# Dramatis Personae — Rage of Dragons *A chronicler's index of the souls met on the road from Stormwreck Isle to the petrified ribcage of a dead god.* > [!quote] Volothamp Geddarm — Chronicler in Residence (and, by some accident, Cast Member) > A confession before we begin. The chronicler of this particular adventure is also *in* this particular adventure, owing to a series of events involving a prison called the [[Gloomcellar]], a [[Quicklings|Quickling]] who I'm told had it in for me personally, and an archfey who briefly stuffed my soul into a pendant in place of one of our heroes. I am informed the heroes have not forgiven this, and that the fault was not, strictly speaking, mine. The reader is invited to consult the recaps and decide for themselves. > > What follows is my best accounting of the cast — friends, enemies, gods, dragons, and the occasional polite cloud giant — assembled across fifty-one sessions of what I have begun to call *The Dragon Conspiracy.* I have been generous with the heroes' allies, sparing with their enemies, and discreetly vague about a handful of matters I am still piecing together. If a name you remember is missing, it is either because they are dead, because I forgot them, or because the truth of them has not yet seen daylight. > > — *V.G.* --- ## The Heroes > [!info] Who They Are > Five Harper recruits summoned to a [[Neverwinter]] safehouse by the legendary [[Eather Heilean]] on a Harper seer's vision of dead dragons rising over the [[Sword Coast]] — joined on the road by a sixth, a firbolg druid chasing visions of his own. None of them, I think, expected the dream to prove quite so accurate. - **[[Astra]]** — Half-orc rogue. Former [[Gilded Gallows]] operative who got out and brought her best friend with her. Carries unfinished business with [[Ravenna]] of [[Neverwinter]] and a tendency to talk her way out of things she cannot fight her way out of. - **[[Barlen]]** — Half-orc cleric of [[Moradin]]. Veteran of the [[Dragon's Bane]] mercenary company until she learned the company had been hollowed out from within. Bears a charge from her god to one day cleanse [[Morndinvuddrrin]]. - **[[Kan'Rahd]]** — Firbolg druid of the [[Feywild]]. Pupil of the archfey [[Quandrix]]. Recently restored to his own body after a brief and undignified tenure inside a pendant. - **[[Norren]]** — Bugbear barbarian from a druidic family bound to the [[Shadowtop Cathedral]]. Has sworn a blood oath to [[The Furies]]. Has a habit of taking heads. Devoted to his mothers. - **[[Ophelia]]** — Half-elf ranger. The reincarnation of [[Aerilyn Featherstrike]], a High Mage of the [[Dominion]] age — a fact she has confirmed in past-life trance and in the cruelty of nightmare. - **[[Valkalyn]]** — Elf wizard of the [[Starwarden Academy]]. Stole the [[Cult of the Dragon|Cult]]'s research out from under them at [[Shilrua]]. Maintains the demiplane the rest of them sleep inside to keep [[Nymara]] out of their dreams. ### Traveling Companions - **[[Cragus]]** — Norren's worg and mount. Displayed something the chronicler can only describe as jealousy the day Norren mused aloud about acquiring a red dragon to ride instead. I cannot fault him; I have been wounded by rivals far less impressive. - **[[Lifferlas]]** — The awakened tree of the [[Goldenfields]], its oldest resident. Took to Kan'Rahd as a kindred soul there, and has been the firbolg's gentlest voice during his worst hours. - **[[Frank]]** — A glorious owlbear of the [[Starshade Grove]]. Loved by all who meet him. - **Myself** — I am chiefly a liability in a fight and a respectable distraction otherwise. I once held an archfey's attention long enough for the heroes to enter her garden. The dice were unusually kind that day. --- ## The Red Daggers > [!info] Astra's Old Crew > A [[Neverwinter]] street gang turned [[Gilded Gallows]] auxiliaries turned, after a great deal of trouble, [[Harpers]] sympathizers. They ride with the party now. Whether they all *like* the party is another question. - **[[Nira Mistwood]]** — Astra's best friend and reason for getting