🎭 Strong Start

Investigate the Weaver’s home and discover a leyline nexus and a standing stone that responds to the leyline gate ring. Patchwork Guardian reveals itself and shows them the way if necessary. Appears in leyline nexus otherwise.

🗺 Scenes

• Explore Weaver’s Ancestral Home
• Traveling back to Elara Sunforge to repair [[01 - Projects/tempus-campaign/04 - items/Summer’s Edge]]
• Reforge the sword @ Elara’s Secret Elven Forge
  • Skreek gets some communication from the sword
• Slumpet makes contact via thieves cant with an ally
  • sent a package via dead drop outside Ember’s Embrace
• Hollow Threshold 1: The Tempest Gate

🔑 Secrets & Clues

• Over 3 weeks has passed since they entered the feywild (1 fey day = 1 material week)
• The Weaver’s home recognizes them as the new owners
• Weaver’s home contains a leyline nexus and a standing stone that works with the leyline gate ring
  • A traditional teleportation circle is inscribed around the stone’s base
• Summer’s Edge is sentient and communicates via emotions and vague visions (for now)
• Hollow Threshold’s are being created by the Cult of the Eclipse
• Chained Library is investigating the weakening barrier and the hollow thresholds
• Skreek’s royal egg is being used as a Hollow Threshold anchor for a plane of air themed threshold

🗡 Monsters

Air Elemental (x2)

CR 5 | AC/DC 15 | HP 95 (71-119) | Atk/Prof +7 | DPR 35 | # Atks 3 | Dmg 12 (3d6 + 2)

HOLLOW THRESHOLD 1: THE TEMPEST GATE

Plane Connection: Material Plane ↔ Elemental Plane of Air

ARENA LAYOUT

A 50-foot diameter circular platform of black stone floats in howling winds. Lightning crackles between three towering storm-spires (20ft tall, 5ft wide) arranged in a triangle around the center. The Tempest Egg hovers 10 feet above the platform’s center, wreathed in electrical energy. A shimmering portal to the Material Plane sits at the platform’s edge (south), while violent winds from the Air Plane tear through an unstable rift (north).

Elara led them down a narrow stone staircase hidden behind her forge’s hearth, each step humming with a subtle warmth. The walls themselves seemed to glow with life, veins of feint golden leyline energy pulsing beneath translucent crystalline stone, illuminating their descent.

At the bottom, the air opened into a vast subterranean chamber. Water trickled in quiet streams along mossy rock ledges, pooling into a crystalline basin at the chamber’s center. Faint motes of golden light drifted lazily above the forge like fireflies caught in an unseen breeze. In the center of it all stood an ancient anvil, its surface etched with spiraling elven runes that flickered with the pulse of the leyline energies below.

Forge below Elara’s workshop where her truly magical artifacts are created. Here she can tap into the leyline energies to enhance her creations and give her the ability to breath life back into sentient artifacts, like Summer’s Edge (orig).

The Reforging of Summer’s Edge

Elara led them down a narrow stone staircase hidden behind her forge’s hearth, each step humming with a subtle warmth. The walls themselves seemed to glow with life, veins of feint golden leyline energy pulsing beneath translucent crystalline stone, illuminating their descent.

The Blade of Dawning Light
Weapon (longsword), rare (requires attunement by a good-aligned creature)

[!tip] Legends Speak… “As long as Summer’s Edge shines, the night shall never truly fall.”
— Inscription on the sword’s original scabbard

Forged in ages past by the smiths of the Summer Court, Summer’s Edge was once the blade of Sir Eirik, Champion of the Summer Court and Captain of the Order of Seasons. It gleamed with the light of the midday sun and cut down countless horrors in the battle against the undead. Though broken during the final stand at the Gates of Season’s End, the blade has been reforged—and its light is rising once again.