Legends of Qtambb

Your adventure begins in the great Gal-Leon Empire inhabiting a vast mercantile continent with rich ports and an overpowering navy. King Gabriel, descendant of The First King Gal-Leon, has recently gained complete continental control of Ur. Now in the wake of King Gabriels territorial expansion he promises a new age of prosperity for all citizens of the Empire. A handfull of unrelated adventurers board the Covanti bound Lioness Express. chaos ensues when a Woodelf crashes down from a skylight and picks a fight with the dragon born Admiral Marthkar. Those who felt the need to intervene at first elevated the chaos, but calm minds prevailed as Quazi managed to bring the fighting to a halt. Though words seemed ineffective at relaxing Marthkar, He made his grand escape after breathing fire on the entirety of the train cart, friend and foe. With the distance built and the chaos of the injured he used the time to detach your cart from the lead and the gap between you grew. Storm clouds had gathered during this time, but curiously circling the Temple of Tyr on the outer limits of Covanti. Lighting strikes the Temple, first blue until the repetition began to excelerate striking with blue and purple in a grand display that could have been cheered for if it were a planned event, but instead most looked in awe or fear as the lighting stuck quicker and quicker. Soon a small black sphere began to form midaw up the Temple. it grew and grew until reaching an impressive size swallowing most of the grand structure. But the growth stopped suddenly, and just as suddenly and quicker than it expanded it collapsed in on itself causing a lightless explosion tearing the Temple apart and revealing in its place a massive pale white figure with soft erie facial features and four long arms. you watched the shock wave as the glitter of window glass pushed out like a wave until reaching the city walls. appearing to cease there for but a moment untill the dust billows off the citywall, and the trees and foliage start pulling toward your train until the shockwave hits and derails the whole machine. This Creature, God, or Wrathfull Force, began to bellow proudly as it burst into existence and quickly sought to destroy the rest of the Temple. Deadly focuse on smashing away all bellow its feet with its four massive arms. Wether compelled by the greater good, or a drive to adventure that knows not its own source, you band of strangers helped those ingured in the crash though your cart had a high number killed, the burns from Marthkar did not help. and then marched those who needed the most help to an herbalist shop where Arvid stayed behind with the shop keep to heal the injured and Teras with little knowledge on plants or aid gave some gold to help in the endevour and ran to catch up to Brock, Modi, and Quazi who all now foundthemselves at the epicenter of the explosion and the bear witness to the massive pale humanoid tearing away at the temple. Once there you noticed the gaurds distrought with the knowledge that their Duke, Caspain was within the epicenter. There was little you could do but what you did do was shout. With your collective skills in magic your voices raised significantly above the chaos. And as Modi shouted the name Caspian, the large creature paused it's havoc and seemed to... look for the source of the voice? but a flash of magic from beneath it grabbed it's attention once more. After repeating Caspain's name with your booming voices combined it seemed like the Pale figure was about to seek you out, until a radiant flash of light gave way to another enourmus figure with pale arms and a hood, veiling its face in shadow. As the figure decended from the sky it reached out its arm to the source of chaos and once its fingers rest upon its head they both disapeared instantly.   In its absence the light of a magical barrier grabbed your attention. Within the epicenter of the creatures havoc the radiant dome barrier flickered out of existance revealing caspain and their fallen comrad Talfae. Lifting her up he begins to crackle with lightning and flies toward you and his gaurdians in hopes of healing Talfae. quickly discovering there was little aid they could give here they rushed to the royalty district and you followed closely behind striking conversation with Caspains Goliath Gaurdian. The royalty district was under lock and key in light of current events but with the silver tongue of Quazi and Munder's approval Quazi, Modi, and Brock gained entry to the Royal District as Teras went to retrieve Arvid who remained with the injured. Upon retrieving her, a bronze dragon born revieled themselves and explained their tailing of the party in hopes to learn about the disaster. Untrusting of this figure Arvid and Teras ramained focused on thier journey and allowed the dragon born to follow at a distance. As heads swivilled to observer the strange Woodelf woman Teras gave his cloak to aid Arvid in being a bit more regular. The group who remained with Caspian and his Gaurdians found themselves within another temple of smaller origin, filled with clerics readily surounding Talfae hoping to treat or aid hoever they could. Quazi began to bond with the goliath Munder over their campaigns against the Tondo Dynasty. Here he learned of Munder familairity with Marthkar, and described the recent events leading up to their trains derailment. Munder explained Marthkars shadowy reputaion as he knew it and insisted on granting and audiance with Caspian on the subject at a better time than now, as he mentioned the likely desire Caspain would have on their witnessing of the pale figure from afar. Indeed caspian Called on you three to recount the events you witnessed and then explained that he went to the Temple in order to deliberate Budgeting and Funds for the Arean's Season Opener. It was during this discussion that he revealed Talfae's rejection of a broader budget and more lavish spending led to him noticing a glow in the statue of Tyr's eyes behind her. and the angrier she got the more prominent the glow, only to be followed by lighting sparking and then consuming it until all went dark. Then the chaos. After the exchange of information Qauzi began to bring up Marthkar before being interupted by Munder. It seemed now was not the time. The group then rejoined by the gates of the Royalty District and searched for a tavern to end their night. awkwardly and closely followed by Teras and Arvids new Companion? The bright light from a lighthouse like tower over the merchants bay drew you adventurers into the tavern it was connected too. The Taught Sail Tavern. far grander than the average country side ale stop this tavern hosted large groups on the regular, with large table scattered about. The atmosphere was quite louds and comunal. A tad out of touch with the rest of the grieving city, though these patrons looked more like warriors than merchants or fishermen. The erie shadow of a man seemed to patrol the tables but no one seemed to mind.     