A campaign recap linking the major arcs, mysteries, and political shifts. Updated through Session 036.

Year 480 - The early days: squires of Salisbury (Sessions 000-002)

Year 480 - Silchester mysteries and the road to Winchbank (Sessions 003-005)

Year 481 - Downton: holy relic and a wyvern (Session 006)

Year 481 - Knighthood and court life (Session 007)

Year 481 - Three quests; Deira; Rosalyn; faerie road; winter at Caer Bannog (Session 008)

Year 481 - Bedegraine shatters the realm (Session 009)

Year 482 - Wells and the Glastonbury underworld (Sessions 010-011)

Year 482 - Dunkerton, Shepton, and the Peace of Summerland (Session 012)

Year 483 - Assassin winter and Ellen’s escort (Session 013)

Year 483 - Easter court and the duel (Session 014)

Year 484 - York campaign begins (Session 015)

Year 484 - Brodin, Wilderspool, and the brain-hag (Session 016)

Year 484 - Wilderspool’s serpent surgeons and the Wyrd Pool rite (Session 017)

  • The company carries three brain-fed infants into Wilderspool; Drustin beheads the hag and buries the head beneath a marked stone when the corpse resists burning.
  • Wilderspool has no church and treats worship as personal choice. Ælflaed, Madoc, and the infants are entrusted to serpent-marked surgeons; that night Drustin wakes with strange marks on his neck.
  • By morning, Ælflaed, Madoc, Drimant, and the squires have vanished. The trail leads to the taboo-ridden Wyrd Pool, where disobedience kills the company’s horses.
  • At the summit, cultists conduct a serpent rite: a red-haired priestess cuts Madoc’s throat and casts him into the pool as a serpent-woman rises. The company attacks to free the captives.
  • Millicent beheads the priestess; the serpent creature is slain (final blow from Maewyn Succat’s staff). Madoc and Ælflaed survive but remain dazed/unresponsive—and Liam wanders into the forest in madness after the battle. (See: Session 017 - The Wyrd Pool of Wilderspool)

Year 484 - The Serpent Lodge and the fall of Ælflaed (Session 018)

  • The conroi returns to Wilderspool and confronts the serpent-marked healers of the Serpent Lodge. The “surgeons” reveal themselves as serpent-things and call forth another manifestation of the serpent goddess.
  • Ælflaed teleports into the melee and is mortally wounded; the knights cannot reach her in time and she dies in the fight.
  • The serpent lodge is destroyed and the serpent goddess slain (final blow from Maewyn Succat’s staff).
  • In the aftermath, the squires are discovered murdered and skinned on tanning racks.
  • With chirurgeons gone and wounds mounting, the conroi flees south to the City of the Legions; Sir Madoc is saved there, and the company winters in the city. (See: Session 018 - The Serpent Lodge and the Fall of Ælflaed)

Years 485–486 - The well of bargains and the demon princess (Session 019)

  • After wintering, the conroi returns to Wilderspool seeking the true well with the Latin inscription. A refurbished crossroads well yields “Constantine Rex” stones (a false lead), but the knights ultimately identify the ancient ritual site: Wilderspool - True Well (Qui non dat quod habet).
  • They offer Ælflaed’s preserved body and other sacrifices (including Liam’s druidic spear). The well answers with eerie silence.
  • In York, King Eosa “the Giant” Horsason celebrates and claims his daughter has returned — but Millicent and Assterius perceive the “princess” is wrong: a hollow revenant/demonic impostor.
  • The conroi confronts and slays the creature in a desperate bedroom fight (decisive blow by Sir Geraint with Eosa’s golden axe). The reveal drives Geraint into madness, and the company flees.
  • Returning south, Count Roderick of Salisbury shows them the grim truth: Excalibur is broken into three pieces and Merlin is missing. The new quest is to find Merlin and/or restore the sword. (See: Session 019 - The Well of Bargains and the Demon Princess)

Year 487 - The Road Beneath the World (Session 020)

  • At the start of 487, the realm shifts: Saxons retreat on some fronts; the King of Deira is said to have gone mad; Linden is left desolated and unable to support civilization.
  • The conroi is invited to join Uther Pendragon’s royal progress — and refuses, committing instead to the Merlin/Excalibur quest. Uther takes this as disloyalty (+10 Contempt) and suspicion of Roderick’s faction.
  • Following a lead through Pitum and back to Wells, the knights discover Lady Wells is one of the Ladies of the Lake and that Merlin has crossed over (not in this world).
  • With Excalibur shattered, the only path to Merlin is the Otherworld: the conroi enters via the Frome Stones cave with Guido (The Guide).
  • After a long underground trek (mushroom rations, dreams/visions, an abyss descent, and a hobgoblin battle), they open an iron door labeled “Exit” — and step into Maybe future city (London?).
  • Their only guidance: find a church with a golden angel. (See: Session 020 - The Road Beneath the World)

