Zeheir summary

I've written up an overview of the events that seem relevant to Zehier. This is one player's summary, not a staff/GM summary; I might have misunderstood things.

Some Zeheir_summary#Conclusions below.

1. 5/25 - Morgan, Aithil, Amythyst, and Shaoqing encounter magic slimes belonging to Zeheir. (Broken_Barrels)
   1. They were in an old warehouse with "13" in black paint on the door.
   2. The barrels have a "Z" mark and had some kind of magic.
   3. Some of the barrels were smashed, from the inside, apparently by sparkling black animated slimes, who devour the wood and more generally seem to consume magic.
   4. They were apparently shipped from an undesignated location to a warehouse rented by someone using the name Morgan, with an employee named Jeeves.
   5. There are rumors that Morgan murdered his wife.
   6. The unrelated wizard Morgan takes a sample of the slime.
      1. Later (Salina_and_the_Slime), Morgan is approached by a short delicate pale-skinned elven woman in a blue dress with long platinum-blond hair wearing a small crystal ball on a chain around her neck, who identifies herself as a sorceress named Salina. "the reason that they seek out magic is because they /are/ magic... Eatting magic is how they dupilcate. Growing bigger and then like ameboa splitting into pairs and pairs again... they can /make/ something magical by being in contact with it for long enough"
2. 6/17 - Faranth, Gull, Ilmig, Lucy, Morgan, Murder, Taleth, Yelrona attempt to free a dominated youth Finding_Edgar
   1. There was a vampire stalking a farmer's (Edgar) house; the vampire was killed
   2. Edgar's son was dominated and is traveling north in a straight line
   3. Edgar is missing
   4. A flying monster snatches the boy. (a cold-breathing white scaly bird)
   5. The monster turns out to be a flesh golem made by Zeheir, then re-animated a thousand years later, with ice-magic added to it.
   6. Owlbears attack them. These are also Zeheir golems.
   7. The boy leads them to a white tower surrounded by ice, just like in Ice,_Ice_Baby.
   8. A white winged lionlike creature with human hands is guarding the tower
   9. They find Edgar, who has a blue light in his chest. He uses the teleport portal to port away, and the charm on the son fades
   10. Subsequent research determines that:
       1. Zeheir is a wizard who died a little over a thousand years ago
       2. He lived for aproximately 150 years before his death.
       3. His field of research was largely in magical creatures and how to make them as well as golems.
       4. He made a (single) wizard tower back in his day, and it was well know for popping up wherever Zehier wanted it to be. However nobody ever claimed that it could move through TIME
       5. There is a play about him. It talks about his great love for a woman Evaline, and how she died young to an ailment which no magic could cure. (Though Zehier tried) In the end Evaline dies and Zeheir is left alone for the last lonely parts of his life.
       6. Edgar's family is plain and normal as far back as can be traced however. Farmers and a few craftsmen, nobody of any note.
       7. Evaline was born a little over a thousand years ago, and died 28 years after her birth. She was married when she died. She is listed as being half-elvish in the census records, and her cause of death is listed as a 'incurable magical illness'. Records indicate that she was not a citizen of Alexandria for very long
3. 6/18 - Aithil, Bennet, Faranth, Morgan, Murder and Virgil encounter more magic slimes in the mrket district/sewers (Same_Sparkling_Slime)
   1. They find several zombies in the sewers, with blue lights in their chests.
   2. The zombies cause explosions when they run into walls.
   3. The zombies travel in straight lines.
   4. They also find a pool that might form into a slime if magic is thrown at it.
   5. Later (Zaheir_to_the_throne) Morgan relays that the glowing lights in the chest are because "they put the slimes in the body"
4. 6/22 - Arubesh, Aya, Ezriya, Lorik, Morgan, and Murder find a white tower in the middle of an unnatural snowstorm Ice,_Ice_Baby
   1. The tower door has the "Z" mark
   2. Morgan identifies it as belonging to Zeheir
   3. The door opens to Zeheir's name
   4. It has a magic circle that teleports people to different places and times (a day or so past and future)
5. 8/7 - Smuldur, Erakirak, Galidor, Iskandar, and Vaalyun protect a Druid grove from some warped treants Forest_on_Foot
   1. The trees explode in blue flames when killed
   2. They were traveling in straight lines
   3. Their origin was a huge pond with a treant in the center of it
   4. The treant explained that a man came from Alexandria every so often to dump something into the water, with the "Z" mark, and the water turned black, and the trees were warped and set out to destroy Alexandria.
6. 8/16 - Arzaneth, Dax, Halanaestra slaughter some giant spiders Arachnophobia!
   1. The spiders say: "men come. Leave big things. We grow big!"
   2. There are several barrels with the "Z" mark
   3. Two dead men with a map of Alexandria with one corner where there is a cave marked with an X.
   4. Later Darius, Dax, Erakirak, Iskandar follow the map Arachnophobia!_(Part_2)
   5. Stalactite creatures attack them
   6. There are barrels with the "Z" mark
   7. There are dead bodies with a ruined letter... "You do this in the name of my mistress." signed 'Lord Morgan'. There's a wax stamp seal at the bottom showing a family crest of a manticore with a big 'M' on it.
   8. There is sparkly black water
7. (OOC: I think at this point Erakirak deeply confused matters by deciding, kind of arbitrarily, that the sparkly black water was a sign of the , which was actually a whole different plot, and saying this insistently enough that it stuck. Oops.)
8. 8/16 Arynne, Erakirak, Vaalyun, and Valadhiel Heavy_Metal and 8/21 Kore, Erakirak, Pyre, Morgan, Ilmig, Lucy Moar_Orcs stop some orcs attacking the Mythwood
   1. Their eyes have a distant far-away look to them
   2. They walk in a straight line, destroying the forest
   3. Dispel magic makes them stop attacking (their fellows attack them)
   4. One of the dispelled oruch (Daavgar) says "I remember... glowing green eyes..."
   5. Another (Manven) says "he remembers black. Shining darkness filling him up."
   6. The second group were from Bludgun, maybe?
   7. Some time later (He's_Dead) the father of one of the boys (Tregarch) comes to Alexandria, looking for him. There have been other disappearances.
9. (OOC: Here again Erakirak may have confused the issue, asserting that the dominated oruch were all killed when in fact several were rescued. Oops. I really ought to pay more attention.)
10. 8/27 Astaren, Kira, and Munch face more black sparkly slime in the sewers Pipeline_Problems
    1. It seems tougher, now (fight still pending?)
11. 8/28 Constantin, Duncan, Ilmig, Krom, Morgan, Yelrona stop some more orcs attacking the Mythwood The_Destruction
    1. They say "Kill who ever tries to stop you. Destroy the forest. Walk into the land of elves and slaughter. Our mistress commands. We obey. We do not want to kill you, but we are commanded and we must obey. We know not her name, only to obey."
    2. Their bodies are marked up much like the bodies in the Tower Rona blew up, with signs of torture. And marks that look like snowflakes.
    3. The chiefs escape but are killed by other guardians
    4. We get the names and clans of the fighters (Rona visits them)
12. 8/29 Deak, Erakirak, Jaen and Walery try to rescue Sephiela TrisgwarTrisgwar Trisgwar_(Part_2)
    1. They deal with some mutated plants and slugs
    2. They meet the ghost of a boy who says his sister is possessed
    3. They meet the "MIGHTY DEMON ILAFANG" (probably an imp)
    4. They find Sephelia Trisgwar who seems possessed ("a distorted image that follows in her wake, and though her eyes are green they glow with blue power")
    5. They grab her and return her to her parents
13. 9/6 Kore, Mel, Morgan, Nadara, and Yelrona find another of Zeheir's towers Unwrought_Souls Unwrought_Souls_(Part_2)
    1. The tower door has the "Z" mark
    2. The door opens to Zeheir's name
    3. Contains a golem-creating laboratory with bodies and a massive suit of armor and chemicals
    4. Bodies were dug up from graves
    5. Some bodies have snowflake symbol
    6. There are bottles of Living Essence, very destructive
    7. THere is a talking metal golem, though not a normal golem. It follows commands but only from authorized "voice prints".
    8. They blow up the tower.

