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Rimewatch

Summary

Rimewatch is an outpost around a Barrier pylon near the Ice Prison, where storms begin and the wider prison crisis becomes visible. The outpost is tied to dragon plots, Brutor Ruby Eye’s prison-status work, and Ennui’s siphoning that weakened the containment system. The Ice Prison holds Leedus the auroch and Anorazorak in opposite prisons; Anorazorak tried to impersonate Leedus to escape, while Leedus chose to remain. Rimewatch’s burst entrance, snow haunt, possible eggs, and ice-white eagle mark the site’s dangerous deterioration.

Known Details

  • The party approached Rimewatch on Ice Fang and found the town worse than before, with stormy weather near Snowsorrow.
  • A warning from 20 years earlier described dragons plotting again, dragons breathing the Terror of the Sands out of her prison, and the black one being cast out.
  • Infestus, Peridita, Calemnis Bereth/Girth, Garadule, Ruby Eye, the veridican, and Peridita as Mother of many were connected to two plots: removing cities and breaking out Garadule.
  • The Howling Tombs were identified as where storms begin.
  • The prison entrance later appeared burst open, with a snow haunt, claw-torn tents, pale blue rocks, hollow rocks or possible eggs, and an ice-white eagle that killed Grubins.
  • Anrasurall, a robed Humein from Baytail Accord, tried to free someone with runes he was given; he said he got into the circle and fired out of the front before the bird killed him.
  • Six empty-seeming copper rune orbs were containment devices for elementals.
  • On Day 38, water elementals required the party to agree to free Leedus the auroch from the prison near Rimewatch before they would help against dragon flames.
  • Day 46 says Dotharl woke near Rimewatch about twenty years earlier, near a door, and something forcefully propelled him through it.
  • The Day 46 lead about a Hartwall artifact hidden in one of the prisons near Snowsorrow should point to the Ice Prison at Rimewatch; the artifact is tied to Hartwall’s work on mind effects and no team was checking it.
  • On Day 47, the party reached the Ice Prison through a portal in Lady Evalina Hartwall’s Laboratory.
  • User clarification establishes that Anorazorak’s prison stands opposite Leedus’s. Anorazorak tried to impersonate Leedus telepathically to Dothral in order to persuade the party to open his prison, while Leedus chose to remain imprisoned after a lengthy conversation with the party.

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Open Questions

  • Who gave Anrasurall the runes?
  • What was he trying to free, and did he succeed?
  • Are the hollow rocks eggs, and what is the ice-white eagle guarding?
  • What Hartwall artifact is hidden in the nearby Ice Prison, and how does it connect to Hartwall’s memory or mind-effect work?