Descent Into Avernus

Ambush in the Grand Cemetery The Grand Cemetery was a graveyard in name only. The dead did not rest here. Broken mausoleums leaned at unnatural angles, cracked stone pathways split by creeping roots and black ichor, and the air itself carried a suffocating stillness. From the shadows, the party struck. Julian’s arrow cut through the silence, embedding deep into the ribcage of a towering skeletal minotaur. The creature lurched forward with a hollow roar, its massive hooves cra

Into the Ruins of High Hall The party pressed through the shattered streets of Elturel, the weight of the city’s fall heavy in the air. After a strange and philosophical encounter with a towering fiend who sought the meaning of life, they continued onward toward High Hall, one of the last bastions of hope in a city dragged into hell. The cathedral stood broken, half-collapsed, its once-sacred halls reduced to rubble and ash. At the entrance, hellhounds fell beneath the party’

Arrival in Avernus The moment the magic of Traxigor fades, the world shifts. The party stands in Avernus, beneath a sky choked with fire and ruin. The city of Elturel hangs in the distance, chained and dragged toward the River Styx, its streets burning, its people screaming. There is no time to take it in. Kyshun is the first to move, blade flashing as he cuts into a prone bearded devil. Silas follows, bringing divine wrath down with crushing force. Julian takes position at r

The illusion of Elturel’s salvation dies not with a scream, but with a voice. As the infernal puzzle box opens within the quiet halls of Candlekeep, the recorded words of Thavius Kreeg spill into the room like poison. His oath, sworn willingly to Zariel, confirms what few dared to believe. Elturel was never saved. It was promised. Every soul bound by the Creed of the Resolute unknowingly became collateral in a bargain forged in darkness, their fate sealed decades before the c

The Truth Beneath Baldur’s Gate The party’s journey began in the aftermath of a shocking revelation beneath the Vanthampur estate. Deep within the hidden tunnels, the adventurers uncovered the infernal conspiracy festering beneath Baldur’s Gate. Cultists devoted to Zariel had turned the estate into a site of dark worship, complete with an infernal altar and secret chambers where the truth about Elturel was finally laid bare. Cornered and pressured, Thavius Kreeg , the High Ov

Descent Beneath the Estate The tunnels beneath the Vanthampur estate did not resemble forgotten sewer passages. They felt intentional. Reinforced stonework supported the corridors, green lanternlight cast an unnatural hue across carefully constructed walkways, and the air carried the scent of damp stone mingled with faint incense. This was not a hidden corner of the city left to decay. It was infrastructure built for secrecy. The party moved cautiously at first, attempting to

Stripped of your authority by Captain Zodge and operating without the protection of the Flaming Fist, you chose to continue the investigation regardless of the consequences. After forcing a confession from Amrik Vanthampur and uncovering his family’s connection to the Dead Three, you followed Captain Tarina’s directions into a hidden sewer passage beneath the Vanthampur estate. What waited below was not merely corruption, but something infernal. The tunnels beneath the villa

The night began in shadow and nearly ended in chains. You had cornered Amrik Vanthampur at the Low Lantern. The confrontation was not subtle. Steel was drawn. Blood was spilled. Silas fell unconscious under the brutal assault of a spined devil, only to be dragged back from the brink by Redaven’s intervention. The alleyway stank of brine, smoke, and fear. When Amrik finally broke, it was not with pride, but with desperation. He confessed to funding the Dead Three cultists. He

The Rot Beneath the Bathhouse Baldur’s Gate does not rot openly. It festers beneath polished stone and noble titles. Your descent beneath the bathhouse brought you face to face with that rot. In the hidden temple of the Dead Three, you cut through chanting cultists and undead horrors, their prayers to Bane, Bhaal, and Myrkul echoing against blood-slick stone. There, amid betrayal and desperation, you found Mortlock Van Thamper — scarred, furious, and marked for death by his o

The bathhouse above remained warm, perfumed, and oblivious . Beneath it, the city’s sins pooled in stone and shadow. With every step deeper into the hidden dungeon, the party felt the truth of Baldur’s Gate pressing in on them . This was not a place of worship, but of industry. Death was being manufactured here. Fresh from a short rest, the party advanced into a chamber where the dead still walked . Zombies lurched from the darkness, their movements slow and mindless, remnant

The group pushed deeper beneath the bathhouse, the last hints of sunlight fading behind them as the stonework turned damp and oppressive. The air hung heavy with mildew and stagnant water, muffling their footsteps as they descended into the secret lair of the Dead Three. Their first discovery was a gruesome altar—an offering place to Bhaal , the Lord of Murder. Rent flesh, congealed blood, and coils of entrails lay across the stone surface, and the carved mask fashioned in th

The streets of Baldur’s Gate groaned under the pressure of panic and overcrowding the day your adventurers stumbled into it—quite literally. A collapse of unstable magic high above the icy wastes of Icewind Dale tore Lilith , Kari , and Kyshun from the frozen world they knew and hurled them hundreds of miles south in a violent burst of blue light. The smell of frost still clung to their gear as they crashed down amid the grit and heat of the Lower City. Disoriented and stri

The session began far from Baldur’s Gate in the frozen heights of Icewind Dale. Inside an ancient Netherese spire that had recently torn itself from the earth and begun hovering above the dale, a surge of unstable magic rippled through its core. Professor Scant, the sentient orb guiding the group, sputtered warnings as gravity suddenly collapsed inward. Before anyone could react, a blinding crack of blue light swallowed the chamber whole. In an instant, Lilith , Kairi , and K

Adventure Overview In the corrupt heart of the Sword Coast, the city of Baldur’s Gate teeters on the edge of chaos. Crime festers in every alley, noble houses war from the shadows, and dark pacts are struck behind closed doors. But a greater evil stirs beyond the city’s walls — the first layer of the Nine Hells, Avernus, is claiming the innocent in its infernal war. As Baldur’s Gate begins to slide toward damnation, the adventurers must uncover the truth behind its descent an