🌿 Thematic Pillars

• Renewal & Growth: Spring represents change, personal development, and the courage to bloom after hardship.
• Contracts of Intention: The Court values commitments to self-improvement and healing over oaths of power or allegiance.
• Gentle Judgment: Unlike the ambition of Summer or the solemnity of Winter, Spring’s authority is quiet but unwavering.
• Landmarks:
  • [[Endless Meadow]]
  • [[Grand Windmill]]
  • Spring Leyline Temple

👩‍🌾 Key NPC

Faela Mossheart - High Druid

• Race: Elf (likely centuries old, with a presence that feels both ancient and nurturing)
• Appearance: Wears layers of living moss, bark-woven robes, and carries a staff sprouting blossoms. Her hair is vine-wrapped and flowers bloom in her footsteps.
• Personality: Calm, maternal, but not passive. Sees potential in all things — including the party.
• Role: Guide to the Spring Temple; speaks in gentle riddles and seasonal metaphors. May be the only one who can truly commune with the temple’s ancient spirit.

Vibe

🎭 Strong Start

• Use the leyline gate network to travel to the Order of Seasons Tomb via a nearby standing stone, encounter Hollow Threshold along the way

🗺 Scenes Overview

• Visit Vidrir to check in and he can see Summer’s Edge
• Visit Tannis: Lerissa , Arbiter?, Sig Rockwell (Toby’s wrist blade)
• Hollow Threshold 3 - The Primal Hunt

🔑 Secrets & Clues

• Vidrir is much older than he seems and was the champion of the summer court that Skreek saw in his visions
• Hollow Thresholds are being created by the Cult of the Eclipse
• Vael, agent of the Chained Library, is investigating the weakening barrier and the hollow thresholds
• Chained Library is located beneath the “Tael’anore”, the central mountain in Elven territory
  • “the roots beneath the seasons” / “vault at the world’s bloom.”
• Skreek’s royal egg is being used as a Hollow Threshold anchor for a plane of air themed threshold

Vael’s Intro

“I am a witness. An agent of balances long frayed. My name is Vael. Fifth Binder. Chainbearer of the Silent Vault. When minds shatter against what they should not know, we are the ones who pick up the pieces. Or burn them. Some truths are too dangerous to be carried, so we bury them in silence—where even their echoes find no ears.”

✅ COMPLETED QUESTS

🛡️ Rescue the Blacksmith’s Daughter

Location: Tannis → Elven Forest → Ancient Tomb
Quest Giver: Sig Rockwell (desperate blacksmith father)

• Track kidnappers north into the enchanted Elven forest
• Investigate the obsidian standing stone and receive vision of landmarks
• Explore the ancient tomb of the Order of Seasons
• Rescue Winry from the Cult of the Eclipse’s dark ritual
• Defeat goblins and bugbear cultists
• Recover Cult medallion marked “Darkness will descend once again”
• Discover hidden chamber of five knights
• Retrieve broken pieces of Summer’s Edge (legendary longsword)

Rewards: Custom magical gear from Sig, future favor owed
Key NPCs: Sig Rockwell (grateful father), Winry (traumatized daughter)

Characters

🎭 Strong Start

Investigate the Weaver’s home and discover a leyline nexus and a standing stone that responds to the leyline gate ring. Patchwork Guardian reveals itself and shows them the way if necessary. Appears in leyline nexus otherwise.

🗺 Scenes

• Explore Weaver’s Ancestral Home
• Traveling back to Elara Sunforge to repair [[01 - Projects/tempus-campaign/04 - items/Summer’s Edge]]
• Reforge the sword @ Elara’s Secret Elven Forge
  • Skreek gets some communication from the sword
• Slumpet makes contact via thieves cant with an ally
  • sent a package via dead drop outside Ember’s Embrace
• Hollow Threshold 1: The Tempest Gate

🔑 Secrets & Clues

• Over 3 weeks has passed since they entered the feywild (1 fey day = 1 material week)
• The Weaver’s home recognizes them as the new owners
• Weaver’s home contains a leyline nexus and a standing stone that works with the leyline gate ring
  • A traditional teleportation circle is inscribed around the stone’s base
• Summer’s Edge is sentient and communicates via emotions and vague visions (for now)
• Hollow Threshold’s are being created by the Cult of the Eclipse
• Chained Library is investigating the weakening barrier and the hollow thresholds
• Skreek’s royal egg is being used as a Hollow Threshold anchor for a plane of air themed threshold

🗡 Monsters

Air Elemental (x2)

CR 5 | AC/DC 15 | HP 95 (71-119) | Atk/Prof +7 | DPR 35 | # Atks 3 | Dmg 12 (3d6 + 2)