Godsgrave Session 9 Recap

The new gods were preparing to hunt down and find Bellephon, the god of war, when they were approached by the people of Sorefoot Sanctuary, who were quickly running out of food due to the rapid increase in population from all of the places the new gods had evacuated.

Esmerelda had locked herself away to complete some mysterious arcane ritual and was unreachable by anyone. Leorah, Sol, Elda Gem, and Amun-Khara were all busy defending the well of souls from spiritual assault.

With the mortal population on the brink of starvation, Meena led a magical ritual and taught the smallfolk how to eat dirt and rocks to take some pressure off the food stores. Yugom taught the people to fill their bellies with work, but found that he was just delaying the problem.

Eventually the new gods decided to visit the king of the giants, and barter, trade, or steal milk from his magic cattle. Amun-Khara created an iron flask which could hold a vast amount of milk, and gifted it to the group.

On their way to the Giant King, they stoppped at Namjoon's hometown, as he was anxious to check on his family.

They found the city overrun with fog, and no sign of Namjoon's Kin. Esmerelda scried Namjoon's wife to discover she was leading an evacuation to Sorefoot Sanctuary. This relieved the new gods but also increased the urgent need for food.

Esmerelda appeared to the new gods as a great golden dragon, having completed her true polymorph spell, and flew them to the giant king's castle in the sky. There the new gods gambled with the king, winning an eating contest by eating a sword, losing a poetry contest, and winning a contest of strength through a mixture of strength and cunning by picking a lift were the king would have to bend over, a painful thing as he had swallowed a sword during the eating contest, and were granted access to the magic cows. They filled the iron flask with milk, creating the sacred artifact, The Milkstar.

Elda Gem used the Milkstar to create an enormous feast, and the food shortage crisis was solved, allowing the new gods to turn their focus to the god of war.

Ubitsya had tracked down the god of war, who had rode into the mist to defeat it and apparently vanished. Bellephon had a magic sword, of many wondrous properties, one of which being it could never be disarmed from the wielder. To take the sword, you had to kill the owner. Ubitsya discovered that Bellephon had hidden inside the sword, and given it to a little girl called Lucy.

The new gods tracked down Lucy in the centre of a village full of dead bodies. Lucy told them how her village had been attacked by raiders, and the magic sword had appeared beside her while she was hiding, and she took the sword and killed the raiders.

Lucy then fainted, and the sword unfolded and grew into a strange peacock with a scorpion tail, made entirely of blades.

The new gods fought long and hard, refusing to strike down Lucy, and the cowardly god of war used her as a human shield many times.

They destroyed the blade, killed Bellephon, and Namjoon took on the mantle of the god of war.