Pallon the Pious

Dead · Fallen paladin · Keeper of his own vault

Encountered	Session 7
Found in	The Vault of Pallon the Pious, beyond Bellhollow
Guarded	The Saint's Splinter

He began with a righteous cause and ended as the thing he set out to oppose.

Finding him

Mirewick's mayor pointed the way. A villager had gone looking for the vault, which was said to hold an artifact that could help heal the swamp.

The party found the vault. They never found the villager.

The way in

The outer door required a blessing with holy water to open — an entry requirement written by someone who still thought of himself as one of the faithful.

Inside were shadows that drained the strength of anyone who fought them.

The inner sanctum

The final door asked for five offerings:

Ash
Blood
Mud
Tears
Rot

Gerald gave the tears, and it opened.

Read the list again and it's a fair summary of what Pallon became. Nothing on it is holy.

The fight

He questioned the party's motives before anything else happened — which is worth sitting with, given that he was the one guarding a cure to a swamp full of poisoned people.

A fierce battle followed. He fell.

The Saint's Splinter

What they took

The party recovered the Saint's Splinter, which promises aid against Auntie Bloat.

Worth remembering

Pallon is the third person in this campaign to be told he was making a mistake and keep going anyway. Urmon had Mormesk. Asterion had the horns growing out of his own head.

Nobody has said what Pallon's cause originally was, or who tried to warn him.