Honestly I love the concept of this guild, its sounds amazing!
All the best for the future Crystal Path, I hope I see you around for many moons to come! 
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A rescue from potential lock!
Senator Stonedust’s Report – Tiragarde Sound
Unsent draft, contains sensitive information of ongoing investigations
The Crystal Path met at the beginning of the year, close to the third anniversary of their founding, here in Ironforge, to discuss their plans for the year. Whilst the Titan facility of Uldir entices them as their ultimate destination, to uncover more secrets about Azeroth’s past and their enigmatic foe, Phage, getting to Zandalar presented a problem. Luckily, a solution presented itself, through connections at the Champions of Azeroth I managed to arrange a deal with a group of Zandalari priests. If the Crystal Path can retrieve an artefact bow of those Loa priests from Kul Tiras (after it was stolen during the fourth war) then we would be given safe passage through the island to Uldir. However, Kul Tiras is not without its troubles as well, with rumours of renewed Artifact weapon manufacturing going on there, and troubling reports of angered sea elementals attacking ships in their waters. The Pathfinders decided to head there first, to gather the Azerite, calm the elementals, and retrieve the bow, so they can safely take the Azerite to Uldir.
Using our increased funding the Crystal Path opted to purchase a ship, which they have named ‘The Pathfinder’ and though it’s first voyage got off to a shaky start, the Pathfinders managed to assemble a crew and took off for Boralus.
I directed the Pathfinders to meet with my archaeologist contact, Miss Maynild Pickering, who lives in Boralus, once they arrived. Maynild was able to give the Pathfinders more information about the missing Zandalari Bow, so they could begin their search, scouring the streets for rumours about a strange weapon. However from their accommodation in Hook Point, the Pathfinders quickly had their attention drawn to various issues plaguing the city. Violent gangs vying for territory, and isolationist radicals opposed to the Alliance, all made more dangerous by Azerite weaponry finding it’s way onto the streets.
After finding a man wounded by such a weapon, they followed the trail back to the weapon’s seller a dwarven fellow who fled the scene, initiating a chase around and across the rooftops until he was cornered in his hideout. There the Pathfinders located his partner and their stash of Azerite weapons that they had stolen from the warehouse they worked at, to sell for extra gold. The thieves were taken in by the Boralus guard and the Pathfinders went to investigate the Brookstone Platinum’s Warehouse. They managed to get inside and find evidence of more illegal weapons and tools made from our World’s blood, including information on where the raw materials were being supplied from. However, before they could get all the information, a sort of sentry golem empowered by Azerite came to life and forced them to flee the warehouse.
Whilst waiting for the heat around the Warehouse to die down, the Pathfinders took a short trip outside the city where they found an ettin attacking a Lumbermill and they ran in to help. However shortly before they were able to bring the Ettin down and deal with it, a group of local monster slayers on gryphon back swooped in and slew the beast, claiming all the credit apparently.
Back inside the city they investigated a man known in the underworld to be an occult and exotic weapons and relics trader, Roland Conway. Denna Starshard bartered with the man, wagering information against information using his strange magics and a card game. She won and the Pathfinders were taken to his hidden vault where he kept memories stored, including one of a man who claimed to have seen the bow they were looking for. However once inside his vault he attempted to ambush them, animating an old Zandalari mask and bones to create an undead monster! Luckily, the monster was defeated, and Roland captured before he could escape. They took him into custody and perused the memory he had promised, finding the house of the man who had seen the weapon.
Alas, upon investigating the house, they found it empty, with the man seemingly abducted mid-meal and dragged into the water, with no trace of where he went afterwards. The only clue left was the name of his ship, and the name of the admiral he served under. They returned to Hook Point but found that the neighbourhood had seen a rise in guard patrols following a rather nasty battle between the gangs and the group of Kul Tiran isolationists known as ‘The Krakens’.
Once more they investigated outside the city, following a lead of Azerite shipments by strange gnomish flying contraptions. The contraptions led them back to a cavern, where a group of gnomes had mined for Azerite, right through an ancient Drust burial ground. The native spirits and elemental ones retaliated in anger, and it took the combined wisdom of the Path’s Shaman, Lebular, Molge and Elthanaa to calm them down and direct their fury in more constructive ways. With the cave stable they challenged and put a stop to the gnomes, before helping them evacuate and escape from a horrible soul amalgamation, by sacrificing their drilling machine. The gnomes were taken in by the authorities but not before revealing the name of the man who had hired them, Professor Thelonious.
Back in the city, their search for Admiral Adelaide Atherton would be short lived, as they were soon summoned by her to an unofficial meeting. She explained she had observed their work so far, and following the incident at Hook Point she was concerned about the Azerite Weapons coming in, and the rise in the Kraken’s brazen activity. The Admiral was to be present at a small gathering of nobles and important officials in Boralus the following week, to discuss a plan to improve diplomatic relations with the Alliance following the disappearance of Lord Admiral Jaina Proudmoore and King Anduin Wrynn, the two biggest proponents of unity. However, she feared that the Krakens could cause trouble, and gave the Pathfinders the task of preventing another incident. When asked about the missing bow, she explained she had fought against it’s original wielder in the battle of Dazar’Alor, and one of her men had claimed it. However, upon returning to Boralus it was confiscated by a general and nobleman by the name of Everard Corvus who intended to destroy it as it was ‘witchcraft’.
