The night before the First Hammer’s return to Clefthome, Urs was telepathically contacted by the recently ascended deity that he was cheating on Balador with. Tobias was bored with the studies and trials the Seldarine was subjecting them to as part of their training, and they were envious of Urs’s adventures. Tobias offered Urs a new power, to blast enemies with light when he hit them, provided Urs issued a light-based pun with the strike. They also suggested that Urs decorate his shield with carvings of lavender sprigs.
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Ammun explained that his understanding of King Murgrim’s disloyalty to the kingdom developed slowly over years as Drothmara’s seductive hold on him also grew. Ammun denounced Aengus at his trial because he could not believe that the stolen Highgate Crown, which he had studied extensively, could be used for anything other than transmitting thoughts and inspiration. That someone’s actions could have been controlled seemed unthinkable, so Ammun believed that Aengus, his apprentice, must have chosen a dark path. Only after Aengus’s exile and Murgrim’s tightening restrictions on the use of magic did he finally discover that the king shared his bed with the duergar priestess. Her influence on him was slowly destroying the kingdom through crippling prohibitions on magic, and she had apparently convinced the king to steal the Highgate Crown for her, which ignited the clan war – a convenient distraction from the ongoing duergar guerilla war. Because the king was already weeding out anyone on the Council of Elders who objected to his dangerous decrees and replacing them with those more loyal, Ammun decided to keep his discoveries to himself and try to enact change from within the king’s circle of trust.
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Stinger, bereaved by the loss of her close friend Bean, broke her long silence to telepathically speak with Urs, asking that the group bury Bean with dignity. They spent the morning digging a grave and holding a solemn ceremony in his honor. When it ended, as quickly as she had appeared those weeks ago at Lake Valonara, Stinger was gone.
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