Session 068: Celtic Pantheon Report

General Summary

Corrina & Nikomedes had to stay near their grove while their claim to the surrounding area.
Feeling pressured Euadne, & Apollo used the time to gather information & lore on:

• The Celtic Pantheon
• The plane with the Egyptian Pantheon (Arcadia, Buxenus, Heliopolis)
• Information on the Dragon from the nine hells. (Located in Sephaya, capital of Perunalia.)
• The Greek Pantheon was in Arcadia, Mount Olympus. As well as on new Midgard.
• Information on Perunalia
• Layouts of the ways to the elemental prophets ofTharizdun, & their locations

  They used wish to simulate high nature spells to get the attention of the Celtic Pantheon. If they proved their commitment to the balance of nature, the Celtic Pantheon would join against Tharizdun.

So they split into two teams: Team A would start with the Fire Prophet & Elemental Evil, & at the same time Team B would hit the Water Prophet & Elemental lord. Making their way through both their base, & into the Temple of the Elemental Evil Prince.
Rest & Team A will take pit Air. Team B going after earth.   Team A:

1. Oren
2. Khellendros/ Skie
3. Veronica
4. Anora
5. Hyakinthos
6. Apollo
7. Sapheiros
8. John
9. Krýstallia
10. Arkrania

Team B:

1. Phoibe
2. Theron
3. Smarágdia
4. Hulgnir
5. Jekkar
6. Euadne
7. Neptune
8. Pyra
9. Aetheria
10. Jörmungandr
11. Sparkly

Nikodemus Chosen of Damon went to the Greek Pantheon's temple with Kronos Chosen of Chondrous.
Bacchus was asked to see the Egyptian Pantheon.
Kyrah sent new quests to your children.  They were to face the Magma, Ooze, & Dust Mephit Monarchs

Missions/Quests Completed

Adult Hellfire Wyrm   As part of her agreement of being a subservient champion of Asmodeus, Tiamat the Dragon Queen provided the Supreme Master of the Nine Hells some of her eggs. The eggs were brought to Mephistopheles and infused with Asmodeus's blood. The dragons born from these eggs were raised to become draconic agents loyal to Asmodeus and the ruling archdevils of the Nine Hells. These dragons became known as hellfire wyrms. To ensure the hellfire wyrms would not pose a threat to her, Tiamat deliberately cursed each egg. The cursed hellfire wyrm, no matter how old it was, would not grow to the size of an ancient dragon. Still, every hellfire wyrm, while subservient to the archdevils, recognize Tiamat as their mother and remain reverent to her.   Fiendish Shapechanger. From afar, the hellfire wyrm is often mistaken for a red dragon. As one gets close to it, however, its supernatural aura and diabolical characteristics become more noticeable. It features osteodermic spikes protruding from its head and shoulders and a row of sharp bony spines run from the back of its head to the tip of its tail. Its scales continuously shift in the colors of flowing molten lava and its eyes burn with infernal intensity. The hellfire wyrm can also change its form to that of a tiefling or any Medium-sized devil. It prefers its tiefling form, though, where the once fearsome hellfire wyrm effortlessly becomes a charming, endearing, polite, and eloquent creature. It is probably these traits, and its ability to magically disguise itself, that make the hellfire wyrm even more dangerous.   Agent of the Nine Hells. The hellfire wyrm is sent to the Material Plane to insert itself into numerous powerful kingdoms and live among the humanoid races for an indefinite time, assuming different identities until it establishes itself successfully and secures a position of power, such as a chancellor, magistrate, or treasurer. In these roles, a hellfire wyrm can secretly influence and corrupt monarchs, people of high stations, and those in key, strategic positions to pursue actions and make decisions that align with the goals of its archdevil master or send as many souls possible to the Nine Hells, such as commit despotic acts and start unnecessary wars. The hellfire wyrm always makes these moves very carefully and takes utmost care to hide its diabolical nature. Anyone who becomes even remotely suspicious of the hellfire wyrm's true identity or actions is quickly and quietly eliminated by the dragon. The hellfire wyrm will only reveal its true draconic form if its life is in peril and it can't escape.   *Taken from Monster Manual Expanded 3

Character(s) interacted with

Information on Perunalia.  

