Campaign Timeline

Major Events

1. discovery Bentrios Bentrios City is introduced as a thriving technological city where warforged entities work for their masters, and Alexander's Inn in Bentrios is a focal point of activity created by Alexander Venrid's tavern chain.
2. social Alexander's Inn Bridgit, a halfling with the obvious bearing of a thief, enters Alexander's Inn, takes a seat at the bar, ignores Faban's entertainment, and nurses her ale.
3. social Alexander's Inn Roon, a half-orc fighter and drinking companion of Faban, enters Alexander's Inn, renews his effort to recruit Faban into the city watch, and buys him an ale while Faban switches to one of Roon's favorite songs, Urgan the Brave.
4. social Alexander's Inn Corvinas, an obvious paladin of Mihira, enters Alexander's Inn, and Makani, a blue dragonborn, quietly drinks at the bar while Faban performs the ballad of Urgan slaying Ryjax.
5. social Alexander's Inn Gildas, a frustrated-looking elf wizard, enters Alexander's Inn, orders fish tacos and ale, and is later understood to be searching for an artifact.
6. discovery Alexander's Inn A warforged waiter in Alexander's Inn glitches and fails; Gildas and Corvinas investigate and learn similar failures have been happening across the land for months, and Faban's own card sorter promptly fails and burns cards he won from the Duke of Westerbrook.
7. social Alexander's Inn A city watch guard rushes in looking for Roon, reporting issues throughout Bentrios and urgent need at headquarters; Roon quickly enlists Faban, Corvinas, Bridgit, Makani, and Gildas to help.
8. combat Bentrios The newly formed party rushes into the streets of Bentrios with Roon to help, and a large rock-being attacks them, beginning the battle that continues into session 01.

Major Events

1. combat Bentrios The party fights a regenerating construct-like creature in Bentrios; Faban is nearly mortally wounded, Corvinas smites it with Mihira's holy energy, and Bridgit lands the final sneak attack that destroys it.
2. discovery Bentrios Gildas detects magic in the rubble, Faban retrieves a round red orb glowing orange, and Gildas determines that it was planted, uses long-lost magic, and contains evocation magic.
3. discovery Bentrios Gildas also senses strong protective and concealing magic from Faban's leather satchel, and Faban becomes defensive, insisting that it is his burden to bear.
4. discovery Bentrios In a nearby building's basement room, Gildas gazes into the orb, sees a fiery realm resembling the Nine Hells and the Demon Lord of Rage, then breaks contact and drops the orb, cracking it and releasing some of its contents before it is mended.
5. discovery Bentrios The party decides to seek Mayor Baron Wells at Bentrios Tower; as a tempest forms, Makani realizes the storm is unnatural and caused by the Demon Lord of Lightning bringing it down on the city.
6. discovery Bentrios The party reaches the tilted Bentrios Tower, rushes to the mayor's penthouse, finds the door ajar, and overhears infernal speech: Baron Wells says he has done all he can, while a second voice demands that he has five days to get what is needed.
7. discovery Bentrios Roon charges into the room, the demon lord calls him a foolish mortal, disappears in a flash, and the ground shifts as Bentrios Tower rights itself.
8. discovery Bentrios The party interrogates Baron Wells, who says demons are collecting items from around the Gale and seek Urgan the Great's lost axe, also known as the Blood Rage Great Axe of Urgan, which is rumored to be infused with Urgan's rage energy and hidden underground.
9. discovery Bentrios Faban recalls an ancient ballad saying Urgan's bride, Jennifer Wilbreta, a pale elf of the Fey, traveled south from the northern mountains and buried Urgan's axe somewhere in the central plains.
10. discovery Bentrios Baron Wells is constrained by vows but confirms that the axe is definitely underground and shows the party a map pointing to an unexplored forest teeming with Fey Wild magic.

Travel

• Bentrios -> Fey Woods foot , 1 day high Diary dates span Apollal 12 to Apollal 13; inferred as 1 elapsed calendar day.

