Eleven years later…
A group of young adventurers are exploring The Narlmarches. They consist of Prince Mikail Farrar (cleric of Desna), Stasya Leverton (witch), Vassily Leverton (paladin of Erastil), Alex Roxan Junior (ranger) and Alexandra (“Lexi” to her friends, wizard). Hearing the cries of a damsel in distress they intervene to save a young woman from the unwanted attentions of two bandits. The bandits wear the emblem of The Silver Knight, a bandit leader who has been active in the region. The Silver Knight herself arrives on the scene but the young adventurers are able to defeat her and her bandits.
When they adventures remove The Silver Knight’s helm they discover that she is strangely green and has had her mouth sown shut. More ominously she carries a shard of mirror in which dark surface a single point of light, weak and far off, can be seen…

Year 7 Days 261
Weather: Cold but clear
Hexes Explored: None
In Varnhold during a day-long ceremony presided over by Sergei Lord Alexite Roxan marries Lady Tamary Numesti.

Fortified with magical items carefully selected by Lynessa The Founders teleport back to The Castle of Knives. To even gain access to the castle they have to contend with a mighty Tarn Linnorm. Once inside the castle The Founders begin to search for Nyrissa but to do so must battle their way through number of deadly advisories. First they are ambushed by a flock of deadly Ankous. Then The Founders encounter Nyrissa’s councilor; the disgusting Wiggling Man, who uses a summoned Astral Deva in an attempt to trick them into leaving. The Founders battle a pair of barbed-tongued wyverns, a strange medusa and the Black Annis who had evaded them in Thousand Breaths. The Founders also have to battle Nyrissa’s disturbing handmaidens; nymphs who seem to have had their eyes scratched out and whose touch causes incapacitating pain.
Not every inhabitant of The Castle of Knives is hostile however. The Founders befriend a water mephit Pluddock. However he says too much to The Founders and his head explodes (presumably the work of Nyrissa).
Over the course of their search The Founders find a rack of strange glass vials. Lynessa and Jossiman speculate that they are soul-jars. The Founders decide it is safer to leave them where they are until they have found and killed Nyrissa.
The Founders also find the frame of a tear-drop shaped mirror that has had its glass smashed out. The Founders suspect that this is the source of the mirror shards that they have found over the course of their many adventures.
The Founders finally run Nyrissa to ground in her “inner sanctum”; called “The Fable”. A fierce battle ensues with neither side asking nor offering quarter. By this point Briar has reached its full potential but Nyrissa proves to be deadly opponent. Nyrissa is so agile that she can barely be hit and highly resilient to magic. The Founders cannot look at her without risking blindness and, while they have armed themselves with restorative magics, each of them is blinded at least once. Nyrissa is able to temporarily dominate Alex and directs him to attack King Aldous. This forces Lynessa and Josiman to waste valuable time and magic breaking the spell. She briefly traps King Aldous in a magical maze but he quickly escapes. Nyrissa is able to banish Sergei to another plane but with quick wits, and the aid of Kesh, he is able to return to join his comrades.
Only by working together are The Founders able to create the opportunity for King Aldous, and Briar, to strike the killing blow; cutting Nyrissa’s head from her shoulders.
With Nyrissa’s demise The Castle of Knives begins to tear itself apart in within minutes is a ruin. The Soul Jars that The Founders discovered earlier also lose their power and release not only the mighty red dragon Choral the Conqueror and all but one of his human descendants. Choral reveals that The Founder Eleyna was of his blood-line and the fact that Nyrissa had not been able to kidnap her many years before had subtly weakened Nyrissa.

Year 7 Days 246
Weather: Overcast, Snow
Hexes Explored: None
The Founders discover that 1000 Breaths has crashed into the Material Plane. It is in the location of the Thousand Voices forest with The Castle of Knives from Thousand 1000 Breaths superimposed on top of the ruins of The Castle of Knives in the forest.
Lynessa warns that her reserves of magical power are low. The Founders quickly search the tower and find the horde of Ithuliak the Dragon. They then fly directly to The Castle of Knives.
The castle’s battlements are guarded by ghostly, elven warriors and the courtyard is the lair of a mighty dragon-like plant creature called a zomok. The Founders battle both the ghosts and the zomock. They are hard pressed but win through in the end.
With their arcane and divine powers dangerously depleted The Founders debate whether they can press the attack against Narisa. It is decided that they should withdraw and return the next day refreshed. Lynessa teleports The Founders to Daggermark (a destination she believes that Narisa will not expect). The Founders are able to sell some of the treasures that they have recently found and purchase magical supplies.

