Editing Brightstone Heroes (section)

===Of Dragons and Dracoliches===
[[Image:BahamutAspect.jpg|right|thumb|The Aspect of Bahamut]]
For a time, things were relatively quiet. Tol headed off into the woods to be closer to nature for a time. Gurrard left in his flying mansion to travel the world and follow up on some old research notes, accompanied by Priam and Myra. Justin traveled for a short time, before returning to [[Brightstone]] to relax. Leardon returned to the Temple of the Warm Embrace to begin preparations for his ascension to lichdom, and was given a mission to slay an evil lich and return with the remnants of its phylactery. Though some drow had escaped into the world, they were few in number, and did not reappear following the failure of the plot to open their prison. Eighteen months later, however, the scattered adventurers, now immortalized by bards as the Brightstone Heroes, were contacted by envoys from the Church of Bahamut, asking them all to regroup at Brightstone, for their services were once again required.

They were met at Brighstone by [[Abreth]], a silver dragon who they had previously spoken with at the Temple of Bahamut in Silverstone. Abreth explained that a month ago, the forces of [[Tiamat]] had assaulted the [[Platinum Citadel]] to the north, as well as several of the surrounding villages. The threat was deemed drastic enough to summon an Aspect of Bahamut, but somehow the evil dragons managed to mentally dominate it, using it to attack more villages in an effort to turn the people against the Platinum Citadel. With so many of their own unable to raise a hand against an aspect of their god, they decided to call in the Brightstone Heroes to kill it, thus returning its spirit to Bahamut.

Abreth teleported the heroes to the Platinum Citadel, where they waited to hear news of the dominated aspect's location. Once the news arrived, the gold dragons [[Veerinar]] and [[Faldinoc]] flew them to a nearby village that had come under attack where, after a hard battle, the aspect was slain. The heroes teleported back to the citadel, while Abreth sent some dragons out to reclaim the aspect's body. They returned, however, with disturbing news: the body was gone. Ultimately, they concluded that they had only one real lead: a black dragon named [[Eilorixx]] living nearby. His proximity to the citadel meant he was being constantly watched, and though he had not left his lair in a number of weeks, he had been receiving regular visitors, and might have information. Moreover, a week ago their scrying efforts suddenly stopped working. Deciding that this was their only real lead, the heroes flew down with Veerinar and Faldinoc to meet the dragons who were spying on his lair.
[[Image:Eilorixx.jpg|left|thumb|The heroes battle Eilorixx in his lair]]
The tunnel into Eilorixx's lair was filled with a multitude of traps, and the lair itself with dozens of magical spells and artifacts to block divination magics. Eilorixx himself ranted about how he knew they were coming, and what they wanted, and that they would never take his body, before savagely attacking them. When it became clear that he would not survive, however, Eilorixx pulled a staff of power out of his hoard, biting it in half and causing it to detonate, obliterating himself and a good portion of his treasure.
[[Image:Sinianth.png|right|thumb|Sinianth returns]]
The next day, Abreth told them that they had located the aspect's body. It had been taken by a group of kobolds to a cave in the mountains. The cave was protected by powerful anti-draconic wards, but could easily be infiltrated by a group of mortals. The heroes headed to the cave to gather information, and were quickly met by a blue dragon and a red, who accused them of being minions of [[Sinianth]] before attacking. After defeating them the heroes returned to the Platinum Citadel, where Abreth them that Sinianth was a powerful dracolich thought destroyed eight hundred years ago. Evidently his phylactery had been found, and his new followers intended for him to return in the aspect's body. With time being of the essence, they left immediately to deal with Sinianth. They descended down into the cave just in time to witness Sinianth return to unlife in his new body, accompanied by his kobold minions. With his strength rapidly returning, the heroes pressed the attack, ultimately destroying the dracolich before he could reach his full power. Searching the cave, Leardon located the phylactery and shattered it with his axe, ending Sinianth's existence forever.

The heroes returned to the Platinum Citadel to celebrate their victory. After a few more days, they returned to Brightstone, said their farewells, and departed to go their separate ways. And thus did the Brightstone Heroes largely end their adventuring career, with the gratitude of gods and dragons.