Vixseranyol¶
Contested
Named in the open question Eksuru's aim: wake Vixseranyol or breed without her. The newer campaign notes (S061) have the red dragon Eksuru trying to wake her mistress; the older (S028) have Eksuru trying to raise a red brood without her. The page follows the newer.
"Even dead Primal Dragons are dangerous things. Their spirits are potent and cannot be destroyed." — from the dreams of Inwe (S031)
Vixseranyol is a red Primal Dragon1, "the great red primal dragon" (S031), who rebuilt the brood of red dragons after the Dark Sun and, in alliance with Pravustiratel, conquered much of central Astia. The ascendant Khemeia slew her in her lair at Pro'Turra, which was sealed as her tomb. Her spirit did not die with her. The city of Proturas now stands in the cave over her prison, and her corpse, her blood and her spirit are sought by those who want her power or her return.
The red war¶
"Vixseranyol had been rebuilding the brood of red dragons in the period after the Dark Sun. She had made an alliance with Pravustiratel. The reds ultimately overran and conquered much of central Astia including what remained of the Free Cities" (S031, S071). The war set the followers of Arya against the red dragons, and the ascendant Inwe led them.
Their counterattack failed in the Hollantine Hills, during the Hollowing. Inwe's allies lay dead on "the crest of a blackened hill", the wizard Severac among them, and Vixseranyol, "badly injured", came round "for its final pass" with "enough strength left to finish you." She "has managed to seal the plane in this area, blocking your escape," and Pravustiratel was approaching from the west. Inwe fled into the Hollow around Gor'Turra and escaped through a gate to Arya's gardens (S031, S071). The battle is told on the Hollowing page.
Death at Pro'Turra¶
Inwe had kept a secret: she knew where Vixseranyol laired. It was an abandoned dwarf fortress "several hundred miles west of Gor'Turra": Pro'Turra, "one of the twelve great fortresses of the dwarven kingdom of Kahun'Darahl." She hoped the wounded dragon "would still believe her lair was secure and be returning to it to recover," and that its location was hidden even from Pravustiratel, "as the location of a dragon's lair is a closely guarded secret, especially between Primal Dragons who are more often rivals and enemies than allies" (S031).
She called on Khemeia, whose "hatred of dragons was legendary." Khemeia answered "Consider it done" and was gone before she could be given directions. She returned dimmed, and reported "that Vixseranyol and her court were destroyed and her corpse now lay in the great hall of the fortress. Khemeia's allies had collapsed and warded the fortress so that it would act as a tomb and prison" (S031).
The undying spirit¶
A Primal Dragon's death is not final. "Their spirits are potent and cannot be destroyed. They regenerate eventually, but if left undisturbed it could take tens of thousands of years. Until then, the corpse will remain an astral divergence … a place which will be enticing to the wrong sorts in their quest for power, and then through whom Vixseranyol would project her will to bring about her own reawakening" (S031).
Proturas now stands in the cave of the old fortress, and the dragon's "corpse in Proturas" (S068) lies in its sealed upper reaches. Runestones ward her prison; one of them, also called the Wardstone, lies under the Pale Pit in the Warrens (S038). The Proturas and Warrens pages describe the places.
Those who seek her¶
The Circle of Eternity is "using Red Dragon blood and spirit of Vixseranyol as part of their immortality serum." It "has a secret hall the sealed upper reaches above Proturas in part of the abandoned dwarf-hold. This is where Vixseranyol's spirit (and body) are trapped." The Circle learned of it "through a (traitor) Conclave Warlock: Valtor." Its rites feed her: "Their sacrifices to Vixseranyol for power are making the primal stronger, hastening her revival" (S028, S061). The Circle organized the expedition that recovered her blood, and the Blood of Vixseranyol passed through Spillwater in a shipment that also held a small mithril dragonskull and "a small dragon-egg stand" (S036, S061).
The Tenebrians of Teneb'Urat, behind the White Hand, "have identified one of the Runestones for Vixseranyol's prison" under the Pale Pit and mean to dig for it; Valtor helps them, believing he is the one driving the stone's destruction on the Circle's behalf (S038).
The red dragon Eksuru, Eksurinyol, who passes in Proturas as a warlock, works apart from the Circle. "She is trying to wake her mistress Vixseranyol and needs things which the Circle have in order to achieve it" (S061).
The claw¶
Part of her body lies far from Proturas. The Shrine of Kae'Ferrel in the ruins of Arne'Athosia was "once a shrine to Moros, Keeper of the Dead in the Kalari pantheon. One of the objects he was 'Keeping' was part (the claw) of the great primal red dragon Vixseranyol. Each finger of the claw is the size of a small table and weighs about 100 lbs" (S053, S054, S055, S056). Malathar's and Eksuru's people mounted a digging expedition to the shrine, since "there is something important beneath it related to a Dragon" (S051, S052).
The cultists of Teneb'Vari in the forbidden forest reached it first. "They have acquired an artifact. One of the claws of Vixseranyol. They are using it with an ancient dragon skeleton to animate a red bone dragon. Cult of Dragon is working on this," for "Teneb'Vari has a secret pact with the Cult of the Dragon (Pravustiratel's Cult)" (S052 to S056).
Earlier accounts¶
The older campaign arcs (S028) give Eksuru the opposite aim: "She is trying to create a brood of red dragons without Vixseranyol and needs things which the Circle have in order to achieve it." The question is filed.
In Play¶
How the Proturan campaign's party came by her blood and met those who seek her is told in the Proturan Campaign chronicle.
Gap
The sources do not date her death or her war beyond "the period after the Dark Sun" and the Hollowing, or describe her appearance, her court, or how much of her brood survived her. They do not say how her claw came to be in Moros's keeping at Kae'Ferrel, whether it was one claw or several, or how many runestones ward her prison.