Episode Introduction
The Mortal Guardians have reached the precipice of the Obelisk of Dread where She Who Speaks with the Void has opened a gateway and summoned the Herald of Zul: R’Xahl, the watcher who has witnessed the fall of entire worlds. Our brothers and sisters were forced into a shadowvoid dimension and survive there only through the power of their will—against all the might of the mistress of the Coven of Zul. Will they survive and triumph over the harbinger of this dark messiah? Or will they fall before the might of this ancient and ruinous portent from the void beyond the stars?
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Episode Recap
Zalastrevaera, the mage known as She Who Speaks with the Void, was all that remained between the Mortal Guardians and their victory over the cruel machinations of the Coven of Zul. To delay our heroes, she thrust them into a shadowvoid prison, not unlike that same dimension created by her pupil, Durevant Vaarelixian, nearly a year ago. This time, however, the deadly demiplane was far more treacherously designed. However, the Mortal Guardians encountered an unexpected ally in that profane place: an entity known only as “the Margrave” who professed to be an enemy of Herald R’Xahl and who could assist them in an attempt to escape. Following the Margrave’s advice, the Mortal Guardians pushed forward through Zalastrevaera’s maze of bewildering and dangerous obstacles and defeated her shadowvoid champion, a creature of utter nightmare: a voidriven dragon.
After freeing themselves from the prison, our brave heroes tumbled through the shattered and fragmented memories of Zalastrevaera’s own past life—places she never intended for them to see, but could no longer control as her influence over the Obelisk of Dread began to break. When the Guardians at last crashed through the final memory and reemerged in the chamber of the void core, she was furious and ready to battle to the end! In a struggle of ages, the heroes fought the will of the coven’s mistress and discerned a pathway to victory by attacking the void core itself, breaking its protective runes and breaching its containing magic. As that harrowing device collapsed upon itself, it ripped apart the entire obelisk and tore Herald R’Xahl’s power from her grasp. The Mortal Guardians narrowly escaped, and victory was theirs… for now.