Session 01

📍 Location

Eldaarich — a sealed city-state ruled by Daskinor, a paranoid and supremely powerful human Sorcerer-King known as the Goblin Death. No one enters or leaves without his permission.

⚔️ What Happened

Marek, Red, Rams and Taji work for House Azeth — one of the few genuinely fair trading organisations in this part of the world. Led by Lord Corik Azeth, the House moves food, water, and essential goods across the Trembling Plains, connecting the Tyr region to the northern city-states of Kurn and Eldaarich.

Recent intelligence suggested Eldaarich was in crisis — its slave population ravaged by disease and famine. House Azeth had assets inside the city and needed help. The party was tasked with smuggling sensitive medical supplies in.

It went wrong. The Redguard — Daskinor’s enforcers — were waiting. The cargo was destroyed, the other smugglers killed, and the party was taken alive and enslaved.

They woke up in the cells beneath the fighting pits, alongside Gale, who had been arrested for his own reasons. Above them loomed Gushkin — a Daskinor noble and overseer of the arena, a sadist who made their captivity as miserable as possible.

They were forced to fight a group of fellow slaves, then a massive dinosaur. They won both.

Between the two fights, Gushkin staged a spectacle: a thousand Aarakocras were paraded into the arena, doused in oil, and burned alive. Daskinor had banned flight within the city. They had nowhere to go.

🏃‍♀️ TL;DR

• Sent by House Azeth to smuggle medical supplies into Eldaarich.
• Ambushed by the Redguard. Cargo destroyed, party enslaved.
• Thrown into the gladiator pits under the watch of Gushkin.
• Won a fight against fellow slaves. Won a fight against a dinosaur.
• Witnessed the mass burning of a thousand chained Aarakocras in the arena.
• Now await whatever comes next.