During this time Lady Maria Belmont was approached by an old man with dementia, wanting help with menial daily activities, one of which included scraping poisonous mold off his shed and giving it to a chilaxian alchemist.
At the end he asked Lady Belmont to move a large boulder from the road, where she found a glowing white flame. When she returned it to the old man, he revealed himself has Charity the Generous, another child of the Vampire Queen Zura. Once Avarice the Greedy, he had turned from his mother, each of whose children bore a black flame powered by their sin. When he became Charity the Generous his flame turned white, and his mother's power diminished.
He states that after Lady Belmont's humble day, and her expression of humility and turning from the path of evil, that instead of being Pride, she could be Humility the Modest. Were she to recover her black flame from Zura, she could turn it white, diminishing her mother's power further. Were they able to redeem their other siblings, Zura's power could be broken.
Meanwhile, Tiffania Moonblade ran into an old acquaintance, Zaynab Saderi, who had been turned into a man after mistakenly using a cursed belt. Tiffania told her of her backstory and of Bianca's curse. Zaynab informed her that Starblaze was one of a pair of swords, the other was Crimson Glaze wielded by a mercenary commander. Together they were said to unlock something, but what they unlock and where it is was unknown. Supposedly an oracle of Venklevore who was gifted with prophecy knew what the blades were for, but she turned herself to stone before her tribe was conqured by orcs.
Ivan Dogeater remembered the oracle vaguely- she prophesied the conquering and death of his tribe, but she turned herself to stone. The tribe thought that she did this to protect the tribe, but when the orcs came, it turned out that she turned herself to stone to hide from the destruction instead. Ivan recalled another young goblin, Olba Nightsoil, who fled the village the day that Jank Worldgazer turned herself to stone, she may be the last goblin besides himself of the tribe.
The party journeyed into the tunnels in search of the Grave of Dragons. During their three day journey in he maze, they came upon Olaf and Bear, a drunken orcish barbarian and his bear animal companion.
They befriended Olaf, and broght him to the grave of dragons, where they area had been cursed by the genocide committed by elven dragonslayers against the silver dragons who once lived here. They found an elf with a ring of sustenance, driven mad by centuries at the bottom of a pit with broken limbs, and an elven ghast, trying in vain to solve an unsolvable vault puzzle. They found the last two eggs of the dragon tribe, frozen in amber- hidden away because they were the result of a forbidden love between a Silver Dragon and a White Dragon. They used a scroll of stone to flesh to restore a huge stone dragon who turned out to be Balthasar the tribe leader. He rewarded the party for saving his tribe, and took the last eggs to raise them.
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