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Tempus Session 38

Strong Start

Scenes

  • Guardian of Forgotten Threads (Entrance Challenge)
  • The Mirror of Inner Truth (Puzzle/Roleplay Challenge)
  • The Frayed Loom (Trick/Setback)
  • The Echo of the Weaver (Climactic Battle or Challenge)
  • The Journal (Reward/Revelation)

Secret and Clues

  • The mountain’s real name is “Evenode Peak”, or “Tael’anore” in elvish
  • The Weaver’s family home is near the mountain.
  • The Weaver was once a child of nobility before his family allied themselves with Niddhog and was later humiliated by agents of the Dusk Lord.

Monsters

Guardian

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Weaver’s Journal

First Sparks

Today, I cast an illusion no one could see through. Father called it child’s play — a trick for fairs and fools. But when I showed him the wolf at the window and watched the blood drain from his face, I knew: there is power in belief.

Even without substance, fear is real.

The Dance of Triggers

Why rely on an audience’s gaze? Why perform for them when I can weave cause and effect into the very fabric of a place? I have found a method to bind illusions to events — a sound, a footstep, a heartbeat. They spring to life when I command them, like faithful servants awaiting their cue. I call it a “programmed illusion.”

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Tempus Session 37

Strong Start

  • Duel Manus in the golden light of the Feywild

Scenes

Secret and Clues

  • The mountain’s real name is “Evenode Peak”, or “Tael’anore” in elvish
  • The Weaver’s family home is near the mountain.
  • The Weaver was once a child of nobility before his family allied themselves with Niddhog and was later humiliated by agents of the Dusk Lord.

The Blade Remembers

As the party crests the mountaintop, the light of the Feywild’s eternal midday sun cascades across the landscape. It’s unlike any sunlight Skreek has felt—pure, golden, weightless, yet brimming with life and ancient purpose. As the First Kiss of the Midday Sun begins to coalesce in the air above the peak, Skreek feels an almost magnetic pull to his pack.

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Empty Loom

🌑 Read-Aloud: Vision of the Empty Loom

The world falls away like torn cloth.

You stand in endless white, beneath a sky that has forgotten how to be blue.

Before you looms a colossal frame, ancient beyond reckoning — a loom whose threads once sang with light and life.

Now, you watch as strand by strand, the weave unravels.
Names you once knew. Faces you once loved.
Places you called home.

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Living Echoes of the Weaver’s Garden

1. The Bloom of Forgotten Names

Location:
Nestled in a cracked stone planter along the left path.

Description:
A single silver-and-blue lily, delicate but unearthly in color, grows stubbornly among withered vines.
As the players approach, they notice faint glyphs carved into the planter — ancient Elvish sigils of names, oaths, and promises.

Interaction:

  • If a player speaks their own name aloud while touching the lily,
    the flower flares with pale light, and for a moment they hear a whispered memory — a voice they once loved, a forgotten friend, or an old teacher.
  • Mechanically, this grants Advantage on the next Wisdom saving throw made within the garden.

2. The Fountain of Fading Dreams

Location:
Near the center, a cracked marble fountain choked with mist.

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