A wizard named Vellynne Harpell met with the group, hiring us to help her find a lost city of ancient Netheril, frozen deep within a glacier. In order to find the city and access it, you need two items: Vellynne's professor orb, and the Codicil of White, a book bound in white fur and written by worshippers of Auril the Frost Maiden.
The book is said to contain a magical incantation that can split a glacier.
Both are to be found at your destination, the Isle of Solstice. However, this Isle is known to be Auril's abode since she came back to the material plane.

While underway, the lookout spotted the shipwreck of the Dark Duchess in the Sea of Moving Ice. Aboard we discovered the dead captain with a pile of treasure frozen into the cargo hold, but also some kobolds and an ice troll. These posed little danger, but not so the ancient white dragon Arveiaturace.

She breathed frost, nearly killing Rahm, but he was saved by Torrin. Rahm then negotiated with the dragon, and Torinn cured the cataracts in her eyes in exchange for free passage off the scuppered ship.

Vellyne ordered ship to pull anchor and began moving after dragon landed in ship we were searching. Is some mistake to leave without us and was taking us much effort to be catching her. Was only after we did that we noticed a small lifeboat dripping onto the deck. It then makes more sense that the wizard wanted to save this other boat and was not leaving us for dragon food. That would be without honor and would be an offense if that was what happened, so surely it is not.

The second lifeboat, it holds three dead men and one still alive. He is Sai, a half-elf, and he has escaped the Dark Duchess. Sai is seeking passage aboard our hired ship to escape the domain of the white dragon. I say Sai has proven his survival instincts and is good with bow. He must come. Kuma'tiki shows the wisdom of a third son in this decision.

On the Island of Solace, we discover ruins of frost giant city. Nothing lives but an Ice troll... until the artificer upsets the Frostmaiden and she calls an abominable yeti to hunt us. I try to banish itm but it is not from some other place. On snowblown cliff, we make a place of defense; killing Yeti and pack of wendigo with spells, bows, and one of the laser sticks, before they can come too much closer. There is still some good opportunity for Torinn and Egan to put swords into the yeti and for him to freeze the dragonborn. Second time Torinn is almost frozen by breath today. The pains he takes to prove himself to his dragon-god, Bahamut.

After yeti is dead, Vellyne, she recovers her professor orb. This orb, Professor Skant, he is very polite rock. Knows much. Ghost of Vellyne's rival tries to attack Torinn, but he smites it with single stroke. Professor Rock, as I have begun to call him, tells us the Codicil WhiteBook is in big fortress on the island. Was made by frost giants and called Grimskalle. It looks and sounds like castle from skald's tales of Prince Adam of Eternia. We must make haste to complete our raid before the Frostmaiden returns to this island.

The group knocks, but no one answers door at Grimskalle. Kuma ritually cast Divination to help locate the Codicil of White. To gain entry to the vault where it is kept, the Frostmaiden has set it so four tests must be passed.

1. The test of Cruelty required Kuma and the others to turn their backs on a Tiger Uthgardt tribe where they had begun cannibalising the elderly during the famine created by the Rime of the Frostmaiden. Though we stood on edge of camp and witnessed this horror for almost an hour, only minutes had passed in the chambers back at Grimskalle.

2. The test of Endurance found the group assisting an Elk tribe of Uthgardt in a 14 hour journey, holding up in the worst of blizzards. Kuma endured and only became exhausted in 2 of the later hours, but many others of the party were frostbitten from 3 or 4 hours of overexposure.

3. The test of Isolation found Kuma and his group assigned to watch over a Rheghed Tiger tribe's women and children for just a day, but this duty stretched to seven. Sai and Torinn disappeared into the snows in foirst two nights, but returned days later. Sai has been driven into the IceMadness and is now a drunkard who will not trust us. We must find healing for him in TenTowns.

4. The test of Preservation found us at a Rheghed Wolf Tribe's camp. It was a scene of slaughter. Kuma chased away giant vultures, but none could be saved except for one boy. Aerix Vokototh is 9-year old whelp of the tribe's chieftain. Some magic makes Aerix strong against snow like goliaths, so boy hides in snowbank during massacre.
   Raiding Uthgardt tribe returned for Aerix, but we killed them to preserve the boy's line. An awakened wolf named Old Silver comes to take the orphan to another wolf tribe.