Major Events

1. social Bentrios The party visits the Temple of Knowledge in Bentrios, seeks Father Joseph, and asks him about the infernal orb, the animated construct, the storms, Salazar, and the Great Axe of Urgan.
2. discovery Bentrios Father Joseph says the orb is likely tied to the Demon Lord of Rage, says powerful magic may be controlled by another being like a marionette artist, and explains that self-aware construct magic is rarer and stronger than ordinary somatic construct magic.
3. discovery Bentrios Father Joseph believes Salazar, the Demon Lord of Lightning, is probably separate from the Demon Lord of Rage seen in the orb; he recommends carrying the orb in a padded case and says the Fey Woods are the best place to look for Urgan's Axe.
4. travel Bentrios On Apollal 12, the party leaves Bentrios for the Fey Wilds, seeing how the city's machinery has failed and older practices like sundials and oil lamps have returned; along the road they encounter a blacksmith trying to rouse a failed warforged, and he tells them Urgan's Axe was crafted by dwarves a millennium ago.
5. social Road to Fey Woods On Apollal 13, during the second day of travel, the party meets an old man near the Fey Wilds who warns them not to make deals with the fey, mentions a pack of gnolls about a half-day from the woods, trades riddles with Faban, and gives him a potion of healing.
6. social Fey Woods Near the outer Fey Woods, Faban tries to light a fire while the party discusses blazing a trail, and a nearby tree strikes him; the tree is Oak, a dryad, who says she is bound by a vow of silence about the axe but warns that fey are hostile to outsiders.
7. discovery Fey Woods Oak says a hag or gnoll might know more, suggests seeking a satyr or centaur for safe passage, and directs the party toward a lightning-struck tree and then west to a lake where they may find a centaur.
8. social Fey Woods The next morning, a blue-skinned fey creature tells the party she knows about Urgan's Axe but wants them to lead gnolls to the Satyr camp in exchange; the party refuses, and she brandishes her claws as combat begins.

Major Events

1. discovery Fey Woods The witch leaves behind a satchel that appears empty but radiates illusion and aberration magic; after the party pokes it with a stick and Faban throws in a copper piece, the bag releases souls and an ancient necromantic tome that Gildas examines.

Travel

• Fey Woods -> Thataways foot , 0 days high Session04 begins on Apollal 13, the same in-game date as the fey witch battle; the centaur leads the party from the Fey Woods to Thataways before Apollal 14 events.

Major Events

1. social Thataways The birdfolk wizard escorted the party to a partial sage council where the witch sage and centaur druid heard about the hag's plan to push gnolls into attacking the village, the demonic god Yongu, the infernal orb, and the party's search for Urgan's Axe.
2. discovery Thataways The sages identified the Allegiance of Stars as outsiders threatening Thataways and said the full council might allow the party to use Urgan's Axe if the party took care of that threat.
3. discovery Thataways Faban busked in Thataways that night and gave the proceeds to clerics; at the inn, Gildas cast detect magic and saw an infernal mark on Corvinas' forehead but no mark on himself.
4. acquisition Thataways The next morning, the full sage council agreed to let the party use Urgan's Axe if they promised to return it and handle the Allegiance of Stars problem; the sages produced the leather-wrapped axe from a rune, gave care instructions, and Gildas placed it in the bag of holding.
5. discovery Thataways When Makani asked about the Celestial Isles, the sages said the outer rim had been devastated by primordial storms from chaos with no known counter short of god-like power; when asked about Jennifer, they said she is a strong spellcaster, the last of a dead breed, and lives far north in the mountains.
6. discovery Thataways The sages said there are other Wells of Magic across the world, that the Wells can help explain the current technology failures, and that when the party returned with Urgan's Axe the sages would allow them to speak with the Thataways Well of Magic; the party asked for and received an escort out of the fey wood.
7. acquisition Thataways As the party prepared to leave Thataways, the satyr violinist who had jammed with Faban blessed Faban's fiddle with magical runes, increasing the instrument's quality and brilliance of tone.

