Ki-Rin’s Glow, Glittr’s Woe

• The battle carries on with the battle and the flying bone monsters. Calla manages to take down the final beast with a sacred flame with the power of the moon behind her. 

• The battle ends and we regain our surroundings. The Ki-rin is very badly beaten up.

• It rasps, “Glittr, Lliira’s champion, you have come… It is so much more dire than I could imagine… you have kept your faith for so long as you must stop.” The Ki-Rin states that this mountain is its home on the material plane and I am here to guide you to your devotion to Lliira… the creatures are working for Zariel, who is in league with Loviatar.” 

• “I fear I have failed my mission to guide you through the trials ahead as I had Catterly years ago.”

• Glittr replies, “As long as you have not lost your faith in our Lady of Joy and not lost the joy in yourself, you have not failed your mission.”

• The Ki-Rin states that they will tell 

• Glittr and the Ki-Rin talk back and forth for a moment as they share some of the story and history about Loviatar and Lliira x Kelemvor. 

• The maul lies deep beneath the mountain, but something has sensed the weakening of the planes and it has taken residence in this once holy site. “You must defeat whatever has taken up residence in the Sword Coast…”

• The Ki-Rin offers Glittr some of its blood, which is more powerful than it is being taken from them, like the Erinyes did. The Ki-Rin, a magical celestial monster, loses its glow and it takes its last breath in this plane.

• 1 drop of Ki-Rin blood willingly given.

• Calla knows that the evil that drew her to this area, but be the same one in the mountain the Ki-Rin spoke about.

• “Glittr… Llirra’s champion. YOu have kept the faith for so long. You must not stop. Devotion to Llirra… is paramount. I could not stop Lloviatar’s wicked assault. It seems i must pass on to you what i can. I had so hoped to guide you through this. Centuries ago, Lliira, and Kelemvar joined forces to shop Beshaba and an ancient red dragon named Hephaestus. He was terrifying the sword coast, destroying the balance to his own wicked ends. With Tiamat bound to the hells, he thought he could ascend to godhood in her place. Cities fell in his wake. When i first visited you in the cave, i felt his presence. The girl with scales and fire on her side. I could feel it. Her family line suffered at his hands. His influence had trickled down. Your friend with the red hatchling, progeny proper. And knew something horrid was happening. Centuries ago, Lliira’s champion Cadderly, with righteous maul in hand, helped me, and other champions seal him away in the shadowfell. He was so powerful that he could not be destroyed, so we sealed him in the shadowfell and created the shadow shards to seal pieces of him away, scattered and protected about the coast with the Raven Queen’s blessing. For she, goddess of memories, would remember what happened as the mortal coil of time passed. But she is not the only one who remembers. Lloviatar was trying to finish what he began. She knows she can never defeat the shadow shards, for they are her sister’s doing. So she is choosing to resurrect Hephaestus by claiming the blood of his sole remaining good aligned heir hells to ascend to where Tiamat once was.”

• TLDR: Lloviatar is Lliira are sisters. Context clues us, tells us that destroying a shadow shard and destroying a shadow shard are different. 

• We look at the dead creatures around us. We know they are creatures of the Nine Hells, and Glittr gets the sense that these are Devils (a creature type). The erinyes are like her generals, and the devils are the soldiers. Whenever we see a devil, we should know Lloviatar is probably at the cause and Bahamut is in immediate danger. 

• About 10 years ago, Tiamot was destroyed, leaving behind a power vacuum in Avernus. We get the sense that this timing coincides eerily well with that Caulkin’s grandmother was trying to attempt to do. We aren’t sure she was a devil, but her messing with the Shadow Shards 10 years ago, 

• Two people: one group is trying to use the shadow shards to summon Hephaestus’. and the second group is trying to take the throne in the Nine Hells by using Hephaestus’ bloodline, Bahamut.

• Vanneak reacts somewhat strangely, but not concerningly so, that the Ki-Rin was able to cast such a strong weather controlling spell. Vanneak and Glittr bury the body of the Ki-Rin at the top of the mountain.

• Bamut and RC share words back and forth. Bamut asks if he should be worried that he now knows for certain that he comes from Hephaestus’ bloodline. RC reassured him that the group still cares and looks after him.

• After the funeral Vanneak goes and stands by the mountain side to get a look at the view one last time. Glittr goes and joins him and is taken aback as his head turns into that of the Rakshasa and he pushes Glittr off the side of the mountain. He begins falling at 100 feet per round.

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