Swamp Tree Island
- Jan 1, 2018
- 3 min read

After a week in Ilti'ah, the party left via Keremet's transportation mirror to track down the being Swamp Thing in hopes of convincing him to help them rebuild the three Demon Weapons. Atomic joined the party in hopes of acquiring more primordial weapons for the Warehouse along the way, so the five party members left for Swamp Tree Island.
There, the party met with the Blue Helms- an international peacekeeping organization who arrived on the island shortly after the Second Great Dwarf War to prevent the dwarves and half-elves of the island from killing each other. The general of the Blue Helms on the island told the party Namiri's father helped establish the fragile ceasefire between the two factions and that a renegade half-elf was threatening to restart the war. The party agreed to help the general reinstate peace on the island.
Outside of the Blue Helm's headquarters, the party met with Swamp Thing and asked for his help in re-establishing peace and to help them find the Mace of the Gods- the primordial weapon the renegade half-elf was planning on using to commit genocide against the dwarves.

Swamp Thing told the party he cared not for the lives of mortals- dwarves or half-elves, but Namiri's father entrusted the location of the Mace of the Gods to Swamp Thing, so he told the party where they could find it. The party then acquired horses and guards from the Blue Helms' general and rode for the border zone where the weapon was located.
At the border zone, the party saw the armies of the half-elves and dwarves approaching and noticed the advance guards from both had already entered the fort where the weapon was located. Inside, the party found the renegade half-elf and the general of the dwarven army aiming crossbows at each other with the weapon on the table between them.
The Mace of the Gods was a weapon that contained the power to kill either all of one's enemies or all of one's allies without control of the user. The party attempted to negotiate with the two factions at the table, but peace was rapidly crumbling when the party noticed the primordial Aisui lurking in the dark corner of the room.

Aisui was planning on using the war to create a zombie army with which she could turn the entire island's populace into her personal army of the undead. The party needed to act fast to prevent the primordial from gaining control.
Atomic used her abilities as a skinwalker to transform all of the dwarves and half-elves into the form of Hutsak, then the party used improvised arcana to force the islanders to forget who they were at the start of the standoff. The party then managed to negotiate with the two factions and convinced them to forge a new treaty that could reintegrate peace, cooperation, and environmental protection for the proud island.
Atomic grabbed the weapon and Aisui attacked. The weapon did nothing and just before Aisui destroyed Atomic, Swamp Thing appeared and the primordial vanished. The confused party looked to Swamp Thing for answers. Namiri's father entrusted Swamp Thing with the Mace of the Gods because Swamp Thing's neutral persona prevented him from having neither friends nor foes. He placed a decoy at the fort and bore the real weapon, using it to destroy Aisui.

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