  This nation of strong and beautiful women sits at the mouth of the Argent River. The Duchy of Perun's Daughter, as outsiders call it, lies several days downriver from the Free City and is a land of some interest to the people of Zobeck for two reasons: The nation controls the River Argent's connection to land and trade venues on the shores of the Ruby Sea, and its matriarchal and matrilineal country is ruled by the demigoddess Vasilka Soulay, the daughter of Perun, god of war and thunder and the greatest god of the East.

    Perunalia is small but well ruled: rich in the trade of fish and oysters from the river mouth, in timber, in the crafts and fine jewel work, and in divine magic. None of these trades will ever raise the land to glory, but they keep its people happy, healthy, and give them time for reflection, trade, and the pursuit of art.

    Aside from the Magocracy of Allain, Perunalia is the land most given to education, literacy, and the keeping of lore from ancient times, befitting a land that once held the seat of the elven empire, when the Golden Court stood among the Summer Gardens in the Gennecka Forest. The duchy's learning is not focused on the arcane, but rather on practical matters of mathematics, botany, agronomy, and architecture, all of which enrich the duchy's fields and its people. The Royal Konytari, the library in the capital city, is a wing of the royal palace; it is open to the public one day each week. The Perunalians accept noble daughters from the Crossroads region into their academies, including those from the Magdar Kingdom and the Greater Duchy of Morgau, but they never take male students. Zobeck's Azeleanara Perunisis, a retired Perunalian emigrant, sponsors several annual scholarships for worthy girls to attend Sephaya's schools.

Oddly, worship and theology are relatively neglected. Her Divine Transcendence, the Duchess Vasilka, grants boons and answers prayers to a small priesthood, though most of her people also follow the Green Gods and worship Lada.

Vasilka's power provides a bulwark against the centaurs and bandits of the Ruby Despotate, against the dragonborn legions of the Mharoti Empire, and (rarely) against the cunning cavalry of the Magdar Kingdom. Rivalry between the Magdar and Perunalians has waned with the Mharoti threat on their doorstep.

In times of trouble, though, they have a friend in the Free City of Zobeck; their mutual alliance dates back 90 years and remains firm. Perunalia is entirely capable of defending her people, though the duchy also hires entire centaur clans to aid in keeping the Mharoti at bay - and regularly allies with the Magdar against the Dragon Empire, their common foe. The Perunalian warrior tradition is primarily a female one: visitors remark on how strange it is to see only female city guards at the gates and are impressed when they see the duchess's horse guards riding by - every one of them a woman of skill and daring. The typical Perunalian response is a somewhat wry, "We have no idea why you trust men with swords and fire, given how they act with it." The most powerful of her defenders are the amazons of Perunalia.

Women who flee the Despotate, Blood Kingdom, or the Magdar Kingdom to the duchy's borders are welcomed and put to work as soldiers, weavers, and farmers. The Perunalian generals and marshals of the Order of the White Lions - a society of female paladins - are canny enough to raise levies from both men and women alike in times of war. The men, it is said, are inspired to greater courage by the bravery of the amazons who lead them.

The duchy is not entirely gloriously enlightened, selfless, and wise; the merchants of Zobeck consider Perunalians an especially sharp set of traders who sometimes take goods by force to feed their troops or negotiate contracts at sword point. The duchy is a realm like no other, and its people would have it no other way.

Within Perunalia, men are treated as the weaker sex, more for their assumed mental abilities rather than their physical ones. The female rulers deem males too driven by emotions like envy, rage, and sexual desire to take up the serious duties of defense, war, government, and business. Men's roles are therefore reserved for child rearing, maintaining households, and performing limited manual labor, in which their physical strength gives them an advantage. Hard work tempers them, gentling their emotions and making them more pliable for mating. Men may not own property or receive formal education.

Merchant and artisan trades, mining, soldiering, scholarship, and most other trades are reserved for women, but Perunalia's men do apprentice in certain allowable trades, performing jobs like blacksmithing, farming, shipbuilding, lumberjacking, animal husbandry, and the like. Their wives take care of the money gained from such endeavors, and they provide any needed protection.
*Koboldpress.com's Midgard campaign book.