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Dunmari Frontier - Seeker Solo Session 3

The Sunset Thread: in which Seeker trades color for guidance

Featuring: Seeker, Raven, Spirala, Caulaus
In Taelgar: Oct 13, 1748 DR to Nov 13, 1748 DR
On Earth: Saturday Nov 12, 2022
Shimmersong and Amberglow

Seeker crafts a magical glove, defeats a cursed giant, and trades with Lady Eventide for passage to Lastlight Falls.

Session Info

Seeker constructs the Glove of Crystallized Magic.

Summary

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Narrative

We begin in the fey realm of Shimmersong, where Raven and Spirala have brought Seeker, in order for rest and also learn more about the fey crossing he is searching for. After spending some time in Shimmersong, during which Seeker explored and spent time constructing a magical glove with the shards of crystalized magic to let him manipulate spells, the party has left for Amberglow, where Lastlight Falls – the fey crossing Seeker is searching for – is located.

Amberglow is a decaying realm, in disrepair since the Queen of Sunsets, the archfey of Amberglow, vanished many years ago. To travel there needs a guide, and Raven knows one: the strange human warrior Caulaus Aportino. 

Caulaus leads the party into Amberglow, through the Golden Hills on the border of Amberglow and Shimmersong, to Longshadow Ravine, the only clear path out of the hills into the plains of Amberglow. However, the ravine is guarded by a cursed giant with an evil glare, Vondar One-Eye, who the party later learns demands a toll of a memory to pass. Refusing to pay the toll, the party fights, trying to avoid the cursed eye. As the party wears the giant down, the combat seems to be going their way, until Seeker is cursed by Vondar’s glare. Nonetheless the party defeats the giant, removes the curse on Seeker, and investigates the camp, wondering about the cauldron of bubbling memories. Seeker is nearly pulled into the cauldron before being dragged away by his friends, and the party realizes the better part of valor is not messing with strange fey things they don’t understand, and leave. 

Beyond the Golden HIlls and Vondar’s ravine is a vast expanse of open plains, presumably once beautiful in the evening light of sunset, now dry and pale. To find Lastlight Falls, the first goal is to find the crashed Cloud Palace, where the Lady Eventide, one of the few of the Cloudspinner’s court who remains in Amberglow, resides. The palace is a wreck, twisted and broken and drained of color. Lady Eventide is wearing elegant dress and courtly jewelry, but her skin and nearly all her clothes and hair are bleached pale and colorless. 

Amberglow Cloud Palace

Lady Eventide and Caulaus speak about their apparent shared history, with the Lady telling Caulaus he cannot leave, and cannot be forgiven until the Cloudspinner returns, since it was her that Caulaus wronged. Until then, he must remain in the Feywild. Speaking with Seeker, Lady Eventide asks what he will give in exchange for a way across the fey crossing at Lastlight Falls. Pale and colorless, she asks for the color of his beard, and eventually agrees to take instead a streak of color from his hair. In exchange, she gives him a thread from her dress, made by the Cloudspinner, who as known for her way with spinning thread of magic from the colors of the sunset. 

The party is then told the way to proceed, past a line of trees that guard Lastlight Falls, and to be careful not to touch the shadows of the trees. The party manages to move forward carefully, avoiding most of the dangers of the shadows, and passing through the trees to the sight of Lastlight Falls. 

We end as Raven leaves to return to the defense of Shimmersong, and Spirala, Seeker, and Caulaus see on the top of the cliffs of Lastlight Falls, Kenzo sitting and waiting.