Episode Introduction
As the Mortal Guardians approach a final confrontation with Herald R’Xahl, they face ever increasing dangers: her most devoted and gifted servants remain in the city of Dimnuor, the last bastion of civilization in the proximal veils—beyond which lies the destructive and ravenous Sea of Disscora, the gateway into the Abyss. Should they survive this impending battle, another grim task awaits them: the herald masks the location of her ghastly fortress using impossibly potent psionic projection, and the intensity of her magical illusion is burgeoned by a heavily guarded castle floating amidst a torrential storm in the skies high above the Shadowreach. Our heroes must venture to this unreachable place and destroy her creation—only then can they reveal the way forward… toward the herald herself.
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Episode Recap
With the help of the Ballabassador of Dimnuor, the eccentric pirate bard “mayor” of the “Last City of the Dead”, the Mortal Guardians dug deep into the heart of the city and rooted out the final elements of the Coven of Zul. Using documents and magical artifacts discovered in this sanctum, our heroes and the gathering mass of allies of the Guardians, they discerned the approximate location where Herald R’Xahl had concealed her fortress. In the far expanse of the Shadowreach near the edges of the fabled Sea of Disscora, a huge castle floated in the sky and amplified the powers of R’Xahl’s psionic projection, allowing her to disguise her fortress in a span of nearly 10,000 square miles.
In a daring assault, led by the High Guardian herself, the ancient shadow dragon Vaudriella, the heroes leapt onto the backs of shadow dragons and took to the skies to bring down the herald’s defensive beacon. In the harsh, torrential stormy winds of the Shadowreach, thousands of feet above the ground, they battled hideous, aberrant creations and a sparse but powerful defending coven and undead uulthyr contingent. Through bravery and inventive genius, they defeated the coven and destroyed the corrupted elemental core of the beacon, sending the flying castle crashing down to the desolate earth. And, of course, they escaped certain death at the last moment on the backs of the majestic shadow dragons!