Year ? Days ?
Weather: None
Hexes Explored: None

Studying their map of Thousand Breaths The Founders decide to make for a white tower believing that it is the lair of the great black wrym Uthuliac. A long journey takes them back through a number of locations that they have already explored before entering new territory. In a clearing they find a large house that seems to have been created by a number of different houses fused together. On the porch of the house The Founders meet a Black Hag. The Founders (primarily Kesh) speaks to the hag and they learn that she is an unwilling servant of Nyrissa who has stolen the hag’s heart as leverage. The Founders also learn that the Hag is a priestess of Gyronna and has sent her acolytes to bedevil Aznagar in the past.
Battle breaks out between The Founders and the hag and her earth elemental allies. The Founders destroy the elements but the hag, though injured, escapes using a Word of Recall. The Founders search the hag’s house believing that she may have fled there. They find grizzly evidence of the hag’s evil deeds and appetites but not the hag herself. The Founders put the house to the torch.
Sergei is able to use his Touch of Calm to refresh The Founders allowing them press on. Soon they find another clearing with a white tower in the center. Surrounding the tower are thousands of broken statues which The Founders recognize as a representation of the horde of monsters that attacked Stag’s Fort. The Founders are attacked by Ithuliak and a protracted aerial battle follows. The dragon makes use of her mighty defenses and superior speed to make a series of hit-and-run attacks but The Founders are slowly able to wear her down and kill her.
With the death of Ithuliak The Founders have destroyed enough Pillars to destabilize Thousand Breaths and the pocket dimension collapses.

Year ? Days ?
Weather: None
Hexes Explored: None
The Founders arrive in the forested realm of Thousand Breaths. It soon become clear that the realm is in perpetually twilight. The portal they used to enter the pocket dimension does not exist on the far side, The Founders will have to find another way back.
Josiman discovers it is impossible to fly above the trees. Travelling other than on the paths is all but impossible.
Using the map in Zudiger’s Picnic The Founders attempt to navigate their way to Nyrissa’s castle.
The Founders find a lake with a whirlpool similar to The First Bloom where they are attacked by four Black Lightening Treants. After The Founders dispatch the Treants the whole of Thousand Breaths shakes. Lynessa hypothesizes that there are multiple “Pillars”, corresponding to the Blooms, which sustain the demi-plane of Thousand Breaths. While the outcome of destroying all of the Pillars is unclear Lynessa believes that it may bring the entire realm to The Prime Material Plane and weaken Nyrissa. The Founders decide that they will do what they can to destroy the Pillars before confronting Evindra.
Travelling further into Thousand Breaths The Founders find a frozen graveyard. Here they are confronted by, and slay, a second Pillar in the form of Kargstaad; self-proclaimed “Greatest of All Giants”.
Carrying on The Founders find another Pillar in the form of The Nightmare Rook. This time The Nightmare Rook has physical body. During the battle The Rook snatched Alex and deposits him in an unknown location in Thousand Breaths before returning to the battle. The remaining Founders are able to kill The Nightmare Rook.
An injured Alex finds himself alone in a mire where he is attacked by three Mire Worms. They leave him for dead. Lynessa is able to scry Alex’s location and teleports The Founders to him. Sergei is able to heal the badly injured Alex and The Founders battle the Mire Worms, who are another Pillar.
Keeping track of time in Thousand Breaths seems difficult but The Founders are beginning to become fatigued and low on spells. They return to the area where they battled The Nightmare Rook in order to rest.

Year 7 Days 244
Weather: Cold
Hexes Explored: None

Lynessa determines that the gate of The Castle of Knives is a portal to Thousand Breaths. Using the Trophies that she has collected from The Ten Blooms she is able to trick the portal into opening. The Founders step though the portal.

