Children of the Dragon Queen

[Dungeon Master]

Children of the Dragon Queen
Chapter One The Play

The Abyss


The Goddess of the Seas and Storms walks through what appears to be the Kingpriest’s Temple of Istar on a vast plain, surrounded by Mountains. She stands among the ruins of a city of Darkness. shifting through broken pieces of pottery and refuse. Getting more irritated by the second. She passes through arches and walks through the shells of buildings. It appears a dream that is being forgotten over time.

Zebolim is on a mission of personal benefit, looking for any trinkets or treasure of a certain kind. Artifacts, icons, lost relics. She has searched high and low to gather what she can, she realizes she is not alone and is instantly infuriated. “What are you doing here?”

The room shakes, shifts, and settles. Dust drops from the ceiling supports.

He is darkly handsome, with black hair, pulled back. He has black tall boots, and a debonair swashbuckling black shirt, with red and white accents.

“Now, now sister, Let’s not bring the house down on us with one of your tempests.”

“You are why I’m not finding anything of Mother’s. You’ve already collected and picked the bones of our inheritance." Zebolim accuses.

Nuitari smiles and jests “You are just being dramatic. Of course, I haven’t gotten everything, I’m more than willing to leave you the scraps.”

“Careful brother, I’m of a mood.” Zebolim answers darkly.

“As ever my sweet sister. This is not entirely a social visit, though I do treasure our short visits now and again. I have business to discuss.” Nuitari answers.

“Go on.” His twin allows.

“You and I are not the only ones on this hunt. Our dark brethren also swipe up our Mother’s Dark Gifts. As the High God has taken the Relics, Our Dark Mother’s Icons are some of the most powerful items left on Krynn. Do you really want Hiddukel, Chemosh or The Dark Wind (Morgion) and even worse our Father, who acts like he doesn’t care, but is on the hunt as well.” He pauses to make sure she is still following along, then goes on, “We have our minions, as does he, but his Devils are fast, and know exactly what to get.”

It just made her mad. “Damn him!” The Goddess of the Sea and Storms lets out.

“It’ simply inevitable. I will not serve under the others, or even you my ill-tempered sister. No, we just have to figure out how to deal with him, we have the inside track after all. Much as I hate to accept it.”

“We are related."


“Entirely so.” Nuitari states dryly.

“You know we aren’t the only one that were her kids.” Zebolim asks conspiratorially.

“You speak of our half-siblings, the demigods she begot. Haven’t they all been destroyed by now?” The God of Dark Magic remarks, almost disinterested, until he is. “Why do you ask exactly?”


“I may have heard our brethren were interested in the concept of absorbing their power." She answers in hushed tones.


"Now where did you hear that? Nuitari asks. No, fine don’t tell me. Keep your secrets sister and I will keep mine."


“Fine, its was Hiddukel.” His dark Twin answers unhappily.


“And you believed him, he is the trickster god, you know that right, the God of Lies.” Nuitari laughs.


“Stop laughing at me. What if it is true?” Zebolim asks.


“It isn’t. Don’t be soft.”


Zebolim explains the process as it was explained to her.

Nuitari comes away thinking of Vampirism, the Ogre Titan creation process, or Draconic cannibalism the Overlords practiced. Unnatural. It may not seem plausible, but that doesn’t mean it’s not possible. But something isn’t right. This doesn’t sound like the work of the Prince of Lies, this is Morgion thinking these dark plots up in his Brass Tower.

“How far along is this theory to becoming a fact? Nuitari asks his sister.

“They are hunting a demigod now. They are close.“ She answers.

[Dungeon Master]

The Children of the Dragon Queen
Chapter Two The God of Dark Magic

The Ethereal Sea

The Gray


Nuitari returns to the swirling clouds Gray and there, is a reflection of Tower of Blood Sea Tower. It is an anchor point that Nuitari has created that is tied to the Blood Sea tower on Krynn. It allows him to pass between the two easily.

He is mystified by what to think of his sister’s grand story. It sounds like Morgion and Hiddukel are involved somehow and that they are close to tracking down a test subject. He could not find out. He tried to tease it out of her but to no avail.

He runs down the list of “Children” of the Takhisis in his mind that he knows of.

Artha, who he thinks may be dead.
Khardra, He thought this one was dead too.
Malfesus He does not know where this one is
And the Handmaiden. This one is still trapped in her demiplane, last he knew.

So that narrows it down. But what if it is another demigod they are after?

He strains to recall the Beastlords and the Avatars of Gilean.

He stops dead in his tracks.

Long have the Dark Gods wanted Aravis* for their own. Have they found her? Nuitari is not weak. He thinks of his mother’s betrayal, he remembers how he mocked Chemosh over his weakness over the slip of a girl that was Mina.

No, it is not a weakness, I just have to make sure.

