Evaine/LeBlanc backstory

Evaine aka LeBlanc.
Born to a poor family Evaine was orphaned by her parents before her first birthday.  They placed her outside a mage tower near the city of Noxus.  There the mages took her in and trained her to be part of the student population living in the living quarters of the towers.  She grew up learning about magic and the history behind it, and was fortunate enough to have a strong enough grasp to cast spells.

She grew enamored with spells focusing around illusions, making people see what isn't there and controlling them to do certain things by doing so.  She grew as a prankster, annoying the faculty and the student population with her illusions but was careful to not be caught in doing so in quite some time.  Evaine was eventually caught and mildly punished, but due to her strong grasp on illusions and the magic behind it they decided to set her on a path to focus on it and put her as an apprentice under one Professor Burdan, whom studied greatly into illusion magic.  Evaine was annoyed by Burdan for one reason, he was the only one who ever really saw her illusions for what they were as soon as they appeared.  The two grew close and Evaine focused on illusions with great help from Burdan.

Evaine was still a prankster though, and was expelled from the mage tower at the age of sixteen due to one of her illusions causing a death of another student.  She had made an illusion of a monster stalking a student, one of the students saw this and reacted to it by casting a spell at the monster in order to kill it, but the spell went through the target and hit the innocent student in the process.

Evaine kept loose contact with Burdan, but could never go back and talk and learn as she used to.  She was casted upon the streets where eventually the Black Rose found her.  The Black Rose is a secret organization operating in several different areas: theft, assassinations, diplomatic inbetweeners, lobbyists.  The Black Rose has a influence on what happens within the city of Noxus.  The matron of the Black Rose was one LeBlanc.

Evaine grew to love the Black Rose, she felt as part of a family, something she never had fully.  She was put under the leadership of Kalfran who gave Evaine her missions.  She diligently completed the missions in full and without question, with her strong royalty to the Black Rose and hard work, she rose in the standings of the others.

At the age of twenty, Evaine was called by Kalfran to come see him in a secluded area, which was odd because most of her missions were dead drops with the information needed.  She met up with Kalfran and another, the matron LeBlanc.  LeBlanc tasked Evaine with going to the League using the name LeBlanc and gave her a small magic gem.  This magic gem casted upon Evaine's body the visage of LeBlanc and changed her voice to match her new form.  So Evaine as LeBlanc headed to Sigil to begin her journey and enter the League for the first time, but as someone who has already fought within it.

Pallith's Log Entry #4 (Session 5)

