Shadow and Flame

Background

The party has been contacted by two mysterious extra-planar persons: Asmerdyas, a devil in the form of a exceptionally yet strangely beautiful woman, and a man from the plane of shadows and known only as the Shadowman. From a conversation with the Shadowman the party understands that there is some sort rivalry between the two — a struggle for power played out by their agents on the material plane. Agents such as Yolande and (unwittingly) the party themselves when they indirectly caused Yolande's execution after his trial.

Setting

The adventure seems likely to involve the plane of shadows, a gray and misty world like the material planed viewed through a distorted pane of frosted glass. It's the home of ghosts, shadows and other stranger beings.

Where else the the party might travel to is not yet known.

Story So Far

The story begins on an island of the western coast with a strange unstable portal between worlds. Briefly the portal jumped to the plane of shadows where the Shadowman smelt their rich memories of death and blood. Eager to consume these memories he began to pursue them, chasing them with his shadow mastiffs.

Some time later, at a remote chapel on a remote hill top two eyrines, messengers from Asmerdyas, approached the party with a deal: kill Yolande and information on the Shadowman would be theirs.

With Yolande dead, the deal is concluded and Asmerdyas herself travels to the material plane to meet the adventurers.

(DM Notes)