Critical Role · Campaign 4
The truth behind the Candescent Creed is exposed as Casimir’s trail leads north and House Tachonis closes in on Occtis.
Episode 3 reveals the captive celestial beneath Villa Aurora and the political machinery behind the Candescent Creed. While Wicander and Tyranny race to save Teor from the Mercanauds, Thimble’s search for Casimir erupts into battle at the Guard Tower and points toward Gormalay. Halandil reclaims the Hallowed Round, old allies form a party bound for the north, and House Tachonis launches a deadly assault on Palazzo Davinos as Ethrand arrives with an unidentified winged black stone.
Cut threads, quiet threats and the shadow behind the shears
Episode 3 exposes the manufactured Candescent Creed, sends a new party towards Gormalay and ends with House Tachonis tearing its way into Palazzo Davinos.
The rescue failed after Thimble was attacked, Cyd disappeared and a deliberately planted false glyph deceived Azune’s inspection.
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Ethrand and six Tachonis ghouls enter Occtis’s chamber under a Silence spell. Carrying a perfectly spherical black stone surrounded by wings, Ethrand orders the undead to open Occtis and place it inside him.
What did Thjazi see above the Guardian Wall, and why did it frighten him?
Who compromised the rescue, what did Azune detect on Thjazi, and is Cyd’s disappearance part of the same sabotage?
Gavrey’s account and Thimble’s recollection make Casimir a stronger suspect, but do not connect him directly to the false glyph.
Why did House Tachonis demand Thjazi’s death, and why did Yanessa decide that alliance outweighed clemency?
Yanessa openly separates the family’s political needs from the moral rules publicly preached by the Creed.
What prevented Cyd from reaching the rescue, and where is he now?
Gavrey supplies a concrete last-known action and a northward investigative lead.
Where did Thimble go after failing to appear at the execution?
Who ordered the attack, who wore the fine boots, and how did the attackers learn the hideout and timing?
Gavrey separates Casimir’s loyal followers from the wider guild and describes new resources appearing immediately after the attack.
Who stole the Stone from Thimble’s hideout, where is it now and why was this funerary relic targeted?
The party links Casimir’s new resources to the stolen property as a working theory, not a confirmed sale.
What is the shadow following Julien, and what consequence does it represent?
Vaelus identifies the phenomenon as a curse but cannot explain it.
The mass of specters is a nearby supernatural danger, but its relationship to Julien is not established.
What did Thjazi intend Halandil to create or accomplish with the paint casks?
Bolaire identifies Penteveral-like work and magical residue, while repeated examination finds no active spell.
What threatens Murray or the Penteveral, and what help did Thjazi expect Halandil to provide?
The patron’s demand demonstrates direct pressure on the institution during its leadership crisis.
Murray treats the crisis as a struggle over who controls the Penteveral.
Who or what closed Faerie, what is happening beyond the doors and can the connection be restored?
Her explanation provides a cause while leaving the underlying cosmology and solution open.
Aranessa describes a continuing consequence for House Royce’s otherworldly castle.
How did Dol-Makjar change from the city Teor remembers, and what remains of its revolutionary institutions and ideals?
They describe institutions being kept useful until controllable replacements can be installed.
Where is Casimir, and did he knowingly help sabotage Thjazi’s rescue?
Gavrey provides the strongest account yet of Casimir’s status immediately after the hideout attack.
Why is House Tachonis searching for Occtis, and what will Lord Primus do if he finds him?
Occtis’s father moves from distant concern to direct institutional pressure.
The assault identifies what the attackers intend to do to Occtis, not why.
Who is the celestial imprisoned in the Prismatic Retort, and how did House Halovar build its faith and power around his captivity?
Yanessa identifies the captive, explains the Halovar celestial bloodline and admits the Creed’s political construction.
What is the winged black stone, and what would placing it inside Occtis do?
The object appears in Ethrand’s hand during the assault on Occtis’s chamber.
Ethrand orders the ghouls to open Occtis and place the stone where it belongs.
What were the Mercanauds preparing to do to Teor at sunrise?
The interrupted ritual reveals manacles, a nine-pointed pentagram and shears cutting Teor’s shadow.
Calastro restores the shadow and hints at a sunrise result without explaining it.
What is the magical presence beneath Dol-Makjar?
A new magical presence is detected beneath Dol-Makjar.
The energy feels active and mobile enough to leave Bolaire ill at ease.
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Teor accepts coin and service as Wicander’s guardian errant. Sir Filoneus Halovar introduces his spell-confusing war dogs and sends Teor to the Mercanaud Couturier.
Teor and Julien cross paths in the marketplace. Julien recognises Teor as Thjazi’s former companion and realises the Halovars have sent him toward a family known for making problems disappear.
Yanessa shows Wicander the chained celestial Aetheon, reveals the origins of Godard and Filament, and admits that the Creed was built as a useful belief rather than divine truth.
In Wicander’s private chambers, Tyranny admits she knew the Creed was false and explains the demonic arrangement behind it. Together they decide to warn Teor and conceal Wicander’s change of heart.
Lord Primus confronts Murray and Dean Tallbarrel while searching for Occtis. Murray resists an unseen curse, and Tallbarrel agrees to use the institution’s resources to retrieve the missing Tachonis heir.
The Crow Keepers attempt to bag Thimble and subdue her companions. Vaelus crashes through a window, kills the captor and Solomon, and terrifies the remaining thieves into fleeing.
Gavrey explains Casimir’s smuggling racket, debt, sudden wealth and Gormalay deed. Cyd seized the deed and fled, with Casimir and his crew pursuing him.
Halandil reveals the restored amphitheatre, Uli remembers worship under Azgra and the first revolutionary hopes, and the company reclaims the site as a place to celebrate one another.
