Arc 6 — Frostbourne

The party meets in Winterhaven, a magically protected city in an eternal winter, to negotiate purchasing an abandoned fort from an older dwarf named Synnamon (Sin).

The party prepares to leave Winterhaven for their newly acquired fort, a 30-mile journey through harsh winter conditions.

The party arrives at Fort Frostborn to find it in complete disrepair - walls damaged, buildings collapsed, and exposed to the elements.

The party celebrates their successful negotiation with the Bruegahl orc clan, who help improve Fort Frostborn's defenses despite being embarrassed by its condition.

The party levels up to level 2, gaining new combat abilities and spells.

The party travels toward Aubrey, with Chimera and Ruby experimenting with hallucinogenic algae from the lake.

The party encounters a ghost bound by ritual magic on the road to Aubrey.

The party levels up to level 3, gaining new abilities and archetypes.

The party splits up in Aubrey to accomplish multiple tasks.

The party, hired by a priest to investigate thefts in Aubrey, tracks down the culprits—a group of young thieves including Vetti and her crew.

The party prepares to leave Aubrey with four young companions (Chet, Ora, Basilisk, and Vetti), outfitting them with cold weather gear, weapons, and health potions.

The party deals with the aftermath of Ora being bitten by a wererat, learning that queen's blood offers the best cure.

The party ventures into a rat-infested cave to collect blood from a wererat queen to cure Ora's lycanthropy.

The party returns to the surface after defeating the wererats and successfully brews an antidote for Ora's infection, though it takes Chimera multiple attempts and divine intervention from Ora's...

The party catches up to the caravan they were tracking, only to find everyone brutally slaughtered.

The party loots a destroyed caravan, finding magical items including dwarven plate armor and explosive arrows.

The party travels through the mountains toward Estherholt, burying the mysterious skull in a collapsed cave to hide it from pursuing demons.

The party encounters two wyverns while traveling to Esterholt.

The party arrives at Bonzo's Dark in Esterholt's gloaming quarter, a vampire district, where they enjoy an elaborate feast.

The party prepares for their expedition to find adamantine in the Blackrock Mountains.

The party departs Esterholt, leaving the kids in safe hands with local contacts.

The party encounters two minotaurs named Dozer and Brex who were sent to negotiate with the Duergar for adamantite but found their leader Hargrill acting strangely—subdued and possibly...

The party arrives at the Blackrock Mountains to meet with the Duergar king Hagrel.

The party confronts King Hargroll in his throne room, discovering he's been consuming arcane runoff and is in a drug-fueled rage.

The party remains as 'guests' under protective guard in the Duergar city following King Hargroll's death.

After Kolgoth forcibly takes control of Chimera's body to murder their guide Jesse as punishment, Chimera enlists Nythera and Ruby to help dispose of the evidence.

The party spends a week in Dorgard creating the first motorized vehicle in Theria—a forge core-powered car called the Gearheart—to transport their adamantine ingot.

The party returns to Esterholt in their newly built Gearheart vehicle, a forge-core-powered mechanical transport created by Ruby with Dorgar assistance.

The party returns to Esterholt after two weeks away to discover a vampire named Zira has been murdered in the city center, causing political tension between paladin orders and the city guard.

The party returns to Esterholt after their mountain expedition and reunites with the kids at Bonzo's Dark in the gloaming quarter.

The party splits up in Esterholt.

The party splits up to tackle multiple urgent problems in Esther Hold.

The party splits to handle multiple crises in Esterholt.

The party remains split across Esterholt dealing with escalating crises.

The party's chaotic day in Esterholt reaches a fever pitch as multiple crises unfold simultaneously.

After the catastrophic fight at Grizzle Bits, the party regroups on the 23rd of Tulun following a much-needed long rest.

Ruby and Nythera track the damaged Gearheart to a church in the Gloaming District, where they find Chet critically injured from a poisoned crossbow bolt.

The party reunites at a church in the gloaming district after being separated for nearly 24 hours.

The party confronts Thane on a rooftop in a brutal combat amid a magical snowstorm.

The party begins to deal with the aftermath of their fight with Thane Silverfox, the monster hunter and serial killer whom Nythera killed by throwing him off a building.

The party spends the evening of the 23rd decompressing at Mayor Corvin Hale's guest residence after closing the murder investigation.

The party meets with Kragis Ironhorn, leader of the Minotaur forces, proposing a bloodless coup to retake Stone's Under instead of a violent assault.

The party wraps up their business in Esterholt before departing.

Chimera takes a nighttime walk with Kolgoth, who asks for help retrieving something in exchange for never taking control again and revealing everything about himself.

The party departs Esther Holt in the Gearheart, heading south toward Odysia.

The party works to flip the overturned Gearheart using a group skill challenge, then encounters a woolly mammoth during travel that attacks and nearly kills both Chimera and Logrhyn before Nythera...

The party takes a long rest after the mammoth encounter.

Getting to Odysia turns out to involve a flash flood, carnivorous worms, and a vehicle that is deeply committed to its own evolution.

The gang finally makes it into Odysia, and the city is clearly not used to welcoming guests.

Firmly in Odysia, the group meets Draven, a very preoccupied artifact expert, and ends up finding out what happens when ghosts want a turn touching back.

In Odysia, the group follows clues to Orran's disappearance and comes face-to-face with a few no-nonsense guards.

The group makes it out of Odysia in one piece. But the road back to Esterholt? Several pieces.

After their run-in with a Black Rider, the gang regroups and makes tenuous plans for their return to Esterholt. Also, demon dog.

The party comes across a group of distressed miners and a bone devil straight out middle management.

The group is hired to clean a bone devil infestation from a random mine. You know how good things always come in threes? Same for bad things.

The group still faces three bone devils and heck of a lot of water. Turns out it all flows downhill...