Session 34: Sisterhood of the Traveling Sword

We are in the apartment of the Real Aria Silvermist above the tavern. We have just opened the scroll that seems to be a Greater Restoration.
 
We restore her memories with the scroll. Her energy has changed to a very heavy sad energy. We learn that she did end up in hell, but a man helped her. she can't quite remember who it was. She believes he was a human fiend or something. Maybe an Incubus?
 
We catch her up on the current events. She notices that Elias has Passin's sword. She warns him that it is an evil weapon and to be quite cautious. We end up traveling towards Captain Blackwood. WE find her and we learn Passin is in Demerisa Castle. Blackwood is trying to gather her men to help attack him.
 
As we are sneaking to the castle we are surrounded and approached by Passin. He immediately notices the sword that Elias has. Elias tells Passin that Lady Shar wants him to have it.
 
Passin and Hazel talk about Ardenia, and pastries and stuff. It's weird. Passin invites Elias to come rule by his side. He can even bring the rest of us.
 
We learn that he plans to rule the city by himself. We can be his personal guards. His plans has a lot to do with the sword that Ashe stole and gave to Elias. They discuss the origins of the sword. Some guy named Zoth owned it first. He offers to let Elias rule Eldoria and himself leave. Elias needs to think.
 
Aria doesn't trust him as she believes Passin is waiting for us to fall into some kind of trick or trap to prove he's clever. She thinks the key will be understanding what the sword does.
 
Elias plans to meet his sister tonight and ask her about it.
 
We try to make sense of Passin's plans while Elias atunes to the sword to understand it.
 
As Elias studies it has feelings of loss, sadness, mystery and pain. The more he communes with it, the more he feels that it's trying to communicate back to Elias. Something is blocked though. It's a great sadness/loss that is causing this blockage. HE does know its name though. It's called Shimmer. 2 different moons appear on the sword giving Elias special abilities when bearing the sword.
 
Hazel teaches us a little bit about the cities of Greatspear. Eventually Elias goes to see his sister, Joe and Ashe in tiny forms hidden on his person.
 
Franz and Hazel stay back just a little.
 
Auska tells Elias how she is alive. Passin once masqueraded as someone else. She asks if Elias knows Drew. Elias does know him. He's in the thieves guild. Drew created a disguise for Passin. He then became known as Blackstaff. Drew isn't from our world. He helped create and shape the Blackstaff image. She rose up to fight him, because he was a tyrant. He defeated her. However, he didn't kill her, but made it look like he killed her. He then passed on the Blackstaff persona to Auska, who has been working for him ever since.
 
Elias reveals that Passin is actually her father. She had no idea about this and has a hard time believing it.
 
Elias asks her about the sword. She says if we learn about it, it will lead us to what he is doing. Elias tells Auska that he believes that Shar has a mission for both of them to join and kill Passin. She tells Elias that Shar wants her to kill Elias! She then disappears in a cloud of smoke.
 
Ashe notices that she just turned invisible and jumps on her in spider form. Elias begs to just speak about this out loud as he feels Shar pushing him to kill her.
 
He disregards Shar's push and tries to reason with his sister. She says that she knows shars told him to kill her and that Shar has told her to kill him, so what's it gonna be?
 
They have a discussion about loss and what it is and she believes loss is a gift. Elias is able to reach her with his words and invites her to join us. Just as she's about to aree, she starts to scream and grab her head. Purple lightning bolts start forming around her, but she is able to suppress it. As Elias starts to experience the same sensation, he is able to resist it as well. Whatever Shar was doing to them, they were able to resist.
 
Auska runs to Elias and hugs him, and is grateful for the opportunity to get out from under all of this.
 
Auska thinks the sword is why she was able to resist. We all come out of hiding and welcome Auska. We decide to go to the thieves guild and hide out there.
 
We see Drew, who is very surprised to see Auska. We go to Elias's private quarters.
 
She tells Elias that Zozth, the first owner of the sword had a wife named Akila who lived in a small town called Kephera. There is an article for the rest. @Zozth They had a tragic death together. in Zozths travels through the shadow plain, he met Anubis and Shar who made some kind of deal. Shar made him a revenant. He went on a murderous rampage against his enemies murdering their families/friends/pets.
 
The city eventually was sunken into the sand after all of the death and destruction. The ocean turned into sand and a wasteland. Zozth commited suicide and then met the queen of air and darkness. He had a falactory that was the black diamond. He wanted it destroyed so he could die.
 
Once the diamond was destroyed into shards, he was able to rest in peace. As long as it's not restored he can't come back. The sword is a powerful sword from his wife. It seems to be carrying all of that loss into one sword.
 
We think Passin intends to bring Zozth back. The sword isn't the key to that. The sword chooses who wields it, and once it has chosen, the bond is unbreakable.
 
Passin is trying to gather the shards to bring Zozth back.
 
Auska says she can use a spell to change the aura of the shard so it can't be detected by Passin.
 
A 3rd moon appears on Shimmer. It seems to have appeared when Elias resisted Shar.
 
We take a long rest here. Auska and Joe talk, and Auska reveals shes nervous her spells aren't going to work in the morning since she betrayed the city of loss.
 
Hazel and Ashe have girl talk for a large amount of the night.
 
Elias has a dream that he is lying down looking at the moon. He suddenly feels like the world is upside down, because the moon is down and not up. He starts floating towards the moon. As he floats Shar tries to pull him back with wisps of black smoke, but he is able to fight it. On a pedestal, there is the sword. He hears the voice of Selune who tells him he has been released by Shar. She offers him the sword. She says that it is now purified in her name. Elias is the first Harcleve that was able to break the curse that Shar placed on the sword.
 
She offers the sword to him and says it's a moon blade. She restores the sword for him so that Elias can make things right and the Harcleves can come back into the arms of Selune where they used to be before Zozth.
 
Selune says shar is planning something that may destroy this world. She asks Elias to be her champion. He says he will agree if she gives him the power to defeat his uncle. The sword starts glowing and he wakes up. It how has 6 moons on it.
 
A 7th moon appears and Elias knows that this moon represents him. The other 6 represent the last 6 people to wield the sword. This is now a +3 weapon.
 
Everyone wakes up, Hazel makes us breakfast and Elias shares what happened to him with us. Ashe tells him about the Moon Blade and waht that means.
 
We learn that Auska has lost her ability to cast high level spells. She just can't remember them, nor can she cast them from her spell book. She can only cast 5th level or lower spells now.
 
WE talk about what to do next. We think trying to destroy the shard we have might be the way to go. Hazel tells us that the other group has a shard that is imbedded in their hand. Maybe we can extract the shard from the book and destroy it.
 
We decide to seek out blackwood and Aria after our long rest to see if we can come up with a way to help the city and this is where we end.