    We found ourselves in the sewers being lead forward by Coalform towards the magical presence he felt.  Both Geddon and Elexis could feel it as well, but Coalform could more pinpoint it better than them, I guess being a top mage isn't something you stumble into.  We went through the sewers and came across a split, in the end we found out both lead to the same area but we went with the one Coalform suggested and we discovered it.  A large, bubble of sorts, being made by small metallic creatures.  This was the portal, the invasion portal, hidden below the city, and we found it before it could be completed.  The creatures went on, creating the sphere, without acknowledging us.  We apparently didn't pose a threat to them... at the time.
    A larger one appeared and it took interest in us, more scouting and watching us seeing what we were doing.  It moved at an amazing speed, but it decided to settle on the ceiling, in a dark part of the room above the portal sphere.  I kept my eye on that thing, making sure it wasn't going alert, something.  I also heard Coalform talking about the bubble, he figured out a way to destroy it, but he needed Elexis' dagger for some reason.  Why her dagger I wondered.  After a few more moments I heard him say he unlocked the dagger, or part of it, then stabbed it into the sphere, which collapsed in on itself and dissipated.  We managed to destroy the portal before any of the Dal'Hi could come through it.  But things started rusting, all the metal in the area must have been linked to that thing because everything rusted, became weak, and started to collapse upon us.  We had to book it back through the tunnel we came avoiding falling rocks on the uneven terrain.  We all got through, none of us got stopped by the collapse, so all was well.
    After we explored the second tunnel, this is when we discovered it lead to the same place, Coalform opened back up his magical portal and we all stepped into it.  Now, we all stepped into it yes, but only six of the seven of us came out the other side, Elexis didn't show up and the portal closed.  Coalform assured us that if the portal closed that means she stepped into it, but she obviously didn't end up with us in Coalform's tower room.  After talking over the possibilities with Coalform, and him being a twat about it, he came up with his portal being intercepted and Elexis was the target of this.  Who the hell is this woman, and why does she carry a dagger that stops Dal'Hi portals?  After talking a bit more I got out that the dagger she has is the Dagger of Ill Light, which has the ability to close Dal'Hi portals and that there is a second sister dagger, Dagger of Ill Omen, which can open the portals.  These dagger's were intrusted to two different organizations for safe keeping.  The light one went to Freeport's Undercity to Slade.  While the omen one went to an assassin group called the Sisterhood.
    Being somewhat familiar with the Undercity in Freeport, I have heard of Slade, he is high up, don't quite know how high but if he was given this dagger I would assume either he is the leader or just below it.  Elexis had this dagger, that was given to Slade for safe keeping, who the hell is this woman?  We left Coalform in his tower, he said he would trace the portal, see who did it, where it went to, and that it will take time, time I had no idea if we had or not.  I noticed Coalform had Elexis' dagger on him still from when he popped the portal, but he refused to hand it over, saying it should only be in Elexis' hands since she was intrusted with it, fucking prick, but we needed him, he was the only chance we had to get Elexis back, so I played... somewhat nice.
    We left the tower at different times, I was hoping I'd avoid the rest of the group so I could get to what I wanted to do at that point.  But no, Malik was outside bashing a tree with his mace, because he was angry, and that is it.  Shen was following me at this point when the guards came up and told Malik to stop and to pay for damages, I decided to cover the bill, I knew I had more than anyone else and could spare it at the time, but god damn Malik, had to pick a fucking expensive tree to hit.  Then Shen perked up, we all heard the whistle, but Shen decided we needed to go investigate, and drug Malik and I to an alleyway where the whistle came from, oh and he grabbed Halim, who was walking on the street along the way.  So all three of us got to the alleyway because Shen wanted to know who whistled.  I hate the people I travel with sometimes.
    In the alleyway we saw, nothing.  At first at least, we found a black rose petal on the ground and that was it, but then Amberlynn showed up.  Amberlynn and Teanna, these women annoyed me.  They started by demanding to know where Elexis was, I decided no that didn't need to know and said she was still in the tower.  They knew I was lying somehow and pressed further into it, but I pressed back asking who the hell they were.  These two are the Sisterhood of Trend, the two who have the dagger that can open portals, and they had been following us.  Following us for quite sometime in fact, this annoyed me further, I hate being followed.  They said they were there to follow us and were sent on this mission by Slade.  So they decided to help us in their own little way.
    The Sisterhood left us and I left the group.  I finally got to do what I wanted to do, although the talk with the Sisterhood did solidify something, Elexis and Slade are connected somehow, to what degree, I don't know.  I got to Elexis' room on the ship, and tried to block the door the best I could, and I started searching, I found her pack under her bed and started to rifle through it finding mainly two books to be the most interesting things.  One was her diary, a collection of what has happened on our mission, which means I'm not the only one doing this, the other, oddly enough, a blank book.  In her diary, the first and last entries of it she mentions someone by DS, everyone else is by name, but this man is only initials.  This DS appears to be the one who sent Elexis out on the mission, or suggested her to go at least.  He also seems to be the one who suggested me to come along, and Halim as well, this DS connected all of us.  In her late entry she wrote that DS fears a man named Cormat, and he is the one messing with Tanifier.  This DS, could he be Slade?  She also wants to get me laid for some reason.
    The other book, the blank one, I know I have seen Elexis writing in it before, but there is no ink on any of the pages.  I flipped through it with no avail and decided to write sentences in the book.  The ink disappeared from the page, I didn't know what it means, not just yet, but I held onto that book, seeing where it would go.  I then laid down for the night, in my own room, and got up to a loud scream and a thud up on deck.  A man had been murdered, and by the looks of him through torture, he had a black rose petal pinned on him, which means the Sisterhood decided to leave us a note, not a very useful one, but a note.  So I threw his corpse overboard and went off to the tower to see what Coalform had came up with.  He had learned that it was Marina Mae that intercepted his portal, but doesn't know the location yet, and it would be another day before we could get that information.  So another day we had to wait.
    Leaving the tower this time we heard another whistle, which I figured the Sisterhood was trying to signal again, so I went to the alleyway where we first met, which everyone else decided to show up there too, and there they appeared again.  This time I got to see Teanna closer up.  They wanted sneaky people, Halim and I, so we could all go to the Undercity and investigate, because they found out, by the victim earlier, that the Undercity had a deal in it.  Geddon showed up late to the talk, surprised by our new... friends I suppose, and took the rest of the group away so Halim and I could do our thing.
    Well really I did my thing, Halim was a bit clumsy that day, odd that this assassin stumbled about.  But we entered the Undercity, found that they were packing everything, I mean everything, up to be moved to Trend or Thundercrest.  We had split up at this point and I was with Amberlynn, she was interested in the fact the Undercity was moving, sure it is highly odd, but that wasn't why we were down there, but it lead us to what we needed.  We stole order forms from people working there and found that they were moving, and that they had "the woman" prepped and ready to be moved.  We assumed that this was Elexis, and we only had a day and half to get her out of the Undercity.  All this sneaky around was great though, Amberlynn and Teanna as some great asses on them, all crouched over in front of me, swaying with their steps... maybe I do need to get laid.
    We got back to Coalform and he had more information, he found an area where Elexis was taken too, but couldn't access it.  He knew the area, just wasn't able to get us there or her here.  So we had to wait more time, but this time we wait so Coalform can teleport Elexis back to us.  So we waited, again, but it payed off this time, he got her and managed to teleport her in, from the ceiling, which he told no one of.  Elexis hit the ground and hit it hard, I don't know what happened to her, how she got to the state she was in, but she was utterly fucked up.  I ran to get the ship doctor, Redfield, and got him to the tower to take care of Elexis, and I was hoping that the Undercity wouldn't be looking for us.  They weren't looking for us, they were hauling ass, they left the city, because they knew, they managed to know the Dal'Hi were coming and that portal we closed earlier, meant nothing.
    All the while I kept checking on the mysterious book often and writing in it often too.  I had found that it is a communication device, you write something and some one else gets it and can write back.  I don't know who I was writing to, but I suspect it was Slade, or DS, from her diary.  He seemed to be greatly concerned for Elexis and started heading to Tanifier once he heard she was captured.  That was the last I got anything from him, but I tried to keep him up to date, but I don't think he gives a shit about me.
    From the ocean they rose, monstrous beasts, able to blast apart the walls of the city easily, I believed I heard Geddon call them Behemoths and that we should run, fast.  We got Elexis back to the ship, in her condition she wasn't moving on her own, and we took off.  We got some distance, but we were hit again by a beam of light, this time a direct hit, and we went down and crashed.  We got Elexis out as fast as we could from the burning ship and I went back in for my stuff and Malik's and there we were, stranded, in front of an invasion force, and no real way to escape.  We headed for a close by keep to see if we couldn't find some shelter, help, horses, something.  We found Dal'Hi.
    There were corpses laying about and others running away and into shelters.  The first thing we found were shades, ghostly figures that apparently Elexis as fought already before, from her first diary entry.  These things wanted to grab onto people and choke them with their bodies.  It was hard to kill these things, but we got them down.  Then the corpses, they stood up, they were overtaken by the Dal'Hi, they have the ability to turn our dead against us.  We fought them off as well, but when we seemed to kill them they stood back up, we had to specifically destroy them to stop them from standing again, just hitting them wasn't enough, we had to destroy them entirely.  Then what I could only assume are normal Dal'Hi appeared, dog like creatures that spit acid, flying creatures that destroyed land and seemed to spread decay.  With a few more of the risen corpses we fought these creatures off, actually, not really.  We got hit, and hit hard, by the end barely any of us were standing, and those that were, weren't doing it easily.  Our saving grace, the Sisterhood came and killed what was left, we just barely survived that, I am truly surprised no one died, especially for how long Shen was on the ground, lying unconscious.
    As we headed away from this, this area of death, we saw Coalform, floating above Tanifier.  He was single handily holding off majority of the Dal'Hi, but he looked to us knowing it was a losing battle.  He shielded us, put a dome around us, and... exploded, in a bright flash of white light, everything, everything was gone.  If it wasn't for that dome, we would have been too.  The ground was leveled, glowing radiantly, the Dal'Hi gone, the city gone, the keep we were ten feet away from, gone.  What the hell have I gotten myself into?

Pallith's Log Entry #3 (Session 4)