Travel

• Thataways -> Bentrios foot , 1 day high Diary dates span Apollal 14 to Apollal 15; inferred as 1 elapsed calendar day, though the travel covers parts of both dated days.

Major Events

1. discovery Bentrios The party reached Bentrios, where tower renovations were underway, magic shops were affected by world changes, and technological disruption had caused civilized chaos.
2. social Bentrios 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.
3. social Bentrios 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.
4. discovery Bentrios 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.
5. discovery Bentrios 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.
6. acquisition Bentrios Faban vowed to capture the fall and contract of Baron Wells in a ballad titled The Contract of Baron Wells.
7. discovery Bentrios 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.
8. discovery Bentrios 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.
9. discovery Bentrios Faban connected Father Joseph's description of unnatural storm-cataclysm to the destruction of the outer Celestial Isles where Makani's people originated.
10. discovery Bentrios 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.

Travel

• Bentrios -> Thataways foot , 1 day high Diary dates span Apollal 16 to Apollal 17; inferred as 1 elapsed calendar day.

Major Events

1. acquisition Thataways The party returned Urgan's Axe at the tree in Thataways.
2. discovery Thataways Claris granted the party access to the Well of Magic beneath the tree in Thataways while Roon went to the tavern; the party descended a spiral staircase into a cave where a mist-formed face spoke from the Well. The Well, named Khorag, said it did not know its siblings well, revealed that one sibling was in the heart of the Gale at a monastery of the Open Hand, said it had five siblings, said all Wells are bound to tell the truth, said it was connected to nature and the divine god of nature, said a Well can be closed with the Wand of Wells, named Jennifer as the last known user of that wand, and warned that one of the party was lying by omission.

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Travel

• Thataways -> Spore Sanctuary foot , 0 days medium Diary date remains Apollal 18; this appears to be same-day or partial-day travel.
• Spore Sanctuary -> Bellemaine foot , 0 days medium Diary date remains Apollal 18; travel appears same-day or partial-day after leaving the spore sanctuary.

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Major Events

1. discovery Bellemaine The party researched wells and magic at the library.
2. discovery Bellemaine Gildas found a book about the Elemental Cataclysm.

Travel

• Bellemaine -> Road to Archaeological Dig Site wagon , 0 days high Session10 begins the caravan journey on Apollal 22; the party meets Richard and the caravan at the northern gate and receives a carriage.

Major Events

1. combat Bellemaine The party continues the battle against the controller and the construct; Gildas rains arcane fire on them, and the controller retaliates by spraying Roon with acid.
2. combat Bellemaine Mikani heals Roon while maintaining control of lightning, and Faban conjures a Cloud of Daggers around the controller.
3. combat Bellemaine Corvinas throws javelins guided by Faban's song, killing the controller and causing the orb he held to drop.
4. combat Bellemaine Roon and the elemental scramble for the dropped orb; the elemental reaches it first, transforms into a Dao, and the orb disappears.
5. combat Bellemaine The Dao summons earthen power and a marl, knocking Corvinas and Roon down while threatening Faban, Brigit, and Mikani with earthen surges.
6. combat Bellemaine The party battles the Dao with grease, lightning, Cloud of Daggers, arrows, holy magic, and Roon's melee strikes.
7. combat Bellemaine Mikani directs lightning at the Dao's head, causing it to explode as it falls; the party gathers the remnants of the orb.
8. travel Road to Archaeological Dig Site The next day, the party meets Richard and the caravan at the northern gate to begin the journey north.

