A Costly Mistake
Fight Against the Shadow Knight
- Sensing deception, the party refuse to negotiate with the Shadow Knight. The party, minus Adikia, prepare to fight the Shadow Knight. The Shadow Knight warns the party:
“So, you have chosen this path…”
- During the battle, the Shadow Knight envelops a part of the Hall of Akenatun with magical darkness. The vibrations that Arc felt become clearer: an army, later revealed to consist of skeletons bound by shadow, enter the Hall of Akenatun.
- Noah negates the magic by using the Driftglobe. Thoradin, Adeena and Arc lead the charge against the Shadow Knight and the skeleton army. Noah, Splix and Kiris provide support to the frontline. Theobald manages to contribute through his spiritual weapon.
- Adeena drops the Shadow Knight to its knees. Arc deals the finishing blow to the Shadow Knight. The Shadow Knight’s shadowy veil disappears, revealing a humanoid entity---Adeena and Arc, who are near the Shadow Knight, notice it. Kiris recognizes the face from his dreams: the Shadow Knight transforms into Kristofer.
- Arc receives a trinket containing the Shadow Knight’s soul. Arc cannot glean whether the soul came from a human or nonhuman entity.
- Thoradin drops dead. Adeena carries Thoradin away from the battlefield as Splix, Noah and Arc finish dropping the remaining skeletons.
Death and Deceit
- Theobald plans to cast revivify on Thoradin, but he worries that casting the spell might cancel his progress on the hallow spell which is about halfway from finishing. Adeena wakes up Adikia to increase Theobald’s chances on hallow spell.
- Theobald successfully revives Thoradin without compromising the casting of the hallow spell. After a brief rest and a quick discussion, Thoradin casts revivify on the Shadow Knight.
- The Shadow Knight attempts to attack Theobald. The party saw through the deception, but only Thoradin was quick enough to stop the Shadow Knight from attacking and kill it for good.
- Arc breaks the trinket and asks the soul that was trapped in the trinket:
“What happened to Kristofer?”
- The Shadow Knight’s soul replies:
“Kristofer’s domain is being sieged.”