A goblin ambush on the Triboar Trail kills Gundren Rockseeker's escorts and kicks off the campaign. The party pushes through to Phandalin the following day. — A01–A04
A mysterious archway pulls the party into the Feywild. Kelvin confronts his suppressed power. The trials reshape what each member believes about themselves. — A12
Haldak teleports blindly to the party after catastrophe strikes his home. Uktar 1: the group pushes north to Thundertree, where Ridoth the druid marks Cragmaw Castle on their map and brokers a tense deal with the young green dragon Venomfang. — A05, A15–A16
The party storms Cragmaw Castle, slays King Grol, and rescues Gundren Rockseeker. The path to Wave Echo Cave is open. — A18–A19
Returning to Phandalin, the party finds it under attack from frost giants led by Queen Gerti Orelsdottr. The giants are repelled. Haldak brokers a deal: find the Codacile of the Wight and deliver it to Gerti in Icewind Dale. — A20–A21
Gundren leads the party into Wave Echo Cave over two brutal days. The Black Spider Nezznar is captured, the Forge of Spells is secured, and Arc A closes. — A22–A25
After a month recovering and resupplying in Phandalin, the party departs late on Nightal 15 — tasked with escorting the captured Black Spider to Revel's End prison in the far north. — B01
On the road north of Saltmarsh, the party encounters Kefkas Artorial — half-elf bard and arena fighter from Waterdeep — escorting a noble wagon ambushed by bandits. He falls in with the group. — B03
The party reaches Neverwinter on Nightal 22. Lord Neverember tasks them with recovering the lost Crown of Neverwinter from beneath the ruins of Castle Never, promising Phandalin vassal status in return. — B02–B04
Delving through Castle Never — phase spiders, undead shards of Selûne, the Cloaked Descendant's agents, and a heavily trapped vault. Haldak loses his arm to a guardian construct. The Crown is secured. — B07–B10
The party boards the Ice Serpent and sails north from Neverwinter. Robert Hidswell — rescued mid-voyage from a giant crab attack — joins as their arctic guide. — B11–B12
A brief stop in the City of Sails packed with complications: Kelvin is recognised as famous (and indebted) here. Captain Gregorovich is unmasked as the goblin Gum Gum. High Captain Throah Tarell is using Othorion's family as leverage. The party resupplies and presses on. — B13–B14
The Ice Serpent turns north into the Sea of Moving Ice — the only route to the remote arctic prison of Revel's End. — C01
The party reaches the arctic prison and infiltrates its defences. Under pressure from Grazzt's agents, they move to free a specific prisoner — bypassing the prison's security layer by layer. — B15–B17
A bargain is struck with the demon prince Grazzt. Prisoner 218 — Lireal — is freed and joins the group heading north. The party leaves Revel's End the same day. — B18
Two days out from Revel's End, at the fringe of the tundra near the Underdark entrance, the party finds two dead drow locked together in death — clutching a pendant bearing the merged insignias of House Bonra and House Zolara. Something stirs in Othorion. — C02–C03
At the Underdark entrance, Lareal assesses Othorion's swordsmanship and finds it sorely lacking. "I want to see you live long enough to make a decision about what you and I are." — C05
Deep in the Underdark, a pursuit across a vast chasm ends in a tense standoff with the drow commander Xynia. — C07b
Hammer 12. What appeared to be a cave entrance in a mountainside was the interior of a sleeping Tarrasque. The party entered and explored — Society of Brilliance scholars, symbiotic horrors, churning acid. On Hammer 16, 23:00, Kavu's Compass activated while the party was already inside: half were displaced to Flamemeet (Arc D). For those who remained, the absent group vanished and returned in an instant — no time passed. — C09–C14
Half the party is dropped into Hammer 13 — 72 hours before the Compass activated — landing in Kavu's hometown of Flamemeet. On Hammer 14 morning, cultists seize the tavern and bind hostages. Timer: 72 hours. — D01
Hammer 14. The cultist attack is broken. Elder Drakkor reveals Volkathar is using mass sacrifice to force the dragon to adulthood. The party visits Flamehold, plans the assault with Ivor's Purple Dragon Knights, and marches for Toothmaw Cliffs. — D02–D03
Hammer 15. At the ritual site Volkathar ascends to adulthood and seizes Kavu. The party pursues into the Scar. Kossuth and Ashteth appear above the crater. Kavu activates a separate function of the Compass inside Volkathar — triggering a divine convergence that crystallises the dragon. Hammer 16, 23:00 — the 72-hour displacement countdown expires; the displaced party is returned to the present. — D05–D06
Hammer 17. Reunited inside the beast, the party fights through intestinal horrors, commandeers a dead Stool elemental, and forces the Tarrasque into unconsciousness with an ancient command word. — C15
Hammer 18. Resting in the Underdark, the Traveler speaks through Kefkas — revealing knowledge of Blackrazor, the Dragonshards, and the Forge of Spells. A new thread opens. — C16