Session 116

Heroes (lvl 15): Deet, Horgin, Rhys, Nura, Hassan, Ryel

676 MR - Summer

The Heroes descend into the shadow beneath the Black Mirage, stepping through an obsidian gate that cracks open only when each of them speaks a truth they would rather abandon. Inside, the air turns cold and thin. Masks carved from shadowglass float in a silent gallery, each one replaying the death of someone the Magian has consumed. The echoes strain at the Heroes’ resolve, but they push through and find the staircase spiraling downward into darkness.

The sanctum’s heart waits below: a vastchamber threaded with strands of blood-red and shadow-black energy. Each thread pulses like a vein, anchoring the Magian’s sorcery to places far beyond this ruin. The Heroes carve through the web, unraveling the power that feeds him, while rift-born creatures melt out of the air to stop them. The chamber trembles as more of the threads snap.

At the center stands the shattered plinth, holding a fragment of twilight shaped like glass—the last relic they need. As the Heroes approach, the shadows condense into the Magian himself. Cloaked in runes and smoke, he descends upon them with a wave of blood magic and impossible force.

The battle twists the chamber around them. Spells warp into illusions. Reality fractures. When his body collapses, he reforms as a creature of pure void, striking with killing precision. But even this final shape falters. When the Magian falls at last, the relic fuses before their eyes into its true form: the Mirror of Dusk.

The sanctum begins to implode, dragging itself into a vortex of sand and darkness. The Heroes race up the collapsing stairway, dodging shards of obsidian and bending gravity, until they burst through the crumbling gate just as the sanctum collapses behind them.

Breathing desert air again, they hold the final relic.

The genie seals will be next.

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