As you friends of circumstance took your seats and began to recount the day with drink and food, Arvid gave Modi some souvenirs from the train fight in trust for coin later on their sale. However it seemed the exchange was witnessed by skeptical eyes. Wether it was the mistrust in new faces on a chaotic day, or just confusion on the exchange of three wedding bands at a tavern table words of slight acusation were delivered by Nimbus and soon after a brawl. almost imeadiatley cheers from the rest of the patrons roared and they began tipping over their tables to form a makeshit arena for the spectacle. And your new group had a rocky start but with Nimbus's armor set ablaze he quickly discovered he stood no chance. the rest of the group fought vailianty as a tortle blocked most every hit against him and single handely bested many of you with nothing but their fists. Another goliath and a firbolg turned werewolf began to harass Brock only to find he himself was quite the foe. A red teifling fellow seemed quite arrogant and angry and began punching and realeasing eldritch blasts, but fell ratrher quickly like Nimbus. By the end only the werewolf remained concience and submitted victory to you all. The patrons cheered and began setting up thier tables and filling the space once more. A visit from the bar keep as he switched places with the shadow behind you revieled that the Stalwart Stratum now owed you Quarter for the night in the Barrelmans Quarters reserved for the nights champions.       This room was at the top of the taverns Lighthouse tower, the open circular room notably housed a floating ball of fire in its center and its walls were mostly window overlooking the city and bay. a circular kitchen island in the center of the room under the fire was fully stocked with the taverns best food and drink. as the time for rest over came u all, a viel of shadow layers above u diming the fires light for your room but not the outer world.     The morning came and as you find yourselves in the tavern floor eating and drinking for the new day. A change in pressure and a blow of wind, the bar keep finds himself behind Modi where he shares that the Arena Season Opener is in a few days. And after witnessing your fight against last years fan favorites and victors the Stalwart Stratum, he explains his desire to witness a rematch on a grander scale and that even with the Guilds participating already selected he could though unofficail channels of course grant your group a slot. It's here that Nimbus still visibly recovering from last nights brawl hands the barkeep a pouch of coin and informs him that the Grim Fang Guild would step down to pay a debt to him and his Guild the Stalwart Stratum. This made your entry to the games much more likely. Nimbus gave u each a defiant look before leaving the tavern with the red tiefling waiting at the door for him.    Modi see's a lonely figure, a Kajheet. Dark black dawned in respectable armor and as he rises from his seat a shadow of his figure is left behind much like the bar keep. He explains his learning of a massive creature reaking havoc on the city and how a similar thing happened to him as a child. Bagheera described his will to join you in the arena and otherwise since this is the closest he's ever gotten to answers and you all were the closest to it. Asking what him what worth he brings to the group, He simply traded places with the shadow, who now eriely stands by you like a sentry. You gave the bar keep the group name of Qtambb to be entered for you.    This growing group spent the day shopping for supplies and new clothing. most every one found what they were looking for and Teras defiantly burned his old dirty cloakin the cobble walkway by the harbor. You all then moved onward to the stadium in hopes of scouting out any helpfull information. An information booth was there but the half orc man within knew just about as much as you did of this years games. Though his information on the previous seasons were far more complete. He did however share that Caspian Cordero was heading as Game Master for the first time and was taking a great interest in this season. On your way back to the tavern before leaving the perimeter of the stdium, through the bars u noticed large spikes and chains being hamered into the ground.    Finally the day of the games arrived, where u finally learned the bar keeps name after he and Bagheera conversed over drinks. Rick led you to the arena and through it contestant tunnels. he parted with you once the Arena Gladiators gained custody and lead u to your readying area. A modest and large empty circular chamber. Here you could hear the shouts from the crowd and the anouncements vaugely from the cieling, until strangly the floor began to rumble and spin as the cieling drew closer, before the fear of crushing set in the cielng gave way to sunlight and your floor became level with the arena as you rose up. The cheering became deafaning compared to before and as the sun became less blinding Brocks battle cry became cut short by that of the T-rex on the other end of the stadium. Three other large dinosaurs made a border between you and it accompanied by smaller raptors. Nimbus and the Stalwart Stratum were positioned to your right and another group of muscle you did not recognize was to your right.    Caspain began a speach comemorating the event and then leading into a surprise. "All the profit from these games will go toward keeping Gal-Leon safe and defended from the Tondo Dynasty! But! I will not simply give more money to the crown. No. I found a way to not only fund this war but strengthen our Navy like never before! to lead it into a new era!" on that last word a streak of red darts from behind and above him, spearding its wings before diving into the stadium. a wyvern and a rider. The beast grabbs the raptor in the center of the stadium and flies it high before dropping it in a display of strength and superiorty. "With the help of Admiral Marthkar I discovered a new way to wage war and these games will fund this new army!" the wyvern and rider pirch themselves on the upper wall behind Marthkar and the Duke. "Let the Games Begin!"    Saying these words seemed to release the dinosaurs from their chains, except the T-rex who seemed still restrained. Nimbus charged along the wall and led his group as far past the fisrt large allosaurus before having to deal with it. you Qtambb followed quickly behind in hopes of exploiting their haste. Arvid laid a trap of vines to entangle and hinder Nimbus and his groups movment as they neared the allo. instead of rushing through as it seemed they hoped to they became stuck and forced to fight. You all began attacking the werewolf and knocked him down, but the Tortle stood gaurd and seemed to creat a sphere of darkness covering evryone in his group but him and his injured friend Bagheera and Teras each blitzed through the chaos and now find themselves closer to the T-rex than most. its pressence becomes overwhelmingly hard to ignore. Quazi aids those who need it from Brocks shoulders as Brock charges forward attacking whatever gets in his way.