Major Events

1. discovery Road to Archaeological Dig Site During the journey north, Corvinas studies a book about the archaeological dig site and learns it played a pivotal role in the ancient transition from the Era of Dragons to the Era of Gods.
2. discovery Road to Archaeological Dig Site Roon notices strange shadows moving on their own around the caravan and warns the party.
3. discovery Road to Archaeological Dig Site Gildas investigates the moving shadows and senses faint necrotic divination magic from the Abyssal plane before four lights fly away and the magic disappears.
4. discovery Road to Archaeological Dig Site Mikani speaks with plants and senses no buildings or constructed structures nearby, but detects fey and undead presence somewhere in the caravan, Abyssal influence all around, and both celestial and fiendish influences within the party.
5. social Road to Archaeological Dig Site Faban notices Sam, a suspicious man in a rickety carriage at the back of the caravan, and speaks with him about the archaeological dig site.
6. discovery Road to Archaeological Dig Site Sam warns that if the archaeological site's protection is removed, it may bring death, the return of the arcane, the return of the Wells, and many ancient curses.
7. discovery Road to Archaeological Dig Site Sam shows Faban a small green glass ring imbued with strange energy and says he intends to give it to the quartermaster.
8. travel Road to Archaeological Dig Site After two more days of travel, the caravan continues along the road toward the archaeological dig site.
9. discovery Road to Archaeological Dig Site Faban researches Sam's green glass ring through his codex of songs and recalls a long-form poem describing it as a powerful protective ring.
10. acquisition Road to Archaeological Dig Site Faban attempts to steal the protective green glass ring from Sam at the back of the caravan.

Travel

• Road to Archaeological Dig Site -> Archaeological Dig Site wagon , 12 days medium The caravan journey begins on Apollal 22 and reaches the archaeological dig site on Namal 6, a 12-day elapsed span across sessions10-12.

Major Events

1. combat Road to Archaeological Dig Site At the rear of the caravan near the archaeological dig site, Sam touches Faban with a skeletal, decaying hand and deals necrotic damage.
2. acquisition Road to Archaeological Dig Site Faban puts on the protective green glass ring, feels its power flow over him, pushes Sam away, and draws his rapier.
3. combat Road to Archaeological Dig Site The noise draws the party into the fight; Corvinas, Bridgit, Richard, Gildas, Mikani, and Roon engage Sam and five hostile rangers at the rear of the caravan.
4. combat Road to Archaeological Dig Site Sam casts ancient evil magic that deals psychic damage to Corvinas and Faban, then cuts himself with a black dagger in an attempt that does not work as he intended.
5. combat Road to Archaeological Dig Site Corvinas falls during the battle after Sam reaches out with cursed hands, but Faban and Corvinas's own holy healing bring him back from the edge of death.
6. combat Road to Archaeological Dig Site Sam cuts through his own hand with the black dagger, spilling black blood along the blade and unleashing necrotic energy that summons two large foul-smelling frog-like creatures.
7. combat Road to Archaeological Dig Site Faban tells a magically empowered joke that makes Sam laugh uncontrollably, allowing Corvinas to strike the killing blow and sever Sam's arm.
8. combat Road to Archaeological Dig Site One summoned frog attacks Corvinas and knocks him down near death, while the other poisons Roon.
9. combat Road to Archaeological Dig Site Roon destroys one frog-like creature in a fury of blows, and Faban uses Cloud of Daggers to cut down the last frog-like creature.
10. discovery Road to Archaeological Dig Site Faban searches Sam and finds the black dagger; Gildas determines it is necrotic in nature and probably from the Abyssal plane, while Corvinas notes a possible connection to the dig site's abyssal history.
11. travel Archaeological Dig Site The caravan reaches the archaeological dig site without further incident.

Travel

• Archaeological Dig Site -> Mountain Road foot , 0 days medium Session13 begins at the archaeological dig site on Namal 6; the party sets out northward into the mountains and takes shelter in a shallow cave.
• Mountain Road -> Druid Retreat foot , 4 days high Diary dates span Namal 6 to Namal 10; inferred as 4 elapsed calendar days.