Egan, Torrin, and Vellyne retrieve the Codicil of White from the Vault of the Frostmaiden in Grimskalle. Kuma spends this time befriending Ukuma, the awakened giant walrus.
A brief inspection leads the group to recover a silver dragon egg and some small amounts of treasure as well. We ignore the burial vaults of the frost giants so that we do not linger until the Frostmaiden returns.
As we exit, we find only one old, blind and lamed Frost Giant warrior in the complex. He welcomes us, obviously seeking a warrior's death and we give him this just end.

Sailing to the mainland, the expedition travels and rests in Bremond. Neither Kuma'tiki or Vellnye have the skill to restore Sai. We seek out a more powerful cleric, druid, or wizard to break Sai's madness and alcohol dependency that came from his ordeals in the Frostmaiden's endurance trial. The only nearby person known to posess this skill is a wizard named Macreadus, who is said to live and study in a residence called the Black Cabin.

The Black Cabin, she is a wreck with a hole in the roof. Inside, the wizard's skeletal form slumps in a corner. It looks very burned. Kuma casts detect magic, and discovers that an amulet around the neck of the body and a strange device on the table are all that give off auras.

Rahm moves forward to investigate this object and when he touches it, it explodes in a flash of radiant light. Kuma and Torinn are sorely injured, but Rahm drops to the floor unconcious. Between the paladin's lay on hands and Kuma's aura of vitality, the trio are put back into operating shape.

Rampart the artificer sleeps through blast, but wakes from her slumber in the dog sled when we call for her. She uses the magic of identify to discover the amulet Macreadus wore is an amulet of health, while the strange gyroscope made of coal is some sort of weather altering device. It does not take an artificer to understand this thing is not working right.

Rampart, quiet gnome artificer, she is able to read bluepapers for this device. Rampart, she melts down scraps to make a third ring and repair the Summer Star device. This magic thing, it casts control weather once. Allows Rampart to bring arctic cold and gale winds to cool day and light breeze over for 8 hours. The completion of the device and the reversal of the weather allows the spirit of the Lathanderan priest Macreadus to move on to the afterlife.

Also in Black Cabin, we find 4 barrels of Dessarin Valley Sweetberry Summer wine. Is 800 bottles, Sai tells me. Oh, I forget. I pray for Greater Restoration last night and fix Sai madness from Frostmaiden's trials.

These barrels, they are frozen and very heavy, but with a short rest worth of using arithmetics, we are able to find solution to bringing them out without much risk and using axebeaks, not dogs to haul these barrels back. Every tavern in Ten Towns has good wine for sale now.

The crew read the Rime of the FrostMaiden from the Codicil of White, cracking the glacier. We descended into the Caves of Hunger, destroying mephits, shadows, kobold & goblin Vampire spawn, and another creature whose nature we were unable to determine.

Facing off with zealots for the Knights of the Black Sword, we learn they are serving a wizard of the Arcane Brotherhood. We move with haste to one of the towers within Yrthrm, defeating the Demos Magen guarding it.

Leaving the Tower of Abjuration, the group explored the prison and Kuma dispelled a suspended animation on a doppleganger trapped there. Our new guide lead us to the Tower of Conjuration. Within they first dispersed a quartet of Living Bigsby's Hand spells, then entered a demiplane hosted within to chase away a coven of Night Hags... for now.

Moving into the Library next door, we encountered an arcanoloth named Scrimscry and its blind, albino penguin Kingsport.
Torinn being the paladin-y dragon born he is, charged into combat immediately against the fiend. Dr. Zigmund banished the pompous lore scavanger back to Gehenna before either side touched the other.

Quite exhausted from all of this effort, the party set up three Leomund's tiny huts to sleep a few hours.

With the equinox, Kuma is able to craft an amulet of the devout to spur him in his quest to restore sunlight to Icewind Dale and preserve justice for its residents.

