Terror under the Lighthouse

Posted in Lesivith, Niskantel, The Shadow Road on April 4, 2010 by coyoteandthunder

In a grueling campaign, Ary with Tomra and the Dwarven brothers Drom and Thom ventured into the secret lair of the horrible undead lord, Lesivith. Ary learned the secret entrance after revealing council member Damarius as an agent of evil. Lesivith, then known as Thulsa Rex, kidnapped the children of Niskantel over a number of months prior to the discovery by the Scarlet Sorceress. Thom the Dwarf was killed by Lesivith’s subterranean, undead horde and despite even the direct involvement of both Tim and Zarconus the Lightning Dragon, Lesvith escaped to continue in his dark and unknown agenda.

Lesivith, Undead lord of Orcus

Tim, Sherriff of Dreamwater


Drom of Hammerguard.

The South Yard and the Assassin

Posted in Niskantel, The Shadow Road on April 4, 2010 by coyoteandthunder

It was in the South Yard, the main outdoor merchant square in Niskantel where Ary founded the first school of magic in Niskantel, called The Diamond Eye.


The Night Calling Witch, Morrigan told Ary of the coming of Tomra, an assassin who would become an invaluable ally.

A tortured soul, Tomra learned a new path from journeying with Ary, a path based not on killing for hire, his mode of living, but rather fighting for a cause greater than his own.

Niskantel, The City of Opal

Posted in Niskantel, The Shadow Road on April 4, 2010 by coyoteandthunder

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After the Opening of the Shadow Path, Niskantel became a strategic crossroad/gateway town to the Dream Water. The City prospered greatly. The Sherriff expelled the Council of Eagles from Municipal government but retained the Merchant’s council as the officiating, judicial body.

Ary Bessallyn

Posted in Farwalkers, Men on April 4, 2010 by coyoteandthunder

In time, she would be known as the Scarlet Sorceress, emancipator of Niskantel, but when, under the service of the Sherriff, she went to Niskantel, there was no way of telling what lay in store for her…

The Red Fist

Posted in The Shadow Road on April 4, 2010 by coyoteandthunder

North County was a community greatly altered by the opening of the Shadowroad. A gnarled, twisted wild land where dead end fairy trails gleem and faun wights dance. It was here that Arythial Bessallyn would steal away down secret roads that only little girls can find… for long trips as a little girl she would leave Maiah, and it was for this that Tim Tigean sent her as an adult to investigate the goings on of the Red Fist…

After years of peaceful, economic expansion under the warden of the Sherriff of the Dreamwater, trouble stirred in the North Shadowpath in a county given to Goblinkin. The Red Fist began the worshipping practices of the Dark Three once again and began Black Parades recruiting common farming folk from miles around, proclaiming to the People of Niskantel that they were the new order of things.

The Final Battle of the Opening of the Shadowpath

Posted in The Shadow Road on April 4, 2010 by coyoteandthunder

The Epheliun, Ruler of the Deep River Elves of Thraityn, became then The Wraith Caller, or Reada-Dom, and sworn an allegiance with the Blight Powers of Beris to immegrate the lost races of Belerian to the Dream Water.

It was at the Stone of Reada-Dom where the final battle of the Elfkin War of 1104 was decided. A Winner take all situation where, upon victory and the thwarting of Epheliun’s plan, the Company of the ShadowPath disbanded and embarked upon their professional lives.

Gnar Fold

Posted in The Shadow Road on September 2, 2009 by coyoteandthunder

It was at Gnarfold that the Sherriff and Company learned of the Stone.

The Storm Avatar

Posted in The Shadow Road on June 19, 2009 by coyoteandthunder

Awakened by the crush of the Dragon Forge, the Storm Avatar, a being of iron and lightning comes raging through the Feywild toward the Sherriff’s Party as they find Tim in the Towers of Ragyiel. Zarconus summons his Lightning knights, one of whom is destroyed forever, before bringing the arching beast down. The creature forever destroys Ragyiel in its death throws, reuinitng the party in a bruised and exhausted mess.

The Ancient Love and the Treachery of Now

Posted in The Shadow Road on June 19, 2009 by coyoteandthunder

Walder quickly found his ancient love Tirara who had been waiting for him…heavy with child, Walder’s child. There was no love lost between the two as tragic as it is that five thousand years separate them and together they can never be. In the later battle during and against the Storm Avatar, Avari helps birth the child and steals the baby and the mother off to the relative safety of the Feywild.

What treachery! Walder discovers the Rydikos Demon, the Liege of the Pit, the creature at the center of the Cult of the Liege is none other than Thallia, His regent Captain. The Vampiric hellspawn nearly usurped Walder’s throne but not for the keen arrow of the awakened Tim Tigean who caught her between the eyes.

The Coming of Khepathia

Posted in The Shadow Road on June 19, 2009 by coyoteandthunder


For five thousand years, five thousand years ago, the Valley of Gavin Wel was Khepathia. Khepathia was the greatest city that this or any world has ever known…an eladrin city a mile deep, bolstered by planar connections and machinations that are beyond contemporary conceptualization.

It is the Oracle of Fuhema who informs the Sherriff’s Party that now the Feywild seems to be crashing in on the Dream Water due to the liberation of the Seeds of Everet, the destruction of one of the ancient Dragon Forges and the missing Sherriff who can not tend to the Unicorn of Fengdeign.

Walder gathered up his friends as they were all in trance of spell and violence, and sailed a little red sailed raft up an ancient river through a City that had not existed for five millenia. He sailed with an intent heart to Ragyiel, the place he knew to find Tim.

Many eladrin of today remain embittered to the fall of their glorious nation under the rule of the Dragons Kings and the Raven Queen. With the Seeds of Everet, tears that fell from Bahamut’s face upon the burning of Khepathia, there are some who say Khepathia could be raised again.