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

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

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.

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