Scroll of Raise Dead

A wizard named Vellynne Harpell met with the group, hiring us to help her find a lost city of ancient Netheril, frozen deep within a glacier. In order to find the city and access it, you need two items: Vellynne's professor orb, and the Codicil of White, a book bound in white fur and written by worshippers of Auril the Frost Maiden.
The book is said to contain a magical incantation that can split a glacier.
Both are to be found at your destination, the Isle of Solstice. However, this Isle is known to be Auril's abode since she came back to the material plane.

While underway, the lookout spotted the shipwreck of the Dark Duchess in the Sea of Moving Ice. Aboard we discovered the dead captain with a pile of treasure frozen into the cargo hold, but also some kobolds and an ice troll. These posed little danger, but not so the ancient white dragon Arveiaturace.

She breathed frost, nearly killing Rahm, but he was saved by Torrin. Rahm then negotiated with the dragon, and Torinn cured the cataracts in her eyes in exchange for free passage off the scuppered ship.

Vellyne ordered ship to pull anchor and began moving after dragon landed in ship we were searching. Is some mistake to leave without us and was taking us much effort to be catching her. Was only after we did that we noticed a small lifeboat dripping onto the deck. It then makes more sense that the wizard wanted to save this other boat and was not leaving us for dragon food. That would be without honor and would be an offense if that was what happened, so surely it is not.

The second lifeboat, it holds three dead men and one still alive. He is Sai, a half-elf, and he has escaped the Dark Duchess. Sai is seeking passage aboard our hired ship to escape the domain of the white dragon. I say Sai has proven his survival instincts and is good with bow. He must come. Kuma'tiki shows the wisdom of a third son in this decision.

On the Island of Solace, we discover ruins of frost giant city. Nothing lives but an Ice troll... until the artificer upsets the Frostmaiden and she calls an abominable yeti to hunt us. I try to banish itm but it is not from some other place. On snowblown cliff, we make a place of defense; killing Yeti and pack of wendigo with spells, bows, and one of the laser sticks, before they can come too much closer. There is still some good opportunity for Torinn and Egan to put swords into the yeti and for him to freeze the dragonborn. Second time Torinn is almost frozen by breath today. The pains he takes to prove himself to his dragon-god, Bahamut.

After yeti is dead, Vellyne, she recovers her professor orb. This orb, Professor Skant, he is very polite rock. Knows much. Ghost of Vellyne's rival tries to attack Torinn, but he smites it with single stroke. Professor Rock, as I have begun to call him, tells us the Codicil WhiteBook is in big fortress on the island. Was made by frost giants and called Grimskalle. It looks and sounds like castle from skald's tales of Prince Adam of Eternia. We must make haste to complete our raid before the Frostmaiden returns to this island.

The group knocks, but no one answers door at Grimskalle. Kuma ritually cast Divination to help locate the Codicil of White. To gain entry to the vault where it is kept, the Frostmaiden has set it so four tests must be passed.

1. The test of Cruelty required Kuma and the others to turn their backs on a Tiger Uthgardt tribe where they had begun cannibalising the elderly during the famine created by the Rime of the Frostmaiden. Though we stood on edge of camp and witnessed this horror for almost an hour, only minutes had passed in the chambers back at Grimskalle.

2. The test of Endurance found the group assisting an Elk tribe of Uthgardt in a 14 hour journey, holding up in the worst of blizzards. Kuma endured and only became exhausted in 2 of the later hours, but many others of the party were frostbitten from 3 or 4 hours of overexposure.

3. The test of Isolation found Kuma and his group assigned to watch over a Rheghed Tiger tribe's women and children for just a day, but this duty stretched to seven. Sai and Torinn disappeared into the snows in foirst two nights, but returned days later. Sai has been driven into the IceMadness and is now a drunkard who will not trust us. We must find healing for him in TenTowns.

4. The test of Preservation found us at a Rheghed Wolf Tribe's camp. It was a scene of slaughter. Kuma chased away giant vultures, but none could be saved except for one boy. Aerix Vokototh is 9-year old whelp of the tribe's chieftain. Some magic makes Aerix strong against snow like goliaths, so boy hides in snowbank during massacre.
   Raiding Uthgardt tribe returned for Aerix, but we killed them to preserve the boy's line. An awakened wolf named Old Silver comes to take the orphan to another wolf tribe.