Major Events

1. acquisition Archaeological Dig Site Gildas shows the obsidian hooked dagger to the archeologists; the blade is made for tearing flesh and has dried black blood on it, and Gildas stores it with the orb fragments and the Bentrios orb.
2. social Archaeological Dig Site The party estimates it will take two to four days to reach the druid retreat, camps near the dig site, and Corvinas tells the party about being the last survivor of Mistrona after a demon attack.
3. discovery Archaeological Dig Site Corvinas describes the demon claw mark on his forehead; Roon recognizes the crossed-axes symbol as belonging to Polachnicindoya, lord of the seventh level of hell and demon of rage.
4. discovery Mountain Road Cole appears at the cave with a magical deck of cards; Faban draws The Rogue, which Cole says harbingers betrayal, and Roon draws The Star, which signifies growth and evolution and makes him stronger.
5. discovery Mountain Road Mikani communes with nature in the mountains and senses the conspicuous absence of planar influence, no powerful beings influencing the area, traces of amethyst, iron, and obsidian in the earth, and residual evocation magic from spells cast long ago.
6. discovery Druid Retreat As the party nears an encampment, vines trap Corvinas and an unseen archer fires a warning arrow with a parchment reading, "Those who seek, harm, or burn, shall face the wrath of many here."
7. social Druid Retreat Faban calls out in greeting, and an ancient elvish archer named Jennifer appears, revealing herself as the object of the party's quest.
8. discovery Druid Retreat Jennifer says she no longer has the Wand of Wells because it was stolen recently amid broader magical failures and unreliable protection spells.
9. discovery Druid Retreat Jennifer identifies the known Wells: the Monastery of the Open Hand, Thataway, Henedal, the beaches to the east at Paramon, the sunken city of Catur, and the dwarven city of Balrog.
10. discovery Druid Retreat Jennifer explains that the Wells are kind, do not seek retribution, and are not inherently evil, and that stopping the Cataclysm requires seeking all of the Wells.
11. social Druid Retreat Jennifer leads the party into the Druid Retreat, also described as her coven, welcomes them to her patch of earth, says the situation is complicated, and notes that although she is over a thousand years old, many in the retreat can help the party.
12. discovery Druid Retreat Jennifer warns the party not to put full trust in the gods because the gods are flawed much like mortals.

Travel

• Druid Retreat -> Paramon portal , 0 days high Diary date remains Namal 11 and travel is by portal; inferred as same-day travel.

Major Events

1. discovery Druid Retreat The party wakes to a peaceful vegan meal, and Mikani speaks with Jennifer about the Celestial Isles, Mount Celestia, thunderous disruptions, and the possibility that old Cataclysm-related problems are resurfacing.
2. discovery Druid Retreat The party discusses the Wells, including Catur and Paramon nearby, Balrog requiring descent, the Monastery of the Open Hand in the Gale, and Henedal across the sea as the birthplace of magic.
3. discovery Druid Retreat Jennifer explains that fey mushrooms can heal but exact a toll, and Zerzer says he will send word once he finds a plant that could help with breathing beneath the sea near Catur.
4. travel Paramon For fifty gold per person, an old man traces sigils near standing stones and opens a portal that takes the party to Paramon by the sea.
5. discovery Paramon In Paramon, Mikani communes and senses kuo-toa, humans, scattered others, a portal beneath the guild hall, and a powerful elemental presence offshore near the fishing huts.
6. discovery Paramon Mikani and Faban follow the sound of water to the guild hall, find an arcane Well, and meet Ordor, who says danger is imminent and confirms that Salazar used the Wand of Wells with lightning.
7. combat Paramon Biha-Bibir, a mass of seaweed and living current, rises from the water with a summoned water elemental, and cold strikes Roon and Corvinas.
8. combat Paramon The party fights Biha-Bibir and the water elemental as Mikani calls lightning, Faban turns Biha's mind against itself, Corvinas smites, Brigit strikes from hiding, and Roon presses the assault.
9. combat Paramon The sea fights back with whelm, whirlpool, and control of weather, briefly wresting control from Mikani and striking Faban down hard.
10. combat Paramon Roon cuts Biha-Bibir down in a final decisive arc.
11. combat Paramon Mikani splits the water elemental in half with her trident, ending the fight.
12. discovery Paramon When the water stills, Ordor is silent and the Well remains disturbed, used, and watching.

