Amber light still clings to the cave walls where the ritual once burned. Broken stones lie in a rough ring, dark now, while dust drifts through the hush.
Vael
You were right to trust the ruin. Something was left behind here.
He shifts beside the shattered altar, claws grazing a slab split clean through. Beneath it, a narrow niche glows with a faint ember sheen.
Vael
A seal-stone. Old work. It points to the ember shrine above the vale. If we break the hunter chain there, their mark dies with it.
Vael
Help me reach it, and I will give you a dragon-scale charm for safe passage, and a purse of silver taken from Veyr's hoard.
He looks to Poppy, then toward the cave mouth, where cold mountain air waits beyond the amber glow. The path forward is clear, and newly dangerous.
✓ Quest Accepted
Reach the ember shrine
✓ Quest Accepted
Break the hunter chain at the ember shrine
“I step toward the cave mouth, ready to lead the way to the shrine.”
SUCCESS (Superb Agility, rolled +1)