out of the Gallows in the first place. Carries the wounds of a tiefling named [[Pyranikus Goldcrest]] who handed her to [[Ravenna]] when it was convenient for him. - **[[Valtair]]** — Stoic half-orc warrior. Slow, earnest, and growing markedly closer to [[Ophelia]]. His worst nightmare was failing to save her. He has not yet failed her. - **[[Kethra Nightshade]]** — Half-elf. Blamed Astra for the gang's exile from [[Neverwinter]] and has been working through it the hard way. Her nightmare revealed an infernal pact with [[Glasya]] — and she chose to save [[Valkalyn]] from a worse nightmare anyway. - **[[Gunther Boomfizzle]]** — Goblin sweetheart. Followed [[Dawn]]'s false promises into the [[Dire Wood]] and was very nearly killed on the [[Maiden of the Moon]]'s spear before the party reached him. Now believes Astra loves him, owing to a technically-true loophole in her phrasing. No one has corrected him. --- ## The Harpers > [!info] Patrons and Allies > The order that pulled the heroes out of obscurity and pushed them at the world's worst problem. It has cost them. Several of them are not on this list anymore. - **[[Eather Heilean]]** — Wise Owl of the [[Harpers]]. Legendary paladin. Recruited the heroes at the very start, and has steered the Harper effort against the [[Cult of the Dragon]] ever since. - **[[Niamh Silverstring]]** — Harper liaison out of [[Neverwinter]]. The voice on the other end of most coded messages. Steady. Patient with the chaos. - **[[Garrett Stormhawk]]** — Grizzled, one-eyed Harper veteran. Lured into the [[Dire Wood]] by [[Dawn]] and held in the [[Nightmare Grove]] until the party broke [[Mother Rime]]'s grove apart. Now free, and angry about it. - **[[Juniper Thiltosh]]** — Norren's mother. Coordinated rescue efforts from the ruins of the [[Shadowtop Cathedral]]. As of [[Elowen Thiltosh|Elowen]]'s rescue, she is at the [[Grandfather Tree]] under blue lightning. - **[[Elowen Thiltosh]]** — Norren's other mother. Druid of the [[Circle of Dreams]]. Imprisoned by [[Nymara]] in a nightmare tree until session fifty. The first thing she saw on waking was her wife in danger. - **[[Remi Haventree]]** — Open Lord of [[Waterdeep]]. Has lent her name and her network to the cause. --- ## The Furies & The Friendly Fey > [!info] Old Powers, Older Grudges > The campaign has not been kind to the heroes' relationships with mortals, so the Realms have furnished them with a number of fey patrons instead. The chronicler does not consider this a clean trade. ### The Furies - **[[Alecto]]**, **[[Megaera]]**, **[[Tisiphone]]** — Three archfey of vengeance. They took [[Norren]] as their mortal champion after the [[Shadowtop Cathedral]] fell. He has been tasked with hunting [[Malachi]] and [[Nymara]] and with judging the fate of the [[Maiden of the Moon]]. They are very specific about the verbs. ### The Court of Stars - **[[Pellowea]]** — Queen of the [[Court of Stars]]. Daughter of [[Mab]] and [[Manitou]]. Knew [[Aerilyn Featherstrike]] in the long-ago. Has spoken fondly of the [[Maiden of the Moon]] as a teacher she misses. - **[[Quandrix]]** — Crystalline archfey. [[Kan'Rahd]]'s mentor in the patterns underlying nature. Manifested broken in a nightmare. Whether the nightmare was prophecy or cruelty is unconfirmed. ### Caught Between - **[[Maiden of the Moon]]** — Legendary fey huntress, enslaved by [[Nymara]], and yet — when the party invoked the [[Furies]] and [[Pellowea]]'s love for her — she chose mercy and put her spear in the snow beside [[Gunther Boomfizzle|Gunther]] instead of through him. She has since fled through the wound in [[Karsus]]'s flank into exile. [[The Furies]] have asked Norren to determine what comes next for her. Her confession lingers: *when people die near her, she claims their souls. All of them.