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Dunmari Frontier - Delwath Solo Session 1 (Prequel)

Armbands of Entrapment: in which Delwath uncovers the secret of the Meswati

Featuring: Delwath
In Taelgar: Sep 30, 1748 DR to Oct 06, 1748 DR
On Earth: Sunday Jul 31, 2022
Ko’zula village in the Forest of Dreams

Delwath discovers that Cha’mutte’s shadow armbands are key to freeing the trapped Meswati and prepares to seek allies for his quest.

Session Info

Delwath receives his Deno’qai armor and shield, and learns to speak Deno’qai.

Summary

  • Delwath arrives at a Deno’qai camp and is taken to meet Chief Ninu in the Ko’zula village.
  • Ninu shares the village’s encounter with a deathless warlock and the story of Jotha’s disappearance.
  • Delwath connects the armbands to the entrapment of the Meswati and his own journey.
  • Ninu advises seeking Aristaea and Iascaire at a hunting camp for help.
  • Godcaller Enon equips Delwath with heroic Deno’qai armor and a shield for his quest.

Timeline

  • Sep 30, 1748 DR, afternoon: Arrive in northern forests. Meet hunting party of Deno’qai of the Ko’zula tribe. Spend the night in their camp.
  • Oct 01, 1748 DR: Leave camp, travel with a guide named Zevi back to the main village of the Ko’zula
  • Oct 02, 1748 DR: Travel through the forest with Zevi, arrive in village, meet the village leader Ninu, learn story of the Meswati, the silent tanshi
  • Oct 03, 1748 DR: Spend the day in the village
  • Oct 04, 1748 DR: Spend the day in the village
  • Oct 05, 1748 DR: Leave for hunting camp near the Forest of Nightmares, travel 

Narrative

We begin as Delwath arrives in the vast northern forests, in the late afternoon, the only sign of civilization a campfire in the distance. Approaching the campfire, Delwath sees a hunting camp of maybe a dozen Deno’qai, surprised and awed to see an Elves speaking their tongue. The leader of the hunting band introduces himself as Kaslan, and he speaks with Delwath briefly about the lost tanshi, the Meswati, when Delwath says he is here to find them.

Kaslan insists Delwath come to the Ko’zula village and speak with Ninu, the chief. Spending the night in camp, Delwath hears something of how the Ko’zula surived the Great War. A young boy, Zevi, is assigned to guide him the next morning, and they arrive a few days later.

In the village, Delwath is welcomed with a feast, and meets Ninu. From her, he learns stories of the Meswati. To begin her tale, she brings out two fragments of broken armbands, melted and split, which Delwath recognizes immediately, for one is identical to the armband he touched before being teleported to the shadow realm. It has been in the village for many years, and no one thought anything of it. Last year, a deathless warlock wearing the second armband emerged from the Forest of Nightmares and attacked the village. A warrior from the village, Jotha was gravely wounded near death, and grasped the deathless creature to hold it to the ground for her companions to butcher, but as she touched the armband she vanished. Iascaire, a druid skilled in the manipulation of fire, destroyed both, hoping it would do something, but nothing happened.

This was the exact moment that Delwath fell from the sky outside Kharsan.

As Delwath mentions this, Ninu tells Delwath that the Deno’qai have long though the Meswati were trapped, somehow, by the evil magic of Cha’mutte, for most believe that cannot truly be killed as long as they are not forgotten. Delwath suggests that it is likely these armbands that have trapped the Meswati, for one, Yezali, was trapped with him. Destroying the armbands that captured each tanshi, then, may be the key to freeing them.

Asking where the other armbands may be found, Ninu tells Delwath that a stoneborn, Aristaea, knows the Forest of Nightmares well, and is at a hunting camp with Iascaire, the druid. Ninu suggests they would help Delwath with his quest.

Deciding to head to the hunting camp, Delwath first meets with Enon, the Godcaller of the Ko’zula, who gifts him a shield and armor carried by Balati, a Deno’qai hero of the Great War, to aid him on his quest.