The horned demon leader staggers across the black frost, leaking shadow behind it toward the courtyard breach. Tilla holds the frost-veiled servants at bay.
King Theodan Valiks
Deeper within the hall! Clerk, rider, and witnesses, move beneath the inner wards. Guards, do not abandon them.
The royal clerk leads the Grathan rider and shaken witnesses toward the archive. Theodan remains behind with the guards, while Hildra is absent beyond the eastern breach.
Valia Wulfharth
The sigil is broken, but not severed. It still draws power from the storm, and the archive wards are beginning to tremble.
Blue-white runes shudder around the sealed tome. Hairline fractures of darkness spread across the ward-line as thunder rolls above the winter hall.
Tilla Valren
Then keep the wards standing, Valia. Beareth and I will hold this passage while the crown gets everyone inside.
the horned demon leader
You shelter ink and testimony beneath trembling stone. Let the storm feed my broken seal, and every truth will drown with you.
✓ Quest Accepted
Drive the frost-veiled servants away
“Calling upon the power of my ancient blood line, I command the storms above to unleash all their fury upon the demon horde.”
SUCCESS (Great Magic, rolled +0)
Beareth Wulfharth
Ancient blood of Wulfharth, answer me. Storms above, unleash your fury upon this demon horde.
The winter sky splits open. Thunder rolls like mountains breaking, and blue-white lightning pours through the clouds into Beareth’s raised blade, answering his bloodline’s call.
The storm descends across the courtyard in a single roaring front. Lightning strikes the horned demon leader and the frost-veiled servants, tearing shadow from their forms and casting them backward across the black frost.
the horned demon leader
No mortal blood should command the heavens! Your house’s storm will not erase its debts!
A final thunderclap shatters the demon leader’s broken sigil. Its shadow collapses into harmless black sparks, while the frost-veiled servants dissolve beneath the storm’s cleansing light.
Valia Wulfharth
The ward-line steadies. Beareth, your storm has severed their connection, and the tome remains sealed.
King Theodan Valiks
Witnesses, record this plainly. The demon assault is broken, the archive survives, and House Wulfharth’s summoned allies have been driven from the hall.
Quest Complete
Save the crown’s witnesses from the horned demons
Attribute Upgrade: Agility Fair→Good
Quest Complete
Drive the frost-veiled servants away