⚔️ Taldorei — Campaign Status

Abyssal Anchors Crisis · Current through Session 79 — Into the Shadebarrow · Party Level 11 · Intelligence update: Fetch's letter (2026-06-27)
THREAT LEVEL: CRITICAL. A divine gate opened in the Umbra Hills and the Demon Prince of Indulgence — now named Graz'zt — crossed into the Prime Material. Jorenn Village evacuated. The Iron Authority is working to bring back the god Bane. An intercepted letter exposes the rival relic hunter Blaine Kraverrogg as a Cult of Vecna agent racing the party to the Shadebarrow, which his letter reveals to be an Orcus-sealed vault of "pure malice." New (S78): the devil army is marching from the Umbra Hills (5-10 days out, splitting toward Kraghammer and Westruun); a corpse-raising fog and a necromantic blight now spill from the Shadebarrow. The party reaches Ebonroot and gains the blighted druid Camellia Springshower as a guide to the barrow. New (S79): the party is inside the Shadebarrow. The signet ring opened the iron gate, which does not reopen from within without it, and the portal in was one-way — they are committed. The interior has been rebuilt since Camellia was last inside. A wall tally lists seven keys with six already struck through, meaning someone worked this place ahead of them. The party holds three Glyph Keys.

Current Status

LocationInside the Shadebarrow — second chamber, mid-combat. No way back out the way they came (in-game year 1836)
Party Level11
Last Session79 — Into the Shadebarrow
Anchors3 deployed · 1 captured/vaulted (needs moving out of Westruun) · 1 left to place
Immediate goalFinish the wights in the vine room, get through the (never-locked, inward-opening) doors, and decide whether to touch the black onyx rune circle
Party gold0 (no gold this session)

The Party

Anastasia "Ana" RavenswoodHuman Artificer · Kayla
Bohdi ShadowtwistBugbear Sorcerer · Jeremy
Finnick "Finn" Marigold MossglowGnome Illrigger · Sirwen
Grai MalinHalf-Orc Barbarian · Liane
Imdra d'VadalisHuman Druid · Theresa
Ki NightwhisperAarakocra Bard · Kevin
CompanionsThrack (Dwarf) · Zelthrax (Velum dragon — bond with Imdra expired, still with party)

Active Threats

  • Graz'zt, Demon Prince of Indulgence overwhelming
  • Devil army from the Umbra Hills — 5-10 days out marching
  • Shadebarrow fog — raising the dead, spreading blight rising
  • Iron Authority — reviving Bane foe
  • Blaine Kraverrogg / Cult of Vecna — racing to the Shadebarrow foe
  • Whatever is taking the children (Umbra Hills)
  • Liora Mossglow / The Mawl at large
  • Three-eyed being — orchestrator unknown

Council Leads — The Endgame

Active — party committed
Remnants
The party's chosen lead: deal with the remnants, recover the bomb, and potentially rescue Alorah Vasorin's soul. Third Abyssal Anchor still to place; device was in Westruun. New: the Remnants appear to be a Cult of Vecna cell holed up in the Shadebarrow — and Blaine Kraverrogg's Vecna cell is excavating it for an Orcus-sealed power. A Vecna cult as "ally" warrants suspicion.
League of Miracles
Mage mercenary group — recruit their wizard via the envoy to the Palace of Wonder.
Calmyros the Unbroken ally
Adamantine Dragon Paladin, opposed to the Iron Authority. Turn his people to help.
Magnus Wilds' Theory
The Archeart wove the Weave from their own essence — repairing it needs divine essence from many demigods.

Open Questions

  • What did Orcus seal beneath the Shadebarrow — and what happens if a Vecna cult breaches it?
  • Are the Remnants and Blaine's Cult of Vecna the same group, allies, or rivals?
  • Who is the Keeper of the Whispered Truth (the cult's leader)?
  • Did Father Abraham survive the breach? Does the Bastion still stand?
  • Who is Oz? (went North West)
  • Where are Liora and Zarissa?
  • Who was Pip, and what did the disposal mean?
  • Is the captured anchor truly inert?

Recent Loot & Notes

  • Vex: 18 healing potions to the shared pool (5 Healing · 7 Greater · 4 Superior · 2 Supreme)
  • Gilmore's spree — Ana: Ouroboros Ring · Ki: Inker's Armband, Shadow Weaver's Guise, Dragon's Call · Finn: Magentan Sun-Saw V · Grai: Greatsword of Wounding
  • Sold at Gilmore's: Grai's Mind Lash, Pride Mace, Battle Tax
  • Party gold: 0 — all spent at Gilmore's
  • Ki: Quill of Preservation (counter-anchor)
  • 1 captured anchor device — Cobalt Reserve vault

Recent Arc — Sessions 73 → 78

Session 73 — North into devil-haunted waste to the Bastion of the Fading Dawn. Father Abraham reveals the Battle of Umbra Hills / Drasig history. Wards break; a divine gate opens and the Demon Prince of Indulgence crosses over.
Session 74 — Party flees, evacuates Jorenn, teleports to Cloudwatch. The Council lays out the endgame: Remnants, League of Miracles, Calmyros, and securing the device from Westruun. Iron Authority is reviving Bane.
Session 75 — Resupply in Emon. The Demon Prince is named: Graz'zt. Vex hands over 18 healing potions; Gilmore's discount spree drains the party gold to 0. The group commits to the Remnants lead: handle the remnants, recover the bomb, and potentially rescue Alorah's soul.
Session 76 — (Sessions 1-51 not digitized in this vault.) Bohdi is promoted into the Clasp inner circle. Fetch — framed by a forged signature on Myriad letterhead — names the Remnants location: the Shadebarrow in Ebonroot, via Sevil Howthess's bloodline. The party takes Buddleia Austan's cursed signet ring (the iron-gate key) and ends the session fighting "murder ghosts." The Westruun anchor needs moving after Quash tried to disintegrate it.
Intelligence — Fetch's letter, decoded. The rival relic hunter Blaine Kraverrogg is a secret Cult of Vecna devotee, using the League of Miracles as unwitting funding. He broke Sevil Howthess's grandchildren (Camilla Tenver, Buddleia) with "waking nightmares" to find the barrow, which he calls an Orcus-sealed vault of "pure malice" — a weapon to use against the Republic in Vecna's name. He has left for Ebonroot (Bohdi's former home) to excavate it personally. The sign-off, "the eye sees all, the hand takes all," confirms Vecna (the Eye and Hand).
Session 77 — Murder ghosts and ghouls destroyed in Buddleia's townhouse (Ki's thunderous floor-pound finishes the wall-hiders). Grai's Curse of the Hells identified by High Scholar Lyra Finch (Legend Lore) and removed with echoes — 4d10 psychic per long rest. Camilla Tenver's second ring missing; Blaine likely keyed. Quash "almost done" with the anchor, lab wrecked.
Session 78 — Out of Westruun ahead of the devil army, across the Dividing Plains (necromantic blight in the grass) to fog-choked, palisaded Ebonroot. The party reaches the Thistle Farmstead too late — the farmer Hollis and both children are dead — and cuts down fog-raised ghouls and a skeleton horde. They meet Camellia Springshower, a Circle of the Blighted druid who confirms the corpse-raising fog now pours from the Shadebarrow and agrees to guide them there.