WitW - 1-13 Recap

Our party Consist of Horace, the Human Fighter who was brought to the wild as a child escape some cutthroats attacking his village. Raised in the spring court, he was eventually ostracized- being blamed for the death of his captain in the Petal Guard.

Ka, the Changeling Rogue with a hazy past who had spent much of their time travelling from place to place before being run out of the winter court by Red-Eye who they double crossed.

Almyre the Eladrin Wizard, known as Alura in the Royal Court of Summer. Where she was disinterested in the family responsibility of tending to the sands of time despite her father's insistence the realm. was in danger.

And Jeatz, the Sorcerous Changeling. He too has kept his changeling abilities secret, except from his newfound friends. His time with the mercenary group, Equinox set him on his way to capture Horace.

Our intrepid adventurers met in the town of Widershins protecting it from rogue Dryads. On their way to find the source of the scourge, they find Horace's cabin ablaze, who they later found to be some boggles, hired to do it. Inside Moss Hollow Cavern, they found the source of the Dryad's ire was a rift in their cave that seemed to be absorbing time from the world around them. Treetwig, a minor fey offered his own fey heart as a peace offering before passing into inanimation as a normal tree.

From here, they intended to take Horace to the Autumn Court as a captive, and the night they spent in the Whispering Willow they all had a vision. They were visited twice by the Weave Warden. They spoke of an anomaly with the weave with strands of the weave reaching from the material plane to the wild. Like a ticking clock, this would destroy the wild. The Weave Warden tasked the group with solving this problem.

They met Lady Loraema of the Lake, getting on her good side by bring her a stone of 7-Stones cascade to expand her power up the river to the falls. She promised to protect Widdershins after accepting  Chancellor Smith's sacrificing his life to her. Genevieve, the town healer agreed to take in the Gith, who had previously been ostracized not far from the village.

On their way to the Autumn court, they were waylaid by a haunted carnival where they obtained another fey heart from Abraxius, who appeared to have been turned evil by some dark force.

At the border of the Atumn court, they were met by the Dohwar, protectors of the Autumn Court borders. Initially they were wary, saying there was a darkness rising from the Spring Court, but they accompanied them to their outpost. From there, they helped out Sidon by saving his daughter Fontaine from a contingent of Yua-ti led by the Great Skingle a fortune teller, supposedly. He led them into a trance where they were greeted by a darkness calling itself Redizere and they should abandon their quest or be destroyed.

On their way to Tradeburg, Jeatz wanted to stop by his hometown as the Dohwr said it had fallen on hard times. The fey magic that kept the place prosperous had gone. Magnus's fey heart had been stolen by an old man and killed the prior. Shepherd according to Jeatz's father. The party went to Magnus' tower to see what they could do to right this wrong and Magnus betrayed them, teleporting them to an anti-magic chamber and directly to Red-Eye.

It turned out they were in the Winter Court warehouse in Tradeburg. They managed to bust out, but not before killing the dozen goblin guards. That night, Almyre decided to confront her brother who she hadn't seen since running away. He met her coldly, however, saying she abandoned her responsibility to the family and the court for galivanting with rabble from the other courts, and the party learned her true name of Alura. They met Cece Emberwhisper at the tavern who put them up for the night as she seemed to know they were in danger. The next morning they ventured about the town finding company with Thistle Blossomblade who would train Jeatz in light armor and provide a reward of the "Letter Opener" if they returned the letter his son created before running away.

The party's first attempt to infiltrate the Grand Exchange failed miserably because of an unidentified bottle of invisibility powder turned out to be sneezing and choking powder. They killed the guards ransacking Cece's house however, and the party knew she was in trouble.