Year 487 - The Glass City and the Man in Vitriol (Session 021)

  • The conroi confirms the Otherworld “glass city” is Cardiff, finds the golden angel atop Llandaff Cathedral, and follows leads for “Merdwyl.”
  • A museum exhibit reveals Merlin’s body preserved in vitriol — but dead in this future, soon to be cut apart for study.
  • At Pengam Green’s Reawakening Fair, an elf-smith repairs the sword the conroi still believes is Excalibur — later clarified as Party’s Magical Sword (not Excalibur) — and takes commissions for new kit.
  • Returning below, the conroi defeats a many-handed abomination that becomes Guido when slain; Millicent and Liam are grievously wounded, with a lethal timer once they exit. (See: Session 021 - The Glass City and the Man in Vitriol)

Year 487 - The Mine of Blood and the Dragon’s Vigil (Session 022)

  • The conroi emerges near Caerleon; the squires insist only ~7–7.5 hours have passed since descent, sharpening the sense that the Exit is warping time and memory.
  • A chirurgeon is hired immediately (Liam pays), addressing the immediate wound crisis on the surface.
  • At the copper mine near Caerwent, the conroi battles small green sling-creatures whose spiked shots spawn more bodies when they draw blood; the creatures’ blood is discovered to heal, and some is collected.
  • Deep below, Merlin is found encased in crystal and guarded by a dragon; the conroi withdraws to regroup rather than fight it in the depths. (See: Session 022 - The Mine of Blood and the Dragon’s Vigil)

Year 487 - The Dragon Beneath the Mine (Session 023)

Year 487 - The Feast at Sarum and the Forest’s Warning (Session 024)

Year 488 - Gaul: Caen and Calais (Session 025)

Year 488 - Calais secured and the Wildenburg hunt (Session 026)

Year 488 - The House of Constantine and the Return to Wells (Session 027)

  • Pursued from the werewolf fight, the companions take refuge in the House of Constantine within the Wildenwald, where wolves will not cross the courtyard. In its ruined chapel, a radiant angel tests the company on faith, virtue, and chivalry. Millicent sacrifices her own place so Drustin can continue, Sir Geraint becomes the Nameless Knight, and Assterius becomes the Homeless Knight.
  • Beneath the chapel altar, Liam discovers the Holy Grail. After the companions drink from it, Liam’s cursed rubies spill harmlessly away.
  • Returning through Wildenburg and Calais, the company finds Sir Madoc in suspicious political harmony with Clovis, carrying a runed sword he claims is reforged Excalibur. Millicent secretly takes Madoc’s runed blade and leaves him with Fakealibur, and the companions return to Wells, where Lady Wells receives the runed blade and casts it into the forest pool. Everyone currently treats that returned blade as the true sword, but the timeline/reality problem keeps its exact identity uncertain. (See: Session 027 - The House of Constantine and the Return to Wells)

Year 488 - The Easter Feast at the White Tower (Session 028)

Years 488–489 - Madoc’s Penance, New Manors, and the March (Session 029)

Years 489–490 - The Angel’s Command and the Child King (Session 030)

Year 490 - The Battle of Lincoln and the Birth of Meredith (Session 031)

  • Uther and Cornwall’s reconciled army marches north and defeats Saxon forces at Lincoln. The conroi captures a high-value enemy commander, survives a giant and wild-men encounter, and is nearly overwhelmed by elite Saxon foot knights.
  • Millicent rides into battle heavily pregnant in polished maternity armor, is unhorsed, and gives birth on the battlefield to Meredith. Sir Madoc survives grave wounds and madness long enough to see his daughter born. Uther calls a feast for both the victory and the birth of his granddaughter. (See: Session 031 - The Battle of Lincoln and the Birth of Meredith)

Year 490 - Madoc’s funeral and Britain’s crown (Session 032)

Year 490 - The Crown Quest, Exeter, and Giant Erge (Session 033)

Year 490 - Erge, Exeter, and the Hounds of Hecate (Session 034)

Year 490 - Tintagel and Appleby (Session 035)

Year 490 - The Sun-Water of Loch Lomond and the Road to Merlin (Session 036)