    To Freeport we went.  Arriving there with a brand new race for everyone to gawk at was interesting.  No one let their eyes off the tall, cat like people as we were escorted from our ships to the palace to meet her majesty.  Halim decided to go off on his own, heading back to the Ardent church, while the rest of us went on to see the queen.  She seemed quite surprised at Saya, than again, we were too when we first saw her, and they started talking about their nations, and the impending doom, and what they should do, and we left them there to talk.  Outside the palace we all split ways, heading to our own little families we have.  Poor Elexis though, had to babysit the out of towners, Geddon and Shen.
    I went to fence off what I had found before, several gold trinkets and lockets, and headed straight for the Nalaar's merchant housing.  There I saw only Darik tending the shop, caught up a little with him, pretty much saying: although I am back, I am actually going to be leaving again for awhile.  I made sure not to drop any hints that a war could be coming, no need to worry them when we are going to stop it.  After that I headed for their home, did a quick catch up again with Jouline before heading to my little sick lover.  Poor Avin, she had caught something and was bed ridden, I was assured it was nothing and the doctors said it will go away with rest, but damn it, ruined my homecoming plans.  It wasn't all bad, sure didn't get sex, but we talked for awhile, catching up on major events from the past twenty years, after a short while though I let her be to her rest and stayed in a guest room for the night.
    Next morning I said my farewells, this time without a date when I would be coming back, I had no idea now what I am getting myself into.  I headed off for the ship to where we were meeting in the morning, but one person was missing, Halim.  Leaving Shen behind on the boat and Geddon off somewhere, Elexis, Malik, and I went off to collect our assassin.  We found him at the Ardent church, in a rather sad state, bruised and beaten, digging graves.  He seemed all to happy with that, he was okay with the bruises, he believed he had deserved them.  Elexis after seeing it immediately hugged Halim, I had no idea what to do, just kind of standing there in confusion to why he accepts it.  Elexis and Malik went into the church to pay the father a visit, I stayed outside with Halim, and I don't know what came over me, but I started arguing about Ardent to him.  I know little about Ardent, but seeing him talk about Ardent always brightens his mood, so I guess I was trying to help, just without really thinking about it.
    Elexis came back out with Malik, with a rather smug grin, she had accomplished what she needed and Halim was free to go with us now.  Though she had forgotten his weapons and went back inside for them, after coming out the father decided we needed a verbal lashing, trying to get Halim to turn on us.  Though Halim pretty much ignored what he said and just happily waved back.  Then an idea struck Halim, he actually ran back to the bastard and offered his little glass statue of Ardent he made, that little thing that brought him so much joy when he was done with it at the Vel'Ri city.  The bastard smashed it in front of him, what a cruel fucker he is, Halim just kind of broke from that.  As we pulled Halim away, I casted a spell upon the bastard to shut him up, giving him a rather sizable headache.
    We made it back to the ship, Geddon was there talking to the man in the golden armor, something about getting paid for our services.  I was rather happy to hear that money might be crossing my palm, officially, from this expedition and shouted my approval.  Though after that I stayed with Halim, trying to console him, but that is definitely not my strong suit, he is obviously much older than any of us, but he is still naive has a child with skill with a blade stronger than many.  I need to find more about Halim, Elexis is usually hanging about him, maybe she can shed some light for me.  Speaking of Elexis, as I was consoling Halim, she came into the room to give her feelings and she pulled me away saying he needed a little alone time to mull it over.  As we walked down the hallway she asked how I was, which I responded pretty much as sexually frustrated.  I told her about Avin, how she was sick, and she said she could send good doctors to her, which I was happy to hear at the time, though writing this I now remember that I didn't actually tell her Avin's name or where she was located.  I know why, I don't want anyone knowing actually knowing my connection to her, keep business and my life separate, I just subconsciously didn't tell her.  She also offered me sex, which I was a bit surprised at to hear, but refused it.  Although she has a nice ass, she was still the one that tricked me into all this, though now I am here on my free will.
    We headed for the city of Tenifier in our airship and when we arrived Elexis took the lead into the city.  Leading us to a mage called Coalform.  He has sensed the Dal'Hi underneath the city, and with a little eyeing of Elexis' dagger, that she never uses I wonder what is up with that thing, offered his help in teleporting us.  He opened a portal and Elexis went first and came back drenched with water saying the way was clear, was a funny sight to see her popping her head back covered in water.  But we all had to go through that portal so we all became just as wet.  Than here we are, under the city, no idea where exactly, just down here to try and stop an invasion.

Pallith's Log Entry #2 (Session 3)

    Nope... she wouldn't.  Damn it, been nearly twenty years since I have had a good lay, that was probably my best chance til we get back to Freeport.  How she came off too was the Vel'Ri only have sex for breeding purposes, what is wrong with them?  Maybe it is something in their anatomy that makes it less fun, screwed if I know, actually not screwed I suppose.
    After the failed night Elexis and Malik went to see the king, the rest of us sat in the dining area, playing a rousing game of jeng jong, which they caught me cheating at so I had to sit out of it.  Stupid Shen with is stupid ability to see where my hands are going, I don't know what is up with this guy, he seems so absent, but if I try one sneaky thing he can see it from a mile away.  He also apparently knows how to play jeng jong, it must be special living in his world.
    All the while we were sitting around waiting, setting up a sparring match between us and some Vel'Ri, Elexis and Malik had a very interesting time talking to the king of the Vel'Ri, Vatclaw.  Those two, along with Saya, decided it was best if the king were to die apparently.  Oh I am sure they tried their best to communicate with the king to try and not kill him, but he is dead now.  How we got to hear it was someone yelling the red sword turned blue or something like that, apparently the sword the king wields turns red or blue depending on who holds it, red for a war king and blue for a peace king.  We were herded towards a giant area where Saya stood making a speech to her people, holding a blue sword.  No peace king, it is a peace queen now.
    Saya made a speech saying that they needed to go to war and that they need to help us, and the first thing they will do is raise the city out from underground.  Then Elexis made a speech, which I was kind of surprised that she did, further rousing the Vel'Ri to our war and actually ending in cheers and applause, that woman really knows how to talk.  Soon after the area calmed down the Vel'Ri went into positions and the city began to shake, and we had to run to grab our horses and bring them in the city so we don't lose them.  The city rose out from the ground and is once again fully exposed to the air.  From that it was decided we use one of their airships so the Vel'Ri can introduce themselves to Freeport and the world.  Doing a diplomatic mission, not what I signed up for... but I get to get back to Freeport, yay.
    We stopped off back at our airship that we came in on, which is on the coast being repaired so it can make it back to Freeport itself.  We gave the horses back to the crew of the Skyrider since they seem to be a hell of a lot more comfortable with them then the mainly meat eating Vel'Ri.  We heard from the captain that they would be leaving shortly as well, once a hunting party comes back, which they should have been back by then.  We decided to head out and find them so we can just go and we found them, they were dead and being eaten, but we found them.
    They were killed by these kind of dog like creatures, I have no idea what they are, but they stood on all fours and are kind of shaped like dogs, just with larger and pointier teeth.  There was a mass of them across this stream that was there and we decided to avenge the fallen members of the Skyrider and started killing these things, they wouldn't have let us go once they noticed us anyways.  Everyone went straight across the stream to engage them, but I noticed upstream one crossing so I decided to go after it to prevent it flanking us, but apparently I was the only one to notice that one.  I took it down on my own, then another one came out from behind us and it went after me, so I started taking care of that one as well.  Another one also came across the river to flank, and I met that one as well.  I pretty much took out the three of them, Geddon helped a little bit at one point, but majority was me.
    Though I do understand why they didn't help much, I rounded the trees after finishing off the last guy and saw a huge ass dog like thing, they were having a good old time with him.  I managed to get over to him in time to see him die and everything was finished.  We got back to the airships and we are on our way back.  Elexis wanted to speak to me at one point and I obliged her, and yet again that woman talked me into something.  She is right though, I do want to protect someone, and I am really good at what I do.  I just signed myself up for more.  Time to stop the Dal'Hi... Yaaaaay ugh.

