[RPG] Swords Against Khyber
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stevekensonChapter 12: Cardinal Sins
The party accepts High Cardinal Krozen’s “hospitality” for the night. Thanks to a spy in the employ of Queen Diani, blood-regent of Thrane, they’re warned to avoid the drugged food served to them. So when an invisible stalker enters their rooms late that night, they’re awake and able to deal with it.
Before a confrontation occurs between the Cardinal and the characters, his eminence receives an urgent message: the crowned heads of Khorvaire are summoned to Thronehold by the Warders. The Keeper of the Flame accepts the characters’ offer to go along as part of her entourage. In the great hall of Thronehold, the rulers of the Five Nations gather to hear a proclamation by a warforged emissary of the Lord of Blades. A warforged army gathers in the Mournland and will soon invade the rest of Khorvaire. The only terms they offer are unconditional surrender, or death.
Chaos breaks out in the great hall after the warforged crushes the recovered crown of Cyre and destroys itself, rather than be captured. When Merrix d’Cannith attempts to bid time to find out more from the characters, his rival Baron Jorlanna reveals they may know the location of the Heart of Khyber. The heroes make an impassioned plea to the assembled kings and queens of Khorvaire not to attempt to use the Heart against the warforged, knowing its evil and corrupt power will only make matters worse. They receive support from an unexpected source when the Voice of the Silver Flame speaks through Jaela for the first time outside of Flamekeep, telling witnesses that what the heroes say is true: the Heart of Khyber must be bound for all time. It cannot be used by mortal hands.
The characters are permitted to leave Thronehold under the guidance of the neutral Warders, as the sovereigns attempt to plan their defense against the Lord of Blades. Placed aboard the elemental galleon Wave Mistress, they set off towards the west and the Demon Wastes, knowing agents of their enemies cannot be far behind.
The party accepts High Cardinal Krozen’s “hospitality” for the night. Thanks to a spy in the employ of Queen Diani, blood-regent of Thrane, they’re warned to avoid the drugged food served to them. So when an invisible stalker enters their rooms late that night, they’re awake and able to deal with it.
Before a confrontation occurs between the Cardinal and the characters, his eminence receives an urgent message: the crowned heads of Khorvaire are summoned to Thronehold by the Warders. The Keeper of the Flame accepts the characters’ offer to go along as part of her entourage. In the great hall of Thronehold, the rulers of the Five Nations gather to hear a proclamation by a warforged emissary of the Lord of Blades. A warforged army gathers in the Mournland and will soon invade the rest of Khorvaire. The only terms they offer are unconditional surrender, or death.
Chaos breaks out in the great hall after the warforged crushes the recovered crown of Cyre and destroys itself, rather than be captured. When Merrix d’Cannith attempts to bid time to find out more from the characters, his rival Baron Jorlanna reveals they may know the location of the Heart of Khyber. The heroes make an impassioned plea to the assembled kings and queens of Khorvaire not to attempt to use the Heart against the warforged, knowing its evil and corrupt power will only make matters worse. They receive support from an unexpected source when the Voice of the Silver Flame speaks through Jaela for the first time outside of Flamekeep, telling witnesses that what the heroes say is true: the Heart of Khyber must be bound for all time. It cannot be used by mortal hands.
The characters are permitted to leave Thronehold under the guidance of the neutral Warders, as the sovereigns attempt to plan their defense against the Lord of Blades. Placed aboard the elemental galleon Wave Mistress, they set off towards the west and the Demon Wastes, knowing agents of their enemies cannot be far behind.
