Session 36 - Epilogue

The PCs throw themselves at Ogremoch and Marlos Unrayle, unleashing their most powerful attacks. The colossal elemental summons more rocky minions to do his bidding, while Marlos uses his petrifying gaze against the party.

Zadas inflicts monstrous amounts of damage to Ogremoch, while Mauritius and Ayu keep the other elementals and Marlos busy.

Gack rains death from above, when Evral calls forth Thor's help, which manifests in the form of a giant divine hammer, smiting his enemies.

One by one, the villains fall, first Marlos, and then Ogremoch. But the lord of earth rapidly regenerates his destroyed form, kept together by the unholy energies of the Earth Node. Understanding the power of Ogremoch is tied to the magical pick of Marlos, Mauritius grabs the weapon, and slams it against the altar that anchors Ogremoch to the world. As the altar shatters, Ogremoch's form crumbles to dust. 

The threat of the Evil Elemental cults has been averted. The party returns to the surface, to the accolades of their friends, and say their farewells.

THE END

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Session 35

Marlos Unrayle

The PCs reach the Black Geode, last outpost of the Cult of Black Earth. They convince a couple of hill giants guards to let them pass without too much trouble, and rapidly dispatch a few cultists and their elemental pets.

Gack decides to disguise himself as a Black Earth cultist to scout ahead. He bypasses a hermit and his xorn companion by offering tribute, and he arrives in a cavern occupied by a river of mud. 

Further ahead he enters a cavern covered in purple crystals, ending his scouting mission at a stone bridge. He then returns to the party to report.

The party moves ahead, ambushing the hermit and the xorn, to move to the river of mud. there they find a passage leading them to a cavern dominated by a pool of mud, guarded by a few mephitis and an elemental myrmidon. 

The PCs defeat the creatures, and proceed to the foundry, where they kill a few cultists and free Rundorth, a dwarven blacksmith. In order to assist them in battle, Ayu polymorphs Rundorth in a giant crab, which Zadas claims as a mount.

Not far from the foundry, the party arrives at  a huge cavern, where Marlos Unrayle, prophet of earth, is completing the ritual to summon Ogremoch, evil lord of elemental Earth. The final battle for the fate of the Sword Coast is about to begin!

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Session 34

The PCs continue the exploration of the Howling Caves, where they have to battle more air cultists, and their demonic allies.

They rescue a few more prisoners from the clutches of the evil acolytes, fighting their way through the priests of the Howling Hatred.

Eventually they reach a cavern where three spikes of stone jut upward like three immense claws. Between them, a churning thundercloud thrashes with lightning. Thunder cracks, and cascades of tiny rocks tumble from above. Beneath the thunderhead stands a raised are splattered with the blood of many sacrifices.

A silvery window is sometimes visible in the center of the cloud. It opens onto clouds in an endless sky.

Aerisi Kalinoth, prophetess of Air, stands next to this "portal", supported by two Air Elemental Myrmidons. Battle is joined, and evil is defeated. In order to seal the portal, Mauritius throws Windvane, Aerisi's magical spear, into the magical door, destroying it and stopping Yan-C-Bin (the evil lord of elemental air) to enter the world.

Then suddenly, from the remains of the portal, bubbling water spring forth, and then a vision. Poseidon, god of the Depths, appears to the party, with a message for Zadas: "Seek me out once your task in this world is concluded". Galvanized by this revelation, the PCs get ready to face the last remaining prophet.

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Session 33

The party defeats Vanifer and her lackeys, and recover her magical dagger, the unholy sympol of her covenant with the evil elemental lords.

In an adjacent room they discover the statue of a drow divinity, pointing at the original purpose of the structure. The party faces a few harpies, and a guardaian of elemental air, before gaining access to a tunnel leading downward, to the Howling Caves.

There they have a to cross a dangerous chasm, and defeat a group of spectres. Eventually they reach a cave where several humanoids are kept prisoner by a nycaloth. The PCs defeat the fiend, and free the prisoners.

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Session 32

Emberhorn Minotaur

The PCs rest for a day or two, before descending into the Fane of the Eye. Waiting for them they find several cultists of Ogremoch. They defeat the villains, and interrogate one of their priests. 

He reveals that the four cults have forged some sort of alliance to summon the Elder Elemental Evil, an alien god called Tharizdun. They believe this entity will be the herald of their own elemental lords.

The party proceeds to an abandoned mine occupied by a few undead, and then they face Zegdar, the leader of a band of minotaurs devout to Imix, lord of fire.

The PCs are unfazed by these monstrosities, and they gain access to a room containing the ancient sarcophagus of a drow, probably a priest of Tharizdun.

Not far from this chamber, they find the Temple of the Elder Elemental Eye. Here the three remaining prophets of Elemental Evil are completing a ritual involving a human sacrifice. The party is too late to stop the ritual.

When the prophets take notice of the arrival of the PCS, two of them disappear, leaving behind Vanifer, the tiefling prophetess of fire, and her minions. The PCs get ready to do battle.

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Session 31

Leading a small army of azers, the PCs fight and kill a chimera. Next to her lair, they find a prisoner of the fire cultist; the woman is a water cultist that was captured by the opposed cult a few weeks back. She does not seem to have any useful information, so Mauritius decides to end her sufferings.

The PCs proceed to a great hall where they find several cultists and hobgoblin enforcers. The party bribes the hobgoblin to fight for their side, and together they defeat the cultists.

The hobgoblins point them in the direction of the cultist in charge of the Temple, a mage going by the name of Bastian. The man is supported by two fire elementals. Zadas summons a wall of water that quenches the fires of the elementals, and the party rapidly murders the mage.

The party interrogates one of the cultists in charge of the temple, a woman named Lyzandra Calderos. The woman shares a few details about Vanifer, the tiefling leader of the Cult of Eternal Flame.

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Session 30

The party delves deeper into the Temple, fighting more Fire Cultists. They arrive in a gigantic room occupied by pools of lava, where enslaved azers and a salamander toil as slaves of the cultists. 

The PCs lead the rebellion of the creatures, and together they fight a mighty efreeti coming to support the evil followers of elemental fire.

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