Conclusions

Trying to put it all together... these seem to be the players:

1. Zehier was a Sundering-era wizard who was good at golemcraft.
   1. He had a tower, which he was able to teleport from place to place.
   2. There's no indication that he could travel through time.
2. Evaline was a half-elf, Zehier's lover.
   1. Married
   2. Briefly a citizen of Alexandria
   3. Died of "an incurable magical illness"
3. Someone (person X) is reanimating and controlling Zeheir's old golems
   1. X might have a connection to Zeheir, or might have just stumbled into his tower.
4. Someone (person Y) is creating "zombies" by combining the sparkly slime with bodies.
   1. This has been done to both humanoids and either trees or treants.
   2. The zombies explode with blue flame when defeated
   3. The humanoid zombies have a bluish glow in their chests
   4. X and Y are cooperating and might be the same person (since golems tried to pick up Edgar's son while he was headed to the tower where his dad was zombified.
5. Someone (person W) is collecting dead bodies and turning them into golems.
   1. W was using a second Tower of Zeheir's, or at least a Tower built on the same model
   2. W is putting a snowflake-shaped scar on some bodies.
6. Someone (person Z) is associated with ice/cold magic
   1. Z and X are probably the same person.
   2. Z and W might be the same person? (Snowflake scars!)
   3. Z has been grafting ice-magic onto (some of) the reanimated golems
   4. Z has probably icified Zeheir's tower
7. Someone (the Mistress) is charming/dominating people.
   1. The Mistress has dominated a lot of Oruch from Alexandros and some possibly from Bludgun to attack the Mythwood.
   2. Her dominees are single-minded, but not mindless. They travel in straight lines and follow orders literally but can converse normally.
   3. The Mistress has dominated 'Lord Morgan' (see below)
   4. She probably dominated Edgar's son? If so, the Mistress and person Y are probably the same person.
   5. She seems to have a hate on for the Green... has sent dominated agents to destroy the Mythwood, the Druid Grove, the forests.
8. 'Lord Morgan' is involved with the slime
   1. He rented the warehouse to which the slime-barrels were initially sent
   2. He sent a letter instructing some folks to do something with barrels of it in a cave in the Redridge, apparently on the Mistress' orders.
9. Someone (Salina the Sorceress) knows about the Slime and is collecting it
   1. Short delicate pale-skinned elven woman in a blue dress with long platinum-blond hair wearing a small crystal ball on a chain around her neck
10. The Slime
    1. Grows/breeds by consuming magic
    2. Possibly created spontaneosly when magic hits the sparkly black water