* ### Smaller Allies in the Wild - **[[Parazas]]** — Norren's satyr friend. Found enchanted-asleep in a frost-touched meadow. Freed. - **[[Velissa Snowmantle]]** — A Winter [[Everflowers|Everflower]] of Queen [[Orchid]]'s court. The only one of her sisters who refused to break under [[Nymara]]. Freed from a nightmare tree — and when [[Nymara]] fell, her three corrupted sisters came free of the archfey's hold as well. Her faith, for once, was rewarded. --- ## The Cult of the Dragon > [!warning] What the Heroes Know > An exiled sun elf named [[Evendor Starbane]] has taken the [[Cult of the Dragon]] for himself. He has resurrected the ancient red dragon [[Hoondarrh]] as the dracolich [[Vulkazar]]. He is raising the rest of the [[Dominion]] — the dragon empire that nearly exterminated elvenkind thirty thousand years ago — to do the same. Their goal: corrupt the [[Dracorage Mythal]]'s Capstone on [[Thalas'dracon]], far out in the Astral Plane, and rewrite the periodic dragon rage into *permanent madness,* sparing only those dragons who accept undeath. > > The plan requires control of three [[Astral Anchors]] in the [[High Forest]]: [[Shilrua]] (held), [[Myth Adofhaer]] (in stasis), and [[Darmaerth]] (knowingly held by the [[Caerilcarn]]). ### The Leadership - **[[Evendor Starbane]]** — Corrupted sun elf, exiled from [[Evermeet]]. Carries the soul of [[Elthorin Starweaver]], the High Mage who betrayed and murdered [[Aerilyn Featherstrike]] at the [[Icewarden Citadel]] in the long-ago. [[Ophelia]] watched his face become Starbane's in nightmare. This is no longer a war for her — it is a reckoning. - **[[Vulkazar]]** *(The Ashen Crown)* — Red dracolich raised from the bones of the ancient [[Hoondarrh]]. Destroyed the [[Shadowtop Cathedral]] and centuries of elven history with a single descent. Operates out of the [[Well of Dragons]] in the [[Sunset Mountains]]. [[Norren]] has sworn a blood oath against him. ### The Dominion - **[[Mordraxis]]** *(The Ebony Scourge)* — Black dracolich. Holds [[Shilrua]]. Bears an eternal chest wound left by [[Aerilyn Featherstrike]]'s spear in the long-ago. - **[[Nemetar]]** *(The Emerald Plague)* — Green dracolich. Destroyed at the [[Shadowtop Cathedral]]. Dracoliches, however, do not stay destroyed. - **[[Azurigon]]** *(The Storm of Eternity)* — Blue dracolich. Recently descended on the [[Grandfather Tree]] with lightning while the heroes were inside [[Karsus]]. - **[[Shiverfang]]** *(Winter's End)* — White dracolich. Resurrected. ### The Seven Drakes The [[Cult of the Dragon|Cult]]'s elite hand. The heroes met them as a crew of bounty hunters in [[Nightstone]] — and trusted them — before [[Norren]] spotted them among the cultists in [[Shilrua]] and understood, all at once, what the rest of [[Nightstone]] had been about. - **[[Xolkin Alassandar]]** — Led the crew. Sold the heroes a tidy story about hunting a dwarf for a [[Waterdeep]] lord. - **[[Vyra Darkhope]]** — The monk the party "rescued" the night before and then handed straight back to her own people. - **[[Caelina Frostnote]]** — The bard. Sang a deeply inappropriate song about the destruction of [[Nightstone]] while the rubble was still settling. - **[[Azrakel Bloodrune]]**, **[[Bondar Firemane]]**, **[[Endrial Moonscar]]**, **[[Sylrissa Blackthorn]]** — The rest of the seven. Met, marked, and not yet settled with. ### Hands and Killers - **[[Kaela Voortham]]** — Once [[Valkalyn]]'s friend at the [[Starwarden Academy]]. Murdered their other friend, [[Aria Netheridge]]. Was thralled by the [[Cacophony]] in [[Shilrua]] and serves the [[Cult of the Dragon|Cult]] willingly. Invades [[Valkalyn]]'s dreams asking for the research she stole. - **[[Valthrax Leerstrom]]** — Operator of a soul prison containing the specters of his victims. [[Barlen]] passed through it in nightmare and met the trapped soul of her mentor [[Drogan Steelheart]] inside. *He* warned her: when [[Myth Adofhaer]] returns from stasis, the [[Cult of the Dragon|Cult]] intends to slaughter thousands of returning elves to power the [[Dracorage Mythal|Mythal]]'s corruption. - **[[Malakar Darkblade]]** — Witnessed alongside [[Valthrax Leerstrom|Valthrax]] in the murder of [[Drogan Steelheart]]. Confirmed [[Cult of the Dragon|Cult]] operator. --- ## The Mages of Shilrua > [!info] An Open Question > When the ancient elven city of [[Shilrua]] fell, its