A year later, Daring Heights was rebuilt and prospering more than ever. [Note: players had a year of narrative downtime to write about] At the end of the year, adventuring began again in earnest, with many new adventurers moving to Kantas from all over Toril.
The first order of business was tracking down the godling Raxivort, whose Xvarts had incited the invasion in the first place. Adventurers located his demiplane, stormed in and in a mighty battle struck down the godling and returned the artifact granting him power to Nowhere’s patron of all people —a fiend.
A blue dragon was defeated under Kundar, hoarding information. Will, the angel of the Angelbark Forest, was saved from danger twice. A group of elves, the Galavir, potentially native to Kantas, were discovered in the Western mountains cut off from their soul migratory patterns by a Marid, who was summarily slain.
In all this time that Daring had been rebuilding, Port Ffirst had been flourishing. Lord Kensington had averted his gaze from Port Ffirst as soon as he got inducted into the City Council of Daring Heights and that, in addition to Voros Lenoir, merchant and sailor extraordinaire having finally discovered the maritime route from the Sword Coast to the shores of Kantas was the spark needed to ignite the growth of Port Ffirst.
Voros, alongside his much more business oriented brother, Soros, sold all their businesses in the Sword Coast in search of a new life and found a Port Ffirst full of potential but forgotten by time and severely put beneath the needs of Daring Heights. In the year Daring Heights was being rebuilt, Port Ffirst grew tenfold in size and population with the construction of New Town and the Tritooth Wharf. As expected, a new town growing out of the pockets of rich merchants attracts individuals of the criminal type. All small criminal activities were quickly snuffed out with the arrival of the mysterious vigilante-style masked thief by the name of Laeruna the Red. What started as a group of three or four able individuals quickly expanded and became a network of informants in the underbelly of Port Ffirst.
The growth spurt the small town undertook was clearly underestimated by the Lenoir brothers and basic resources were becoming a very expensive problem. To fight this, they brought in an expert on farming communities in Faerun - Jill Graben. After invaluable help from the new adventurers that slowly flocked to Port Ffirst, an area in the nearby forest was vacated to allocate a farming community. With the food problem beginning to be less of a nuisance, the Lenoirs called in some remaining favours to bring over new businesses and maritime security.
This marked the arrival in town of the Grey Zephyr Armada, led by Admiral Jarnos Saltborn. With the armada, also several merchants arrived, including blacksmithing, leatherworking and magical services. Karlessa Highbringer, native to Kantas was also persuaded to start a business in Port Ffirst and opened the enchanting shop ‘The Blue Soul Arcanum’.
Meanwhile, adventurers from Daring Heights discovered an alarming new threat - an army of giants, trolls and even a few young dragons was being massed in the western mountains. Afraid of a repeat of the orcish invasion, they investigated and discovered it to be organised by none other than Nowhere, the warlock adventurer who was a colleague to so many in Daring Heights.
It turned out that his army was not heading for Daring, but for Witchhold, the seat of Granny Longtooth’s power. He thought she was too great a threat and must be dealt with, and had spent the last year amassing this power. His motives were strange and oddly personal, as Granny had been careful not to pose a direct threat to Daring for some time.
As things progressed, people came to understand that Nowhere had been Granny’s apprentice for years now, learning her witchcraft and means of dark bargains. Using them himself, he had become extremely powerful, even freeing the demon Pascal from his knife and using him as an assistant and general. He knew Granny’s capabilities like no one else before, and knew that one day she would become a threat, even if she wasn’t posturing now. So he resolved to end her.
The adventurers were conflicted in this, as Nowhere’s methods were repeatedly shown to be heartless and manipulative, even as he tried to convince others not to be puppets to Granny’s plans.
Ultimately, Granny and Nowhere faced each other with their respective forces on a plain in the Feywild. The adventurers located a series of artifacts which would bind both the witch and the warlock, and give them the opportunity to eliminate one of the threats utterly. A huge debate ensued and only a handful could even resolve to commit such an act. The trap sprung, the great Queen Granny Longtooth of Witchhold was destroyed by this Arbiter’s Disc, Nowhere knocked out and taken back to Daring to stand trial.
The trial was an intense affair, made all the more surreal because Nowhere put up no objections, and agreed to go along entirely with the council’s ruling on his actions. The result was exile, by a narrow margin, and Nowhere was sent away, never to return. While all this was happening over in Daring Heights and in the Feywild, Port Ffirst was mostly untouched by the war.
This all changed with the arrival of a new player in town. Crashing through a portal into the Flourished Hook, a highclass tavern in town, down came tumbling Langston Farstep, renowned Bounty Hunter from Faerun working mainly in Kundar recently. He recruited some adventurers in Port Ffirst to aid him in putting an end to the Witchhold and stealing its source of energy - a mote containing all the souls Granny Longtooth had acquired. Although they did succeed in destroying the Witchhold, unexpectedly, Langston Farstep stole the Mote at the last minute, stepping through a portal, several feet up some ichory vines, where Kundar could be seen on the other side.
Summary:
Daring Heights is rebuilt to its former glory over a year.
Raxivort, the godling, is slain.
Local elves, the Galavir, encountered in the Sunset Spine.
Maritime route discovered between Faerûn and Kantas by the Lenoirs—who take over Port Ffirst economically and expand it greatly.
Laeruna the Red starts criminal activity in Port Ffirst.
Lenoirs bring in the Grey Zephyr Armada as well as other merchants and services.
Nowhere (a PC) raised an army of giants to fight Granny Longtooth, seeing her as a true threat. Mitigating factors include Nowhere being a jerk too and him having secretly been her apprentice for much of the first two seasons.
Characters kill Granny and put Nowhere on trial for many crimes, ending with his exile from Daring Heights.
Langston Farstep, bounty hunter, leads adventurers to steal the mote containing all of the souls Granny had acquired and then disappeared with it, betraying everyone.
Next: Season 4: The Amaranthine Games
