Session 1 - City of Towers

Recap
Either native or on business, the actors of this story collected in Sharn, City of Towers. This city’s buildings scrape the sky itself, rising up from the Hilt an d Dagger rivers into the clouds above. Many people dream of and in this city, and the party is no different.

In one group: Ebinir Rostin, librarian of Fairhaven’s University of Wynarn on business; Toussaint Valentin Douchamp, his dashing local bodyguard; and Aldren Sallow, a baker and friend of Ebinir’s brought along from Fairhaven. In the other: Anika Fritz, Sharnish goblin craftswoman; Tranquility, a young warforged who Anika helped out of “respect”; and Creep, a bizarre warforged who Anika helped out of pity.

On their business, they met in the western part of Sharn’s middle city, halfway from the ground and the sky. Their paths crossed at a bridge, where an elf cried for help. Hired thugs, a spellcaster, and a shadowy beast assaulted him, but the parties intervened, fighting as one and saving the man-elf. His name is Bennet Allswell and he is in Sharn for business, He repaid their kindness in information, dragging the party deeper into his business.

Bennet bought them to the Eye of the Beholder, an inn and tavern run by… a beholder named Joker. There the party gained rooms and rested, not knowing what they had gotten themselves into. Bennet revealed to the party the book Ebinir had come to collect: The Littlest Moon, by Cear Kera.

It was a picture book, watercolor, meant for children, depicting a lonely moon come to make friends. The moon talks with each of Eberron’s twelve moons, but the last page depicts a sudden change in art style as it collides with the planet in a garish depiction of explosions and bloodshed.

The party members spend the evening getting used to each other, though sparks and heated words fly between Anika and Ebinir, promising a rocky working partnership between the two.