Egan, Torrin, and Vellyne retrieve the Codicil of White from the Vault of the Frostmaiden in Grimskalle. Kuma spends this time befriending Ukuma, the awakened giant walrus.
A brief inspection leads the group to recover a silver dragon egg and some small amounts of treasure as well. We ignore the burial vaults of the frost giants so that we do not linger until the Frostmaiden returns.
As we exit, we find only one old, blind and lamed Frost Giant warrior in the complex. He welcomes us, obviously seeking a warrior's death and we give him this just end.

Sailing to the mainland, the expedition travels and rests in Bremond. Neither Kuma'tiki or Vellnye have the skill to restore Sai. We seek out a more powerful cleric, druid, or wizard to break Sai's madness and alcohol dependency that came from his ordeals in the Frostmaiden's endurance trial. The only nearby person known to posess this skill is a wizard named Macreadus, who is said to live and study in a residence called the Black Cabin.

The Black Cabin, she is a wreck with a hole in the roof. Inside, the wizard's skeletal form slumps in a corner. It looks very burned. Kuma casts detect magic, and discovers that an amulet around the neck of the body and a strange device on the table are all that give off auras.

Rahm moves forward to investigate this object and when he touches it, it explodes in a flash of radiant light. Kuma and Torinn are sorely injured, but Rahm drops to the floor unconcious. Between the paladin's lay on hands and Kuma's aura of vitality, the trio are put back into operating shape.

Rampart the artificer sleeps through blast, but wakes from her slumber in the dog sled when we call for her. She uses the magic of identify to discover the amulet Macreadus wore is an amulet of health, while the strange gyroscope made of coal is some sort of weather altering device. It does not take an artificer to understand this thing is not working right.

Rampart, quiet gnome artificer, she is able to read bluepapers for this device. Rampart, she melts down scraps to make a third ring and repair the Summer Star device. This magic thing, it casts control weather once. Allows Rampart to bring arctic cold and gale winds to cool day and light breeze over for 8 hours. The completion of the device and the reversal of the weather allows the spirit of the Lathanderan priest Macreadus to move on to the afterlife.

Also in Black Cabin, we find 4 barrels of Dessarin Valley Sweetberry Summer wine. Is 800 bottles, Sai tells me. Oh, I forget. I pray for Greater Restoration last night and fix Sai madness from Frostmaiden's trials.

These barrels, they are frozen and very heavy, but with a short rest worth of using arithmetics, we are able to find solution to bringing them out without much risk and using axebeaks, not dogs to haul these barrels back. Every tavern in Ten Towns has good wine for sale now.

The crew read the Rime of the FrostMaiden from the Codicil of White, cracking the glacier. We descended into the Caves of Hunger, destroying mephits, shadows, kobold & goblin Vampire spawn, and another creature whose nature we were unable to determine.

Facing off with zealots for the Knights of the Black Sword, we learn they are serving a wizard of the Arcane Brotherhood. We move with haste to one of the towers within Yrthrm, defeating the Demos Magen guarding it.

Leaving the Tower of Abjuration, the group explored the prison and Kuma dispelled a suspended animation on a doppleganger trapped there. Our new guide lead us to the Tower of Conjuration. Within they first dispersed a quartet of Living Bigsby's Hand spells, then entered a demiplane hosted within to chase away a coven of Night Hags... for now.

Moving into the Library next door, we encountered an arcanoloth named Scrimscry and its blind, albino penguin Kingsport.
Torinn being the paladin-y dragon born he is, charged into combat immediately against the fiend. Dr. Zigmund banished the pompous lore scavanger back to Gehenna before either side touched the other.

Quite exhausted from all of this effort, the party set up three Leomund's tiny huts to sleep a few hours.

With the equinox, Kuma is able to craft an amulet of the devout to spur him in his quest to restore sunlight to Icewind Dale and preserve justice for its residents.

Scroll of Raise Dead