Pallith's Log Entry #1 (Session 1 and 2)

I suppose I should be writing some of this stuff down, we are on a scouting mission and there needs to be some documentation.  I'll probably be the only one seeing this as someone else will probably give the report.  But mine as well write down my opinions on the mission.
So we are on a scouting mission as I said, investigating Stormguard City, which is north of Freeport.  We are being sent there to see what happened to the city after a invasion of something called the Dal'Hi.  Of course the only reason why I am even on this mission is because I was tricked into it... kind of.  I got too greedy once again and didn't ask questions when Elexis asked me to join.  I was almost fully free, then I put myself to someone's work other then mine.
  I suppose I need to clarify something, I am not alone obviously.  I am on this mission with five other people: Elexis, Geddon, Shen, Halim, and Malik.  Elexis is the one I owe for the opportunity to join this scouting party.  A tiefling with a rather sweet voice.  She seems to be a bit manipulative, knowing what words to say to get others to do what she wants and also using her natural looks to get the guys to do her bidding.  I'll say she does have a nice ass, but I'm not as easily persuaded by her looks as the guys, though I don't think she knows to try on me.  She seems to have a good connection to the Undercity of Freeport though I don't know how deep that goes.
Geddon, our appointed leader by someone, is a former soldier of Stormguard City and has had contact with these Dal'Hi.  He is a competent leader so far, though he hasn't really did much just yet, just called himself leader and Elexis is second in command.  He has a bit of magic to him, able to call small images of what he wants and this is how he shows us the Dal'Hi.  Now I don't know why we should follow a man who is apparently the only survivor of his army but we are.  I don't want the position, I just want to finish this and get back to the city.
  Shen, our... team idiot?  This man I don't know why he is here.  He seems to be able to fight just well, but outside of that he seems very... absent.  He is looking for his master, who might be somewhere near Stormguard, so he is with us.  When I first saw him he was stumbling about the city, looking for his master asking any random person who would listen.  I happen to be one of those people and I have to be a little careful around him in case he some how remembers I tried to steal from him, but I think that has already fled the empty skull he has.
Halim, my savior, this little twig boy is actually a competent assassin.  He actually managed to sneak into my ex-master's house without either Lougith or I hearing him.  Proceeded to murder him and, for some odd reason, stab him up on the wall and proceeded to paint the wall with his blood in a prayer to Ardent apparently.  If it wasn't for his stupid humming I wouldn't have noticed he was in the house and saw him doing his thing.  Ah, such a great sight, that fucker pinned to the wall his blood spread everywhere.  Halim tried to preach the word of Ardent to me for some odd reason, but I just shoved him out of the house.  I then proceeded to have a very lovely night of dismemberment and desecration of his corpse.
  Malik, a strong half-orc of the slums, not much to say of this guy.  He like hit things and like to look at shiny.  He is also afraid of the dark... I like the dark, I hate his stupid little night light.
  That is the scouting party, including me obviously, a mix and match of people and personalities all of which I have no idea how they will work together.  But it will only be for a short time, just one mission, then I can get back to my old life, and the ones I know.
  As for the mission, we were originally going to set off on horses, which apparently would take several months to get to Stormguard by that method.  But Geddon managed to secure us an airship, first time seeing an airship up close, just looks like a ship that would be in the water, just in the sky.  And this airship moves fast, extremely fast, I didn't expect this thing to move as it did.  I got pinned to the wall when this thing took off and when I finally got to move after getting used to it I ran to the railings and looked back, the city was merely a spot at that point with some black smoke coming from it.  In just a few moments we moved so far away, I couldn't believe it.
  The mission went from a few months to a week at that point, the airship moving so damn fast everything was a blur.  It is amazing, vast plains of nothingness, I had never been outside the city, especially this far out.  The world is so big, never knew all this existed, I should get out of Freeport more often.  We sat around in the ship waiting to hit our destination, had a team meeting, and we waited some more, I'm glad I had the view, would be so bored otherwise.
  At some point a dead halt was ordered and I had to fucking book it to not be thrown off, I may need to reconsider my seat on this ship, but the view is soo good on the bow.  We stopped because there was a crashed ship out in front of us, another airship, with a skid mark along the ground leading from north to the ship itself down south, so it crashed coming from the direction of Stormguard.  We know that there was a scouting ship that was to be doing a fly by before us and this was that ship.  It was being raided by a bunch of plains people who lived south of Stormguard and were not too bright, though they seemed a bit more coherent than Shen.  We had to beat them down into the ground for them to stop and we got some information out of them, the once green forest is now black, whatever that means.
  We took these guys as prisoners for now, making them lead us to the forest, but as we were flying I saw something strange in the distance.  A red light appeared on the horizon, it became brighter and brighter and in a very short time a beam of light came from that spot and hit our ship.  This caused damage to our sails and the ship lurched downward.  I managed to stay on the ship at least and we made an emergency landing.  We set up a meeting time with the ship so they can make repairs and we took horses to go off to the forest.  The forest started off normally, but it eventually turned to black.  The trees, the grass, the ground, all black.  Touching anything made it turn to ash in our hands, I put on a mask as others investigated, I just wanted out of this.  Eventually we made it to a clearing, all the trees are down or gone, just pure black everywhere.  As we continued to where the city should be standing, but is no longer, I saw in the distance another.
  This woman is something I have never saw before, a tall feline figure, whose name we figure out is Saya eventually.  She is part of a race called Vel'Ri and man can she fucking run.  After talking to her and her miming to us, since she could not speak common or anything apparently, she lead us to her city, to speak to the king, who could speak common.  We got to the city, which was underground and in a giant pit in a giant metal sphere, no idea how the hell they could do something like that or how the hell they managed to get it underground either.  The king was not too happy to see us and pretty much wanted us to leave immediately, but after drinking some silvery liquid that managed to let us speak and hear the other Vel'Ri without difficulty he gave us a night's stay but we are to leave in the morning.
  They don't like us, not in the least, we apparently ruin our world, taking down trees for our cities and burning things for our industry, but how else are we to advance if we can't use the natural resources we have access to?  Oh well, that is what has happened so far, lets see what happens when we wake up, til then... I wonder if Saya would...

Zelas' Journal Entry #7 (Session 23)

Ah, it was Kiel.  Of course it was Kiel, who else would have half zombie, half mechanical servants.  Why is he in the under crypt of the temple of Sehannine?  Screwed if I know.  We ran across a giant tube with a squid human thing, something that has been long dead but is soaking in some liquid.  And in middle of a fight with some more zombie things I got thrown, in Serriah's body, into the tube.  I don't know how to quite describe it, being covered with that liquid the thing was floating in.  I felt intense pain at first but at the same time a euphoria just washed over my body.  I don't know what it is, but I felt invincible, nothing could harm me, that I could do anything that I wanted to.
The fight ended in a blur, everything just fell at my feet.  Afterwards the feeling went away, I got back to normal and Kiel was ranting to us again from another room.  I noticed that one of the devices that he used to see us was in this room again and decided I got tired of him seeing us and fired an arrow and broke it.  Which then he said it was expensive, so I went back into the room before where there was another one, and destroyed that one as well.  I am kind of liking this bow thing, able to piss people off from a distance.  Kiel went silent after, I think I really pissed him off, which is funny as hell to me.
We rounded the corner into a hallway to a door with a bunch of random symbols on it.  Darrek... or was it Canna... said that the symbols were runes and could actually do something against us if we tried to open the door.  One of them disabled it and the door was opened and we got to see Kiel in person.  I was stuck in the corridor for quite sometime, unable to move, could only attack from where I was.  Then I saw my body, my body of Zelas, charge straight in aaaand get electrocuted.  It seemed rather painful and I... she... the body couldn't move for a little while.  Kiel still had his fake images from last time and teleporting in this area was screwed up again.  We defeated him none the less, Darrek actually slide him into one of his own teleporters in the room, which caused a weird reaction.  He appeared in all of the teleporters at once before they all collapsed and the room turned into a giant whirlpool, a magical one.  We all got sucked into the center and we started to fall.
I had no idea where we were, just falling.  Eventually we stopped, we landed on a strange beach.  It wasn't the same sky we were used to, the cloudy dark sky.  Instead it was kind of a bloody red sky.  We were back in our own bodies again, it felt good to be back in my own body once again.  On this beach we saw something that I never expected to see.  We saw the gods.  The ones the other Drow locked away nearly fifty years ago.  They were suspended in the air above the beach in black spheres, held to the ground with magical lines.  Then as we were all marveling at the gods above, the Raven Queen herself came from behind.  She talked to us for a short time, saying that we can release the gods.  She sent us back to East Gate... but... in the middle of the street, in the middle of the Drow quarter.  We were taken quickly into custody, because a group of heavily armed individuals teleporting into the middle of the street is apparently suspicious... stupid Raven Queen.
Well now I am in jail again, but this time it seems a bit different.  They aren't treating me as badly as before, but I am here none the less.  We were all shoved in one room and we had to wait.  Eventually we were taken one by one, I assume to the same position I was taken to, a room to ourselves.  In my room, after a short wait, I was visited by the demon whore.  Fucking Xellia, why can't she leave me alone, I must be too sexy for my own good.  She asked me what I wanted to most, apparently a question from Jadeis.  Just screw her, she will die, and I will be free.  After the interrogation we were actually set free, Jadeis doesn't want us dead just yet, but we were told to never return to East Gate.  Which I am perfectly fine with, now to get away from this forsaken city.

