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Combat Control
Round 1
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Map Scenes
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Scene 1: The Broken Reliquary Opens Below
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Move the party from Tempest’s Session 6 reveal into the deeper underground Vormox layer.
Scene 2: The Ember Intake Hall
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Show that House Vormox processed unstable gifts and helped classify the party’s curse threads.
Scene 3: The Ember-Lock Wardens
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Battle 1. Old Vormox security identifies the party as returning subjects and attempts stabilization.
Scene 4: The Vormox Memory Furnace
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Puzzle/investigation scene revealing that the memory sequence was edited.
Scene 5: The Healer’s Blood-Trail
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Bring the abducted healer from Session 1 back to the center of the story.
Scene 6: Transfer Ward Ambush
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Battle 2. Fight through the guarded bridge before the Chain-Ward Hospice.
Scene 7: The Hospice Door
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End with the healer confirmed alive and the Chain-Ward Hospice revealed.Scene Assets • Scene 7: The Hospice Door
Aldren, the Abducted Healer
NPC
Alive but exhausted. Do not fully rescue until Session 8 unless the table forces it.Discovery Overlays / Handouts
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Alden Descent Warning
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If I am taken below, do not follow the rain. Follow what it refuses to touch.
Alden Wall Message
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I found the lens. They found me.No Image
Alden Wall Message
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I found the lens. They found me.
Alden's Dry Page
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I thought the curse was a sickness. It is not. It is a command. The wound carries it. The bloodline repeats it.…
Alden's Road Token
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A flat, smooth river stone wrapped in linen. One side is marked with a healer’s hand. The other side has a burned draco…No Image
Aldens Treatment Board
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Wings held shut. Name refused by record. Road recognizes fairy-scale passage. Draconic bloodline reacts to old containm…
Alden’s Torn Note
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Something remembers the knife. Something is holding it closed. If I do not return to Briar Hollow, do not let them …
Ash-Scar Wall Message
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BLOODLINE RECOGNIZED. EMBER WORK DISPLACED. BOUNDARY SEAL FAILING. DM detail: Reveal when Blazion uses fire magic, brea…
Black-Tipped Feather
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A black-tipped feather lies partly wrapped in root fibers. It feels cold, precise, and wrong. It does not seem naturall…
Black-Tipped Feather
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A black-tipped feather trembles when the bell rings. Touching it causes a brief ache behind the shoulder blades.No Image
Blazion Echo Stat Block
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AC 12, HP 14, Speed 30, Attack +4. Ember Bolt: 1d10 fire. Containment Flame: 10-foot line, DC 12 Dexterity save, failur…
Blazion Ending Image
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A distant manor burns silently behind black iron gates.No Image
Blazion Formula Fragment
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Line. Blood. Contain. Return. Vormox method? Older than the lens?
Blazion Shadow
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Objective: Prove that power is safest when controlled by bloodline. Return Clue: House Vormox did not invent the sys…
Burned Ledger Scrap
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House Vormox Archive Fragment. Subject lines remain unstable. Ember work moved from the estate after containment failur…
Cold-Burned Bell Mark
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A bell-shaped burn mark has cooled into pale stone. It looks burned, but touching it feels cold.
Contents of the Root-Wrapped Chest
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Inside the root-wrapped chest: 1 Pouch of Shimmerdust, 1 Living Thorn in Glass Bead, 1 Map Scrap of the Wrong Roads, 12…
Cracked Town Bell
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The village bell has a fresh crack. Small flakes of metal lie beneath it.
Delayed Reflection Puddle
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The puddle reflects the party, but Nymeris’s reflection stands several feet behind herself and looks up a moment too la…
Drowning Contract Fragment
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The powers were seeded. The locks came later.
Dry Reliquary
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Edited Memory Sequence
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GIFT. BETRAYAL. BINDING. FORGETTING. Someone changed the order.No Image
Edited Memory Sequence
Scene 4: The Vormox Memory Furnace
Gift. Betrayal. Binding. Forgetting. Someone changed the order.
