Ispara: Session 16 Notes

Shadowfell

Everything shades of gray, even Tadhg’s Devil’s Sight, all vision distance is halved
Party destroyed Shadows in Shadowfell version of Opalla orphanage / Night Hag’s Lair
Party explores Lair in hopes to find means of escape back to Material Realm
Stumble into dining hall, fight 2 ghost children (creepy twin sisters), ghosts were busted

One ghost girl had cursed doll that Tadhg had seen before at Tinker-schnitzel Magic Shop

Opened door to enormous court yard, hedge maze, strange pillar of bright light in the center

Door opens into a large room with pillars, strange dark swirling shadows, and shadowy creature called Vashtanerada (V)

V takes controls suits of armor to fight Party, V can only be hurt when occupies the armor
Shadows within room also seem to hurt the party
Party defeats V, Vasher acquires sweet Shadow-weave Plate Armor
Clicky creatures (disfigured Shadovar, high born Netherese) chase Party in maze, attempt to enter pillar room through a barred door, Thorian & dire wolves guard the door

Party escapes fight with Shadovar, exists from back door, enters a long hallway with creepy windup toy music, many windows display nothing but swirling darkness
Hallway finally leads to a girl’s bedroom with with a canopy bed

Girl says her name is Annalise
She helps party escape maze-like house out into the village
Party learns they must head to the tower in the center of the city called Thotanthar

After a fight with the team (no one dies) we learn they are cool, just communication issue, their team name is Raven’s Claw
Raven’s Claw is aligned with the Raven Queen, know Vivictus as traitor
Party learns that Mistress of the Night is the ruler of the Shadowfell, she is the one in the tower
Raven’s Claw thinks were are part of some prophecy, before we head to the tower we need to go to the Violet Cathedral

Party chooses to believe Raven’s Claw after insight checks, head for the Violet Cathedral

Violet Cathedral has two towers with a large Violet Circle floating in the center between them, circle is strangely in full color unlike everything else

Aftermath of Insane battle with many magic users in front of the Cathedral, Cathedral itself appears undamaged
Broken fountain in the center of yard surrounded by long since dead skeletons
Near fountain, black glass spear called Shadowmar, looking through the spear Shadowfell appears to be in color, Torrin takes the spear

Rain begins to fall outside, looks like blood pouring out eyes of stained glass Shar
Dead / undead skeletons begin filing into the Cathedral, they sit in pews, ignoring the party

Tower has no door, instead some type of offering dish
Vasher cuts his hand, blood offering into the dish, nothing happens
Thorian hears a voice in his head, suggesting that he is the only one who can offer anything since he is the only one in the party who does not have a pact, oath, or vow with another more powerful entity
Thorian offers his blood, makes an oath with entity in tower
Tower door opens into darkness then the party hears the entity’s voice

Entity Claims to have many names: Mistress of the Night, Lady of Loss, Night Singer, Lights Bane, Shar
Shar tells Party to steal Ever-Light from tree in center of hedge maze, if we do this for her she will send us back to the material plane
Seems like a pretty good deal, party agrees

Party makes way to center of the hedge maze, plucks Ever-Light from tree, light dims & Ever-Light shrinks to the size of a softball, then hell breaks loose

Raven’s Claw shows up, tells Party we are idiots for taking the light, whatever we do: DO NOT give it to the Mistress of Night, She is evil
Party agrees, but Shar is pissed, Vivictus shows up & seems to be servant of Shar
It is discovered / understood that Shar is actually the Destroyer God
Shar & Vivictus start attacking Raven’s Claw, Krishna & Aleksandr are killed while the Party try to figure out what to do with the Ever-Light, Party is pretty useless
Fight going horribly, suddenly giant raven swoops in, this is The Raven Queen
Raven Queen does something to Vivictus to snap him out of Shar’s enthrallment, he opens up a portal to the material plane, Party and remaining Raven’s Claw jump through portal

In the swap land near Nogger’s hut, freezing cold winter, deep stinking swamp water
Kristov & Jori-en shaken up from watching others of Raven’s Claw die
Learn something about the Ever-light

Ever-Light’s are “souls” of world, each realm has one growing on it’s First Tree
First Tree of Material Plane: Mohan Volla, First Tree of Shadowfell: Shan Var
Only a god could put an Ever-Light back

Shadovar began worshiping Shar instead of the Raven Queen, this lead to the breaking of their land which sent them into the shadowfell

Vivictus’s giant scythe remains in material realm after portal closes, Party takes it with
Party plus remaining Raven’s Claw Travel to Noggers’s hut

Noggers is nuts as usual, her Night Hag sister, Lucy, has paid her a visit & messed her up pretty good
Lucy knows Noggers was beind our botched attempt to steal her eye
Party gave Noggers eye from Choggers and Torrin’s magic heals her up a fair amount
Noggers actually willing to consider Party’s debt fulfilled, but Party cannot willingly leave Lucy in Opalla to enact her evil will on the people
Randomly Noggers gives Party 4 potions so each member can learn about one aspect of the world