The Freeing of Haven

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The Spider's Web

 

Hart of Darkness

 

The party were asked by Marlae Roesone, Baroness of Roesone to help her retrieve the Black Hart Ring.

 

The ring, a family heirloom, was according to family lore taken from an enemy commander slain by one of  Marlae’s ancestors at Deismarr. The ring was reputed to have magical powers, but had for the last several generations been kept in the family vaults.

 

The Ring had apparently been stolen, by  Gervase Allusi,  a visiting scholar from Ainure, who had been ostensibly researching the family history for a monograph. 

 

In a long chase, the party followed the scholar’s trail across the continent to a  ruined temple of Azrai on a remote rocky island off the northern coast. The island proved to be the tip of a dormant volcano.

 

Beneath the temple there was a complex of rooms and tunnels, carved out from ancient lava flows.

 

At the heart of this underground complex  was an open portal to the Shadow World where lay a dark counterpart of the temple. The portal was guarded by  Aelendril, a baelnorn, who had once followed Azrai but was now self-appointed guardian of the portal. Aelendril told them that Gervase was in fact a Brecht wizard, Guillame Anders, who had managed to contact Ashnagasz, a powerful Glabrezu. This demon, Ashnagasz, had been imprisoned in the Shadow World temple by Azrai himself after attempting to betray the god. The demon had promised Anders wealth and power if he would bring him the Black Hart ring - the ring was in fact the key to the demon’s cell.

 

Anders had passed through the portal only a hour before, Aelendril, sworn only to stop creatures of Shadow coming through to this world, was unable to stop him, however he gave Lord Norvaire the blade Soulblighter and bid him carry it on in the fight against the Shadow.

 

The party then went through the portal.

 

In the Shdow counterpart of the temple the  party managed to find and defeat Guillame, but not before he had managed to free Ashnagasz. 

 

Ashnagasz  fortunately was severely weakened from his long imprisonment and in a confrontation with the party they managed to sorely wound the demon forcing it to flee to it’s home plane.