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The Return to Bentrios

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Diary Summary

Session 05: The Return to Bentrios

Canon Summary

Physical date: 2025-03-30
In-game date: 1832 AS Apollal 14, 1832 AS Apollal 15
Primary location: Bentrios
Review status: applied, applied 2026-05-05

Canon Events

The party left the edge of the Fey forest, thanked the centaur escorts from the Messengers of the Queen, and began traveling toward Bentrios. [Thataways] (travel)
Brigit discovered a leprechaun following the party and trying to steal the axe; Faban gave it a gold piece, learned its intent, and the leprechaun eventually disappeared. [Thataways] (social)
The party camped during the return journey to Bentrios and had a quiet night with no encounters. [Road to Bentrios] (rest)
The party reached Bentrios, where tower renovations were underway, magic shops were affected by world changes, and technological disruption had caused civilized chaos. [Bentrios] (discovery)
At the temple of Siath, Gildas told Father Joseph the party had recovered Urgan's Axe, discussed whether the axe was connected to Salazar or the Demon Lord of Rage, and the party encouraged Father Joseph to take leadership from the corrupt mayor. [Bentrios] (social)
At the mayor's office, the party demanded Baron Wells return Urgan's Axe when he was done with it; he said he would try and admitted his political power, economy, military choices, and foreign dealings were failing. [Bentrios] (social)
Lightning struck in the room and Salazar appeared, examined Urgan's Axe, recited an incantation, and revealed he was bound by an infernal contract to fix things for Baron Wells in exchange for access to artifacts including the axe. [Bentrios] (discovery)
Salazar fulfilled the contract by shunting Bentrios back to its most prosperous Age of Discovery state; Alexander's Inn disappeared, the tower collapsed into the old town square, people were confused, warforged vanished, and Salazar disappeared with a wink. [Bentrios] (discovery)
Faban vowed to capture the fall and contract of Baron Wells in a ballad titled The Contract of Baron Wells. [Bentrios] (acquisition)
Father Joseph explained that Wells of Magic had opened, that similar events were once called the Cataclysm, that the Wells are potent sources of magic, and that the party must learn how to close the Wells from the Wells themselves. [Bentrios] (discovery)
Father Joseph said Hanedal Island has one of the Wells, that there are no known maps to it, and that the Cataclysm forms from natural storms created under unnatural circumstances. [Bentrios] (discovery)
Faban connected Father Joseph's description of unnatural storm-cataclysm to the destruction of the outer Celestial Isles where Makani's people originated. [Bentrios] (discovery)
Father Joseph said the Alliance of Stars is based in Bentrios and is a small adventuring party; Faban sent a query through his underground network for information on the group. [Bentrios] (discovery)
The party thanked Father Joseph, went to the nearest tavern for the night, and Faban busked for the innkeeper. [Bentrios] (rest)

Provenance

Built from final database events for session05.
Review file: knowledge/Faban/reviews/session05_review.yaml
The ingest draft summary is source material, not canon.