Zelas' Journal Entry #6 (Session 22)

Well... today was interesting to say the least.  Canna and I started off in our hotel room, as per the norm, she can't be out during night so we get to have fun.  The rest of the party we separated from so we don't actually know what they are up to just yet, not til we meet up again, was going to plan to do that at night again, maybe talk in that back alleyway, but it didn't seem to work out to my expectations.  In the morning we headed off to the jail, more specifically the jail I was held at for a bit of time.  Reason being to collect a bit more information.
I was lead to what appeared to be the head record keeper of the jail as Canna had to sit out in the waiting room, I don't like leaving her alone like that, but it was the only way I could talk to the person to answer my questions.  I asked about a certain someone from long ago and discovered he was kept at the jail for three years before being moved off for public execution in the capital, I don't quite want to lose hope he is dead yet, but I was lucky enough to escape because of others intervened, his luck was probably not as good as mine... I suppose I have to look for a gravestone then not a man.  I also asked about another, a dashingly handsome man with a silver tongue, me.  I learned that there is indeed a bounty upon my head, one of one thousand gold pieces, though if anyone is actively pursing me I couldn't obtain that information, but I am able to, maybe, at the bounty offices, maybe even throw them off the tracks a bit.
Afterwards Canna kind of went odd.  She wanted to go back and see Jadeis again, talk to the man again.  I didn't know what she was going on about at the time, but I trusted her and we made our way back to the Raven Queen temple.  We managed to get another meeting with Jadeis and Canna didn't really waste time.  She wanted to know what made the man tick, why he was doing everything.  But Canna hit a sore spot, very sore spot, Jadeis' family.  At the mention of them, and continuation of talking of them, he grew angrier and angrier to the point where he threw us out and swore that the next time we met he would kill us, we only escaped because we were in the city at the time.  This seemed to upset Canna, she couldn't get to talk to the man, actually know him, but he is our enemy now, if we see him again we should strike, and feel no pity in doing so.
We made it back to our hotel room and we were waiting for night before heading out again to the others to see what they came up with, when we got a message from the front desk that there was a woman waiting to see us and she lacked tact... by a lot.  I knew it was Serriah from that description and told her to hold off the guards and that she worked for me and probably just had new information.  We headed out with her to the abandoned temple of Sehannine where we met up with Darrek and Dahlia.  We went inside, which had a very odd fog to it, to a crystal coffin.  Inside the coffin, a woman holding the staff we came here for.  We opened the lid, which I swore took in air as it moved, and Canna went for the staff.  Then things got weird...
Everyone was knocked out, lying on the ground, I sound off seeing if everyone was okay and... my voice was not mine.  In fact it sounded quite feminine.  This befuddled be as I sat up and looked down and all of a sudden I had tits.  I was actually in another body, in Serriah's to be exact, while Serriah was in my body.  Canna and Darrek and done the same switch, Canna in Darrek's body and Darrek in Canna's.  Apparently Sehannine likes to fuck around with people... and she got us good.  The entrance was blocked and the only way out was a trap door we found next to the coffin, so we went down and hoped that this was only temporary, as we came across some mechanical zombies?  Only way to really describe them, although flesh they were constructs using machine parts.  I got to learn what it is like to fight with a bow, which is vastly different then how I like to fight.  I like being up close, seeing the life escape.  Having this distance between me and everyone I was aiming for was odd.  But somehow I actually managed to make the arrows go to the targets I wanted, or at least close to them in some cases, I guess muscle memory of Serriah was taking over, I just had to point with my mind.
We dispatched several zombie constructs and ended up in a giant room, where we took care of even more zombie constructs.  As the last of the others died, we all heard a loud booming voice, Darrek, in Canna's body, seemed to recognize the voice.  What the hell did we just stumble into?

Zelas' Journal Entry #5 (Session 21)

We made our plan on how to get into East Gate.  I am to pose as a merchant, selling wares that we have obtained, mainly the gold necklaces and bracelets from the hags, also dresses and other assortment of things.  Canna is to be my consort so she can be by my side and the others as hired bodyguards.  Canna and I headed to West Gate to buy a horse and carriage to store things in while Darek, Dahlia, and Serriah went to Winter Haven.  Canna went to get information back from One Eyed Pete as well, we found out that the slave girl in Welgard has not been heard of or found, which means she probably died in the fire and following explosion, and Adrik's parents headed south to South Gate to try and escape.  We then headed to Winter Haven to meet with the others and what a sight we saw.
Winter Haven had been bombed apparently and buildings were burnt as we walked by them.  We went to the inn and found the others and got the information.  It was a message from Jadeis, a man in full plate covered in red runes had caused the fire and gave them the message.  They worked quickly and put out the fires and helped the wounded.  Such a thing to do, he didn't even want to be in Winter Haven so no one would be tempted to take hostages, and yet here he is using the innocent lives to just deliver a message to us not to screw with him.
Then an odd thing came from Canna, asking me if I wanted to see my parents.  I don't think I ever told her formally why I left at a young age from my parents house, but she now knows.  My father by blood beat me, scared the shit out of me as a young one.  At a young age I decided the streets were more welcoming than the house I grew up in.  Worse part is I was right, look at where I am now.  I don't know if I want to see them, but it has been over a decade now, I don't know...  Anyways, we also got Canna a new dress, which is pretty damn sexy on her, and we talked about how I am to act in East Gate.  I can't be buddies with everyone as I am now, I am the leader and they are merely hired help or my consort.  I can't be nice, or care about them... going to be weird doing this.
We traveled to East Gate with our carriage, right before getting within sight Canna gave me a very passionate kiss... mmm...  We got to the gates and started to be asked by the guards about why we are here.  I put on the persona of who I call Darnik Yelf, I don't think anyone was expecting what came out of my mouth at that point.  I changed my accent and everyone just kind of stopped for a second.  Then Canna did as well.  And even Darrek joined in at some point with his own odd accent.  We managed to get through the gate without much trouble and we split up for our respected inns.  I could keep my weapons, but everyone else gave up theirs, for now at least.
Canna and I started our investigation on Jadeis, starting at the Raven Queen temple in town, it also ended there.  Little did we expect, Jadeis is the fucking man in control of the temple, and he was in.  We got roped into a meeting with him without expecting it, couldn't leave because that would make us suspicious.  Canna and him talked a great deal, I didn't really have much to say to the man myself, Canna seemed almost fascinated by the man.  Xellia was there too, she was changed into a drow woman and was apparently in business with someone else.  We both learned that Jadeis has did some sort of deal that makes him live much longer then any regular human, he has been around since the drow war, or so he says.
We left the temple, somewhat bewildered by what just happened.  We pushed on with our day though, heading to the inn that the others were staying at.  Walking in there, everyone just stared at me, eventually the air settled back down, or really the ruckus began again, and I walked over to Darrek sitting down.  I found out his room number and noted where it was, and after curfew for the town I went and grabbed the weapons they left behind and with the help of the keen eye of Canna we managed to dodge the guards and get to the back of the inn where we gave back their weapons.  After a long day about we headed back to our inn, and in our room we tried out the bath, and the bed, and the floor, and pretty much everything.

