Duel Beneath the Scarlet Eclipse

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climactic assault and moral showdown

Duel Beneath the Scarlet Eclipse

Lvl 194 to 6 characters3 to 4 sessions, approximately 10 to 14 hours total· deadly

“A blood-red dawn, a broken temple, and one godslayer who means to end the age of begging.”

— Hook · climactic assault and moral showdown

QuestgiverSeraphis Radiantwing

Climactic assault and moral showdown

D&D 5E

Deadly

Lvl 19

4 to 6 characters

3 to 4 sessions, approximately 10 to 14 hours total

4 NPCs

5 encounters

The Opening

“At dawn’s first blood-red light, the Temple of Shattered Faith becomes a battlefield, and High Inquisitor Maltren descends with five stolen sigils blazing upon his armor. If he reaches the apex of the Scarlet Eclipse, he will use the broken Aegis to attempt a godslaying that could sever the heavens from mortal worship forever.”
— Hook · climactic assault and moral showdown

Set the Scene

The sky above the Temple of Shattered Faith turns copper and then red as the Scarlet Eclipse clears the horizon. A crack splits the air above the shattered colonnade, and High Inquisitor Maltren steps through in black obsidian plate, five sigils burning on his armor like chained stars. Before anyone can speak, the first blow of his greatsword carves the dawn in half.

Patron

Questgiver

Seraphis Radiantwing

Seraphis Radiantwing delivers the call to action as a battlefield commander and desperate champion rather than a distant patron.

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Rumours

d5 · table

01
Maltren has not eaten or slept since the first eclipse sign appeared.
02
The Obsidian Tribunal believes the gods are only powerful because mortals keep begging them to be.
03
The temple's lowest vault was built to imprison either a relic or a prophecy, and no one agrees which.
04
Seraphis once fought alongside Maltren before the betrayal, and their bond still complicates the battlefield.
05
Witnesses claim the eclipse itself reacts when the Aegis is brought near it.

Stakes

If the heroes fail, Maltren can kill or cripple a divine power, fracture the boundary between mortal and celestial law, and turn the temple into a permanent wound in reality. If they succeed, they may restore the Aegis, seize it, or destroy it, but in all cases the world’s balance of faith, power, and mortal autonomy changes forever.

Ticking Clock·The Scarlet Eclipse peaks in four phases. Each major scene consumes one phase, and when the fourth ends Maltren completes the godslaying rite unless the party has broken the sigil chain or forced him to yield.

Background Lore

The Temple of Shattered Faith was once a neutral sanctuary built to keep rival gods from bleeding their wars into the mortal world. When the Scarlet Eclipse began appearing in prophecy, the temple’s sealed lower vaults were discovered to contain a half-forgotten answer to divine slaughter: the Aegis, a relic-shield split into fragments after an ancient attempt to make mortals immune to the will of gods. High Inquisitor Maltren, once a sanctified champion, now leads the Obsidian Tribunal in a campaign to weaponize that shattered legacy. As dawn turns blood-red, he arrives at the temple with five stolen sigils bound into his armor and a planar breach behind him, determined to use the eclipse to kill a god and rewrite the balance of the heavens.

What the World Knows

High Inquisitor Maltren arrives at the Temple of Shattered Faith during the Scarlet Eclipse to seize a divine relic and challenge the party in a battle that will decide whether the broken Aegis is restored, destroyed, or used to alter the balance between gods and mortals.