Arion Touvengard

The world is name Etheria. It is a shattered planet held together with a web of magic that connects the continents to each other with astral rivers that are navigable by arcane ships. Each of the various continents is dominated by one major climate per continent, the main one is Tienvidel a well populated temperate plains inhabited by multiple warring kingdoms. The world is governed by numerous dieties of varying strength collectivly worshipped as the infinite paths, so named in recognition of the myriad gods and worshippers disperate lifestyles and no one being viewed as correct. The altered ancient sword can hold the Crucible’s seal, but doing so drains the lifeforce of its host. A living elemental inheritance can serve as the key and power source for the Ashen Crucible’s concealment seal. The Ashen Crucible’s predatory core is destroyed and no longer operates its furnace or crystal pillars.

In time lost to history Arion was tasked to guard the material world from the beings that exist beyond reality, while serving as one of the guards he was betrayed by the people he was sworn to protect who sealed him into his own sword allowing the creatures to pour forth into Etheria, shattering the planet but also grantibg those who betrayed him immortality along with nigh limitless magical power. These events are long lost to the winds of time and only faintly remembered by Arion himself as the cycle of using a host has imprinted coubtless lifes onto him. In recent history one of the ancient beings has begun to act upon the world directly again and this has stirred monsters to begin to arise and terrorize the shattered realms, though the rifts only appear in more remote areas avoiding population centers, along with evil practicioners of magic being promised access to more power should they assist they ancient outer beings in their eldritch machinations. Various adventurers have set out to stop the incursions. Chapter 2: The Crucible Falls Silent Arion Touvengard and Sivanus followed the Council’s pursuit into the Barrens forge ruin and found a map to a buried workshop bearing the craft-mark of Arion’s sword. There they joined Jerashi Heladine, deciphered the ledger, and altered the sword’s binding at great cost to Arion. The records revealed that Jerashi’s sister was being used as a living key at the Ashen Crucible. After receiving Marr’s report, Arion killed the Ash-Seated Warden, and the party descended beneath the Crucible while the Council closed in. Arion drew the seal into his sword, freed Jerashi’s sister, and entered the inner sanctum. When the Crucible awakened and the Council breached the sanctum, Arion destroyed its predatory core and restored Benashi’s stolen energy to Jerashi’s sister. The furnace is silent, its pillars have stopped, and the Council’s advance is halted.