The Schism: A 13th Age RP Campaign

I guess so, yeah.

Yay, I get a Lumu!

Summary:

After viewing the second memory prism with Idoun, a tragic scene of the Great Gold Wyrm, in his human form as Gilgamesh, leaving baby Idoun and her mother knowingly for the last time to seal away the demons, they left Drakkenhall to go to Santa Clara by Val's ship, but not before scaring Violet straight once more.

"Fragment of the Lich King? Vanquished. Jormungand? Slain. A pack of dire wolves? Had to call in help for that one."
"Now if you'll excuse us, we have to go make an icon."

She'll be a good girl for us.

Out at sea everyone notices an unnatural bubbling and boiling upon the sea, trailing toward what seems to be the demon coast. It doesn't deter us from bringing Selene to her loving reunion with her husband, and seemingly more importantly Aeva's joyous reunion with her "Uncle Aaron! *tackle hug*" Raven got to see Nyl for the first time since she returned from the Hyperbolic Time Chamber with the Red and was quite shocked, but eventually the two did have a nice reunion, though it was marred somewhat by Nyl's feelings of guilt.

Selene stays behind with Aaron but Raven tags along, and Aeva departs to do more paperwork. The party takes a caravan until it bears the Golden Citadel, but a sense of disturbance and the earlier oddity prompts Seren and Raven to investigate the coastline. There they find a strange, very obviously OP woman dancing in the shallows of the water. No, it wasn't Azura. Though hesitant, the party together descend the cliffs and meet her at the beach. She goads us them speak to her, but the party insists they were just letting her finish her performance. Nyl asks if she can dance with her, which the mysterious woman obliges. Turns out that her name is Raevana, a Janni and dark goddess, who's also the mother of Marivi, Selene and Axel. She's fairly affable, though with a touch of menace, and as she leaves to allow them to carry on with Idoun's ascension, the party isn't sure if she intends to harm Selene or not. Clearly, she had no love for the father, nor for Axel.

Inside, they claim the third memory prism as well as another statue of Aria which would cause a vision. Idoun views the third memory prism along with everyone, a flashing of Iselia's life before their eyes finally leading into a heartfelt message from her to Idoun. She admits that she has played directly into Arlan's plans by saving Idoun, but has no regrets. By making Idoun both a Hero of Time and an icon, an anti-concept pactbound to a concept, Idoun will become something that Arlan both seemingly wants in order to "destroy fate" but also couldn't possibly control and account for. The whole vision leaves Idoun at first rattled, until Nyl breaks the ice with a "BABY IDOUN IS SO CUUUUUUTE!!1!" Absolute patrician. A relieved laugh and another brief moment of silence later, Warin urges Idoun forward to her task at hand, and they summon up the spirit of life itself, Theos. In order for Idoun to become the White, she and the party must defeat Theos in a trial and Idoun must absorb his power.

And so, Theos travels us across two separate planes and we defeat him through a long battle, but we do so quite well. Idoun accepts the pact and in a flash of light that shakes the world, she achieves her apotheosis.

Right, I was getting mixed up with D&D lol. My bad.

Crow's additions!

- Selene and Aeva stuck around in Santa Cora for Aaron and paperwork.
- Idoun got to snuggle Ashera again, very important.
- Raven is now officially a court mage. Presumably.
- Nyl's decided to try the Seren lifestyle for a while.
- The nice Ifreeti lady said she cut a fun vacation overseas short so she could come yell at Solara or something like that. Also she likes Mizus.
- Idoun didn't change too much after the ascension thing. She looks a bit different. Seems a lot less uptight, but that's probably because she isn't worrying so much anymore. And she finally realized how easy it is to manipulate Nyl. Also doesn't think she needs to eat or sleep much anymore.
- The Three-Now-Four are going to meet in a few days to talk about stuff.
- Black's been busy stalking something that she thinks can listen in to talking stones.
- Idoun's going off on a world tour to say hi to a lot of white dragons before the meeting. After that she's heading to meet the others at Seven Stars Temple.
- Nyl's going to head off on her own and do all she can to distract/piss off the cult, which is going to be especially hard because she promised not to get involved in any dangerous stuff for a month. Note to self: she's going to take a chimera wing and one of the meh-er totems. Just in case she actually manages to piss the cult off. And also leave some stuff for the party.

Party needs to decide who's going where to get what.

Crow, what exactly is the "Seren lifestyle"?

Sneaking up on things, threatening them with extreme violence, murdering them as mercilessly as possible...  Generally being a tough guy.  Now that I think about it, it's honestly not as big a gap as I thought.  The main difference is Seren runs cold instead of hot.

And that was a joke, but... I've completely forgotten what the heck I meant by it or what brought it on.


Nyl's heading west, to the city whose name I'm blanking on with the Archmage. She left a talking stone with Aeva, so she can just call for her and Selene to meet you wherever and save some time. But Idoun was heading to Santa Cora anyway, I think?

As far as productive routes go, we may want to go to Horizon to drop off Nyl, then to Axis, since Bast is there. Assuming the party talks about the temple and shows they wouldn't mind Raven tagging along, we could work in Axis as her going to check in at the palace and let them know she's taking off to the Farlands for a bit. Bast is probably at the tavern, so the party would almost certainly run into her. Then back by Santa Cora to pick up Selene and Aeva, who would have heard over talking stone and also from Iddy that the party would be meeting them there and roughly when. Then to Drakkenhall, even if not to spend any time visiting, but instead to go through the Dragon Wood from there and into the Farlands, since we can't take our normal route by the Forge.

Well, Raven would actually like to see what's been happening with Aaron, seeing as how all the white dragons are going to be getting stronger again. Also, there's not a good land route to Drakkenhall right now, so we're going by boat, no matter where we leave from. It's more direct if we don't go back to Santa Cora, but I'm not so sure it's much faster.

No matter which route we use, I think a lot of this stuff will be done offscreen.