Looking into that would have to wait, the Pathfinders had a pursue the Azerite leads. They followed where the shipments and deliveries coming in and out of the Brookstone Warehouse, to an office on the docks which they managed to find their way inside of. They perused for information, finding important ledgers and contact books, containing important information which they extracted back to the ship. Once there they found out the ore for the weapons was being supplied from a mine in Drustvar belonging to Lord Everard Corvus, and the factory producing the weapons was owned by the real estate purveyor and noble, Lord Winston Cerulean. They provided information on the next incoming shipment to the Admiral and her men intercepted it, confiscating the weapons, and keeping them off the streets.
A few days later the diplomatic meeting rolled around, and the Pathfinders were brought in to make sure nothing bad happened. The attendants arrived, including the suspected Lords Corvus and Cerulean, along with Lord Mayhurst from Stormsong Valley, Lady Thornton from the Tiragarde Sound, and the Master Tide Sage, James Keeler. As I understand it, a decision was made for Lady Thornton and Admiral Atherton to travel to Stormwind in a few weeks or months to help establish stronger relations with officials there, assisted by our own Casious Silverhale. However, before things wrapped up, the Krakens struck again, this time without use of Azerite weapons. The Pathfinders foiled their kidnapping attempt and helped capture most of them, but alas lost their ringleader, a corrupt guard known as Rolf Gastly, through a secret tunnel that led to a small pier outside the city, at which boats were awaiting the escaping insurrectionists.
To avoid their vengeful wrath, and to pursue their next leads the Pathfinders departed Boralus and stayed at Lady Thornton’s Estate, where they earned her further gratitude by freeing some of her staff from a dastardly hag’s strange curse that had petrified them as wood. As thanks she managed to arrange them invitations to a party held by Lord Cerulean. As it happens, Lord Cerulean himself was the subject of ire by the very ancient spirit that the Hag had captured to create her curse, as the Lord’s ancestor had once betrayed and left unfulfilled a promise made with the Spirit in life.
The Pathfinders returned to the Drust Burial site and learned that the Drust spirits and the dark magic keeping them on this realm are weak to silver. Specifically, the spirit threatening Lord Cerulean could be captured in a mirror made from silver. So they had a plan to protect him, but now they needed proof of his crimes, they scoured the countryside and coast, collecting herbs to make a potion that would help them detect Azerite at short range, and to find a pearl which could be used in scrying rituals. Whilst on the coast they encountered a group of sirens with magical instruments, which they liberated along with a crew of sailors they had managed to enthral.
Before the party, during a delivery to a group known at the Roughnecks, the Pathfinders discovered that the same Monster Hunters that had slain the ettin were gearing up to fight off an attack at Anglepoint Wharf, under the suspicious circumstances that they already seemed to be prepared for it despite no sign it was coming. And yet come it did, a dozen hydra besieged the port from the oceans, fended off by the hardy Kul Tirans and the Crystal Path. However, in the bodies of the hydra, the Pathfinders uncovered strange shards of metallic orbs, thrumming with dark energy. We are as of yet, unsure what these orbs are or what they do, but the Pathfinders suspected they were involved in the summoning of the Hydra.
The night of the party rolled around, and the Pathfinders made their way to Lord Cerulean’s estate. Once inside they began to investigate, subtly fending off sinister spiritual incursions into the party, from slowly advancing animated trees, and whirl winds of cutlery and plates. I’m told our resident musicians Denna and Maeren, as well as my grandson Jalis Stonedust, put on a solid performance to keep the guests entertained. Meanwhile a recruit to have joined us at the start of the year, Peter, using the Azerite detection elixir he came up with, managed to find the hidden cache of Azerite, and weapon prototypes in Lord Cerulean’s hidden basement.
Despite the best efforts of the Pathfinders to keep the ghosts at bay and the party going smoothly, people were thrown into panic as lanterns and braziers flared up in ghostly flames, whilst hunting trophies returned to life. Peter returned with the information of Lord Cerulean’s hidden basement, with which Lebular and Casious confronted him. Lebular gave her spare Azerite detecting elixir to the Admiral so she could see for herself, and forced Lord Cerulean to make a deal, appease the spirit and make a deal with the Admiral to shut down the Azerite weapon production, and he would be able to keep much of his wealth and his home for his family. The deal was presented to the ancient spirit, who proved much harder to reason with. But, with a grand gesture of sharing his wealth with the common folk, the spirit was appeased, and left the manor in peace.
With Lord Cerulean’s cooperation, Admiral Atherton intends to shut down the flow of Azerite Weapons coming into Boralus. However, the source of the world’s life blood still eludes the pathfinders, and it must be obtained to finish the Champions of Azeroth’s work. But until that path presents itself, the caravan sets its next destination for Drustvar, to investigate Lord Everard Corvus and find the Zandalari Bow, hopefully before he destroys it.
Hey everyone. Thanks for reading if you did
The Crystal Path has been enjoying the start of our fourth year of adventures, and many of our first times RP’ing in Kul Tiras. Big thanks to everyone in the Boralus RP scene who have been so welcoming and nice. I’m sure we’ll be back in the big city later, but for now Drustvar awaits.
To anyone interested in joining us, or arranging some RP with the Pathfinders, feel free to message myself (Lebular, Kailin, Edridge) or Casious or Molge, and we can answer any questions you have.
Thanks again and have a nice day Argent Dawn
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