Star & Scale #30

Star and Scale ventured onward into the Scaleback Mountains with their guide, Belladonna, giving them insights on the history of the region. The entire group felt a pace and ease originating from the lingering creation magics imbued in the very stone.

Zeb was able to disrupt a planned ambush from a clan of kobolds calling themselves the "Huk Boys." Their leader, a kobold with a crown named Beezle Bizz, accepted the group into his clan after seeing Lubomir, and gave them each wooden coins with their clan emblem, a sail.

• The kobolds warned the group to beware of other clans as they wandered the mountains.

It wasn't long until the group happened upon a giant unconscious and trapped beneath an avalanche of rocks.

• They set about clearing the rubble, but it seemed as though the rocks were almost attached to his skin. 

• Star and Scale were able to awaken the giant, calling himself Yofarawallashaa or Yofa for short, who immediately began lamenting his awakening.

  • Apparently Yofa had been taking part in a ritual known as Slöhetstillstånd, a deep sleep the giants of Hemmfjell used to pass the ages of the world during times of great duress. When asked why so many of his kin were taking part in this ritual that turned their bodies into the mountain itself for a time, Yofa explained another god war was brewing and the giants wished to endure as stone.

Now that he was awake, Yofa could not return to Slöhetstillstånd, so instead decided to help Star and Scale try to prevent the war from happening.

He carried the group to Vyelga, the highest peak in the Scalebacks, and there they found an angel, Cadogan, who bid them welcome to his solitude.