The Elden Blight Campaign (Part 1)

May 31st, 2010 Zen

The current Dungeons and Dragons campaign, run by me, features 4 player characters. Previously there were 5. Cat is playing a Dragonbord Warlord named Ahmad. Matt is playing a Human Fighter named Camthalion. Michelle is playing a Human Wizard named Kate (a shortening of her character’s actual name). Jared is playing a Human Rogue named Jack. Charles was playing a Half-Elf Warlock named Vincent.

The adventure began as the party arrived in the frozen province of Elden, having traveled up the south road. On their way into Waywyn, they encounter a swarm of refugees, many very unwell, travelling along the road towards Waywyn, from the lands to the east. At the city, the party is allowed in, though all the sick refugees are forced to stay in a camp outside the city walls. Inside the city, the stone is white, the people are happy and life is generally pretty swell. The city and surrounding lands are ruled over by Lord Allairo Andar, who resides in a white castle on the hill.

After only a short time, the players are asked to deal with a few problems concerning a guard officer, an apothecarist and a cleric of Pelor, all of which require the party to trek into the mountains to the north-west. It is quickly revealed by the cleric that those who die of the Blight, a Black Plague-like disease afflicting the lands to the east, rise again as walking dead. The most important of the tasks given to the players involves Callum Andar, brother to the lord, and former paladin of Pelor until his recent death. The chapel initiates in charge of the preparation of his body failed to ward it against reanimation properly, and the ritual burial grounds in the low mountains have been swarmed upon by the undead.

A few hacks and slashes later, the party arrives at the ritual burial grounds and kills many undeads. Along the way they discover a sword with an embossed handle, engraved with vine patterns and an eye on the pommel. The eye opens and the sword speaks aloud, though without a mouth. The name “Wesley” is given the the blade by the party, as the blade does not know its own name. The origin of the blade is still a mystery to the party, though they do know that it once belonged to Callum Andar, amongst many former wielders, and it recently “managed to get rid of” its latest Orc wielder, who it disliked very much. The blade is a magical implement and is being used by the Wizard, Kate. They find the entrance to Callum’s tomb opened, and a dagger stuck in Callum’s chest. The scroll given to the players with which to perform the reanimation ward is cast and consumed but to no effect. The party removes the dagger and returns to Waywyn. After reporting their findings and collecting rewards for other tasks fulfilled, the chapel sends a few Paladins to return Callum’s body and resurrect him themselves. It is revealed that Callum himself has been infected with the Blight, and the only thing short of a cure to the plague stopping him from returning as undead was to bring him back to life.

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