The Weavers

AK510-40 Cool Summer End Week 4
[Charon Guiding, Shale Resting, Cycles Watching]

Moonday (morning)

In the Woodhaven the villagers were gearing up for the harvesting which was about to start.
In the morning Vedic Tanner and the druid Appleby humbly beseeched Croi, Naduir and Torthulacht for a good harvest in Woodhaven. The Cycles festival of the Rod was only three weeks away. Tanner also prayed to Croi and Bas for the ability to raise the dead so that the weavers in the temple could be brought back from beyond the wall of souls to continue the work of Aisneis and Tionscail.

The Ibixians made a lightning assault beyond the shunt and the others slipped below during the battle.

They returned to the temple. Ethan felt the force of Tionscail's anger when he arrived and saw the slain warforged scattered around the temple. His gutworm was overcome by the divine emotions and it sent Ethan into a rage. It took him several moments for Ethan to compose himself and once he had, he vowed to Tionscail that he would avenge this desecration of the Temple.
They gathered the bodies of warforged for the raising service and chose two weavers. All the bodies were still well preserved.

There were two altars in the Flame Forge. Neither of which could be reached because they were surrounded completely by the molten mass.
Ivellios prayed for Tine's Grace. His prayer was answered and his natural resistance to fire was increased so that he could stand within the forge's flame. Tin Tan was happy to see his master join him in the forge. It was about time Ivellios succumbed to the joys of flame. While examining the magical symbols around the base of one altar Tin Tan figured out how to control the altar platforms and activated the platform to allow the Vedic to pray at the altar.

A small fortune of diamonds was always required as a sacrifice to Bas when raising the dead. They had no diamonds so Tanner prayed. A vision came to him from Aisneis and he saw a safe. He led them to the vestry and there they found the safe and a fortune in gems stored inside it.
With some of these gems Vedic Tanner raised two of the weavers. The expression on the face of Tionscail's statue softened slightly.

The weavers were not interested in talking to their saviours. They were very shocked that the weaving of the tapestry had stopped and so returned to it to catch up with the time they had lost. The party managed to glean a few pieces of information from the weavers but resorted to reading what they could from the tapestry itself because the weavers attention was consumed by their task.
Some warforged bodies were missing, the tapestry indicated that the prince of Schliss had taken them below to conduct experiments.
Presumably the others were left in the temple because of it's preserving qualities. To prevent further desecration of Tionscail's craftsmen, they brought the bodies back to the Kysiatch's halls.

Many other interesting facts were outlined on the tapestry.
The Prince of Schliss was pictured conducting experiments on Lizardfolk and DeDannan in the Tomb of Setanta and in the village of Honeyglen. He has also formed a pact with the Wild Marsh druid. Under the druid's secret protection he was forcing several tribes of Steel Clan lizardfolk to do his bidding. Any villages of Steel Clan who resisted were destroyed. The tapestry hinted that the most vile experiments were still being carried out by the Prince and his followers in the levels below.
Teth Cromith XIV was the mastermind behind the most vile of the experiments. He was allied with Athru and was attempting to create a master race combining, DeDannan, Undead and Illithid traits. The tapestry revealed that he had followed Ambassador Lord Verity Kinnett to Stormwatch from across Time, Space and The Planes. If the signs were being interpreted correctly, he was also in the levels below. Ethan declared that the Church and The King would have to be informed, so that they could deal with Cromith. Tanner, Ivellios, Ethan and Bob were eager to deal with the Prince of Schliss themselves.
To their surprise the warriors of Woodhaven were being woven into the tapestry. The destiny Tanner and Namer were of particular note. Ominous symbols surrounded a mysterious dark figure which trailed them.
The most immediately useful image on the tapestry was a map of Poll Na Deanta.
The central staircase descended hundreds of feet below the dark keep. While the majority of the complex was comprised of layers of mine shafts for an exhausted kellum mine, the construct animation chamber, the elemental power generator, the high security magical experiments level, the prison and the construct storage levels caught their attention.
Ivellios surmised that using kellum in the power generator could allow them to animate the warforged in the animation chamber.