Elric’s Burned Fragment
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Burned black metal fragment bearing a damaged House Vormox-style crest. Note text: “The burn came from the inside, not …
Elric’s Folio
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A small folio clutched by Elric Voss, its edges full of tabs and old record marks.
Erased Fifth Mark
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A cold white burn shaped like a bell has appeared on the altar. Its edges resemble tiny road marks and broken draconic …
FIVE RETURNED
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FIVE RETURNED
Felyndra Ending Image
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A lantern appears far ahead, carried by someone in a healer’s cloak who leaves no footprints.
Felyndra Shadow
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Objective: Prove that being locked is worth it if it lets you fly. Return Clue: Your wings were not only cut. The cut …No Image
Felyndra Workroom Note
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Cutting is not the injury. The cut is where the spell enters.
First Fracture Boons
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When the Vormox Binding Lens breaks, each character feels one chain loosen. Felyndra: once per long rest, fly up to wal…
Five Locks Puzzle Key
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Gift. Fear. Lock.
Fred’s Muddy Pawprint
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Fred’s muddy pawprint sits beside a fading fifth footprint.
Gray Cloth with Scraped Name
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A strip of gray cloth marked with a closed eye symbol. Beneath the eye is a stitched line where a name should be, but t…
Healers Supply Chest
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Healer’s Note
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I have prayed. I have stitched. I have burned incense until the room turned white. This is not a wound I can mend. Some…
Hidden Tiny Door at the Signpost
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A tiny silver door appears at the base of the signpost, with a keyhole shaped like a thorn.No Image
Hospice Transfer Authority Key
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An ember-brass key stamped HOSPICE TRANSFER AUTHORITY. Opens the hospice gate automatically, but triggers a bell alarm …No Image
Hospice Transfer Authority Key
Scene 3: The Ember-Lock Wardens
An ember-brass key stamped with HOSPICE TRANSFER AUTHORITY. Opens the hospice gate, but may trigger a bell alarm unless…No Image
Hulrik Grounding Note
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The grounded one resists displacement. This may matter.
Hulrik Shadow
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Objective: Protect the group by destroying danger before it speaks. Return Clue: You noticed the dry path because part…No Image
Intake Registry Fragment
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Five unstable gifts delivered under storm authority. One later addition recovered from shrine-loss. Memory disruption r…No Image
Intake Registry Fragment
Scene 2: The Ember Intake Hall
Five unstable gifts delivered under storm authority. One later addition recovered from shrine-loss. Memory disruption r…
Late Footprints
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Most footprints appear normally. Nymeris’s appear a heartbeat late, then fade faster than the rest.
Lilianna Ending Image
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A tiny silver door opens in the base of a moonlit tree.
Lilianna Shadow
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Objective: Open every door, even if it should stay closed. Return Clue: Your roads are not broken because they are wil…No Image
Lilianna Small Door Note
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Small doors remember what large doors deny.
Living Thorn in Glass Bead
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A thorn that grows when the crossing weakens. It points the way when the roads forget themselves. DM detail: This is a …
Map Scrap of the Wrong Roads
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Not all roads are walked. Some are remembered. Some are hungry. Some wake when blood, ash, and feather meet. DM detail:…
Mara Moth Price List
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Rainfall Reliquary inventory and prices.
Maras Rumor Note
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The healer asked about the old shrine again. Said some wounds are “held shut by something that does not want them heale…
Midnight Road Signpost
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TO THE NAME THEY CUT AWAY TO THE HEALER TO THE HOUSE THAT BURNED TO THE DOOR TOO SMALL FOR GRIEF TO THE SHRINE THAT…No Image
Mirror Mark Clue
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The Hermitage does not create evil. It reflects what the wound was taught to become.
Missing Healer Notice
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Missing: Alden Thorne. Traveling healer. Gray cloak. Brass prayer clasp. Last seen walking toward Hollow Root Shrine be…No Image
Nymeris Echo Stat Block
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AC 12, HP 14, Speed 30, Attack +4. Rain Knife: 1d6+2 psychic. Miscount Step: once per round when attacked, DC 12 Wisdom…
Nymeris Ending Image
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The road ahead fills with footprints that belong to her, all walking in different directions.No Image
Nymeris Record Note
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N.V. was not erased cleanly. She was moved from the record.
