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Trials of the Frostmaiden
Trials continued... Cruelty, Endurance, Preservation. The party has passed the four trials of the frostmaiden. The Codicil of White -- a tome of Auril's cult and the key to opening Reghed Glacier and access Ythryn along with its magics that may combat the endless winter -- awaits.

Grimskalle's Gateway to the Four Winds

#TrialsOfTheFrostmaiden #TheChosen The heroes stepped into the Trial of Cruelty and soon were transported to a white, nearly featureless area. There was one doorway, and on it was the face of the Cold Crone. One eye was missing. Along the walls were some objects, and on approach Oona saw them to be daggers of ice. Gadget held a grim expression on her face. Tetro glanced at her and nodded. The passage seemed to require a sacrifice, and he offered for them to use his own. Crank shook his head. That wouldn't be cruel of him to offer up his own, now would it? He looked over at Vellynne, who was standing further back from him than he remembered. There was no way in hell she would give hers up without a fight. Fern grew pensive. Oona said fuck all that and took out the heart of The Endurance from their bag of holding to shove into the socket. The group startled when they saw her arm drenched with humours, the heart grizzly with newly regrown vascular structure. She jammed it into the cavity anyway, but it didn't take. It had to be an eye. Tetro held out stones for the heroes to draw lots. Crank came up short. Oona held him down as Tetro approached with the knife, the others drawing on their skills to aid Tetro's hand or still those of Crank. Oona spoke to soothe the bugbear as he suffered his lot. With the eye removed, Tetro placed it within the door, and they were brought back to Grimskalle. All but Oona received the glyph of cruelty.
#TrialsOfTheFrostmaiden For the Trial of Endurance, the party appeared in the middle of a snowstorm. The spellcasters quickly noted that some antimagic presence was at hand. In the near distance, the Tribe of the Elk was hurried to dismantle their camp and move from the surroundings. Jarund Elkheart, their chief, called out to the party, to Auril's emissaries, with caution. He claimed their tribe was being persecuted with impossible conditions and a lack of game. Auril's winter, he said, was out to kill them. But they must endure. The party aided the Elk on a grueling march with the Elk to seek better conditions. While all the party members made it through, only a handful received the glyph of endurance upon reappearing in Grimskalle.
#TrialsOfTheFrostmaiden Our heroes had caught a knucklehead trout during the Trial of Endurance, which Ukuma was THRILLED to see.
#TrialsOfTheFrostmaiden Trial of Preservation. Aerix

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XP

Total XP: 32500

2000 ~ #TrialsOfTheFrostmaiden COMPLETE

Loot

Ukuma's seaweed ~ Ukuma ~ Oona and Fern ate it