Major Events

1. discovery Paramon Corvinas examines the remnants of the water elemental and concludes that it was likely a guardian bound to place, with something else riding or using it.
2. discovery Paramon Gildas notices the sigil of a fallen chaos elemental, while Corvinas observes two figures speaking before one disappears.
3. discovery Paramon Faban notices the disappearance as a distortion, uses dancing lights and Tasha's cruel laughter to reveal a black-furred tabaxi, and forces him to speak.
4. discovery Paramon The tabaxi speaks of ancient dragonlands, Tiamat, and demons preparing for resurrection; he implies the Cataclysm is a requirement rather than merely a consequence.
5. social Paramon Faban lets the tabaxi go after questioning him and tells the others a simpler story that the tabaxi escaped.
6. discovery Paramon The party returns to the Well and finds raw arcane force thrumming through the chamber, unshaped and dangerous.
7. discovery Paramon The party realizes that the Well was most likely unleashed by the Wand of Wells and that the Well is no longer sentient.
8. discovery Paramon Corvinas recognizes himself as the conflict within the Well, power surges through him, and a psychic backlash strikes the party before Corvinas remains standing.
9. discovery Paramon Mikani and Roon visit the Temple of Namaloa, where Iron Paw reacts angrily to mention of the Celestial Isles, refuses questions about the Well, expels them, and is revealed as wearing borrowed colors rather than being truly Namaloan.

Major Events

1. acquisition Paramon The party participates in storytelling and gift-giving, where they share stories of their past adventures and receive gifts from the other attendees.
2. combat Paramon Iron Paw summons a Wasterlich and three fish-things, attacking us
3. combat Paramon We defeat Iron Paw

Travel

• Paramon -> Crossroads foot , 2 days high Reviewed session17 dates show Paramon on Namal 13-14 and the Crossroads Festival around Namal 15-17.
• Crossroads -> Balrog foot , 3 days high Reviewed session17 dates place the Crossroads Festival around Namal 15-17 and arrival in Balrog on Namal 18; the combined Paramon-to-Balrog route remains 5 elapsed days.

Major Events

1. travel Paramon The party began in Paramon at the temple where they had defeated Iron Paw, then traveled toward Balrog.
2. discovery Paramon We found a survivor, Erling Rostad, who spoke of primordial forces and the Cataclysm as over-release.
3. social Crossroads Along the road toward Balrog, the party encountered a fair at the crossroads.
4. rest Balrog I sang of the Wells, the Cataclysm, and power released without restraint, causing Forgebottom to falter at the refrain and ruin a stone.

Major Events

1. social Balrog Roon carried Lightdelver on his back.
2. discovery Balrog The party descended into the forge and mines of Balrog where they woke a sleeping dwarven guard.
3. discovery Balrog The party follows a mithril vein, leading them to Saiffi, a well bound to truth.
4. social Balrog Saiffi explained that he is the weakest of the wells, but he is perhaps the wisest and most well-informed. He is a well bound to truth, and he revealed that dragons are signs of impending doom and that Tiamat's return would be devastation.
5. discovery Balrog Saiffi reveals that dragons are signs of impending doom and that Tiamat's return would be devastation.

Major Events

1. combat Balrog The party located the Balrog town center/tower area and learned cultists were trying to summon a dragon
2. combat Balrog Cultists summoned the dragon Orsydon
3. combat Balrog The dragon was defeated
4. acquisition Balrog Faban wrote a song about the fight with Orsydon called "The Battle of Balrog Square"
5. combat Balrog After the combat, the party returned toward the city/tavern and continued planning around the wells, the Wand of Wells, and the cataclysm

Travel

• Balrog -> Coast near Catur foot , 4 days high Reviewed date span runs Namal 20 to Namal 24; inferred as 4 elapsed calendar days.

Major Events

1. travel Balrog Party departed Balrog with dwarven gifts
2. travel Coast near Catur Arrived at Catur shoreline
3. social Coast near Catur Alistair gave the party a boat on the coast near Catur, and the party received warnings about the peoples inhabiting Catur, including merfolk, Locathah, and tritons.

Major Events

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