Breach at Shattered Faith

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multi-session assault and containment

Breach at Shattered Faith

Lvl 13 to 174 to 5 characters3 to 4 sessions, about 12 to 16 total hours· medium

“Six rifts. One sanctuary. One stolen sigil. Seal the breaches before dawn becomes a doorway.”

— Hook · multi-session assault and containment

QuestgiverSeraphis Radiantwing

Multi-session assault and containment

D&D 5E

Medium

Lvl 13 to 17

4 to 5 characters

3 to 4 sessions, about 12 to 16 total hours

4 NPCs

3 encounters

The Opening

“At dawn, the temple bells split the morning with a warning no prayer could soften. The statues of the Sanctuary of First Dawn have shattered, and raw leyline magic is bleeding from the cracks in the marble. Seraphis Radiantwing begs you to seal the six rifts before the breaches merge into one world-ending gate.”
— Hook · multi-session assault and containment

Set the Scene

The party wakes to bells ringing out of rhythm, then to a second sound like stone screaming. A desperate messenger in ash-streaked robes stumbles into the hall, points toward the Temple of Shattered Faith, and says the words no one wants to hear: the statues are breaking, and something is coming through.

Patron

Questgiver

Seraphis Radiantwing

Seraphis calls the party directly to the shattered altar and asks for immediate aid, offering the temple's relics and all available defenders if they move at once.

On the Streets · In the Books

Rumours

d4 · table

01
The cult did not steal all six sigils from outside the temple, because one had already been copied in secret.
02
A bell that rings during daylight is an omen that one of the statues is about to fall.
03
Maltren has been seen speaking to a figure no one else can perceive.
04
The central statue's base contains a chamber older than the temple itself.

Stakes

If the heroes fail, the temple becomes a permanent planar rupture and the surrounding region is exposed to an invasion corridor. If they succeed, the sanctuary survives, the celestial ward network is restored, and the party becomes the reason the faith endures.

Ticking Clock·The seven-planet alignment completes at the end of the fourth session, and every unsealed rift widens at each major beat until the final planetary conjunction locks them open.

Background Lore

The Temple of Shattered Faith stands at the convergence of six old ley-lines and one sealed sanctum known as the Sanctuary of First Dawn. On the eve of the seven-planet alignment, cultists of the Obsidian Tribunal struck with perfect timing, stealing the Sigil of Wind and recovering five other sigils from hidden reliquaries beneath the temple. Their plan is not simply to destroy the temple, but to break its divine statues in sequence so each shattered altar becomes a planar wound, then merge the six rifts into one gate at the central sanctum. If the heroes do nothing, the sanctuary becomes a corridor for elemental horrors, shadowspawn, and whatever waits beyond the final breach.

What the World Knows

The Obsidian Tribunal has stolen sacred sigils and shattered the temple statues to open six planar rifts. The heroes must race through the temple grounds, seal the breaches, defeat cultists and elemental guardians, and stop High Inquisitor Maltren before he uses the stolen Sigil of Wind to merge the gates into one final catastrophe.