Anomaly 2: Not in Kansas Anymore

Session Date: October 16, 2023

Character Creation

Create a new character, with the following character creation rules:

Create a 7th level character, but don't create a personality. Your existing 10th level character is basically body-jacking your 7th level character. All existing house rules are in place, including ABP and Free Archetype. Starting items and wealth are standard for a 7th level character. Your 7th level character does not have any dominion powers at all. Your 7th level character can call upon your 10th level characters' abilities as a free action at the start of your turn. If you do, for your current turn only, you can do anything your 10th level character can do, including all Dominion powers, at their 10th level effectiveness. For example, if Remi calls upon his powers to cast a 5th level fireball using his Path of the Black Flame ability, the strength, effectiveness, and save DC are all based on his 10th level character, completely ignoring any stats or details of his current 7th level character. You can use this feature once, and regain the use by refocusing as though it were a focus spell (effectively, this is once per encounter).

Our Adventure Begins...

...in an underground bunker of unknown location. You find yourselves occupying unfamiliar bodies, with your mind and personality intact and in control. A grizzled, gruff version of Al greets you as you inspect your surroundings. It seems this iteration's version of Al has pulled your consciousnesses into the bodies of this iteration's version of yourselves in order to plead for your help.

In this iteration, a strange anomaly occurred, branching this iteration far outside the norm. Al helps bring you up to speed as much as possible. As typically happens, your first interaction with a Dominion Pearl was while working for Mr. Bondergan. Unfortunately, in this iteration a creature stumbled upon the Dominion Pearl before your party could find it. That creature somehow survived, not by absorbing the power of the Pearl, but by channeling it into powerful constructs. It is unknown what the creature originally was, or if it brought the constructs with it or found them with the Pearl.

Today, the creature is known only as The Maker, and it is an existential threat to the people of this iteration. After years in isolation, its rotting frost golems flooded the land, destroying anything that did not submit and blanketing the land in a perpetually dark winter. Al has brought you here to help him destroy The Maker, find a way to shut down its golems, and free the surviving people of this iteration from their nightmare.

Upon Your Return...

...you think over your time in Frostguard.

You discovered the truth behind the Maker, a human man possessed by a powerful beholder-like creature known as an Overmind. You discovered the Maker's method of creating golems, in all its harrowing detail. You defeated the Maker, freeing Frostguard from it's eternal winter. The Maker's plague of soul golems came to an end with the destruction of his factory of horrors. This iteration's version of Al sent your souls home to your true bodies, thanking you effusively.