The Children of the Sun

major Active Sessions 18–18

Long-buried secrets, complicity in atrocity, the poison of withheld truth, paths to vengeance

story arc

Description

In a midnight confrontation at the Night Dancer, Vixia Emberclaw reveals the truth Caelum has sought for thirteen years: Trophis, the giant dragonborn, personally led the Children of the Sun cult in burning Raven's Rest and murdering his family. More devastating—Vixia herself once belonged to that cult before handing it over to Caelum's aunt. Both she and Echoe have known the identity of his family's killers all along, withholding this information while using him for their own purposes. The revelation that the people he's been working with knew and said nothing transforms suspicion into betrayal, setting up an eventual confrontation with Trophis himself.

Timeline

Session 18 "The truth about who killed his family breaks something inside Caelum—and his friends must decide whether to save him from himself."

Shadows Stir at Midnight

Echoe and Vixia discuss what to tell Caelum about his investigation of her farm, debating truth versus convenient lies.

Truths That Burn

Vixia makes the choice to tell the truth: Trophis burned Raven's Rest, she was once part of the Children of the Sun, and she knows where the dragonborn is now. The revelation devastates Caelum.