Light My Candle

The Battle of Bloody Blade Shrine

• As undead swarm into the inner cloister of the Bloody Blade Shrine, Nazari attempts to mind link with Captain Buchanan. Not knowing it as friendly, he rebuffs her.
• Battle breaks out between the undead and the party alongside the King's Swords. Huddled cultists light magical candles and attempt to deliver light to braziers to drive back the undead. The party uses that light to help fight off the undead. Captain Buchanan is charmed by Vampire Mommy to cut down one of his own King's Swords. The King's Swords initially attack the cultists, but Jacopo persuades them to stop. Lark (disguised as "Vlad") helps Lan Hazal and Mikhael Fedorov. Alastair Buchanan also helps clear a path for Lan to bolster the flames from the braziers. Zelandris nearly dies from a massive, severed hand and necril worms, but is saved by Jacopo. Two cultists and two King's Swords die before the battle is over.
• The party and King's Swords regroup after the fight. Mikhael Fedorov escapes while Lan Hazal is apprehended. The party updates Captain Buchanan, emphasizing: (1) there was a blood ritual involving Vampire Mommy; (2) Lan demanded secrecy in a coming "war"; (3) the ritual to enter the Bloody Blade Shrine blasphemed the Sovereign Host; (4) the Shrine is a Mabar manifest zone; (5) the cultists mourned Wultram Kazkov.
• Lan Hazal implores Lark (as "Vlad") to find Jessel Tarra'az and preserve the Mabar manifest zone. Alastair Buchanan thanks the party for infiltrating the Bloody Blade Shrine and promises a good word for Pyramus. Nazari apologizes for calling in the King's Swords early, but is reassured by Captain Buchanan. Lark is arrested alongside the rest of the cultists as the party leaves.

Jailhouse and Jorasco

• The party encounters Constance d'Medani in The Hazal Residence. She shakes Jacopo's hand. Nazari flirts with Corwith ir'Cullen and they arrange a "spar" later.
• Lark (as "Vlad" from the Old Country) talks with other Graywall residents in jail. She learns nobody knew of Jessel Tarra'az until that night. They are angry at Vampire Mommy for what happened at the Bloody Blade Shrine, but still trust Lan Hazal and believe the blood ritual would have revealed the truth of the terror attacks. Their opinions of Wultram Kazkov are divided: some believing he was eccentric albeit harmless whilst others believed him erratic and insane. Lark takes away that the Graywall community was not responsible for the Diamond Theatre attack. While skeptical of "Vlad", the Sharn City Watch eventually release Lark after questioning.
• The party takes Zelandris to see Minka d'Jorasco after everything that went down at the Bloody Blade Shrine. She gives him a clean bill of health except calls his missing shadow "probably some fey shit."
• Lark meets up with the Party the following morning. She explains her suspicion that Lan Hazal is innocent and the King's Swords may have a hidden agenda. She plans to track Jessel Tarra'az under the pretext of providing sustenance. She warns Nazari to avoid Corwith ir'Cullen. The party is somewhat skeptical of Lark's supposition that the King's Swords are up to something nefarious.

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