Rayne Cross
Was in training with the High Guard.
38
Was kicked out after a fight with Garrett.
His older brother Grai Cross showed up and knocked out Garrett.
Joined the Cardinalhood and raised up the ranks due to his tenacity.
Maimed by Gabriella and her Feral werewolves
Rayne Cross is a man who is good now but was a young member of the Mooncrest Marauders and suffers ptsd from his time fighting under Barren Blackcherry in what would eventually be called the Snowpeak Genocide. He became leader of the Cardinalhood, a group of rangers who protect the woods of Mooncrest until Barren took over and used some shenanigans to have him forget his past. Rayne is a ranger guy and his brother is a High Guard soldier and eventually captain who both fought under Barren
With a demeanor as sharp as his arrows, Rayne, brother to Grai, once trained as a High Guard but found his true calling in the depths of the Mooncrest Woods. Leader of the Cardinalhood, he dedicates himself to safeguarding the innocent. His alliance with the Shatterbrand began as a plea for aid, but it has since transformed into a bond of mutual respect and shared goals.
Wandered around town until she made it to the fishing commune. Asked Mung'Da about rayne. He gets drunk at the guzzler every evening and visits the resort every morning. He lives in a camp in the woods and us hard to find there. Meets lathe at the resort. She is very cheerful. Tells you Rayne was already in and left. You scout out the guzzler until the bakery explodes.
Help Joseph mourn then continue drinking. Asked toldur about Rayne. Sossari perceived he was drinking water not ale. Detect magic to see the water and glaze over his eyes are magical. Get him a room at the inn.
Rayne is seemingly not an alcoholic. He visits Lethe's Resort everyday. He said he used to know Garvin he thinks and that he was sent here by his friend/former general Barren Blackcherry 2 years ago.
Sossari and Arygos wake up to go and see what Lethe is doing at the resort for the veterans. They follow along when she mentions she is missing her mineral water from Myreene's Essential Oils store. Sossari offers arygos to go get the shipment. Lethe accepts because she thinks Myreene's new boyfriend Kleaftus kept her up late.
Sossari charms Lethe and learns that these men were all sent here by the Warden of the Woods Barren Blackcherry. She just kept saying how these men were good soldiers who needed to fight their demons. Sossari dispels the magic on Rayne. Other men in the circle have a shared tattoo with Rayne but he doesn't know who he is or who they are. Sossari sees that one of the men looks like Rayne. This is Grai Cross, a swordsman of the High Guard. His memory isnt quite as gone as he has only been here a couple months. After the Krakens Nest was destroyed, Grai went to visit his brother in the Aerie. His brother was said to have left for a retreat in Crinean 4 years earlier. The last thing Grai remembers is meeting with Barren Blackcherry. Sossari and the Cross brothers leave to go find their friends at the Essential Oil shop. They all meet up and plan to go and kill the slaver buddy of Arygos because they believe they are working with the Kingfishers. The throw the corpse of Kleatus' lover through the window and the slaver viciously attacks Arygos. A fight ensues and the good guys prevail after some self inflicted wounds and head devouring by a sabre toothed tiger. Kleaftus calls out in his dying breath that he is glad they captured Arygos' Brother. Bedlam takes a key off of the slave leader and they make their way inside the warehouse. Inside there are cages of dead dragon wyrmlings tortured and slaughtered. Sossari casts light and the find a lone dragon in the corner cage. It is oozing black liquid from its scales. The cage is encrusted with black Crystal's opposite of the ones Bedlam found. The dying beast reacted positively to the crystal so Bedlam fed it to him. It began to speak in modern draconic. All the older dragons speak the lost language of Synapsi. That's why they can't understand but the younger wyrmlings know modern speak. The dragons name was Amethyst and revealed that the Kingfishers were using their stash of Crystal's to enrage the dragons and cause them pain. Amethyst mentioned that the leader of this province's Kingfishers was wielding the Dragonlance stolen from the Village of Nak. Triss found one document left with any information in it, a food order for a displacer beast with special instructions to get it right. The reason why there was so much caution was the displacer beast was owned by Barren Blackcherry. Current leader of the Mooncrest Kingfishers and the Cardinalhood. Fisherman/slavers/essential oil/ resort working to take memories of people. In particular any soldier who fought under Barren Blackcherry. He is trying to cover up his war crimes. Has sent many vets here over the years and only once rayne started having nightmares did he choose to erase his old friend. Rayne will join the island once he is content with the cardinalhood is back on track.