Nymeris Shadow
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Objective: Remove painful memories so no one has to suffer them. Return Clue: Erasure is not forgetting. It is removal…
Nymeris’s Old Footprints
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Footprints appear in the road dust ahead. They look like Nymeris’s, but older, as if she walked this path before arrivi…
Pale Road Dust
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A thin line of pale dust looks like powdered moonlight mixed with road grit.
Pale Road Dust in Town
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Pale dust sits in door cracks, well stones, tavern steps, and road edges, as if the wrong road followed the party home.
Pouch of Shimmerdust
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Shimmerdust from the Feywild. Reveal the unseen for a short time. Use once. DM detail: Can reveal invisible writing, hi…
Prayer Strips in Root Arch
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Faded prayer strips hang from a root arch, but the writing is backward. Some phrases have been crossed out and rewritte…
Rain Does Not Fall There Sign
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A half-buried road sign leans from the mud. Its carved words read: RAIN DOES NOT FALL THERE. IT REMEMBERS.No Image
Reflected Unbound Rules
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Active echoes: Nymeris Echo, Rhiannon Echo, Blazion Echo. Each has AC 12, HP 14, attack +4, save DC 12. Use HP 10 if pa…No Image
Rhiannon Echo Stat Block
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AC 12, HP 14, Speed 30, Attack +4. Prayer Lash: 1d6+2 radiant or necrotic. Bound Ascent: rise 10 feet without provoking…
Rhiannon Ending Image
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Broken white feathers drift down from a starless patch of sky and vanish before touching the ground.No Image
Rhiannon Prayer Strip
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Let the sky forget her shape.
Rhiannon Shadow
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Objective: Break every prayer-chain, even if something sacred breaks too. Return Clue: Your wings were bound at a shri…
Root-Silver Splinter
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A thin silver splinter hums faintly with the same tone as the silver bell.
Root-Wrapped Chest
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A wooden chest wrapped in living roots. The roots loosen only after the party solves the shrine clue, defeats the hound…
SIX RETURNED
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Second Lens Socket Clue
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Second lens removed. Records taken below.
Seren Vey Testimony
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The gift came first. Fear followed. The lock was built after.No Image
Session 4 Rain Dream Benefits
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Blazion rolled 11: +1d4 to first Arcana, Investigation, History, or draconic/Vormox check. Felyndra rolled 11: +1d4 to …No Image
Session 7 DM Reminder
Scene 7: The Hospice Door
Do not reveal the full rebellion yet. Session 7 proves the curse was engineered and the healer is alive. Session 8 hand…
Shifting Signpost: Briar Hollow: 2 miles
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Briar Hollow: 2 miles
Shifting Signpost: “Briar Hollow: never heard of you”
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Briar Hollow: never heard of you
Shop Inventory
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Shrine Niche Prayer Knots
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Old thread tied around a village shrine marker. Most villagers think it is decoration. It looks more like a restraint.
Silver Bell Sliver
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A crescent of silver from a bell long broken. It rings without being struck, but only its true listener hears the full …
Silver Dust
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Can reveal tiny door marks, dry seams, or reflection residue.
Silver Pen
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Can draw doors or name what the rain refuses to touch.No Image
Sky-Chain Inscription
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THE SPARK WAS GIVEN. THE WING WAS BOUND. THE ROAD WAS LOCKED. THE NAME WAS CUT. THE FIRE WAS TAUGHT TO FEAR ITSELF. BY …
Star-Ward Fragment
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A white-gold shard marked with a broken star. Cool to the touch, even near flame. Under moonlight, it whispers: “When t…
Tavern Ledger Page
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Tavern Wall Phrase
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The Healer’s Note
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I was wrong. These are not wounds. They are locks shaped like wounds. Healing magic closes around them and makes them s…No Image
The Healer’s Note
Scene 5: The Healer’s Blood-Trail
I was wrong. These are not wounds. They are locks shaped like wounds. Healing magic closes around them and makes them s…
Tiny Road-Scratch Symbols: Do not follow the road that answers first.
