Kyrie arrives beneath a sky of iron cloud, where the high pass narrows between black cliffs. Snow whips over a raid already raging across the mountain road.
A towering barbarian chieftain, an elderly woman with braided white hair, weathered bronze skin, and a wolf-pelt mantle, raises a blood-dark axe above the raiders.
The Barbarian Chieftain
By strength and scar, we claim this crossing. Let their champion answer the trial of worth!
Opposite her, shield-bearing defenders lock ranks beneath torn blue pennants. Their broad-shouldered captain, a middle-aged man with a broken nose and silver-trimmed cloak, steps onto the stones.
The Defenders' Captain
Worth is proven before witnesses, not butchered in a blind charge. Let the stranger marked by the moon approach!
Between both lines, a strange lunar mark burns across the stones, silver fire crawling through ancient cracks. The pass groans, and loose slabs tumble into the abyss.
The Barbarian Chieftain
Kyrie! Forward, before the mountain chooses for us. The next charge begins when that mark goes dark.
✓ Quest Accepted
Face the trial of worth
“I ready a spell in my left hand, a faint lunar glow emanating from it as I target the area of the gate. "By the moon as my witness, this gate shall fall."”
SUCCESS (Great Magic, rolled -1)
Kyrie
By the moon as my witness, this gate shall fall.
Kyrie raises her left hand, and a faint lunar glow gathers around her focus. Silver radiance spills across the black stones toward the gate set in the cliffside.
The ancient gate shudders beneath the spell. Frost bursts from its hinges as pale fractures race through the iron, bright as thin crescents.
With a thunderous groan, the gate collapses inward, its immense leaves tearing free and vanishing into the snow-choked darkness beyond.
The Defenders' Captain
The way is open! Hold the line, and let none mistake this miracle for surrender.
The Barbarian Chieftain
Moon-marked one, your strength speaks louder than any oath. Raiders, through the breach!
The raiders surge toward the fallen gate while the defenders brace against them. Silver light still gleams over Kyrie’s hand, reflected in every widening eye.
Quest Complete
Face the trial of worth