Fight guard investigating murders. Kill them and torch oil shop. Grai face is burned. Bedlam is scared and runs. Given clothes by toldur.
Ask Woxbood to barkgraft Grai's face. He does and Sossari watches.
Start in Greywyn. Go to rest until the afternoon after discussing the battle plan. Arygos asks Aero about lycanthropy. Told to speak to Crea. The party rests but Bedlam decides to try and steal the cursed axe. Awaken to the axe being stolen and the village missing. Arygos begins raging as bedlam runs away. After all characters leave the circle, an unwitting Woxbood strolls into the village. Arygos slays the bramble dwarf with his greatsword. An argument happens where Arygos is livid about the axe. A lindwurm is attacking the village and controlled by a corrupted synapsid brand. Bedlam lodges the axe into the beast and arygos wrestles it to get his possession back. They fight and defeat the lindwurm. Sossari contracts lindwurm fever. Realize the Cross brothers are missing. Arygos confirms he will go feral in 3 nights.
He reveals there is a young black dragon and a black dragonborn located within the factory. Aero scouts out the walls to reveal there are no guards along the wall. Triss and Joseph decode to infiltrate to let the group know something is amiss. They meet up in the great hall and find the other keys. Triss turns an armory into an oven and kills 4 of them while collecting some weapons. The party releases a dragon with the help of the Synapse and it blasts a hole through the ceiling. Finding another key amongst purple moths similar to the ones you found in Gyaron. The last key is in the dwarven barracks where the Red Heron stayed. They find orders from the Red Heron to the Butcherbird telling them to mobilize their armies on the target. The party concurs that this must mean the Capitol of Arboran. The Kingfishers seek power and wish to take the East. The make their way into the room being used as a conduit to control the dragons. The purple glow corrupts a symbol of Synapsid. Arygos can take the lightning and destroys the totems as Bedlam gathers some more crystals. The party moves forward, sossai hiding back because she is exhausted from her fever. You enter a room used for experiments. You see the Cross brothers strapped to chairs and in bad shape. They have been tortured. As arygos frees the second brother, he hears a low grunt from the back. Attached to a chair by spikes is Pathos. His brother gives Arygos a necklace that was their mothers, it has the emblem of the Merkaynian Enclave. Rayne and Grai suggest the others should leave while commenting how they don't think they could do what Arygos has to do. Arygos gives back his brother hammer but Pathos immediately gives it back, as a gift this time. The brothers look into each others eyes as Pathos whispers, do it. Arygos kills his brother, doing so breaks the curse as he completed a true act of mercy. Arygos takes the axe and throws it into a molten metal flow nearby. Arygos walks out and declares they are going to kill the kingfishers. He breathes electricity as his kinalite hammer charges up and his boots glow lightning blue. You also see Aero storming the castle with the help of more werewolves. Aero takes out the rest of the grunt Kingfishers with the help of Bedlam and the Cross brothers. Aero set out a call in the night of the full two moons and the wolves expended their energy to rally to their Alpha. 6 days of travel and they made it here without a fae crossing. The Cross brothers escaped when Addikus betrayed the team. Rayne wants to reestablish the Cardinalhood but without the corruption Barren Blackcherry brought with him. Rayne seeks to invite Aero and his hunters to help him bring order back to the Mooncrest. He will help rebuild Greywyn and also wants to be officially affiliated with the Shatterbrand. Triss mentions they should rebrand from Blackcherry's team name. Grai is a man without a home, he still seeks to fight even after his military record was forcibly ended years ago. Grai offers his sword to help lead the mercenaries of Eidon. It is revealed that the Red Heron Christopher Knackle, the Mockingbird Addikus Windslayer and the Bloodhawk Maven Grimbind all escaped when the Fenris Tribe and black dragon stormed the castle. The trio was saved when Maven