Editing Challengers of the Unspeakable (section)

===Destroying the Drow===
[[Image:Urlvrain Temple.jpg|right|thumb|Inside the temple of Lolth]]
The Challengers decided to continue with their plan to use Zirithian's body to gain access to Matron Urlvrain and slay her in exchange for Jhaelant's help getting out. On their way, they ran into a female half-elf bard. She told them her name was [[Kayleth Lifesinger]], and she was part of a group of adventurers sent from [[Hargram]] to investigate where the drow were attacking from. Unfortunately, the rest of her party had been killed by the undead while she escaped only by turning invisible. Still mistrustful after Ro's kidnapping, and reasoning that if she fled the undead she wouldn't be much use in a fight, they left her behind but she followed them anyway.

When they reached the temple, they explained that they were adventurers who had slain the drow responsible for the undead invasion and wanted a reward. When they were presented to Matron Urlvrain, she expressed delight at the deaths of Zirithian and Lareen and asked them to name their reward. Kalth asked for information about Theriana, explaining that they were to trade Acererak's soul gems for a prisoner of hers. Urlvrain offered to make the trade for them, and asked that they stay while she contacted Theriana. They handed over the coffer of fake soul gems, and were unsurprised when Urlvrain immediately ordered her guards to kill them.

[[Image:Urlvrain.jpg|left|thumb|Matron Urlvrain orders the party's execution]]
Kalth clambered up the pillar, only to find Ulrvrain guarded by a drow and a pair of venomous spiders. Kalth managed to hurl Urlvrain off the pillar where she was quickly knocked unconscious by Elytra, but she and the others still had to content with the rest of the guards and a hulking, twisted drow monstrosity. The statue in the room animated as well and began hurling bolts of poison until Kayleth banished it to another plane. As even more guards streamed into the chamber Kalth jumped down to try and help but had been weakened by the spiders' venom. The Challengers began to fear they would fall as guards continued to arrive and the animated statue reappeared, when Kalth managed to shake off the effects of the poison. The drow had largely ignored the weakened monk, who swept through them in a flurry of claws and rocks, felling most of their opponents. With the tide turned, they managed to finish of the rest of the drow and behead Urlvrain, her soul consumed by Nightbringer.

The Challengers marched triumphantly back to Jhaelant with Urlvrain's head on the end of a staff, which deterred any further attacks. Jhaelant told them that Theriana had gone to the [[Halls of Asar]], home of the [[fire giant]] king [[Snurre]], and told them how to reach it. It was a long journey, and on the way they restocked at a [[svirfneblin]] trading caravan. Upon reaching their destination, they found the gates firmly closed and flanked by a pair of stone pillars. Recalling their battle with Matron Urlvrain, they assumed the pillars might animate and tried to destroy one, and were entirely unsurprised when the pillars did precisely as they expected. Passing through the doors, they battled their way past salamanders, drow, and fire giant skeletons until they reached a staircase. At the top waited Theriana and several fire giants holding Myra captive.

Kalth offered to trade their coffer of fake soul gems for Myra, hoping it would fool Theriana, though neither party trusted the other. During their negotiations they mentioned that they had repelled the invasion of Phaervorul by Orcus's forces, which seemed to surprise Theriana. Eventually they agreed that Chrip would carry the soul gems up the stairs to Theriana with Kalth right behind him, make the trade, and bring Myra back down the stairs. Theriana carefully examined the soul gems and seemed to accept them, then told the giants that Myra was no longer under her protection and teleported away. The giants sucked Myra into a massive crystal as the stairs burst into flames. Seeing that Myra was evidently in pain within, the others charged up the flaming staircase while Kalth tried to protect Chrip from the giants. Kayleth dealt with the drow archers shooting at them from above, while Elytra and Harthur kept the giants busy. Chrip managed to focus his magic into the crystal to force it to eject Myra, and Kayleth quickly healed her. Though the giants then sucked Chrip into the crystal, he was able to free himself as his companions finished off the giants.

Retreating back into the Underdark in case more giants arrived, they realized that they had no means of directly teleporting back to Silverstone and Myra had been relieved of her ritual book. Her wedding ring was enchanted to teleport her to the [[Trine Academy]], and she decided to go teleport there before sending back a wizard who could teleport the others. When they arrived, however, they discovered that Theriana had captured Myra's husband, [[Priam Adenis]], when he went looking for her, and used his ring to teleport to the Academy herself and attack. As they followed the trail of destruction to the Academy's vaults, they encountered resistance from several groups of monsters that Theriana had released from the Pyramid of Shadows to slow them down.

Searching through the vaults, Chrip came across a frozen acorn that he immediately recognized as the [[Seed of Winter]], a powerful artifact once wielded by the [[Prince of Frost]]. He revealed that what Orcus had offered him in Deadhold was to become the new Prince of Frost, an idea he had been mulling over and now decided was exactly what he wanted to do. He took the Seed of Winter, using it to considerably enhance his powers. When they came upon a [[white dragon]] named [[Chillreaver]] and a band of [[eladrin]] that Theriana had released, Chrip's possession of the Seed of Winter helped him convince the dragon and eladrin that, if they helped him overthrow the Prince of Frost, they would be well-rewarded. The dragon and the eladrin agreed, and let them pass.

Soon after they encountered the sorceress Vyrellis, who had also been left to bar their path. She offered to talk, but the Challengers did not trust her and attacked. She continued to talk during the battle, revealing that Ro was imprisoned within the Pyramid of Shadows and ultimately offering to work together against Theriana. They refused her, however, and struck her down. As she fell, her body dissolved into mist. After defeating Vyrellis, they located the vault that Theriana was attempting to open and confronted her. She proved to be far more powerful than they had anticipated however, and after she killed Elytra they were forced to retreat. When they returned to recover her body they found Theriana gone, the vault open, and a coffer of fake soul gems lying on the floor; it turned out Leardon had anticipated the possibility and kept the real soul gems elsewhere.