This region of the Dell is littered with floating metaliths and the remains of a shattered Temple of the Storm, its arches and stairways floating scattered among the platforms of stone. One piece of the wreckage of the Xarlanth once laid here, before the place was tampered with by the Iron Bloods working for Khrovar Blackmaw. The explosion that broke the temple took place upon the activation of an ancient Realmgate that connected this place to another Temple of the Storm in the Mountains of Maraz: this gate is now clogged with the wreckage of the Seraphon ship, bent and held midway between the two locations, floating in the air and difficult to access. A massive azyrian thunderstorm permanently covers the locale. Several small realmgates dot the area, connecting the metaliths to each other, and spewing from time to time some hapless traveller from somewhere else in the Realms. The area feels rather unnatural.
The joint khardhirian team of the Inquisition and the Stormscale Covenant marched to the Furyoth Dell, crossing the mountains surrounding it to get there.
The Expedition team travelled across several regions of the Dell, being significantly pushed back by wandering warbands and strange machinations that derailed their path.
They located the shattered Temple of the Storm within the Dell, with the Seraphon shiwreck lodged in its gate. They pushed an invading warband out to secure it.
The seraphon ship was found looted however, and no enemy army left behind as culprit.
Following tracks, the joint expedition is misled to a confrontation with another army who had apparently also being misled by trickery.
Calling a truce, the two armies exchange information and intel and get back on track, finally heading towards the agents of Chaos who looted the seraphon ship. Belimir gets progressively suspicious about the nature of the expedition and how they are being misled.
Their path is fraught and the forces allied with Captain Blackmaw push the joint expedition to the brink, barely able to hold on to the seraphon loot they had managed to acquire. After a retreat and a significant detour and recovery, they finally make it to the ruins indicated by their unlikely ally.
Here Belimir has a significant fallout with Keeper Zindimir, restraining him before heading to fight. But disaster struck in the form of Judge Voranul being kidnapped together with the Stormscales’ Lord-Arcanum, by the Rancho Terror warband, an aggressive group of beastmen and monster herders, led by powerful chaos champions.
The Inquisition and the Stormscales fought well, but suffered an infuriating defeat here. While Judge Voranul and the Stormscales’ Lord-Arcanum manage to escape, they did not secure the seraphon artefacts and lost their own loot.
The joint expedition now prepares to besiege the ruin, with more time and preparation.
You can read the full story of the expedition here.
The Brashbriar Brood encroach upon the Shattered Temple, discover the remains of the Xarlanth fragment, and decide to comb the plains beneath for any valuables which may have fallen when it was torn asunder. Instead, they find something entirely unexpected.
Briars under Stormy Skies: The Great Weave
The Temple of Maraz is breached
As Rhondol buckles and heaves with fury, the disturbance is felt at the Temple of the Storm in Maraz, where the Inquisition guards it’s gate to the Furyoth Dell. Soon they realize their army on the other side, led by Keeper Zindimir, has been displaced, as the Nagashites they had faced before returned with a vengeance.
They besiege the gate itself from the Furyoth Dell side, and slowly cut down the unprepared forces of Castellan Malenkon, who are forced to retreat to the Temple of Maraz.
The gate from the Temple of Maraz to the Further Dell has now been taken, wrested from the hands of the Inquisition and the Vermillio. The empty wreck of the Xarlanth is now on the other side of this enemy blockade.
Read the Inquisition of Umberspire’s full campaign in the Furyoth Dell here.