Character Level: 12-14

Synopsis

A flying ship crashlands near the walls of Overlook, piloted by a githzerai. An unnaturally quick and well organized githyanki attack is taking place on the last githzerai fortress in the area and he seeks aid. The party fights off a githyanki recovery team and flies back to the fortress to do battle. Once the battle is over the party is invited to a war council at  the nearby city of Sayre, led by Amyria. In Sayre the party meets a githyanki celebrity called Telicanthus, and try to organize the githzerai factions. They discover a githyanki plot and following clues raid Telicanthus' mansion, finding tunnels beneath that lead to a powerful communications device, the Bitter Glass, that has helped the githyanki coordinate their invasion plans.

Locations

• Overlook
• The Conqueror: captured Githyanki flying war galleon
• Akma'ad: Githzerai fortress 140 miles SW of Overlook
• Sayre: city, 20 miles south of Akma'ad Webmail

NPCs

• Captain Jerra Dauralis: Overlook guard captain
• Tokk'it: Githzerai monk who flies the party to Akama'ad on the Conqueror
• Gallia: Githzerai, Tokk'it's love. Controlled by Githyanki spirit.
• Gal’ott: A young githzerai leader with a fiery temper and great pride. 
• Azitt: Female githzerai and friend to Amyria.  She is a longtime resident of Sayre.
• Chend: An elderly githzerai who favors leaving the humans and the githyanki to their war.
• Brann'ot: Githyanki assassin
• General Alvro Taramin: Tiefling Commander of the guards of Sayre
• Telicanthus: Githyanki merchant, socialite and celebrity
• Pennel: Telicanthus' loyal and sociopathic human servant/bodyguard
• Amyria: Deva paladin of Bahamut
• Odos: Githzerai monk and leader of the Githzerai forces.  Blind, taciturn and dour, he is nevertheless greatly respected by his followers. He represents the Githzerai in Amyria's Coalition.
• Kalad: Dwarf paladin of Moradin, he represents Overlook's interests in the Coalition.
• Lord Divian Torrance: Half-elven Governor of Sayre, and member of the Coalition.
• Fariex the Scalehammer: The richest and most well-connected of the member of the Coalition, Fariex is a copper dragon who poses as a human merchant.
• Caliandra of the Stagrunners: An ancient elven matriarch who leads the Stagrunners tribe, as well as speaking for 24 other tribes of elves in the wild reaches to the north and west of Elsir Vale. She is also a member of Amyria's Coalition.
• Quelenna Entromiel: Eladrin ruler of the mercantile settlement of Dornaithos, and member of the Coalition.
• Inogo Dravitch: Human priest of Erathis, he leads the theocratic city state of Sherrbyr and member of the Coalition.

Main Plot Points:

• The invasion gathers force and is being coordinated across the Elsir Vale by githyanki agents 
• The githerzai will make valuable allies in the war against the githyanki. 

Thoughts

• A longer and more roleplaying focused adventure than most, where the best route to winning the day is for the party to think their way to victory. Hack and slashers may struggle a bit with this one.
• Get rid of the "50% chance the ship drops every round" mechanic. It makes the fights take way longer and adds a lot of confusion to the three dimensional angle of the game, which D&D isn't very good at supporting in the first place.

Continuity Notes

• Kalad and Amyria make a reappearrance: ensure they've made the odd appearance or have been mentioned in recent adventures

Other Resources NPC list NPC list NPC list  

• http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?544010-Let-s-read-Scales-of-War-the-paragon-tier&s=491e0f1ce6e0e9e1e0c110b0bedbaaf7&p=13070050#post13070050  

Maps

The first two combat encounters take place on board the Conqueror, so you only really need to print it out once.  I put it on here twice just for the sake of tracking encounters. Same with the Covet House/Guardian of Greed encounters.