Investigate Shadowfell portal. Plinths, bowl grooves, shattered glass, start thinking orbs. Amarion on Crom shoulders, hammer and chisel to change runic symbols. Backfires and damages Amarion, knocking off shoulders.
They push on, through the twisted doors. More bodies beyond, pieces everywhere.
Go up stairs and the corridor narrows to 5ft wide with patterned stonework.
Marching order Amarion, Mornington, Edward, Crom. As they approach the end, the trap triggers. Wall of light spell, Mornington and Edward duck and cover eyes. Amarion fails and is blinded, stumbles forward and takes enough radiant damage to pass out. Edward thinking quickly rushes forward and dimension doors to get Amarion out of there. Crom moves forward to try and get to the end while Mornington tries to crawl back the way they came. Crom runs to the shielding at the end of the corridor and Nat 20 smashes through the huge heavy slab that tips over into another octagonal room, plinths and orbs. Mornington has to run to get out before he suffers more radiant damage.
Edward spare the dying for Amarion. A voice comes from the pile of tarnished bodies.
Orbs look, listen, and speak at Mornington and Crom. They have broken conversation as not all senses are linked to the same person (they don't know this). Mornington demands they shut off the trap and that they should know who they are. The wizards are telling them they shouldn't be down there and they are on high alert after the attacks.
Crom starts knocking orbs off their plinths in anger, much to the annoyance of the SotW. He notices the room beyond, twisted and distorted by strange magic.
Edward finds the voice in the debris, a Tarnished body with no limbs, just torso and head. However, his eyes glow a soft blue, not red as the tarnished tend to. He gives a name and explains he remembers little of his time as the tarnished, but plenty of his life as a Dargean. He confirms he was with the lot that destroyed the first element stone. Edward convinces him to keep his spirit within the head alone, and detaches to be able to take him with them. The dargean is able to heal Amarion just enough to regain consciousness and then Edward claims he must hide the dargean in the bag of holding.
They meet up in the observation room, and now look beyond into the entry hall that is messed up. Grand master wizards start showing up. Saan teleports in shocking them, then Oloka and Ichris walk in. Oloka is very hot headed and ruffles feathers, Saan is stern but controlled, Ichris is old and sleepy, but speaks to them calmly enough that they only give him curtesy and answers. They discuss much is to be done. Knowledge shared, etc.
They move through the twisted room and to a levitation lift, this takes them 200ft up into a study with a secret door wall that hides the lift. As they enter the hallways of The Woven Pillars Ichris asks them to come to his study.
Ichris talks to them of current troubles, the absence of arch mage in affairs and the captured Master of his order with the Enchanters. He tells them of other Servants of the Weave that they will already know in the pillars and tells them they should go roaming.
Go see Iravius in the infirmary, he tells them about the spell that sent the invaders away. He says Peyton is in the city, followed Iravius back when he went to restudy the air stone at Faunar Watchtower. Amarion heals him with his divinity, very grateful, well enough to leave. He departs to his quarters but tells them where they would find Eilen and Yourcil.
They decide to find Eilen in the Pillar of Evocation. He is at a spell range practicing his scorching ray. He is happy to help and tells them his Grand Master is great once you get to know him. Lead to his quarters at the top of the tower.
Gain audience with Oloka, roaring fire in his study. He is still brash and bold with how he talk to the heroes but they manage to find common ground and mutual respect. They get more dirt on the feuding pillars and Mornington devises the plan to get all the Grand Masters together to open communication tieh Arch Mage Omanor, as locking himself away at times like these is less than productive.
After a time a knock comes at the door, Oloka answers and has to end their meeting, he seems reluctant to kick them out. This is apparent why as 20 wizards and a number of town guard are here for the party. Most of the wizards are Enchanters, they ask for Crom and Edward to go with them, while the town guard ask Mornington and Amarion to go with them to the king.
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