Episode Introduction
Our brave Mortal Guardians press on into the domain of our gravest enemy: She Who Speaks with the Void, and her terrible master from beyond the stars, Herald R’Xahl. The Coven of Zul has been all but destroyed, but if we cannot stop its mistress from unleashing this dark demigod, then our future may well be harrowing, dire, and brief. Join our heroes as they venture into the Obelisk of Dread, the otherworldly structure built in the name of a dead god. There they will battle those who would send our world into oblivion.
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Episode Recap
Within the Obelisk of Dread, the Mortal Guardians encountered terrifying new enemies: voidriven ghouls that not only subdue their victims, but meld with them and burrow their bodies into the walls and surfaces of the obelisk itself—joining flesh and limb into the horrific structure. Our brave heroes nearly fell to a swarm of such creatures under the command of the coven’s last general, Davosaeris, the brilliant air genasi and devoted servant of She Who Speaks with the Void. After recovering from their dance with death, the Guardians pushed forward and crossed into a bizarre alternate dimension within the obelisk: an otherworldly trap meant to subdue the heroes by revealing the history of Herald R’Xahl’s home world, where she triumphed over its populations and raised a malevolent, undead weapon against her old god creator. After escaping this delusion, the Guardians returned to the obelisk and reached its precipice where they engaged none other than Davosaeris himself. In a tense and prolonged conflict of devastating energies and intricate strategies, our heroes were at last victorious! However, just before his imminent demise, Davosaeris’s own master, She Who Speaks with the Void, snatched him into the rift against his will and sent him to safety far away within Vaelda Umbra. Then she prepared to face the Mortal Guardians instead in a final battle that would decide the fate of Cindervaeld—and perhaps the world of Velanaura.