Zelas' Journal Entry #4 (Session 20)

  We headed back to the Winter Court with our crystal thing we needed, leaving the hag cave behind.  As we were heading out we ran into a large, two-headed entin, who seemed to be leading a large owlbear and a small platoon of goblins.  This fight was rather short, Serriah went a bit overkill with the goblins, taking out several as fast as possible, though a few managed to stay standing.  With death in their eyes they still walked forward and attacked, their bodies collapsing soon after.  Canna really shined here, nearly taking out both the entin and the owlbear by herself.
We managed to get back to the Winter Court without much trouble after that, just more walking, I miss my wolf at times like these.  We got back to the palace and talked to the Winter Queen.  We found out the crystal we got can stop the dracolich from taking over Dahlia's body again now, or if we waited we can use it to kill the dracolich fully.  We went with killing the dracolich fully.  She told us of where the next two items we will need to destroy the dracolich and a little informaton on the people who owned them before.  It also came into topic of my brand on my chest, and how it could be removed.  Apparently they infused it with magic so the brand would be difficult to be removed, but the Winter Queen said she could do it... for a favor.  I accepted her offer, I don't know what this favor will entitle later, but I know it won't be against my friends, if it ever was I would rather die.  She removed the cursed mark on my chest, with... lots of pain mixed in.  I was numbed to be sure, but I could still feel the blade she used to cut the branding off.  Canna helped me back into our room where I got to told her a story of my accent, you obviously can't hear text so the story would be moot to the reader.
We decided to head out for East Gate, looking for information on the next item and Jadesis.  Get to head back home... hopefully they forgotten about me.

P.S. Two elf statues are of the Summer Queen and King... apparently I am not to sell these

Zelas' Journal Entry #3 (Session 19)

She loves me... she actually loves me.  This has to be one of the best days I will ever have, the day that I know Canna loves me.  And of course I love her back, I can't imagine my future with out her anymore, but knowing she shares the feeling sends me to heaven when I think of it.  Though I suppose I am getting a bit ahead of myself in the sake of this journal, but fuck it, she loves me.  To clarify from last time, it was what I thought was wrong and I seemed to have helped her through it a bit.  She seems a bit more at ease now and happier in general.
But I should say where we are at this point.  We had traveled to the Fey Wild once again to the Winter Queen's palace to have Dahlia examined on her possession.  The Winter Queen did some magic thing she said was scrying to find the dracolich inside Dahlia.  She apparently found what she was looking for, but right before she could remove it the lich took over Dahlia and said doing what the Winter Queen would do would mean the death of Dahlia, so everything stopped right there.  The Winter Queen said she needed a little more information before she could continue and need to put Dahlia in a senseless state, almost as if she was in a coma.  After some more magic stuff and a rest, she said that we would need three objects before we could continue with removing the lich.  The closest to obtain was in her enemies territory, where she had a truce currently declared for the time being, so we would have to go there since we bear no mark of her and could infiltrate.  I also asked her of my curse from the greater succubus, but I don't think I will get much more out of her then I did Darek.
So off we set to the caves of a self proclaimed hag queen, to find a crystal.  Traveling there was nothing much, just had to go through some thick forests which was tiring.  And to say these forests are creepy is an understatement, they moved as we attempted to hack through them at one point, but we thought better of forcing our way through like that.  We reached the cave of the hag queen and it had three entrances, which Serriah picked which one to go in.  Apparently one was a dummy entrance, another had much larger monsters going into them, and one real entrance which we went into, how the hell she can spot which one is which is lost on me.  In the caves we found lizard men, and by hell they stunk.  Apparently living in this cave gave them a stench so foul that I could hardly bear being next to one.  They weren't extremely tough, just smelled of filth.  But then hags started to appear, and I don't know what it was, but just being remotely close to them was painful.  With whispers radiating from them, echoing in my mind, they were a force to be reckoned with, but death found them quickly and the whispers stopped.  There was also a monster with giant tentacles that lashed out upon me... but it died before it could do any damage so wasn't very noteworthy.
   It all went to shit once we found the hag queen.  I have no idea what happened only that we got hurt rather badly.  We spread out a bit to attack targets, another one of those tentacle things came out and was killed quickly again.  Then I don't remember much, I know I did something but the only thing I can remember is how cold the floor of the cave felt.  I remember having to get away from the hag queen and attacking something else, but I think I was just barely holding on to conciousnes at that point.  In the end I saw enemies dead and Canna out of shape and barely conscious as well.  I tried to comfort her, but I bet we just looked like a mess.  Fuck this cave, I hope it collapses.

P.S. Gold bracelets and necklaces found upon hags, after a good cleaning they should fetch a nice price.  Also we got that crystal thing and miniature statue things.

Pallith Backstory (Two Worlds campaign)