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Do not follow the road that answers first.
Tiny Road-Scratch: Ink is a door
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Ink is a door. Names are keys.
Tiny Road-Scratch: The first road is the lie.
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The first road is the lie. The second road is hungry. The third road remembers.
Toma Warning Note
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Do not trust the first road. Alden said the road would offer the easiest way first. That one lies.
Toma’s Trail Marker
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A small stick marker wrapped in red cloth, left by Toma near the path. Note text: “I saw the road here. Lights in the t…No Image
Treatment Board Preserved Conclusion
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The wound is not the lock. The lock is behind the wound. If the first lens bound them outward, the second lens records …No Image
Treatment Board Puzzle Rules
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Turn-based puzzle. Roll initiative. Each player gets one action per round. Goal: 4 successes before 3 failures. Checks …
Unbound Spark Token
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Once before the end of Session 5, add 1d4 to a roll, or turn one failed curse-related check into a success with a compl…No Image
Uncle Sam Death Wasn’t Note
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You almost killed the hat. Not the storm under it.No Image
Under-Rain Door Draconic Phrase
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The bloodline was the key, not the master.No Image
Under-Rain Door Puzzle Rules
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Turn-based puzzle. Roll initiative. Each player gets one action per round. Goal: 5 successes before 3 failures. Checks …
Vormox Binding Lens
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A palm-sized black-red crystal lens set inside a broken bronze ring. The ring is etched with five symbol bands: thorn-r…No Image
Vormox Ember-Lock Diagram
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STORM GIVES SHAPE. EMBER HOLDS SHAPE. MEMORY HIDES THE WOUND.No Image
Vormox Ember-Lock Diagram
Scene 1: The Broken Reliquary Opens Below
STORM GIVES SHAPE. EMBER HOLDS SHAPE. MEMORY HIDES THE WOUND.
Wardens Coin Box
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Warm Road Dust / Ember Fragments
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line blood return unfinished
“Do Not Trust the First Count”
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Do not trust the first count.
“NAME NOT FOUND” Sign
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NAME NOT FOUNDCharacter, NPC, and Monster Library
Blazion Vormox (Xavian)
Player • Wizard 1
AC 14 • HP 20/20 • Init 0
Towering Presence / Skilled Intimidator: advantage on Intimidation when physical presence matters. Disadvantage on Stealth due to size. Fire resistance. Breath Weapon Fire. Arcane Recovery. Oversized but not mechanically Large.
Felyndra Umbrinax (Ambyre)
Player • Sorcerer
AC 12 • HP 14/17 • Init 2
Half tiefling / half aasimar hybrid traits; Darkvision; necrotic and radiant resistance; clipped/bound wings; glide/feather-fall style descent; +5 ft jump distance; boosted jump once per long rest; overstrain warning; Shadow Magic origin; Eyes of the Dark; Strength of the Grave.
Hulrik Ironfur (Daniel)
Player • Barbarian
AC 14 • HP 26/35 • Init 1
Rage: Bonus action to enter Rage if not wearing Heavy Armor. 2 uses per Long Rest; regain one expended use when finishing a Short Rest.; Unarmored Defense: While not wearing armor, base AC equals 14 plus any Shield bonus.; Weapon Mastery: 2 chosen Simple or Martial Melee weapons, currently Battleaxe (Topple) and Greataxe (Cleave).; Dwarven Resilience: Advantage on saves against poison and resistance against poison damage.; Darkvision: 60 ft.; Stonecunning: For Intelligence (History) checks related to stonework, considered proficient and add double proficiency bonus.; Savage Attacker: Once per turn when hitting with a weapon, roll the weapon damage dice twice and use either roll.
Lilianna Starfall (Adilynn)
Player • Rogue
AC 14 • HP 10/10 • Init 3
Fairy wings and natural mobility; Tiny infiltrator and lock-solver; Feywild guide of hidden roads; Thieves Cant and thieves tools; Arcane Trickster planned later. Drop-in/drop-out: when absent, Lilianna followed a wild road.