surviving mages were transformed into [[Mind Flayer]]s and bent to the will of the [[Cacophony]] — an [[Elder Brain]] the heroes have since destroyed. Two of them are free of it now, and claim they want nothing more than their spellbooks and a way out. The heroes have not decided whether to believe a word of it. - **[[Thalorien Duskwalker]]** — Former archmage of [[Shilrua]]. In the long-ago he murdered [[Faelar Vaeloraen]] — the lover of Queen [[Alastrarra]], whose ancient fury [[Valkalyn]] carries — and chained the [[Elder Brain]] to the city's [[Mythal]]. Now an illithid pleading redemption. [[Ophelia]] and [[Barlen]] saw through his borrowed elven face with a single [[Dispel Magic]]. What he is owed remains an open argument in the party. - **[[Quelenna Ariessus]]** — Sun elf mage, likewise made illithid, likewise insisting she only wishes to leave [[Shilrua]] with what was hers. The *wrongness* the heroes felt in her company was entirely correct. Her sincerity is not. --- ## The Unseelie Court > [!info] The Nightmare in the Dire Wood > An exiled Winter Court archfey named [[Nymara]] corrupted a [[Netherese]] [[Karse Mythallar|Mythallar]] and turned it on the [[Dire Wood]]. She did not meet enemies in battle; she met them in their sleep — until the heroes met *her* in the flesh, and she did not survive it. What tied her to [[Aster]], the wronged [[Unseelie Court]] queen the heroes have so far glimpsed only in nightmare, the chronicler is still untangling. - **[[Nymara]]** — *The Glimmering.* Winter Court archfey. Held [[Elowen Thiltosh]], the corrupted [[Everflowers]], and much of the [[Dire Wood]] under her dream-power, and watched the heroes from a scrying pool in the chest cavity of the dead god [[Karsus]]. They came through her palace roof and killed her where she sat. With her fall the winter ran out of the [[Dire Wood]] — though her [[Dream Crown]] lies unclaimed in the frost, and the [[Karse Mythallar|Mythallar]] that fed her still pulses beneath its black ice. - **[[Malachi]]** — Exiled Spring Court archfey. [[Nymara]]'s partner in everything. As of session fifty, the heroes now know: he has taken the shape of [[Yrind Morninglight]], the lover of [[Morgwais Nightmeadow]], and has been steering the [[Caerilcarn]] restoration movement toward militant fervor from within. The entire elven resurgence in the North may have been a [[Unseelie Court|Unseelie]] long con. - **[[Aster]]** — Queen of the [[Unseelie Court]]. Bears a centuries-old grievance against the [[Feywild]] that, in her telling, betrayed and forgot her, and means to unmake it. Manifested in [[Kan'Rahd]]'s nightmare with a hand around his throat. ### The Sleeping Court > [!info] The Five > Not separate beings, exactly. Five ethereal extensions of [[Nymara]]'s consciousness, sustained by the corrupted [[Karse Mythallar|Mythallar]]. They walked in dreams and at the edges of the Ethereal — and were cut down beside [[Nymara]] when her palace fell. - **[[Dawn]]** — The lure. The one who whispered in [[Gunther Boomfizzle|Gunther]]'s ear and led him into the [[Dire Wood]]. - **[[Sorrow]]** — The messenger. Delivered [[Nymara]]'s ultimatum at the [[Maiden of the Moon|Maiden]]'s reveal. - **[[Midnight]]**, **[[Reverie]]**, **[[Umbra]]** — The other three. The chronicler confesses he could not always tell them apart. The heroes mostly cannot either. ### Faenarath's Wardens - **[[Mother Rime]]** — The hag who tended the nightmare trees in the [[Nightmare Grove]] above [[Karsus]]'s shoulder. [[Norren]] took her head. He has been doing that a lot. - **[[Velanthe the Scorned]]** — An archfey bound to [[Malachi]]'s palace by a lover's oath she cannot break. Tends a pocket of spring inside [[Karsus]]'s ribcage. Inadvertently confessed [[Malachi]]'s impersonation under a particularly absurd run of dice from my pen. - **[[Tianna Skyflower]]** — Leader of the [[Half-Elven Renegades]]. Threw her people in with [[Nymara]] on the promise that the Queen would raise a new elven kingdom in the [[High Forest]] and seat them at the head of it. So far the promise