Pallith, born of the noble Veldalkin family in the city of Freeport.  She was born into her family as a middle child, with an older brother, Moyl, and older sister, Akorlin, and another brother, Welvdor, arriving after her birth.  Her father, Calmyr, and mother, Filfna, owned several buildings along the main merchant's row, and from leasing out the areas and taking a percentage of the profits, were able to live a lavish style all the while lounging in their home.
In her early life, Pallith was raised as a noble and second to heir after her sister Akorlin. Raised to be book smart and money wise so that the store fronts should never leave the family and they can always live the style they know.  But Pallith was an active child, never wanting to read or learn how businesses work, she would rather go outside and explore the noble part of the city seeing what she could get into.  It was during these little exploring bouts that she found a friend in one Avin Nalaar, a girl of an elf noble family, though of lower status.  With Avin, Pallith learned of the backstreets and hidden corners of the town, and from which they played their games and pranks upon other passing nobles.  Every time they were caught in their mischief, they were sent back to their homes, in which Pallith's mother would scold her and sentence her to her room, but every night after, Pallith always opened the window and climbed down to the streets, in which Avin was waiting for her in.
The Nalaar family was not as fortunate as the Veldakin family in their wealth.  The trading vessels that they owned and used to bring about their money were ransacked by pirates and burned to ashes out on the seas.  With no means to bring about their money they were forced from their current home in the noble district and down to the middle class area where they used what money they had to open up a merchant's stall to make their living from there on in.  To this Pallith and Avin were separated in class, but they remained friends, Pallith traveling down to Avin to explore this new section of the city and getting into more trouble.
As Pallith grew older into her teens, her parent's teachings were lost upon her.  She began to gamble and fluttered away gold coins thinking nothing of it as her parents always had more upon them.  The lavish style had gotten to her and she believed she was above the others in the streets, able to afford what the middle and lower class could only dream of.  It was on one of her gambling ventures that she took it to far, taking coins from her parent's safe and betting them all on a fool's gamble.  The loss of coins did not go over well with her parents and after so long of time from losing money to their gambling daughter they decided to be rid of her.  Her entire family disowned Pallith and casted her upon the streets to fend for herself with naught a copper on her.  Too this she went to the middle districts, to her friend Avin in which she remained in contact with through out the years, and she was welcomed in by the Nalaar family for as long as it took to her to get back on her own feet.
It was now that Avin showed Pallith her current "job".  For under the rouge of a night worker, Avin actually went out about town cutting purses of others, using those backstreets and hidden corners they grew to knew as a kid.  From this Avin taught Pallith, showing her sleight of hand and tricks to lighten the load of purses without anyone noticing.  But Pallith saw more in this, she remembered the noble quarters, and the fact that they didn't carry all their worth on them, but instead kept it in their homes in trinkets and jewelery.  Pallith lead Avin to the noble districts and they began a new trade, one of breaking into homes to take what they wish, not waiting for someone to pass by them.  Pallith knew the families and had been in several of their houses before for parties and meetings between the parents.  With this knowledge she targeted the houses she knew and took small valuables that could be "misplaced" by others and may not be missed as much.  And within each house Pallith left little clues that she hoped would lead anyone investigating back to the Veldakin family, hopefully disgracing their good name.  With the little trinkets and jewelery in tow, they sold them off to the side of the merchant stall, claiming them as their own goods to sell to the people.
    Though the thefts did not go unnoticed, as the Undercity of the town kept its eyes on all would be thieves.  Avin was able to skirt by unmolested by them since all she did was cut purses for the coins in them, but the plans of Pallith got their attention quickly.  One day that Pallith was selling her side goods a man walked up inquiring about them.  He was one of the undercity members and he was there for one reason, to stop Pallith from her side deals.  He offered her the use of the fences from the Undercity or the taste of his blade and a dirt nap.  She chose to go with the fences in fear of her life, but she was happy she could turn a quick profit from her heists, even if she felt the amount she was getting was on the small side.  The fences kept offering more, but Pallith had to become one of the drones in the Undercity, she felt it beneath her that a noble that she was once to be working as a mere pawn to someone else's game and refused each and every time.
    With her new outlet for goods, Pallith began to steal more and more items.  With this easy cash flow for her, she was able to afford a place to live on her own and moved out of the Nalaar residence.  Avin decided to actually forgo her family home and move in with Pallith as well, and together they began stealing even more from there new base of operations.  From here they grew into young adults living off the gains of stolen goods and living their high life.  That was up until Pallith tried to steal from one Lougith Veer, a male Eladrin that had came to the city not to long ago.  On that heist, everything was going as planned, several trinkets picked up, a full bag of jewelry, everything was going along swimmingly.  But Lougith was not what he appeared to be at first, he knew Pallith was in the house, and was actually watching her steal from him.  The deftness and confidence in Pallith as she went about taking things, the keen eye finding shiny things that were "hidden", he knew that Pallith would be perfect for his plans.  With a flick of a wand a searing pain goes through Pallith's skull and her vision goes black.  Pallith stumbled about in pain and her vision blurs back and before her stands the form of Lougith.
    Lougith laughs at Pallith stumbling and offers her a chance to have that power, saying how useful it is to make a person blind when robbing them as such.  Pallith as scared out of her mind ran from the premise, leaving all the loot behind.  But she thought upon the offer, an ability to make someone blind, though she was wary of this man, it seemed to good to be true.  Pallith went back to Lougith, out of curiosity on the offer.  She asked the man what she would have to do to get the power we used upon her, he merely said to say that she will follow him and he will giver her the power.  Pallith figured he could trick the guy, say yes she would follow him, discover the secret to his power, then ditch at the first opportunity.  She accepted Lougith's offer with thoughts of deceit, and after the pact was done and she gained the power Pallith desired, Lougith revealed the stipulations.  She was to be his slave, stealing to gain money for him, and she would have to live on his premise, no longer with Avin in their home.  Lougith also revealed she could not betray him, the pact she agreed to gave him power over her, and she is forced to follow his orders.  Pallith was forced to leave her old life behind, into a life of servitude under her new master Lougith.
    For over two decades Pallith lived with Lougith, stealing for him and making him richer and richer, waiting for a day she can finally be rid of him.

Zelas' Journal Entry #2 (Session 18)

    Well... I did it, I confessed to the rest about what happened with Xellia since last time.  Though I don't have a clear answer to why I lied, they still understood and didn't seem to hold any major grudge against me on it.  Though Darek seemed to be a bit more snarky about it, but he was using it as a joke and not trying to go against me and I do deserve it for what I hid.  Later in the day after telling everyone I decided to ask Darek about the actual curse the demon bitch holds against me and to see if he can dispel the effect.  On that night he told me that Xellia wasn't a normal succubi but a greater succubi with stronger abilities then that of the lower tiers.  I'm slightly flattered that I gained the favor of a higher up, but why couldn't it be a princess or queen, at least then I get access to the treasury room.
    Darek told me the curse can be broken in a few different manners, easiest being kill the whore, which I can't do myself.  Next is to get an item imbued with the power of a god, which isn't going to happen in the world we live in now... Unless there is a hidden temple some where that has a dormant item, which I highly doubt we will come across.  Another method is to transfer the curse to someone else and let them deal with the demon.  I liked that one, because not only would I be rid of the curse I could strike her down myself and see the life escape her, but Darek is not going to put another being  in risk so that is out of the question.  Last method is odd, Darek says he knows of a ritual to prevent being cursed by a succubus, but since the one after me is stronger, the ritual would only make the kiss of the curse be as strong as a normal succubus, which would then expire in twenty-four hours.  So in order to remove it, I would have to get it reapplied to me then stay away for a day, which may sound easy, but I fear the next kiss might take over my mind and then I would be with her til the ritual wears off and I would be trapped.
    We managed to make our way from Welgard back down to Winter Haven with little difficulty, and we had our wolves again, so the trip took less time and I didn't have to walk nearly as far.  Once in Winter Haven we had a meeting on where and when the meeting with Jadeis was going to happen, against what I said everyone wanted to be in the inn full of innocent bystanders.  I don't know why they wanted to bring the evil of this man to the town but I was out voted so there it was.  And when Canna smashed the red crystal to send the message, she froze still.  According to her, she was transferred to the Astral Plane, which screwed if I know what that was, from what I gathered, her mind left her body to another place and she could talk there.  Of course the person she talked to had to be Xellia, so I am sure she taunted her as per the norm for that demon.  But she also said that the meeting would take place in the ruins near by the town, the ruins in which was saw Szartharaxx so long ago... I think I may need to make a supplemental entry so who ever reads this knows what we did before hand...  Which everyone seemed to be fine with at the time.
    So in those three days time we had before the meeting, Canna and I went off to West Gate again.  I went there to sell those gold necklaces we found on the spider's victims from last time and her to see if there was anymore information on... what she wanted information on.  In the inn she did find a note to her, the note she was waiting for.  We went up to a room and she read it to herself.  She said that it was the answer she was expecting though looked down from it.  I let her be at this point since she was expecting it and I figured she would work it out, though I don't believe that worked... I am going to have to have talk to her about it.  After that though she payed off One-eyed Pete to see if he can't find information on Saritha and if she is still alive and where her parents might be at this time.  Also she sent off a letter with Glyssa to be taken down south of the wall, I wonder what this letter pertains to.  After that we headed off back to Winter Haven to get ready for the meeting with Jadeis.
    This is where things fell apart a bit.  When we arrived we saw the Eldritch Knights from the Winter Court in the inn.  Apparently they have been looking for us ever since Canna smashed one of those crystals to send them a message.  Poor bastards, we move around more then fleas on a dog's back.  They were there to take the one infected with the Dragon Lich to the Winter Queen for inspection, which means they had no idea which one it was, until Canna said Dahlia straight out.  I could have swore I heard someone slapping themselves after she said that.  With news of this we held another meeting.  While we were gone Darek and the others scouted out the new meeting location and found new information we didn't have back when we first saw it.  Apparently in that room there is an inscribed circle that can be used to open a portal to another realm, this one in specific leads to the primordial one of the fire cultists, which Jadeis is the head of.
    So thus began another discussion, should we have the meeting now, should we move the location on him, should we go to the Winter Court instead now that that is an option.  It started off fine, but the multitudes of directions we could go seem to wear on everyone, especially Canna.  Canna actually began yelling at Darek and in return he yelled back, this is the first time I seen them yell at each other with malicious intent.  Canna then proceeded to leave the room and everyone else seemed to be stunned in silence.  I quickly took over the decision process and we decided to go to the Winter Court, once that was achieved I went off to go find Canna and tell her this.  Though she had left the inn already and was heading for the Winter Court now by herself.  Serriah went off to go get Canna and I stayed back to tell everyone, I told the captain of the knights just one more night before we set off so we can calm down from what just happened.  Something is wrong with Canna, I think I know the reason why...

