Game 25: Namarrakin And The Worm

Wherein our Intrepid Explorators leave the safety of their new Yasara friends and move to explore a section of collapsed tunnels. They find the burned-over Essari city of Namarrakin. The following things were discovered:

The citizens ran to the city's Aeohsa tree as the disaster unfolded. MaeNendrith stood and killed all they could.

The Essari government had sealed away the town's shrine to both MaeDinn(Maw) and Dhall'ys(Degmos), and destroyed their statues.

The city suffered a lava flow at some point, that burned nearly everything

The Deep Roads were truly impressive, and the Waystones were based on a simplified rendition of each town's distinctive Aeohsa tree

Some Essari Watcher constructs are still half-functional, and fully annoying

Namarrakin and Kallorhir were both under the control of the Archmagus Nizurra, delegated to various local magistrates.

The crew felt and heard tremors, and managed to jump into the Ordinatus Emergency Outpost in the nick of time as a Purple Worm of colossal size crashed through the ruined city, swallowing the outpost. Stone and Raine managed to get the beast to vomit up the outpost (and a good quarter of the city), but it took some time. No one knows how far they've travelled, nor in what direction. Truly, they are lost in Dead Essard.

Game 24: The Expedition

 Wherein our Intrepid Explorators head out on their own in Dead Essard.

They head north and climb a mountain, and meet a tribe of bat-men, the Yasara ('Clever Bat' in Old Essari). After a standoff they are welcomed and given food and a safe place to rest.

A small Yasara child warns them of the Andoth, whatever that is.

See, not all of Dead Essard is bad(!)