Students of Life & Death #27

As the Students brought all the hostages taken by the Ignis people back home to Clifftop, they found Portis helping Saighdeoir prepare for a journey to Cypress, where he claimed he was needed in yet another battle

The Students, however, were dedicated to helping Brynn return to her home village of Tomolin to deliver the Rotleaf that was being used to purify the hostages for ritual sacrifice at Sinner's Peak.

With Rotleaf in hand and a mission to cure the druidic village of Tomolin of its blight, the group set out through the jungle with Brynn as their guide

They arrived in Tomolin to find not only was the blight not affecting the village, but the place and people seemed happy and healthy. 

• The Students went to Brynn's mother's home to find an old woman, Gia, had been adopted by Brynn's mother and wasn't quite all there in terms of memory and understanding

• Brynn's mother explained that a man named Silas had come to town after Brynn had left to find a cure for the blight, and he kept the blight at bay. Anytime he left, the blight came back, so the village was doing everything it could to keep Silas from leaving.

The group found Silas, a halfling with a taste for the extravagant, and tried to ascertain how he was keeping the blight away. They found his home built with gold and expensive materials, furnished with all the best the village could provide, and eating foods that were considered rare delicacies. 

• Silas explained his mere presence was the secret, and he planned on rejuvenating Tomolin to bring the people of the village the things they'd never had. Many within the village, including Brynn's mother, were on board with revitalizing their homes and bringing in a new age of prosperity.

• Two large goliaths guarded Silas and weresuspicious of the arrival of the Students in town.

• The group also noticed Silas hiding something beneath his cloak, though they couldn't tell what it was.

That night, one of the goliath bodyguards broke into Brynn's home while the group slept, awakening the group, and creating quite the conflict.