After Barasta, we were asked by the Patriarch to investigate the flood of refugees from the North. All seemed confused and said they awaited "her ambassador".
It seemed that a traveling preacher would enter the town, give a speech, and all would wander away. His speech was placing a strong suggestion on them.
We came across a group being followed by a three toed creature. Much like the dwarven girl we met earlier, the creature could distort reality around itself.
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When we returned to Ascension, we finally deciphered Vostruk's piece of ill conceived poetry, "If fate should a soul remove, seek out she who lives on roofs"
Deducing (incorrectly as it turns out) that this might refer to Olen's current "affliction" we sought out this woman. This required our own ill conceived poetry.
We found Barasta living on the roof tops of Ascension. It turns out she is a former worshipper of the Son who claims to have renounced her worship right at the moment of the Fall.
These are the things she told us:
• The Son asked his followers to take on madness to avoid it himself. Barasta claims to have avoided this madness through her renouncement. Her own actions and speech would indicate that she was not fully successful. This occurred IMMEDIATELY before the fall. Indeed the two seem definitely linked.
• Barasta believes that her remaining clerical powers come from drawing off the Son without his knowledge.
• The Son went mad (or who he was before) he is less then he was before.
• The Son was actually a Furlough god (Petrovich) not a Haven god who was brought through from Furlough during the god wars.
• Petron (The creation god of Furlough) is the source of all other gods in Furlough. He appears to have disappeared (shattered / been destroyed / transformed)
• Petrovich appears next (The dragonborn attempting to get to the Grotius Cube during the God Wars worshipped him)
• Pet is a common father honorific.
• The Haven Gods considered the Furlogh pantheon to be a subset of their own. The kidnap of Petrovich was to complete a perceived hole in the Haven Pantheon. A hole that was predicted to be filled.
• 7 Clerics of the Son survive from the Fall (Vostruk being one of them)
• Barasta opened the gates of the cathedral on Mount Ascension to the Lich Queen. The Son thought that helping the Lich Queen would prevent him from going mad.
Obviously these statements are coloured both by Barasta's tenuous grip on reality and by her source (The Son) who would have set this information in a way that painted him in the most positive light (It would seem that even semi-stable etheric constructs can suffer from vanity.
In all of the information Barasta was providing, I forgot on crucial thing! She is the only definative Eladrin we have met (other then the blind cathedral guardian). I forgot to discuss teleportation with her! We seem to have gained this ability on our return from Furlough. Does she have this ability? If so, when did she gain it? I must seek her out again (though doing so will require more abymsal poetry)
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We had entered the forests to the east of Ascension in order to attempt to determine the reason that the Elven nations of the forest had cut off communication with the city.
We were attacked by forest creatures (Dryads and Woads I believe) who claimed that a corruption was defiling the forest and that we were such defilers. Unfortunately, we were forced to battle them.
After subduing the creatures, we continued and came across a large path where necrotically infested Grubs had cut a path through the woods. Clearly THIS was the actual source of the corruption.
We followed the path and after helping a Mother (again in her Primal form) worshipping goblin tribe cleanse a spiritual site of the necrotic corruption, we reached the central holy site of the elven nation.
Here it became clear where the Necrotic energy was coming from. During the undead war that initiated our travel to Furlough in the first place, the elven nation sent an army to Ascension to aid their allies. This army was led by Queen Vereeni. She was who we encountered at the glen. She had died at Ascension. It would appear that the release of the Lich Queen had also released (or reanimated) an undead Vereeni.
Unfortunately, she had enchanted much of the fey court (including her own husband) and we were forced to fight them with only the aid of an ancient elvish druid who had merged with an oak tree (another primal worshipper of the Mother).
Dispatching this threat, we followed a trail of corrupted trees back to Mount Ascension. It appears that Vereeni was using her innate ability to move from tree to tree to return to her territory. It would appear that our actions on Mount Ascension are linked to her reappearance, though I can not yet determine the exact causal relationship.
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