revealed herself to be a succubus and flew off with the leaders. They were aiming towards the Vargen Swamplands province. Rayne fears that they are regrouping with their leader with the Capitol of Skygarde in their sights. The throne sits empty and all of Galfin now knows this. Grai points out that he noticed Addikus had fang marks on his neck. He reveals it has been 6 days since you were incarcerated. Aero was able to stop a transport wagon before the other kingfishers could escape. Triss tasks Grai with searching the Eidon library for any hints on how to kill a succubus. Triss and Bedlam decide to try and speak to the dragon sitting atop the melted Hedgespire. Triss repeats some synapsi she has heard but the dragon does not respond. Bedlam unknowingly speaks its language as the ridges on her horn glow bright white. She can communicate with the dragon who reveals his name to be Blazareth. It understands the Synapsi language. It will thank them for saving it by acknowledging their presence. He mentions how the Kingfishers are just a human reaction to the problem. The dragons were awoken to counteract something much more pressing. He is unaware of why but knows that dragons are immortal beings of chaos, they would only be used to balance an extreme shift in power and oppression. He is hesitant to say the reason for the reawakening is to fight the humans as they came into power because of the reawakening, the kingfishers did not cause it. Alas he no longer can hear Synapsid's murmurs within his mind. He can still sense remnants of the dragon god with the world as order and chaos rock the scales. He slightly gestures towards bedlam's horns. He informs you that he will fly north to the Firefang jags where the last dragon was slaughtered. It was a dragon safe haven and he hopes to rally his kind there. At this point the world knows that the High King and his son were killed by dragons, this takes a more sinister turn when you realize that Addikus was the last person to see them alive and he commanded with the faction who could enrage dragons.
Became leader of the rangers years later.
38
Was kicked out after a fight with Garrett.
His older brother Grai Cross showed up and knocked out Garrett.
Joined the Cardinalhood and raised up the ranks due to his tenacity.
Maimed by Gabriella and her Feral werewolves
Rayne Cross is a man who is good now but was a young member of the Mooncrest Marauders and suffers ptsd from his time fighting under Barren Blackcherry in what would eventually be called the Snowpeak Genocide. He became leader of the Cardinalhood, a group of rangers who protect the woods of Mooncrest until Barren took over and used some shenanigans to have him forget his past. Rayne is a ranger guy and his brother is a High Guard soldier and eventually captain who both fought under Barren
With a demeanor as sharp as his arrows, Rayne, brother to Grai, once trained as a High Guard but found his true calling in the depths of the Mooncrest Woods. Leader of the Cardinalhood, he dedicates himself to safeguarding the innocent. His alliance with the Shatterbrand began as a plea for aid, but it has since transformed into a bond of mutual respect and shared goals.
Wandered around town until she made it to the fishing commune. Asked Mung'Da about rayne. He gets drunk at the guzzler every evening and visits the resort every morning. He lives in a camp in the woods and us hard to find there. Meets lathe at the resort. She is very cheerful. Tells you Rayne was already in and left. You scout out the guzzler until the bakery explodes.
Help Joseph mourn then continue drinking. Asked toldur about Rayne. Sossari perceived he was drinking water not ale. Detect magic to see the water and glaze over his eyes are magical. Get him a room at the inn.
Rayne is seemingly not an alcoholic. He visits Lethe's Resort everyday. He said he used to know Garvin he thinks and that he was sent here by his friend/former general Barren Blackcherry 2 years ago.
Sossari and Arygos wake up to go and see what Lethe is doing at the resort for the veterans. They follow along when she mentions she is missing her mineral water from Myreene's Essential Oils store. Sossari offers arygos to go get the shipment. Lethe accepts because she thinks Myreene's new boyfriend Kleaftus kept her up late.