Nymeris Valthrien (Jaimie)
Player • Cleric
AC 10 • HP 27/27 • Init 2
Darkvision 60 ft; Fey Ancestry; cleric spellcasting; Divine Domain; Life/domain healing notes; Faction Agent feature; campaign Erasure sensitivity.
Rhiannon Aethyra (Charlotte)
Player • Druid
AC 15 • HP 18/26 • Init 2
Aasimar traits; Darkvision; Celestial Resistance; Healing Hands; Light Bearer; Druidic; Druid spellcasting; ritual casting; campaign-bound wings and damaged memory.
Alden Thorne
NPC • Missing healer / off-screen clue
AC 10 • HP 5/5 • Init 0
Optional; mostly represented by his note in Session 1Aldren, the Abducted Healer
NPC • Missing healer from Session 1, held in the Chain-Ward Hospice
AC 11 • HP 18/18 • Init 0
Blazion Echo
NPC • Reflected Unbound fire caster
AC 12 • HP 24/24 • Init 1
Brother Calven
NPC • Shrine-keeper / healer clue
AC 10 • HP 5/5 • Init 0
Goal: explain the shrine was for warding and hint that Felyndra's wings are bound
Elric Voss
NPC • Archivist / broker / Vormox hook
AC 11 • HP 5/5 • Init 1
Goal: hide what he knows until he decides whether Blazion is dangerous
Felyndra Reflection
NPC • Reflected Unbound teaser
AC 13 • HP 24/24 • Init 3
Fred the Dog
NPC • Animal Witness
AC 10 • HP 1/1 • Init 0
Garron Pell
NPC •
AC 10 • HP 1/1 • Init 0
House Vormox Ember Archivist
NPC • Vormox record-keeper echo tied to the Ember-Lock
AC 12 • HP 1/22 • Init 0
Hulrik Reflection
NPC • Reflected Unbound teaser
AC 13 • HP 26/26 • Init 0
Ilyra Moss
NPC •
AC 10 • HP 1/1 • Init 0
Lady Brambleglass
NPC • Fey guide / Lilianna clue
AC 13 • HP 12/12 • Init 3
Optional cameo only if Lilianna is present and session has time
Mara Fenwick
NPC • Innkeeper / rumor source
AC 10 • HP 4/4 • Init 0
Goal: protect Briar Hollow and push party toward the shrine without panic
Mara Moth
NPC • Boundary-market shopkeeper
AC 12 • HP 22/22 • Init 0
Nell Crowther
NPC •
AC 10 • HP 1/1 • Init 0
Nervous Villager 1
NPC •
AC 10 • HP 1/1 • Init 0
Nervous Villager 2
NPC •
AC 10 • HP 1/1 • Init 0
Nymeris Reflection
NPC • Reflected Unbound controller
AC 12 • HP 24/24 • Init 3
Old Brenn
NPC •
AC 10 • HP 1/1 • Init 0
Rain Bowl Anchor
NPC • Reflection anchor object
AC 12 • HP 1/18 • Init 0
Rhiannon Echo
NPC • Reflected Unbound wing striker
AC 12 • HP 24/24 • Init 2
Seren Vey
NPC • Drowning contract spirit
AC 10 • HP 0/1 • Init 0 • Dead / Missing
Star-Ward Echo
NPC • Celestial vision / Nymeris hook
AC 0 • HP 0/1 • Init 0 • Dead / Missing
Not a combat token; use as voice, reflection, or glowing star-mark
Toma Reed
NPC • Young trapper / witness / guide
AC 12 • HP 6/6 • Init 2
Goal: be believed and point party toward lights, tracks, and wrong road
Uncle Sam
NPC • Keeper of the Unbound Spark
AC 12 • HP 20/20 • Init 0
A strange freedom-themed reflection guide. Cheerful, dangerous, and not fully trustworthy. He is not the main villain yet.