Year 7 Days 243
Weather: Cold, not a cloud in the sky, thunder
Hexes Explored: None

At dawn a tremendous peel of thunder splits the sky despite the fact there is neither lightning nor clouds. More thunder follows at fairly regular intervals (approximately every ten minutes) throughout the morning. Sergei divines that The Tenth Bloom is already underway.
The Founders assemble just outside of Stag’s Fort to get ready for the arrival of the Jabberwock. By noon the thunder is almost constant until the Jabberwock appears overhead. The Founders engage the beast in combat. The Jabberwock proves to be a powerful opponent but Briar has absorbed enough First World energies since 1st of Lamashan to temporarily act as a Vorpal Blade. King Aldous is finally able to slay the Jabberwock by cutting off its head.
It is decided that The Founders will begin their assault on Thousand Breaths the next day.
Jossiman collects The Royal Family from Lake Silverstep.
King Aldous talks to The Small Council about who will succeed him if The Founders do not return from Thousand Breaths.
Thanks to Kesh’s magical helmet of teleportation Alex is able to spend time with both Tamary and his son.
Sergei resurrects Kundal and restores him to health.
That evening The Founders teleport to the vicinity of The Castle of Knives. They find that the castle is no longer a ruin but whole, as if new.
The Founders elect to spend the night camped a little way from the castle.

Year 7 Days 241 to 242
Weather: Cold
Hexes Explored: None
At dawn The Ninth Bloom manifests a short way outside of Stag’s Fort. A tor-like hill appears on the brow of which is an impossible tall, white tower called High Folly Tower. A great, black wrym is flying above the tower. Charging down the hill towards Stag’s Fort is a horde evil and twisted monsters of every description thousands upon thousands strong!
To meet this threat The Founders mobilize the five army units that are stationed in Stag’s Fort; Kundal’s Commandos (lead by General Kundal), The Stag Knights (lead by King Aldous), The Elite Cavalry (lead by Alex), a unit of one hundred infantry (lead by Kesh) and a
Unit of five hundred infantry (lead by Lynessa).
A desperate battle rages throughout the day of the 26th. It continues without rest or quarter through the night and then into the next day. The enemy horde attacks without mercy or thought for their own safety. Vast areas or Stag’s Fort are destroyed. Casualties are heavy; Lynesa’s infantry unit is destroyed although Lynessa escapes with serious injuries. Kundals’ Commandos are forced to retreat due to casualties but return to the field of battle only to be destroyed. General Kundal himself is killed.
By the early hours of the 27th the defenders are beginning to drop from pure exhaustion but make a final stand around the castle where they are finally able to break the attacking horde.
With the destruction of the army High Folly Tower (and the dragon) vanishes leaving behind only a patch of sand where it stood. Lynessa determines that a handful of this sand is the Trophy of The Ninth Bloom.

Following the battle The Founders spend time doing what they can to reassure the citizens of Stag’s Fort. Lynessa find Kundal’s body. Kesh visits Eranix. Lynessa teleports to Dagger Mark to obtain the necessary materials to have Kundal resurrected. She also collects magical healing supplies that The Founders believe that they may need once they get to Thousand Breaths.

Year 7 Days 239
Weather: Cold
Hexes Explored: None
At dawn on this day The Eight Bloom manifests in the old Dwarven Watchtower. The Bloom is personified by The Misbegotten Troll. A huge, heavily armoured Troll. He is supported by six, black smiladons. The Founders find that their battle with The Misbegotten Troll is hampered by a magical items he wears, The Necklace of Lovelies, but King Aldous is able to snatch it from around the Trolls neck. After the battle King Aldous is able to break open the small cages that make up the necklace and release the pixies trapped within. They bless him for their rescue.
One of the broken cages on The Necklace of Lovelies is the Trophy.
Sergei uses Divination to discover that The Ninth Bloom will take place at Stag’s Fort at dawn the next day.
The Founders return to Stag’s Fort. Josiman and King Aldous move the Royal Family to Elmsberg.
Sergei cures a few more people blinded by The First Bloom and then he and Kesh spend the rest of the day visiting the afflicted in Stag’s Fort.