has paid out in frostbite. - **The [[Half-Elven Renegades]]** — Tianna's bandits. Sold a kingdom, given patrol duty inside a dead god's ribcage. One, [[Daeven Halfelm]], helped the heroes into [[Faenarath]] in exchange for being allowed to walk away; an earlier captive, [[Silvaen]], gave up the band's allegiance under interrogation and had her throat cut by [[Norren]] in service to [[The Furies]]. --- ## The Gilded Gallows > [!info] The Old Wound > A [[Neverwinter]] criminal guild and worshippers of the Lord of Shadows. [[Astra]]'s former employers. The campaign's first arc-villain and the reason the [[Red Daggers]] are not, at present, in [[Neverwinter]]. - **[[Ravenna]]** *(The Viper)* — Yuan-ti crime lord. Runs the [[Gilded Gallows|Gallows]]' [[Neverwinter]] cell. Killed [[Adira Shadowveil]] and broke [[Nira Mistwood|Nira]] for it. Has appeared in nightmare with painful clarity. - **[[Decima Iscitarn]]** — Tiefling enforcer. [[Ravenna]]'s right hand. Carries the souls of those she has killed, who whisper at the edge of hearing when she is near. Briefly served as the [[Red Daggers]]' handler. - **[[Pyranikus Goldcrest]]** — Handsome tiefling who once led the [[Red Daggers]]. Sold [[Nira Mistwood|Nira]] to [[Ravenna]] when she became inconvenient. The [[Harpers]] denied him the redemption they extended to the rest of the crew. [[Nira Mistwood|Nira]] gave him a look on the way out that the chronicler is told melted him. --- ## Stormwreck Isle & The First Days > [!info] Where It Began > A monastery on a remote island whose gentle cleric of [[Bahamut]] turned out to be the most important person in the campaign's first arc. The party did not realize this until they were a long way down a much darker road. - **[[Runara]]** — Cleric of [[Bahamut]]. *Also* a bronze dragon — the one who slew the blue [[Maelthas]] in the long-ago and razed the [[Astral Conclave]]'s observatory in the doing — bound by oath to defend [[Stormwreck Isle]]. Astra deduced this with what I can only describe as inadvisable speed. Cannot leave her island. Has been quietly the heroes' most important window into the [[Dominion]]'s history. - **[[Sparkrender]]** — Young blue wyrmling. Inheritor of [[Maelthas]]'s old grudge. The first dragon the heroes faced. - **[[Mumpo]]**, **[[Agga]]** — Kobolds of the [[Dragon's Rest]] monastery. The first to applaud the heroes' arrival and the last to forget it. --- ## The Goldenfields Road > [!info] The Hill Giant War > A horde out of [[Grudd Haug]] led by a hill giant chieftain who had gotten his hands on an [[Astral Anchor]] that did not belong to him. The campaign's middle act, and the source of its first real moral compromise. - **[[Bad Fruul]]** — Hill giant chieftain. Held the [[Nightstone]] obelisk. Brought a horde down on the [[Goldenfields]] and was undone in [[Grudd Haug]]. Bargained for his life. Did not get it. - **[[Narcellia Varam'myr]]** — Spectral drow mage who had been working with [[Bad Fruul]] until the alliance soured. Slipped through a wall when the party arrived. ### The Giants Above - **[[Zephyros]]** — Cloud giant wizard. Eccentric. His floating castle picked the party up out of [[Nightstone]] like a courteous bird. Has cast *Contact Other Plane* too often and reads more visions than he can keep straight. He once asked if any of the heroes were named *Petra,* or *Wade,* or *Elmo,* or *Reese.* They weren't. - **[[Sansuri]]** — Cloud giant countess. Obsessed with dragon magic. Sent the assault on [[Nightstone]]. --- ## Dragons > [!info] Ancients and Otherwise > The wyrms of this campaign are not the abstractions they were when the chronicler first started taking notes. Three of them have spoken directly to the heroes; two of them want something specific. The [[Cult of the Dragon|Cult]]'s plan, of course, would force every living dragon to choose between undeath and madness — so the question of *which side dragons are on* is closer to settled than it was a year ago, even if the dragons themselves have not yet caught up. - **[[Klauth]]** *(Old Snarl)* — Ancient red. Demanded [[Ophelia]]'s