Steel and fang clash as arcane magic rains down and infernal hell fire fills the hallway.
Quell takes the brought of one of the dragon's assaults, the stone skin from Wasyli from before the fight with Thorn gets all used up, but the elven rogue survives. All be it with an emergency heal from Mardus.
Wasyli isolates the two dragons with a wall of force only to have Brother Summit shrug and teleport past it & solo one of the dragons himself.
Yvainne does try at one point to get the dragons to surrender, but her desire to make the Ninth their new master doesn't seem to go over too well.
The Knot resigns to utterly destroying the dragons and proceed to do just that.
Brother Summit mercilessly grinding his dragon into bone dust while the other one is overwhelmed by the blades of Quell and Emmerick.
The following morning the Knot meet with the wizard Ben and learn about the grave knights & the magic of the fortress. Yvainne attunes herself to the key to the fortress and they wait as the grave knights raise & they take control of them.
The fortress of Thorn is finally completely under the control of the Knot.
Though, despite Yvainne's eager desire to bath herself in the negative energy of the odd magical devise, Quell brought up that none of them, save maybe Brother Summit should go near the planer breach. There was a collective groan as they remembered the taint they all carried with them. And one small part of their new fortress most of them would need to avoid.
The Knot left a token force to guard the fortress along with the newly raised graveknights and returned to their island to speak to their old acquaintance, Tiadora.
Calling her by her true name, the handmaiden of hell knew who her new masters would be. She begrudgingly signed a contract binding her to the service of the Knot. But she did insist on a rider that allowed her to ignore the orders of Yvainne until they were confirmed by a true worshipper of hell.
Her opinion of the death priestess was clear. The devil didn't trust her.
Having Thorn's former lieutenant under their grip, the Knot decided to abolish the idea of Knots. That was Thorn's order. And that order was dead. No. They supported a shroud and so now there would be Veils. And they would be the greatest Veil of all.
With Thorn's personal journal in hand and his lieutenant subservient to them. The Veil moved forward with their slain master's plan.
Their attention turned toward the former 6th Knot, with their former ally, Galen. They were supposed to have an army. The army of the new King would come and save the Kingdom from the bugbears.
Tiadora, with Lord Vastenus Barca former general of the king's army, went to see what the 6th Knot had assembled. They found the leader of the 6th knot in Riddleport, with a band of cutthroats and brigands as well as a formidable mercenary army.
Yet there was no sign of Galen. The leader of the 6th knot didn't know where the Lich wizard went.
Using divination & teleportation magic, the Veil arrived to speak with Galen, Tiadora in tow.
They found Galen living in the lap of luxury, negotiating with a group called the Queen's Hand, advisors to Abrogail Thrune II, Queen of Cheliax. Talengarde would have a powerful professional army to defend them, and all they needed to do was bend a knee to the Throne of Cheliax.
It would seem the Veil had two armies to choose from.