Uncle Sam
NPC • Guide, divine mask, dangerous helper
AC 18 • HP 1/1 • Init 0
Village Children
NPC •
AC 10 • HP 1/1 • Init 0
Prone
Ash-Bound Warden
Enemy • Heavy vault guardian and frontline defender
AC 16 • HP 0/65 • Init 0 • Dead / Missing
Ash-Sutured Chainbearer
Enemy • Lockdown melee
AC 15 • HP 0/36 • Init 0 • Dead / Missing
Ashbound Echo
Enemy • Support Minion / Record-Damage Echo
AC 12 • HP 0/7 • Init 1 • Dead / Missing
Echo Body; Broken Count; Dissolves at 0 HPA
Ashbound Road-Carver
Enemy • Road-Cutting Ritualist
AC 13 • HP 0/18 • Init 2 • Dead / Missing
Death / Defeat Clue: When defeated, ash falls from its wrappings and reveals a burned phrase on the inside of its sleeve: “LINE. BLOOD. CONTAIN. RETURN.”
Ashbound Scout
Enemy • Ritual scout / alternate intelligent enemy
AC 13 • HP 0/11 • Init 2 • Dead / Missing
Optional alternate: use 1 scout + 1 hound instead of 2-3 hounds
Ashbound Watcher
Enemy • Ashbound Observer
AC 10 • HP 10/10 • Init 0
Ashbound Watcher
Enemy • Boundary Scout / Wrong-Count Observer
AC 13 • HP 0/18 • Init 2 • Dead / Missing
Wrong Count; Does Not Fight to Death; Ash Step; Closed-Eye Mark; Flees when bloodied or when directly confronted with the silver bell
Boundary Shade
Enemy • Optional Midnight Road Escalation
AC 13 • HP 0/12 • Init 1 • Dead / Missing
Boundary Form; Hold the Line; Disperses when a choice is made
Chain-Ward Orderly
Enemy • Medical jailer that restrains and drags captives
AC 14 • HP 0/34 • Init 0 • Dead / Missing
Chain-Water Wight
Enemy • Melee grappler / control
AC 14 • HP 28/28 • Init 0
Cinderbound Servitor
Enemy • Small construct support and repair unit
AC 13 • HP 0/18 • Init 0 • Dead / Missing
Corrupted Hound 1
Enemy • Silent thorn-twisted hound
AC 12 • HP 0/8 • Init 2 • Dead / Missing
Silent until it attacks; use 2 hounds for easier fight, 3 if party is confident
Corrupted Hound 2
Enemy • Silent thorn-twisted hound
AC 12 • HP 1/8 • Init 2
Use with Corrupted Hound 1 as the recommended Session 1 combat
Corrupted Hound 3
Enemy • Silent thorn-twisted hound
AC 12 • HP 0/8 • Init 2 • Dead / Missing
Optional third hound if all players are present and fight needs pressure
Drowned Bell Fragment
Enemy • Optional lair hazard
AC 15 • HP 6/20 • Init 0 • Dead / Missing
Ember-Lock Custodian
Enemy • Mini-boss guardian of the transfer ward
AC 16 • HP 0/85 • Init 0 • Dead / Missing
Memory-Leech / Record Eater
Enemy • Memory-feeding aberration
AC 13 • HP 20/20 • Init 0
Memory-Scar Scribe
Enemy • Memory-record caster tied to edited memories
AC 13 • HP 32/32 • Init 0
Mimic
Enemy •
AC 12 • HP 0/15 • Init 0 • Dead / Missing
Parade Spark
Enemy • Firework reflection minion
AC 10 • HP 0/8 • Init 0 • Dead / Missing
Use 4 to 6 in the Firework Parade Ambush.
Parade Spark Reinforcement 1
Enemy • Firework reflection minion
AC 12 • HP 8/8 • Init 0
Use 4 to 6 in the Firework Parade Ambush.
Parade Spark Reinforcement 2
Enemy • Firework reflection minion
AC 12 • HP 8/8 • Init 0
Use 4 to 6 in the Firework Parade Ambush.
Parade Spark Reinforcement 3
Enemy • Firework reflection minion
AC 10 • HP 0/8 • Init 0 • Dead / Missing
Use 4 to 6 in the Firework Parade Ambush.
