After a brief experimental procedure on Alastair the party set out to destroy the vile Arch-Mage Harlon Quirk, unaware that one of them is in fact the very same. Avoiding the inky storm of power they enter the tower and find themselves within a living testament of the Primal Arch-Mage Atrvium. It seems the 18th Rune was a powerful ward created to imprison an ancient and terrible evil, Farashima the Weaver, one of three Dragonborn sorcerer-kings who led the primeval war to eradicate the Primals. As the party ascend they live-out recreations of the Great War and ravages it inflicted upon the world. They are also shown other visions by Vecron the Progenitor, one of other dark triumvirate unleashed by Harlon, who attempts to convince them to free his fellow.

As they ascend above the clouds they find the tower is merely a way to ascend to the nexus of the 18th Rune which is bound around the hewn obsidian form of a vast floating fortress: the Vault of Stars that Vecron has spoken of to Harlon.

Within the party discover the long-lost secrets of the ancient floating city of the Dragonborn, filled dark magics and fell artefacts. Worst of these is what appears to be the heart of the citadel that contains a void into nowhere, a void which draws in the party with a terrible curiosity. Lost with a realm of nothingness the party are hunted by a terrible presence lurking beyond sight…a Dragon. As the entity draws in to annihilate the party Reginald calls upon the might of the builder to bring the power of creation to this realm of nothingness and in so doing forges his very soul into an artefact of terrible power: a Hammer of divine might. As Alastair fends off the dragon, whose monstrous form shifts and changes in tidal storms of blood, Jarred strikes at its revealed heart with the hammer. The dragon screams in agony and fury and as it thrashes it seems to disintegrate, its spasms tearing the fabric of reality to shreds.

As the party flee back to reality they watch in horror as the firmament is torn asunder, great wounds rippling across the sky as a rain of blood fills the vault of heaven. In some deep and permanent way they know that the fabric of existence has been changed, and the dragon wounded and changed as none have ever wounded such an entity before. In an attempt to heal the sundering firmament Harlon draws upon the arcane energies found with the Vault of Stars and invokes one of the great Draconic Doewmers. Vast crimson chains race across the sky and space and time along with the wounds in reality are compressed into a crimson pearl, which falls into Harlon's outstretched hand…the other hand having been consumed by the dragon.

Despite Reginald's sacrifice and the apparent near destruction of reality the party know they must press on before the Weaver is freed. They learn that the Dragonborn have physical souls, manifested within the world, and they destroy the Weaver's with Harlon's wit, Jarred's determination and Alastair's soul fire, rendering the creature mortal.

Finally, high atop the Vault of Stars, the surviving party confront the Weaver, who has been bound for eons within a single moment of time by the power of the 18th Rune. The creature radiates a terrible and unnatural glory and it attempts to seduce the party with promises of power and aid in return for its freedom. They resist its insidious influence and attack, facing down the ancient sorcerer's devious mental manipulations. At last Harlon smashes down the Dragonborn and Alastair drives his sword into its form as it erupts into spectral fire and is annihilated.

Calm descends, but the ancient allies of the Weaver are not done. The party's wounds begin to spew blood as Vecron speaks a doom upon the them. However, even as it does so the air fractures revealing the imperious form of the ruler of the Magisterium, who must be the third of the antediluvian triumvirate of sorcerer-kings. However, it is Vecron who is undone for his sibling betrays him, wounded as he is from Harlon's own betrayal and a blow from the mighty hammer, drawing Vecron into himself and seeming to absorb his power. It seems the Dragonborn do not tolerate weakness.

The Great Dragonborn sorcerer regards the party and mocks their efforts, telling them that though the triumvirate may be broken the age of the Dragonborn is begun and soon his power will sweep over the world all within it. It seems the creature is not willing to back its threats up with direct confrontation however, and as Alastair marches towards it it dispels the magic keeping the fortress aloft. As they begin to plummet it laughs and is rather taken by surprise by the lightning-bolt Harlon sends into its face. The last they see of it, as they fall, is a look of terrible, malevolent hatred flickering over its alien visage.

Desperate to stop the tumbling Vault of Stars from obliterating Acryn, Harlon performs a risky last minute casting of the Crimson Key of Vulstragorn and manages to compress the falling citadel into another magical pearl.

The City is saved and the only evidence of the terrible existential doom wrought upon reality is the bloody aurora that ripples in the sky…that and the three missing constellations bound up by Harlon.

The party make a solemn pact to ensure that the crimson pearl is never ever broken. They all have a sense that if this were to happen it would be truly truly terrible.

In return for his aid the party agree to fake Harlon's death, allowing him to use the magics he learns within the Primal library to walk unseen in Acryn, his mighty wizard tower summoned away from Acryn.

Down in the city the citizens have watched the titantic events above in awe, as blood filled the sky and cities fell from the heavens. Above all, it was priests of the Builder most affected each of whom experienced a flash of vision from their god as a supreme work of creation was wrought. The High Architects of the church meet the party and reverently request to see the holy creation they bear. In glory they place the hammer within the church of the founders, the greatest weapon of Acryn, only to be used in the time of most dire need by those deemed worthy. As statues to Reginald are raised the masses flock to his church to see the wondrous artefact.

Captain Hopkins of the Arcane defence force, thanks the party for ending the threat of Harlon Quirk and destroying the tower in the bay. He offers to share the ADS' techniques for hunting magic users with Alastair in return for further study on the results of fusing the strange banner into him. He rewards the surviving party with 500 riel, 200 of which they donate to the church of the founder.

(Pending larpo addition/change)

The heavens above Acryn are forever changed, the stars themselves plucked from the sky, a seething crimson aurora rippling in the darkness of the night sky in their place.

Though few will know it the dragon Tuireann has been deeply metaphysically wounded. This may impact mages who use the rites associated with the dragon. Perhaps more importantly the dragon is, for now, no longer consuming the souls of the dead, weakened as it is, much of its realm bound within the crimson pearl.

The great tower no longer stands in the centre of the city's bay.

Reginald - transformed into the mighty divine hammer capable of rending the fabric of worlds

Jarred - His abilities have been refined through a combination of Harlon's ritual and consumption of an ancient Dragonborn artifact…still an enormous liar however. Can buy skills from the 'Smith of Legend' epic tree. The doom pearl: the crimson pearl containing a metaphysical calamity of terrible scale. It would be a very bad idea to break it.

Harlon - One arm bitten off by a Dragon and replaced with an inanimate black gauntlet. Has mastered the lost rite of Obfuscation (GMs to provide) to conceal his identity. Has the mastercrafted quarterstaff of Farashima the Weaver. One black pearl containing the Weaver's fortress. A summonable paper tower that reaches into the cloudssssss, this counts as an Arcane library and contains a vast amount of knowledge of the ancient primals.

Alastair - With a combination of experimental alchemy and training from the ADS he can purchase skills form the 'Wizard-slayer' epic tree. Is being followed by an invisible legion of souls freed from within the dragon.