Green Dragon Mask near [[Beliard]]. Allowed her to keep it in exchange for a future favor — and parted with the cryptic suggestion that he and the heroes were not necessarily on opposing sides. The chronicler regards this as ominous in both directions. - **[[Iymrith]]** — Ancient blue. Designed the ritual [[Maelthas]] tried to perform on [[Stormwreck Isle]] in the long-ago. - **[[Aerosclughpalar]]** — Ancient gold. Vanished while investigating the [[Cult of the Dragon|Cult]] at [[Shilrua]] under a half-elven cover identity: the missing Harper druid [[Vaeros Fireshield]], a disguise [[Garrett Stormhawk]] unmasked for the heroes at the [[Shadowtop Cathedral]]. Rescued before the [[Cult of the Dragon|Cult]] could finish transforming him into an Elder Brain Dragon. Recovers in [[Valkalyn]]'s demiplane, his Vaeros form still threaded with the faint purple veins of what was done to him. - **[[Hoondarrh]]** — Ancient red. Dead. Now [[Vulkazar]]. - **[[Maelthas]]** — Dead long ago. [[Iymrith]]'s mate. The blue who tried to harness the [[King-Killer Star]]. [[Runara]] put him down. --- ## The Neverembers - **[[Renaer Neverember]]** — Son of [[Dagult Neverember]] and no friend to him. He and his wife keep the Brandarthall Estate in [[Waterdeep]], where the heroes first sought his counsel. An early friend of the cause; he paid them generously for retrieving me from the [[Gloomcellar]] — a transaction I consider eminently sound. - **[[Kasdeya Firesong]]** — Tiefling. [[Renaer Neverember|Renaer]]'s wife, and his fellow householder in [[Waterdeep]]. Confident, brilliant, and considerably more direct than her husband. - **[[Dagult Neverember]]** — Lord of [[Neverwinter]], though he keeps his seat and his comforts in [[Waterdeep]]. Subject of an exposé I am writing called *Beneath the Sapphire Crown.* The reader will not be surprised to learn it is not flattering. --- ## Past Lives > [!warning] The Long Memory > Two souls in this story have walked the Realms before. One is the heroes'. One is the [[Cult of the Dragon|Cult]]'s. They were lovers in the long-ago. It ended badly. - **[[Aerilyn Featherstrike]]** — High Mage of the [[Dominion]] age. Witnessed the creation of the first [[Astral Anchor]]. Killed at the [[Icewarden Citadel]] by the man she loved. Has been reborn as [[Ophelia]]. - **[[Elthorin Starweaver]]** — The man who loved her. Murdered her for the patronage of [[Vulkazar]] when the [[High Mages]] would not advance him fast enough. Has been reborn as [[Evendor Starbane]]. --- ## In Memoriam - **[[Skarsnik]]** — [[Norren]]'s goblin companion. Killed by [[Nemetar]]'s breath at the [[Shadowtop Cathedral]]. - **[[Fidget]]** — Manic [[Quicklings|Quickling]]. Pledged service to the heroes, killed by a pumpkin reaper's fireball when [[Nymara]]'s nightmares became flesh. - **[[Aria Netheridge]]** — [[Valkalyn]]'s and [[Kaela Voortham|Kaela]]'s friend at the [[Starwarden Academy]]. Murdered by [[Kaela Voortham|Kaela]] when [[Kaela Voortham|Kaela]]'s descent went too far to come back from. - **[[Drogan Steelheart]]** — [[Barlen]]'s mentor in the [[Dragon's Bane]] company. Murdered by [[Valthrax Leerstrom]] and [[Malakar Darkblade]] from within the company itself. His soul is trapped in [[Valthrax Leerstrom|Valthrax]]'s prison. He still finds ways to send warnings. - **[[Adira Shadowveil]]** — [[Gilded Gallows]] assassin killed by [[Ravenna]] in the long-ago. Met as a ghost in the [[Gloomcellar]]. - **[[Velrosa Nandar]]** — Lady of [[Nightstone]]. Crushed beneath her own great hall when [[Sansuri]]'s cloud giants sacked the village. --- > [!quote] V.G. > The story is not over. We are, by my count, fifty-one sessions in. The archfey who ruled the [[Dire Wood]] is dead, and her winter with her — but her [[Dream Crown]] lies unclaimed, [[Juniper Thiltosh|Juniper]] stands beneath [[Azurigon]]'s lightning at the [[Grandfather Tree]], and the [[Cult of the Dragon|Cult]] has not yet been troubled by any of this. New names will join this list. Some of the ones already here will leave it. > > Pull up a chair. I'll keep writing.