Bolaire delivers six crates of paint left for Halandil. The material resembles Penteveral work but carries unexplained magical residue, and the Hallowed Round brings Bolaire an uneasy awareness of something beneath the city.
Azune and Murray compare the noble pressure closing around the Arcane Marshals and Penteveral. Murray reveals that Primus is searching for Occtis, and Azune agrees they must reach him first.
Teor enters the couturier, recognises the incense from an old battlefield mark and is drugged, paralysed and surrounded by fiendish magic as the Mercanaud twins prepare their procedure.
Wicander and Tyranny bluff their way into the closed couturier. Tyranny deceives the soulless Rulius into ending the ritual, and they free Teor after Calastro has begun cutting his shadow into pieces.
Julien arrives looking for Halandil and Thaisha, clashes with Thimble and warns Vaelus that Occtis may be in immediate danger.
Vaelus examines Pin’s undead nature while Julien privately questions Occtis about the failed rescue. Occtis denies involvement and agrees to seek shelter with Aranessa at Palazzo Davinos.
Halandil and Thaisha return to learn that the Guard Tower meeting became a battle and Occtis left with Julien. Thaisha assumes wolf form and races into the city to track him.
Azune and Murray reach the Fang home before Teor returns with Wicander and Tyranny. The group exchanges the Guard Tower, Mercanaud and Halovar revelations and recognises that several of them are no longer safe in Dol-Makjar.
Halandil surveys the danger around his household, studies the maker’s mark on Thjazi’s sword and learns that the Lloy-forged weapon is called the Liar’s Blade.
The gathered allies decide that Casimir and Cyd must be pursued north. Wicander asks for protection, apologises for House Halovar and reveals Halovar interests in Gormalay before five travellers prepare to leave.
Azune supplies horses at the Grey Tower stables and recites the names of the Falconers’ Rebellion dead while Thimble, Kattigan, Teor, Wicander and Tyranny ride north.
Julien brings Occtis and Vaelus into Palazzo Davinos. Raimond and Aranessa receive them, and Occtis accepts a private room after learning Primus has already searched the Penteveral.
Vaelus hears Thaisha’s warning howl across the city. A profound magical recognition passes between them, and Vaelus commands a guard to leave a palazzo gate open for the approaching wolf.
Aranessa questions Occtis about the rescue, Thaisha’s box and the Stone of Nightsong. She explains the threatened Royce holding near Faerie and the Tachonis castle in Death.
Raimond tells Julien that Tachonis forces in Dol-Makjar may be triple their estimate and asks whether he knows anything about the missing Stone. Julien denies it.
Julien admits his fear to Vaelus. Her Divine Sense confirms that he is cursed and reveals hundreds of restless dead gathering just beyond the living veil around the gardens.
As Raimond steps into the gardens to speak with Julien, an invisible black-clad Tachonis operative reaches through his body and tears out his skull and upper spine.
Ethrand and six Tachonis ghouls enter Occtis’s chamber under a Silence spell. Carrying a perfectly spherical black stone surrounded by wings, Ethrand orders the undead to open Occtis and place it inside him.
The revolutionary war against the gods is remembered through monuments, surviving traditions, the reclaimed Hallowed Round and conflicting accounts of what victory cost.
→The doors to Faerie closed and the realm vanished from the mortal world, severing Thimble’s connection and weakening faerie-linked houses.
→A rebellion against new mortal tyrannies in which the Torn Banner fought the Sundered Houses and forged the bonds that still shape Thjazi’s surviving comrades.
→Thjazi and Thimble took the Stone of Nightsong from the Mournvale; after its later theft, Thimble and Vaelus form a temporary alliance to recover it.
→The rescue failed after Thimble was attacked, Cyd disappeared and a deliberately planted false glyph deceived Azune’s inspection.
→Thjazi Fang is executed at the Guardian Wall after a failed rescue. Episode 2 adds Yanessa’s attributed claim that House Tachonis wanted his death and House Halovar allowed it to preserve the alliance.
→Seven masked attackers struck Thimble’s hidden apartment, left her critically injured, removed their dead and stole the Stone of Nightsong.
→An unsecured crate of Filament crushes and burns a worker in the Villa Aurora courtyard before Teor Pridesire lifts the cargo and heals him.
→Primus searches the Penteveral while Julien and Thaisha try to protect Occtis, but Ethrand and six Tachonis ghouls ultimately breach his room at Palazzo Davinos.
→Dean Ellipides Tallbarrel resigns after the Chamber and Revolutionary Council threaten to revoke practical spellcasting at the Penteveral unless he steps down.
→The attempted capture of Thimble becomes the campaign’s first major battle, ending when Vaelus kills Solomon and terrifies the surviving Crow Keepers into fleeing.
→Wicander learns that the captive is Aetheon, that Filament comes from his embodied Light and that the Candescent Creed was constructed by House Halovar as a tool of faith and power.
→Gavrey recounts that Casimir returned with new wealth, equipment and a Gormalay deed, cleared his Crow Keeper debt, then pursued Cyd after Cyd seized the deed and fled.
→Rulius and Calastro Mercanaud paralyse Teor and begin cutting apart his shadow before Tyranny deceives them into cancelling the Halovar assignment.
→Halandil’s company restores the former Dithyramb of Azgra as the Hallowed Round, turning a place of compelled worship into a theatre for mortal stories and celebration.
→Thimble, Kattigan, Teor, Wicander and Tyranny leave Dol-Makjar to pursue Casimir and Cyd through the Gormalay lead.
→After Tachonis forces gather around Dol-Makjar, a hidden operative murders General Raimond while Ethrand and six ghouls breach Occtis’s chamber with a winged black stone.
→An invisible black-clad Tachonis operative kills General Raimond Davinos by tearing out his skull and upper spine in the palazzo gardens.
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