The northern vision flickers, then the Ash and Gold Dragon lunges into the light. Its vast head blocks the ridge, and the tower groans under its weight of power.
Ash and Gold Dragon
Wait. That flame below is not an enemy. It is kin, or what remains of kin, dragged into corruption.
A ripple of moonlit ash splits beside the projection. From it steps a hooded seer, silver-eyed and dusted in green-gold motes, one hand raised in calm warning.
The Seer of Brackenlight
Princess Tululu, I am the Seer of Brackenlight. The valleys are not merely threatened, they are being called. Your dragon is right to feel the old blood stirring there.
The Seer of Brackenlight
If she listens now, the northern line can still be steadied before it breaks.
The projection steadies for a breath, showing branching green-gold currents beneath the ridge. The tower still trembles, but the new arrival’s presence gives the vision a little room to breathe.
✓ Quest Accepted
Identify the source of the northern valley threat
“Do a divination spell.”
SUCCESS (Legendary Magic, rolled +0)
Tululu lifts two fingers to the wavering vision, and the tower hushes around the pulse of their spell. Moonlit ash gathers in a thin spiral above the northern ridge.
Tululu
The threads are braided through the valley line.
Silver-green currents flare in Tululu's sight, then separate into living paths. One stream runs from root to hearth to watchfire, steady and guarded.
A second current crawls in black knots beneath the first, feeding on old blood and broken oaths. It coils around a ruined shrine at the valley's center.
The ruin answers Tululu's magic with a flash of hidden script, and the shape resolves into a name etched in ash on stone, Brackenlight's warding mark.
The Seer of Brackenlight
There. That is the wound. Break the shrine's claim, and the valleys remember themselves.
The dragon lowers its head from the projection, while the seer keeps one hand raised over the glowing path. The northern line steadies, waiting for Tululu's command.
Quest Complete
Identify the source of the northern valley threat