Star & Scale #28

Lithua'wan continued to lead Star and Scale through the Ruins of Caern toward the two massive monoliths at its center, a place from which he claimed few ever returned.

• During their journey, the drow guide spoke to Zeb about the Drakewardens and how the bones he was seeking belonged to the Drakewarden general who lead the troops during Caern's invasion; a general by the name of Kilkenny. 

As the group neared the monoliths, the sky lit in flashes of light as the echoes of the ancient battle between Shar and Garn played out above them, each clash sending psychic pangs of pain to everyone except May and Ezekiel.

Zeb climbed atop his drake Lubomir and sped across the plains, leaving the group behind in an effort to reach the monoliths before the echoes of the ancient god battle killed him

Elowyn and Eden decided to find another way, delving underground to traverse the landscape without the echoes ending their lives

Zeb was able to make it to the monoliths by the skin of his teeth, finding them covered and pierced by ancient magical artifacts, but unable to take anything as he had to get underground to escape the psychic blasts

• Underground, he discovered a wayward Modron named Dwarfdon who had been cleaning, organizing, and cataloguing all of the items left behind from Hellfall's attack on Caern all those centuries ago. 

• In Dwarfdon's archives, Zeb found the armor, bones, and whiplance of Kilkenny, grabbing his bones for Lithua'wan, and the weapons and armor for himself. 

• Zeb also discovered, through the molten remains of the Devout of Vad and Dwarfdon's audio recording of the events, that Hellfall had rained fire down on the city of Caern while his own troops were still within it, killing not only the people of Caern but the forces of Vad in the process.

Armed with his new equipment and this horrific discovery, Zeb left the archives and located Elowyn and Eden, who had found an underground ruins of a part of Caern, which had been sunk below the surface.

• The city the two had found was in a cylindrical cavern that ran diagonally down, as though something had fallen from the sky and created a perfectly circular indentation, hundreds of yards deep

• As they ventured near the bottom, a voice belonging to a creature of darkness assaulted them, blinding and cursing Eden, and demanding to know "where Share could be found," when it saw Elowyn's book on constellations.

Zeb helped the two escape the shadow being with their lives, and they found their way back to Lithua'wan, May, and Ezekiel

Receiving the bones of Kilkenny, Lithua'wan's years long quest was at an end, and he opened a portal to summon the people to whom he was meant to deliver the bones, Nefaria, who came through and confronted Star and Scale.