the goblins strike whitefang from under the sand with spears, and charging him
  • Whitefang swings his harpoon arm and as the dust clears, all the goblins are dead and whitefang is unphased
  • Sun emerges and begins fighting the warrior in purple armor
  • Sun recklessly attacks, the man blocking with his sword repeatedly
  • Sun kicks sand into the man’s eyes, blinding him and striking him with his sword
  • The man recovers right before sun summons two new scimitars and goes in for more attacks
  • Henry finally arrives to see the swashbuckler almost dead due to xodon’s attacks
  • He hits him with a chromatic orb, burning him
  • Koin continues crusading through the sidestreets, killing off enemies they find and almost meeting up with Sun
  • Daemon is on the opposite side helping Poco take out some other enemies
  • Whitefang launches his harpoon at Henry, and it lands right next to him before returning to his arm
  • Whitefang looks directly at henry, and without looking away kills four of the zxaralites
  • Report Date
    04 Aug 2025


    Cover image: by Joe Kitchen (Ai)

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