Chain of Worlds

It would appear that the Barerans guard their borders quite carefully.
At our first crossing, we met a patrol that demanded we hand over our weapons.
We declined and retreated back to Ascension.
Hiding our more powerful weapons in my secret chest, we made a second passage and allowed non magical weapons to be taken.

Prisoners of this Bareran troop, we began to travel to the North East, away from our destination.

A group of trolls acting in concert with Ascension skirmishers attacked the group and we defended the group. This allowed us greater freedom and trust of the soldiers.

Things that they have told us:
1. There is actually a teleportation circle in the location we travel to. Barera has a working teleportation network.
2. Ascension has made peace with the Miconids we encountered outside of Steirhold. Indeed they seem to have a wide variety of allies (the people of Furlough, Trolls)
3. Ascension has started their march to war.

It is not clear as to the true goals of either side. The Malefarcium claim that, invariably, the side corrupted by demonic influence ends up siding with the demons. This would seem to be a strong case against the Barerans. However, it is currently expedient for us to ally ourselves with them.

Fleeing an Ascension party that outnumbered our own, we entered a deep copse of wood that was inhabited by primal creatures that sought our memories. Were these another reflection of the Mother's decent into instinct and potential madness?
I believe that it remains our best strategy to ally with Barera long enough to gather additional data. Only then can an informed decision be made.
I continue to struggle with the Grotius Cube. I will unlock its secrets.

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Obviously, I had to retrieve my memories!
We entered the Scriveners compound and subdued the guards.
Below ground, we found a large complex that went down through both Goblin and PRE Goblin architecture. We dispatched several animated guardians and some scriveners who protected the repository.
In the end, we retrieved many valuable books (the Malefarcium in particular) as well as several philials containing extracted memories. In another senseless destruction of knowledge, the book repository and likely the entire underground section, were destroyed in fire.
Fortunately, we have the indexes of what was stored there so we should be able to discern the memories we have.
We have fled Ascension.

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We then completed our travel and found that 6 months had passed. I retried the gate back to the Vault of Eladrius, but it would not connect. Given that the damages were not likely to take six months to repair, I fear that Princess Betina has destroyed the Vault.
The link with Furlough has been re-established and forces from there are amassing to move on Berrera. The party no longer trusts the motivations of the Patriarch and has decided to leave the city without calling in on him.
Before we go, I am called in front of the Scriveners for position of an unapproved book (the book of basic magics I obtained from the goblins earlier) Sensing that this was the incident that Peter Kovak encouraged, I went to see them and upon my return, my memories of the book, the vault, and interacting with Peter Kovak were all erased.

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Having now retrieved my memories from the scriveners / redactionists, I shall quickly commit them in fear of long term damage. They are recorded in the chronological order of their occurrence.
Once again revealing the idiosyncrasies of teleport circles I again found myself in another space, conversing with Peter Kovak; aka Petrovich; aka the son.
Peter Kovak confirmed and clarified many things:
• He confirmed that he is the Son / Peter Kovak / Petrovich
• Our current world, Haven, is but one of a multitude of world strung out like a line of pearls.
• The world before coming to Haven was (is?) known as Pendara
• Our universe was created by the Gods tricking the Primordials into creating something permanent. The Primordials fractured the cosmos into its current state during the dawn wars. In this context, Gods couldn't refer to beings such as Peter Kovak since he has a defined deification date. Interesting...
• Kansul works for a force that is not the primordials and wishes the complete destruction of the current cosmos.
• Many existing races are created from the interaction of a race with extra planar energies:
o Orks are humans affected by the goblin energies of Haven
o Gnolls are goblin imbued with energies of demons (Kansul)
o Tieflings appear to be either humans of elves similarly exposed.
o Dragonborn are humans exposed to the draconian energies of Furlough. They appeared during the God War and tipped the balance of that war
o This raises the question as to whether all but ONE of the races were similarly created. If so, what is the original race?
• It is possible to skip a plane when travelling but this is very difficult
• Peter Kovak broke the Tecera to prevent himself from fracturing as he had in Furlough
• Furlough had no native intelligent races. Peter Kovak brought refugees from Pendata, skipping Haven all together.
• The redactionists effort to suppress demon / planar activity was working untiol the Tecera was broken

Peter Kovak told me that I would have a revelation if I took a path I wouldn't otherwise have taken. I think this was encouraging me in my subsequent interaction with the scriveners that ultimately led to me obtaining a copy of the Malefarcium.
The location of our conversation then expanded to show the other three pantheon members as well as the Lich Queen (Felosial), who demanded a place at the God's Table.
There are, according to the four, 6 groups arrayed against us:
1. The Betrayers who have the key to save the world
2. The Tyrants who were betrayed
3. The Meddlers who play all sides against each other for their amusement
4. The Invader who takes Chaos over order and Justice
5. Peril (Possibly Kansul?) the one they cannot defeat
6. The Opportunists Survivalists who haven't taken a side.
The Daughter has been changed and now supports continual chaos, change, and mayhem
Followers of Peter Kovak fear that knowledge will be misused

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