Parade Spark Reinforcement 4
Enemy • Firework reflection minion
AC 10 • HP 4/8 • Init 0
Use 4 to 6 in the Firework Parade Ambush.
Parade Spark Reinforcement 5
Enemy • Firework reflection minion
AC 12 • HP 8/8 • Init 0
Use 4 to 6 in the Firework Parade Ambush.
Reflection Drummer
Enemy • Parade controller
AC 13 • HP 8/18 • Init 0
Use 1 or 2 in the Firework Parade Ambush.
Reflection Drummer Reinforcement 1
Enemy • Parade controller
AC 13 • HP 15/18 • Init 0
Use 1 or 2 in the Firework Parade Ambush.
Reflection Drummer Reinforcement 2
Enemy • Parade controller
AC 13 • HP 18/18 • Init 0
Use 1 or 2 in the Firework Parade Ambush.
Road-Scar Echo
Enemy • Optional Midnight Road Escalation
AC 12 • HP 10/10 • Init 2
Road Form; Misstep; Vanishes when the party chooses a path or the silver bell rings
Road-Scar Raven Swarm
Enemy • Omen swarm
AC 12 • HP 10/10 • Init 2
Optional Round 2 arrival if the party is doing well. Flees below half HP.
Root-Sutured Husk
Enemy • Failed bound creature
AC 11 • HP 12/12 • Init -1
Use instead of raven swarm for a creepier slower fight. First time below half HP, regains 2 HP unless hit by fire before its next turn.
Storm Imp / Spark Fragment
Enemy • Fast harasser
AC 13 • HP 0/14 • Init 0 • Dead / Missing
Stormbound Scribe
Enemy • Ranged controller / caster
AC 13 • HP 0/22 • Init 0 • Dead / Missing
The Unbound Spark
Enemy • Boss - living firework of curse residue
AC 14 • HP 80/80 • Init 0
Can be defeated or stabilized. It is not evil; it is freedom with no shape.
Thorn-Twisted Hound
Enemy • Corrupted forest beast
AC 12 • HP 0/7 • Init 2 • Dead / Missing
Silent until it strikes. Circles isolated characters. Flees at 2 HP or less.
Thorn-Twisted Hound
Enemy • Corrupted forest beast
AC 12 • HP 0/7 • Init 2 • Dead / Missing
Silent until it strikes. Circles isolated characters. Flees at 2 HP or less.T
Thorn-Twisted Hound
Enemy • Cursed Hound
AC 12 • HP 0/9 • Init 2 • Dead / Missing
WHERE: Broken Road Marker Combat Clearing. HOW: Fast, hungry, silent until it attacks. VOICE: Growls, snapping jaws, wet breathing. No speech. GOAL: Keep the party away from the Road-Carver and the Binding Lens. KNOWS: Nothing human. It responds to the curse object and attacks what the binding marks tell it to attack. SECRET: It bites at wings, ankles, and hands because the binding magic wants the party grounded and slowed. DM USE: Use two hounds by default. Remove one if the party is struggling. Add a third on round 2 if the party is doing very well.T
Thorn-Twisted Hound
Enemy • Cursed Hound
AC 12 • HP 0/9 • Init 2 • Dead / Missing
WHERE: Broken Road Marker Combat Clearing. HOW: Fast, hungry, silent until it attacks. VOICE: Growls, snapping jaws, wet breathing. No speech. GOAL: Keep the party away from the Road-Carver and the Binding Lens. KNOWS: Nothing human. It responds to the curse object and attacks what the binding marks tell it to attack. SECRET: It bites at wings, ankles, and hands because the binding magic wants the party grounded and slowed. DM USE: Use two hounds by default. Remove one if the party is struggling. Add a third on round 2 if the party is doing very well.
Thunder-Sutured Custodian
Enemy • Main brute / controller
AC 16 • HP 1/110 • Init 0
Warped Beast
Enemy • Optional backup monster / altered animal
AC 12 • HP 10/10 • Init 1
Optional only; do not add unless combat needs a replacement or Session 2 teaser