He calls for Ksetti and Culgu, two of his Rakshasa followers. “Go to the City of Doors” He hands them a Black Key. “Go to the Lower ward, Door AA62T. Before you approach the Door, watch for anyone following you. You have to be absolutely sure. When you are positive nobody is witnessing you, go through the Door and wait a couple of hours and make sure nobody has followed you through. Then proceed to The Third planet, Soreel. Always be aware you might be leading trackers straight to her, so do kill anyone that you might remotely be suspicious of. Aravis means a great deal to me, and her mother. Make sure she is okay, remotely if you can, from a distance if you have to, but confirm she lives.”

[Dungeon Master]

The Children of the Dragon Queen
Chapter Three The Reveal

Lightning flashes across the sky, and a storm churns about an Island Keep.

An Island beyond the northwest Ansalon
Storm’s Keep


The Goddess of the Sea and the Storms arrives at the Castle Keep of her now-deceased Son and his Order of Dark Knights

Zebolim comes home to Storm’s Keep laughing, stopping every few steps to catch herself. Oh, dear Brother, however smart you are, you are still so dumb, and predictable. I don’t need to go to my crystal ball to see that he is already making plans to bring dear little Aravis home. Yes, she will be protected by Mommy (Karnea), but Aravis will be on Krynn. That was only step one. We shall what we can do to dislodge her from Mom. Pull the right strings, at the right time.

She walks to the map table, intricately carved from a vallenwood tree. The elevations of the mountains are all correct, to scale. She walks around the table, running her hand over where her son’s hand must have touched a million times before he launched his War.

I can’t be directly implicated in this; I will have to make sure the agent knows what to do. Her Avatar becomes as mist and evaporates into the sea

[Dungeon Master]

The Children of the Dragon Queen
Chapter Four Success

Krynn
Far beyond the Northwest of Ansalon
Storm’s Keep



Zebolim exits the North Sea and climbs the steps to Storms’s Keep. She enters and heads for the bowls of the keep and calls for her Hags to attend to her. They leave their current post of looking in into the Eye, (an orb of seeing).


One of the hags comes forward and tells the Goddess of Seas of Storms that she witnessed the child the Goddess has been seeking. The child stood before your altar on the Isle of Dark Wizards.


Zebolim just laughs and laughs. “It worked. I scarcely believed they could actually pull this off. The plan of plans. But they have done it. The Prince of Lies will be pleased with himself no doubt.” She tells the Hags to keep watching and leaves the bowls of the keep. She of course will have to tell him eventually, they had a deal after all, but for now, she is just going to savor it for herself.



So now all we do now is to just...wait...



But she has never been able to be that patient She looks out to the stormy sky and her mind drifts, plots tumble in her mind, and the sea churns. She laughs out and dives into the ocean.

[Dungeon Master]

The Children of the Dragon Queen
Chapter Five The Prince of Lies

Northern Blood sea

Zebolim makes sure her agent knows what to do and how to alert her when the deed is done. The figure swims off from the Cave. Zebolim will bring storms to cover the event. Now she must let fate take its course. Not being one to micromanage, she has commitments to adhere to, and she is already behind.

She swims to her Grotto in the Abyss and swims through the dark abyssal seas to the Abyssal representation of Palanthas. It is a dark mirror to the actual place on Krynn. This is the home of the Prince of Lies. She passes Glabrezuor (type III demons), were tanar'ri that specialized in the temptation of mortals, spreading corruption unseen like a virulent disease. Unlike succubi, who preyed on lust, glabrezu exploited the mortal desire for power in the many forms it took. Their forms were varied as ever spreading their corruption wherever they show up.

Her destination is the Den of Sorrows, his underground club.

There are chains of varying lengths everywhere, all hanging from the ceiling.
She passes by more poor slave souls and various demon masters and continues until she comes inside the club. It is filled with obscene debauchery amid demons taking bets on affairs on the Prime Material.

She enters his back room where Hiddukel on an intricately carved throne of ivory surrounded by his court of Marilith Demons (Also known as type V demons,) were serpentine militant tanar'ri known for their ability to utilize cold logic. Succubus fiends exist to seduce and tempt mortals and ultimately slay them and take their life energy back to the Abyss.

“Ah, the Queen of Storms, welcome back my friend, though you are a bit late.”

Zebolim smiles and simply says “It took a while to be able confirm whether it worked or not.”

Hiddukel buries his long-standing hatred of people who think they are being cute and asks, “Well, did it?”

“The daughter is indeed back on Krynn. I did not think they could pull it off. You’ll have to pay them now.”

Hiddukel waves his hand in a dismissive gesture “Yes, yes so, she is at the Tower of Blood Sea. I’m sure you already have people moving into place, I’m sure you will remember the rest of our deal should you prove successful in any future endeavors.”

Zebolim becomes defensive “Of course, I’ve held up my side of bargain.”

There is whispering to the Prince of Lies by a prominent Marilith Demon, and the Prince of Lies says "yes, yes, right" and to Zebolim, Hiddukel says “Mercy here is right, you did sign the contract, you know the rules if you renege.”

Zebolim stands defiantly and says “I won’t renege. We have a deal”.