Students of Life & Death #6

The Students of Life and Death made their way through the Duskmaker Plains, exchanging stories of past lives lived, mistakes made, and motivation uncovered. Goldcrest helped Deneb count the stars, vowed to die for Gore, and was successfully repaired by Val to the first degree.

The group happened upon a centaur named Vasilis and two golem-type centaurs who they defeated

• Vasilis communicated with Gwenna using Primordial that he would take them to his "king" to trade magic weapons if they were up for it -- the group agreed

Vasilis took the Students to a small cave in the south of the plains where two dragonborn brothers named Samoht and Deraj met with them

• The brothers explained they were gearing up to fight against the threat of a Shadowfell Dread Lord named Azalin who had been brought to the material plane by the Raven Queen after the two and their friends had killed the current Dread Lord of Darkon, a shadow dragon, which collapsed the realm, freeing Azalin from his confinement, which caused the skies to go red and a dark whisper to fill the realm, which everyone had seen

• They need lots of powerful magic items for this

The group resisted trading the oar they received in Trine in order to keep it safe from falling into the hands of Uqupa, but received two items to help them along for free from the brothers with the promise the group would return with something to help them in their quest if they found anything

With that, the Students bid farewell and arrived in Wayward safe and sound