Adventure looking for input

Fort Worth Gamers may wanna avoid this thread :)

Our campaign has led to a point where a decently sized kingdom of fae and creation-born are living together in the middle of Halta. Thanks to glamour and Craft (glamour) it's privately owned and run by one of the PCs and his wife (a fair folk).

Also due to some things they've done, The Opal Court is looking for vengeance, and an Unshaped (Whisperer in the Leaves) is looking to help. Though it won't be the Second Crusade that Lord Japthia wants, the Raksha lord is going to get a chance to ride into Creation and do all sorts of "valorous" and gruesome deeds, preferably to the aforementioned kingdom.

Yseult, another fair folk in the area, wants to get Sluluru (a fair folk who has sided with Creation) out of the way. She tried expanding her borders in a different direction but the PCs thwarted her. They didn't finish her off though, so she's been able to use the last five years to regroup.

The upshot of all of this is a gigantic tangle in the Loom of Fate. Essence users and creatures from outside of Fate wrapped around one another like this is something that could be untangle or expunged entirely. Ender the Flawed Fates of Crimson Banner Executioner (a Chosen of Battles), and Ahn-Aru, a Chosen of Endings. With Shepherd of the North Star to provide guidance and travel arrangements, the three head down to Creation for a little pruning expedition.

That's the background. Here is the bare bones of the timeline (assuming nothing changes due to PC actions). Id love for anyone with the time to glance through it and point out any glaring holes I've missed. Things that sidereals and/or fair folk would have accounted for but I missed. It's only about 4.25 pages, though there are lots of linked stats for those interested.

Ignore the name of the adventure. Bad puns for scene and campaign titles is a sickness I've given up fighting. :)

Your in Forth Worth huh? I am in Denton.

IIRC Fair Folk establishing foothold in creation is technically against Celestial Law.

It is one thing the Censor of the East turn a blind eye to it because they just don't care.  But it is an entire different matter if this event has drawn Celestial Attention.  Arial Legion are still around.  While it might not be enough to send out the Heavenly Host.  It is certainly worth wile to send 2 scales of Celestial Lions to accompany an investigation and possible arrests.

Celestial Officials do not travel alone if they are on official business, and if one of the Sidreals have law on their side - it will be official business.

Thanks! I was having a hard time deciding what troops to use for mass combat when the Sidereals get overtly involved. Some celestial lions would be perfect.

I'm also not too sure about the soulbreaker orb portion, but it seems very Sidereal-esque to set two opposing factions against one another, and with a couple of active flawed fates for Endings and Battles, mass destruction seems to fit the bill. What other weapons of mass destruction are out there?

James McMurray:

What other weapons of mass destruction are out there?

Celestial Exalted... ;)

Raeth

I'm going to stick with the Soulbreaker Orb, since it gives a devestatingly powerful challenge and massive repercussions, but avoids combat (which there's already plenty of). But the Sidereals won't be involved with it, which was definitely stretching the bounds of what they'd do, even if it was modified to only affect the Wyld. Instead it'll be a "gift" from Whisperer in the Leaves, who found it on the borders of where Creation used to be and passed it on to Yseult, who is probably the Raksha most likely to be able to fix it and most likely to want to use it.

Check out Wonders of the Lost Age for things like Quagmire Perimeter Mines, Haze Shields, Glorious Scythes, exploding chakram, Lightning Ballistae, Essence Cannons, etc. etc.   Check out Scroll of Kings for more mundane siege weaponry: catapults, trebuchets, ballistae, siege tanks, etc. etc.

They defused the soulbreaker orb anb buried it in the middle of the Southern desert. I opted to leave it in, but make it a gift from Whisperer in the Leaves, found in the Deep Wyld and then passed on to Yseult because the PCs had managed to piss both those Fair Folk off.

The majority of the adventure never even happened. I expected Ming's player to fight for his kingdom, but as soon as he found out it was against Celestial Law and had upset Heaven he disbanded it and sent his wife, the Fair Folk, and all humans who wanted to go into the Bordermarches. He then went to speak with Silver Python, who they knew had an interest in the Haltan / Fair Folk treaty*, where they learned that Halta was allowed to have a Fair Folk outpost in the middle of it** because the Freehold there had been around longer than the law against dealing with Raksha, and so was grandfathered in. Well, that and Silver Python "explained to Heaven that it was in their best interests to leave it alone." Now Ming is keeping an eye out for another ancient Wyld pocket that he can use as a centerpiece for a kingdom.

* They know he's interested in Halta, but don't know anything about the Thousand Streams River.

** Not canon, but added in so we could run Daughter of Nexus in Chanta.