Episode Introduction
Despite the constant threat posed by the Coven of Zul, the Mortal Guardians set aside time to celebrate the joys of a life shared among friends. Their enemies, however, have watched and waited in the shadows for an opportunity to strike, and the vengeful Davosaeris, the heir to She Who Speaks with the Void, yearns to unleash his spiteful wrath upon them. The enigmatic Herald R’Xahl, the vile and aberrant messiah of the coven, seizes the chance to recover what is most precious to her: the Core of Embers, a device containing impossible power that was taken from her during the Battle of Cindervaeld. She confronts the Guardians directly and offers them a choice: allow her to reclaim the Core of Embers and risk the eventual completion of her ascension, or suffer an assault upon the city of Wintervaeld by Davosaeris—a storm of vengeance the likes of which has not been witnessed in an age. Whatever choice our heroes make, however, the battle that follows will surely rage across the veils and decide the fate of all Velanaura.
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Episode Recap
With their choice was made, Herald R’Xahl moved upon the Core of Embers and left the heroes of the Mortal Guardians to face off once and for all against Davosaeris, the heir-apparent to She Who Speaks with the Void—and her deviant crusade of aberrant death. They battled him as he unleashed his vengeance upon the city, and stood against his wrath within the dungeons of the palace. After defeating the air genasi, his vile magics left behind the remnants of a rift through the darkness of the veils into Vaelda Umbra, allowing the characters to venture deep into the Plane of Shadow close to the heart of the herald’s operations.
There they discovered an ancient civilization of undead giants called Zaulgarde whose people had fallen under the sway of Herald R’Xahl’s psionic influence. Gaining new allies within the city, they pressed forward on a dangerous mission to liberate the giants—and found a trail of collusion that could lead them right to the herald in the ghastly domains of the desolate Shadowreach, the farthest ends of Vaelda Umbra where the death plane feeds into the destructive forces of the Abyss—and the place where R’Xahl had built her dreadful fortress. But this journey was not without peril, for just as they breached the city, our Guardians were captured by the bewitched giants and locked away in the deep dungeons of the giant city!