12th Night of Evil

After witnessing the increasing strength of Evil that the Narkib Spires, the party made a foolhardy decision to stay for the 12th night of Odrun's ritual.

After spending the morning resting up from the previous night's encounter with the Yeth Hounds, the party decided to explore the surrounding area. Several hundred yards away from the spires, they found seven freshly made graves. Each grave bore the mark of Nizâmara, the Queen of Darkness.

Concerned that they had been duped by Odrun regarding his intentions to heal the world of Bâleth , Raelwin cast Commune With Nature to see what she could learn of the spires and the surrounding area.

The spires are magically natural. They are uncut sapphire, that are literally the bones of the world. Breaking these bones is like a compound fracture; until the bones are pushed back into place, the world here cannot heal.

There are holes in what you can sense, as if nature here is so dead that you can't sense it. What you can sense is that there is an unnaturally high amount of negative energy. It feels like this place and this ritual is like a beacon, a lighthouse for evil and negative energy.

The graves have been recently consecrated; the magical aura is part of a ritual to protect the graves from the evil that this place draws.

Feeling better about the situation, the party decided to stay the course and watch the 12th Night play out.