Session 12 - The Battle Of Ashscrub Grove, Part 1
General Summary
16th The Melting, 2063 EC
- The session began with the party discussing events with Agrob Pyreye and Morren Bluevale.
Faephine spoke briefly with The Last Felmethian Company.
The party decided to speak with Dotun, the ex-Paladin of Dawn at the Sanctuary Camp, to try to uncover Xyrrel Yelfaren's motive for trying to dispose of Pyreye.
Dotun explained he left the Keepers Of The Sun because he believed they valued worship of Xyrrel over Lathander. He said that Xyrrel had abandoned her faith, although he could not say what she wanted now.
Wildervan purchased a copy of 'Draklar Moonblade' and 'Peinrir The Keeper'.
Damicus, Delrora and Toth went to visit the Circle of Dreams and met Urania - the representative for the Circle of Dreams at the Gathering.
Damicus received a vision from the Faywild Tree - a fire burning the grove, and another of the fire being held back by branches. Delrora learnt little from the tree and Toth felt nothing at all.
Delrora sold the idea of a Faywild travel business to Urania.
The party rested for the night.
17th, The Melting, 2063 EC
The party awoke to Urania falling from the sky, seriously injured after apparently being shot by a Keeper Soldier. She warned the grove that a Keeper Battalion were approaching the Grove, and would arrive by nightfall.
The Gathering was held to decide the future of the Grove and to gather allies to help defend it.
After a heart-felt speech from Wildervan, Rejuvenation won and the Sanctuary Camp, Circle of Dreams and Circle of Wildfire all agreed to aid in the defence of the Grove.
The Keepers surrounded the Grove and the party set up their defences.
During the battle, Toth and Dotun held the Southern entrances to the grove, preventing Keeper units from entering.
Xyrrel Yelfaren herself arrived, via. the passage in Odritin, accompanied by a Paladin, Cozira and a group of Keeper soldiers.
Delrora, posing as Xyrrel, ordered one group of Keepers to retreat.
Faephine and Xyrrel's forces clashed, leaving both groups weakened.
Wildervan and a number of Dryads ambushed Paladin Khartag's group, killing Khartag and all members of his party.
Faephine attempted to talk and reason with Xyrrel, but was captured by the Keepers group instead.
Shortly after, Moxiloth and a party of Dryads attacked Xyrrel's squadron, utterly decimating the Keepers and freeing Faephine.
Faephine spared Xyrrel and took her prisoner.
Cozira escaped through the use of some kind of illusory distraction.
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