Bellen Brigade

Previously in Bellen’s Brigade:
Leaving Waterdeep and heading north, Bellen comes across a camp of elves that are the refugees from Arwen, her home village. Meeting their leader, her uncle, she learns the group has had a hard journey but that the elven queen has sent some ships to pick them up so they may conclude their voyage to Evermeet.

While in the camp, some creatures attacked that, when slain, reverted to missing elves from Arwen. Bellen and Solaris, her henchman, quickly set out to learn what transformed the elf and why he attacked.

Tracking the creature was easy and Bellen soon came to a rift hidden in the Westwood forest. This rift led to a planar prison that held an aspect of Selvetarm. The prison was decaying and Selvetarm was able to transform unwary elves into servants called kehtals. The kehtals then advanced the prison’s damage which would eventually enable Selvetarm to escape. Bellen was anxious to stop the kehtals but was sorry about the slain elves. Unfortunately, the kehtals destroyed enough wards to allow Selvetarm to awake. Bellen attempted to stop him but was overpowered and Selvetarm quickly left the planar prison. Bellen, her companions, and a few surviving elves were removed from the prison by some protectar angels who healed them and returned to the Westwood.

Bellen was unable to track the aspect of Selvetarm and the group made camp. Late in the evening, a moonglow appeared. The moonglow was said to lead to an ancient elven ruin in the Westwood or to the village of Kheldell. The surviving elves followed the moonglow to Kheldell while Bellen decided to explore the elven ruin.

Arriving at the ruin, Bellen was attacked by an evil treant. Bellen and Solaris were able to discern that this was an elven keep called Myth Celeborn. Inside the ruins, Bellen found a tribe of orcs using it as a lair. After clearing out her hated enemies, Bellen learned that Myth Celeborn was used to house elven treasures, magical and mundane, before transport to Evermeet. As the various elves left their homes and journeyed to Evermeet, Myth Celeborn was used to store elven artifacts. Their intent was to remove the items before abandoning Faerun and the keep for good. The elves must have been forced to flee before completing their plan. Bellen found guarded stairs that led down. The orcs could not pass the guardians. Bellen decided to delve deeper into the ruins in search of any relics that can be returned to Evermeet.

In the second level, Bellen found some guardians and undead. Solaris found that the mythal of Myth Celeborn was still somewhat in effect on the second level. Bellen and her henchmen found several items of treasure sealed on the second level. She also rescued a trapped faedorne that had been there for several centuries. The faedorne, Naisal, told Bellen that there is another prisoner on the third (last) level of Myth Celeborn. Finding the stairs to the lower level buried in rubble, Bellen was surprised as an ancient elven spirit gestured her onward.

Several hours of digging later, the party was able to descend to the third level.


This is where we begin…