HoD Summaries: Character Strongholds

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HoD Summaries: Character Strongholds

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This thread will include information you've learned about your PCs former strongholds.
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Erk's Tower

1) Erk had a tower located somewhere in the Felreev.
2) All of the PCs went there for The Ritual, which was supposed to help them travel to the Plane of Elemental Fire to rescue their companion, Gwendolyn (Haupt).
3) Something happened during The Ritual that exploded the top of the tower into other planes of existence.
4) There are some underground chambers from which Quirinseyru recovered Erk's clone.
5) Currently there is an area of planar instability above Erk's Tower, where the accident happened.
.... a) Erk and Balrakas showed Onarra how to temporarily link to her Soul Portal from this location.
6) According to Miette, Erk has successfully closed his own Portal.
7) Thulik has revealed to you where Erk's Tower is located.
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Lucky Break

1) This was Mordai's stronghold.
2) The stronghold was abandoned, not ruined. Although Kobolds and gnolls lived in it for a while so it was pretty mucked up.
3) Mordai found his holy weapon, Longshot, hidden in a secret compartment.
4) Currently, Shining Justice seems to have relocated to Lucky Break.
5) The Oracle's Journals indicate there is a stable Portal here, tied to Mordai's soul.
6) The PCs found that Mordai's Portal is still open and Mordai is attuned to it and has been able to develop some control over it, opening portals to some locations.
7) The Oracle was also at Lucky Break and is working with Mordai
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Jareth's Tower

1) Jareth's tower was constructed using elementals and genies.
2) Jareth's tower and some of it's subterranean levels were transported to the Elemental Plane of Water upon a lonely spire of rock.
.... a) The subterranean levels of Jareth's Tower contained the Crystal Cage, a large, irregular chamber apparently constructed out of one huge, light blue crystal.
.... b) Within the Crystal Cage was Alizar, a djinn bound to Jareth's service.
.... c) Also within the Crystal Cage was a Mirrored Alcove with an illusion of a chest.
........ 1) The PCs had to travel into each of the mirrors, which were portals, to retrieve items from similar chests, in order to make the chest in the Mirrored Alcove appear for real.
........ 2) The PCs recovered Jareth's moonblade, Aegenthal, from the chest in the Mirrored Alcove.
........ 3) The PCs also discovered this is where Jareth killed Naziah and imprisoned Balisar.
3) There was a stable portal about 1/2 mile below the Tower on a small rocky outcropping.
4) When last seen, Jareth's Tower had toppled from its perch above the Endless Sea and was sinking into the depths.
5) The PCs discovered that there is a stable portal in a large, excavated area where Jareth's Tower used to sit on the edge of the Felreev Forest.
.... a. The Portal is undoubtedly linked to Jareth's soul.
.... b. You also left your heavily damaged Apparatus of Kwalish there.
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6) The PCs traveled back to this location and Jareth was able to attune to and then close his Soul Portal.
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The Weeping Boughs

1) This was Onarra's druid grove
.... a. Miette had a small cottage here.
2) There was an unstable planar portal here that led to the Shadowfell.
3) Miette was initially found here as a banshee.
4) The portal was closed when the lead wraith was killed.
5) The PCs found the room in which Onarra had awoken in her clone body.
6) The PCs found Miette's Journal, which revealed that they were clones.
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Brigga's Hold

1) Brigga and Quarion first encountered Brigga's former hold on the Plane of Elemental Earth.
.... a) It was relatively wrecked, in a large cavern very far up on one of the impossible mountains.
.... b) The PCs encountered Brigga's uncle, who had come looking for her, but had fallen prey to Intellect Devourers.
2) The PCs later found the location from which Brigga's Hold had been transported, in the Griff Mountains
.... a) There was a large 'scooped out' area of rock which was probably all transported to the Elemental Plane.
.... b) The PCs found a stable, bifurcated portal, guarded by a stone giant artisan.
.... c) After defeating the giant, Brigga was able to attune to her portal and close it permanently.
........ 1) AFter doing that, Brigga recovered a part of her missing soul.
.... d) The PCs also found several high quality crafting materials
.... e) The PCs also found Brigga's Hammer here.
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Balisar's Mansion

1) The PCs found Balisar's exploded mansion in the Bluff Hills, while searching for Brigga's stronghold.
2) There was a damaged permanent teleportation circle in the exposed basement.
3) There was residual planar magic found there (as if there had been a stable planar portal in that location).
4) According to Miette, Balisar has successfully closed his Portal.
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Quarion's House?

1) According to information gained from several sources, Quarion's home was in a supposedly 'abandoned' elven village.
2) The Oracle refers to this place as "WolfDen"
3) The PCs freed an elven woman who was being held prisoner at Lucky Break
.... a) This woman knew Quarion and said he had been gone for a while
.... b) She seemed to indicate that Quarion was a leader in their community (if not THE Leader)
4) When scrying the woman later, the PCs observed her fighting Dapple
.... a) The woman was clearly a werewolf
5) Bannock also supposedly has a home in this village.
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Bannock's Pad?

You have learned that Bannock had a house in the village where Quarion lived. However, you have also discovered that Bannock's portal is not there, but is instead in the Singing Pools.
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Naziah's Digs?

You don't know anything about Naziah's digs, but according to Miette, Naziah has successfully closed his Portal.
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