Sossari charms Lethe and learns that these men were all sent here by the Warden of the Woods Barren Blackcherry. She just kept saying how these men were good soldiers who needed to fight their demons. Sossari dispels the magic on Rayne. Other men in the circle have a shared tattoo with Rayne but he doesn't know who he is or who they are. Sossari sees that one of the men looks like Rayne. This is Grai Cross, a swordsman of the High Guard. His memory isnt quite as gone as he has only been here a couple months. After the Krakens Nest was destroyed, Grai went to visit his brother in the Aerie. His brother was said to have left for a retreat in Crinean 4 years earlier. The last thing Grai remembers is meeting with Barren Blackcherry. Sossari and the Cross brothers leave to go find their friends at the Essential Oil shop. They all meet up and plan to go and kill the slaver buddy of Arygos because they believe they are working with the Kingfishers. The throw the corpse of Kleatus' lover through the window and the slaver viciously attacks Arygos. A fight ensues and the good guys prevail after some self inflicted wounds and head devouring by a sabre toothed tiger. Kleaftus calls out in his dying breath that he is glad they captured Arygos' Brother. Bedlam takes a key off of the slave leader and they make their way inside the warehouse. Inside there are cages of dead dragon wyrmlings tortured and slaughtered. Sossari casts light and the find a lone dragon in the corner cage. It is oozing black liquid from its scales. The cage is encrusted with black Crystal's opposite of the ones Bedlam found. The dying beast reacted positively to the crystal so Bedlam fed it to him. It began to speak in modern draconic. All the older dragons speak the lost language of Synapsi. That's why they can't understand but the younger wyrmlings know modern speak. The dragons name was Amethyst and revealed that the Kingfishers were using their stash of Crystal's to enrage the dragons and cause them pain. Amethyst mentioned that the leader of this province's Kingfishers was wielding the Dragonlance stolen from the Village of Nak. Triss found one document left with any information in it, a food order for a displacer beast with special instructions to get it right. The reason why there was so much caution was the displacer beast was owned by Barren Blackcherry. Current leader of the Mooncrest Kingfishers and the Cardinalhood. Fisherman/slavers/essential oil/ resort working to take memories of people. In particular any soldier who fought under Barren Blackcherry. He is trying to cover up his war crimes. Has sent many vets here over the years and only once rayne started having nightmares did he choose to erase his old friend. Rayne will join the island once he is content with the cardinalhood is back on track.
Fight guard investigating murders. Kill them and torch oil shop. Grai face is burned. Bedlam is scared and runs. Given clothes by toldur.
Ask Woxbood to barkgraft Grai's face. He does and Sossari watches.
Start in Greywyn. Go to rest until the afternoon after discussing the battle plan. Arygos asks Aero about lycanthropy. Told to speak to Crea. The party rests but Bedlam decides to try and steal the cursed axe. Awaken to the axe being stolen and the village missing. Arygos begins raging as bedlam runs away. After all characters leave the circle, an unwitting Woxbood strolls into the village. Arygos slays the bramble dwarf with his greatsword. An argument happens where Arygos is livid about the axe. A lindwurm is attacking the village and controlled by a corrupted synapsid brand. Bedlam lodges the axe into the beast and arygos wrestles it to get his possession back. They fight and defeat the lindwurm. Sossari contracts lindwurm fever. Realize the Cross brothers are missing. Arygos confirms he will go feral in 3 nights.
