Episode Introduction
As the war boils against the Coven of Zul, the Mortal Guardians discover a critical vulnerability in their efforts: the supply of riftbreakers has been nearly exhausted. Midnight moonstones, a crucial component in the construction of the devices, have become almost impossible to find. Without them, the only way to contain the rifts is through highly dangerous arcane rituals. Fortunately, the Mortal Guardians' newest allies, the deep gnomes of the subterranean city of Lapiszora, may have discovered a solution! Join us, fellow guardians, as we delve into the depths below the Undergrim Citadel in search of midnight moonstones--before the coven discerns our peril and tries to take advantage!
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Episode Recap
A devastating crisis arises amidst the Mortal Guardians’ war against the Coven of Zul: they are running out of precious devices called “riftbreakers”: arcanomechanical devices used to nullify and close the dangerous shadowvoid rifts that the coven creates at every opportunity. Investigating this unusual shortage, Ellandira, the newly appointed guild master of House Hethavar, contacts the Stonepulley brothers of the deep gnome city of Lapiszora. Together they discover that the regionwide supply of a critical component of the riftbreakers, namely the rare gem called midnight moonstone, is all but depleted. They immediately begin operations to find out why and assign brave Mortal Guardians to delve far under the earth below the Undergrim Citadel to survey one of the gnomes’ deep wells, a structure vital to the farming of midnight moonstones. There they discover an apparently abandoned dwarven outpost where the former inhabitants are bizarrely comatose—until they violently attack! After defeating the psionically dominated dwarves, surviving a coven ambush, and finally confronting a the malicious being behind the dwarves’ folly—a horrendous creature from the depths of the void known as an uulthyr—they are able to regain control of the deep well and secure a new supply of riftbreakers. However, with the emergence of the uulthyr after millennia of dormancy, the Coven of Zul begin their final preparations for their own ultimate ambitions!