====== The Road to Shadow (Part Two) ======
**Session Date**: 10/16/2025 and 10/23/2025 \\
**Game Master**: Rew 

This two-part adventure was played in the main room of the Academy

===== Player Characters =====


  * **[[the_voyagers|Caelus]]**, Sorcerer/Warlock (Declan)
  * **Gutboy**, Dwarven Barbarian (Tim S)
  * **Kip**, Human Wizard (Jian)
  * **Lith**, Shadar-Kai Druid (Bridget)
  * **[[Psithuris Mithrilwood]]**, High Elf Circle of the Stars Druid (Quinton)



===== Named People and Places =====


  * Shadowhaven - The name of the shard famous for the Deep Red Wine
  * Maddox and Macsen - These twinned Shadar-Kai are fixtures of Shadowhaven. One is stable, married with children. The other is a shady fellow who trades on his twin brothers' reputation as an upstanding individual.
  * Brenin - A powerful Shadar-Kai wizard and the historical founder and protector of Shadowhaven
  * Wenda - A madwoman who believes her son Aled was replaced by a demon
  * Cadoc - Shadowhaven's oft-drunk guardsman
  * Sheriff Delwyn - A coward and the leader of the village defenses
  * Father Dietrich - The judgmental leader of the lawful church 
  * One-Eye Nye - Owner and operator of the Watery Knave pub
  * Mayor Tristana - The current leader of Shadowhaven
===== Major Plot Points =====

  * The Homeshard Heroes return to the shard of Shadowhaven. They find the place has suffered greatly in the few days that they were away. 
  * They learn that the village's creator Brenin had banished the Shadow Ogres that tried to make a foothold in the Aetherverse here. Only the betrayal of a member of the village could destroy that magic. 
  * The party follows the path in the forest to the large hill where Brenin was entombed. 
  * They are attacked by a Shadow Ogre Magi, and ambushed by several other Shadow Ogres attacking from hiding. 
  * The Homeshard Heroes regroup and find that a fully grown Abed, the child of Wenda is working dark magics to open the Shadow Ogres portal larger every day. He is accompanied by a shape-changing frog demon that they later understand to be the thing that Wenda actually brought home from her trip to Flaygallows. 
  * The heroes are victorious, and the shard of Shadowhaven is once again a bastion against the evils of the Shadow Ogres from beyond time and space. 

===== Office Hours =====

  * After a in-depth discussion, the Homeshard Heroes were attacked on their ship by Shadar-Kai fascists.