He reveals there is a young black dragon and a black dragonborn located within the factory. Aero scouts out the walls to reveal there are no guards along the wall. Triss and Joseph decode to infiltrate to let the group know something is amiss. They meet up in the great hall and find the other keys. Triss turns an armory into an oven and kills 4 of them while collecting some weapons. The party releases a dragon with the help of the Synapse and it blasts a hole through the ceiling. Finding another key amongst purple moths similar to the ones you found in Gyaron. The last key is in the dwarven barracks where the Red Heron stayed. They find orders from the Red Heron to the Butcherbird telling them to mobilize their armies on the target. The party concurs that this must mean the Capitol of Arboran. The Kingfishers seek power and wish to take the East. The make their way into the room being used as a conduit to control the dragons. The purple glow corrupts a symbol of Synapsid. Arygos can take the lightning and destroys the totems as Bedlam gathers some more crystals. The party moves forward, sossai hiding back because she is exhausted from her fever. You enter a room used for experiments. You see the Cross brothers strapped to chairs and in bad shape. They have been tortured. As arygos frees the second brother, he hears a low grunt from the back. Attached to a chair by spikes is Pathos. His brother gives Arygos a necklace that was their mothers, it has the emblem of the Merkaynian Enclave. Rayne and Grai suggest the others should leave while commenting how they don't think they could do what Arygos has to do. Arygos gives back his brother hammer but Pathos immediately gives it back, as a gift this time. The brothers look into each others eyes as Pathos whispers, do it. Arygos kills his brother, doing so breaks the curse as he completed a true act of mercy. Arygos takes the axe and throws it into a molten metal flow nearby. Arygos walks out and declares they are going to kill the kingfishers. He breathes electricity as his kinalite hammer charges up and his boots glow lightning blue. You also see Aero storming the castle with the help of more werewolves. Aero takes out the rest of the grunt Kingfishers with the help of Bedlam and the Cross brothers. Aero set out a call in the night of the full two moons and the wolves expended their energy to rally to their Alpha. 6 days of travel and they made it here without a fae crossing. The Cross brothers escaped when Addikus betrayed the team. Rayne wants to reestablish the Cardinalhood but without the corruption Barren Blackcherry brought with him. Rayne seeks to invite Aero and his hunters to help him bring order back to the Mooncrest. He will help rebuild Greywyn and also wants to be officially affiliated with the Shatterbrand. Triss mentions they should rebrand from Blackcherry's team name. Grai is a man without a home, he still seeks to fight even after his military record was forcibly ended years ago. Grai offers his sword to help lead the mercenaries of Eidon. It is revealed that the Red Heron Christopher Knackle, the Mockingbird Addikus Windslayer and the Bloodhawk Maven Grimbind all escaped when the Fenris Tribe and black dragon stormed the castle. The trio was saved when Maven revealed herself to be a succubus and flew off with the leaders. They were aiming towards the Vargen Swamplands province. Rayne fears that they are regrouping with their leader with the Capitol of Skygarde in their sights. The throne sits empty and all of Galfin now knows this. Grai points out that he noticed Addikus had fang marks on his neck. He reveals it has been 6 days since you were incarcerated. Aero was able to stop a transport wagon before the other kingfishers could escape. Triss tasks Grai with searching the Eidon library for any hints on how to kill a succubus. Triss and Bedlam decide to try and speak to the dragon sitting atop the melted Hedgespire. Triss repeats some synapsi she has heard but the dragon does not respond. Bedlam unknowingly speaks its language as the ridges on her horn glow bright white. She can communicate with the dragon who reveals his name to be Blazareth. It understands the Synapsi language. It will thank them for saving it by acknowledging their presence. He mentions how the Kingfishers are just a human reaction to the problem. The dragons were awoken to counteract something much more pressing. He is unaware of why but knows that dragons are immortal beings of chaos, they would only be used to balance an extreme shift in power and oppression. He is hesitant to say the reason for the reawakening is to fight the humans as they came into power because of the reawakening, the kingfishers did not cause it. Alas he no longer can hear Synapsid's murmurs within his mind. He can still sense remnants of the dragon god with the world as order and chaos rock the scales. He slightly gestures towards bedlam's horns. He informs you that he will fly north to the Firefang jags where the last dragon was slaughtered. It was a dragon safe haven and he hopes to rally his kind there. At this point the world knows that the High King and his son were killed by dragons, this takes a more sinister turn when you realize that Addikus was the last person to see them alive and he commanded with the faction who could enrage dragons.
Became leader of the rangers years later.
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174 AHM
38 Years old
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