P.S.  Those four gold necklaces sold for 380 gold pieces, which is 76 gold pieces each

Zelas' Journal Entry #1 (Session 17)

    I never thought I would need one of these, I had always lived a simple life of taking from those who had something I wanted.  Never needed to document how much I took or how much money I had for I always remembered off the top of my head, also it is bad to keep the evidence around.  Yet here I am, in a life much more complicated then I have ever expected and in need of documentation, whether it be it for me to remember in years to pass or for another to read once I have passed.
    I'll start with the smaller details first and will work my way up to the complications that lead to the beginning of this journal.  We set off from Westgate heading to Welgard, without the help of the orc's wolf mounts we had obtained as they had been left in Welgard when we, so called, escaped there.  The journey was much longer due to this and we had to traverse treacherous mountain sides leading into dark forests.  And in these forests is where we faced opponents in battle.
    It started with spiders, which doesn't sound too bad, just smash them under heel and head about your way.  But of course these had to be magical spiders, ones that can teleport and with poison that can knock a man unconscious and others that were just a collection of spiders swarming together and attacking as if one being.  These fey monsters gave us trouble to begin with, some of us falling down and unconscious from the poison.  The swarming spiders seem to avoid the blade, scattering when attacked and combining back together afterwards, though not every one of them survived the attack, and with repeated attacks against the swarm thinned their numbers to zero.
    But in the end Dahlia seemed to had taken too much, and as the last spider died from a frozen blast from Darek, she too fell to the ground.  But it was not soon after she awoke, with eyes that not of her own and a demeanor that she has never shown.  For from her body the damned dragon lich we had smashed awhile ago had taken hold of her.  Even though I was sure I was safe, I still thought back to Darek's dream of Dahlia's body striking me down in combat.  Darek tended to the body has he tried to fight the mind of the lich with his own, though I do believe he hasn't gotten the information he truly needs to rid Dahlia of her blight.  After Darek was done, the lich bid farewell and Dahlia regained control of her body and we headed off once again.
    Though nothing could ever be simple, and we ran across creatures we have defeated before.  Little imps that have caps upon their head that is soaked in the blood of those they kill.  We had trouble with them before, but now this time we handled them with ease... well with a bit more ease.  I should have expected this though, for our wolves had dined on spider the night we saw these imps before, and it seemed to be headed by the same magic caster that got away the first night.  This time at least they all lie rotting in the woods.
    That night... that damnedable night.  That night is the reason I have begun to write this.  It seemed nothing would happen as we all got our rest and on my shift with Canna, everything seemed it would remain that way.  But apparently Canna heard something in the woods, and went off to investigate as I stayed behind to watch the camp and listen out for her.  She went into the dark woods and disappeared in the trees and I heard naught a thing from her.  Then she came back out, as nothing had happened and asked me if we could go a little further from camp, so we could talk more privately.  I should have known something was up, leaving our watch positions and all, but I would not deny her.  From the new vantage point, she asked me questions.  Questions about me.  Questions that lead myself to open up to Canna.  Then she began to act even more strange, saying that she was weak, and that I should find a stronger woman, from this I knew, that she was not Canna.  What stood before me that night was the demon known as Xellia merely taking on the visage of Canna.  She began to play upon my fears, assuring me that Canna had been poisoned and dragged off to be imprisoned, saying that no one can help her other then me.  From this she demanded, that if I were to save the life of Canna, a life that I do hold so dear, that I would have to kiss Xellia.  I attempted to attack her, but that demon still holds a power over my blade that I can not overcome alone, so I gave in, I had to, it was the only thing I could possibly do.  I fear her kisses may take control of me, but the fear of losing Canna was far greater.
    Xellia escaped into the night after the foul kiss, from this I ran into a panic.  I awoke everyone, got Serriah to track down Canna, fearing that she was dragged far from us.  But there she lie, only a few moments away from camp, not far at all.  Darek looked over her, and assured me that she was just sedated, that there was no poison.  And this began my downfall, everyone asked me what had happened, and I don't know why, but I kept it to myself.  Saying that she had gone off for only five minutes, that I had looked for her right away, I kept hidden my confrontation with Xellia.  They all seemed to have bought it and I was able to keep it to myself for that night.
    After that we managed to make it to Welgard, which had been consumed in panic and flames.  We set about our tasks of getting the wolves and seeing if we can find any of the Arthus family and we succeeded in both fronts.  Found a young man named Adrick Arthus and our wolves, although not in the best of condition for either of them.  As we escaped the city, from atop the burning palace stood a woman, who grew wings from her back, which can only mean Xellia had a hand in all this.  Canna chased after her, I would have too, but I still felt a dark fear of the demon holding me in place.  And Canna returned with a message from Jadeis, saying he wishes to speak with us in some manner.  I volunteered to be there, for Canna shall not let this opportunity pass her by, and Dahlia seems to show interest in it as well.  With this meeting eventual, I have to let them know of my lie, I have to make sure Canna knows that Xellia, the demon who appears to be with Jadeis, might make an attack against her again.  I hope she does not look ill of me when I reveal my lie, but what has happened is done, I can only try and amend my lies to the group.

P.S. Gold obtained for the day : 85 gold pieces for each with an eventual return of 380 more to be divided out.