Lathander

It was kind of a small little town and they started digging into something strange going on.

They uncovered this pit of vice underneath the local church to Lathander.

And it was corrupting the entire town.

And all of this was leading towards a feast where something was clearly going to go wrong.

I am Marcus Fitzroy of Waterdeep.

Born unwanted by nobility and cast out as a child, it was thanks to Dawnmaster Bastion that I found my true home in service to the Church of Lathander.

Within its walls, I helped the Church in its battle to fend off the Death Curse at home.

But after it claimed Bastion, I finally set out to find its rumored source in the exotic lands of Chult, where I might end it once and for all.

So, last episode.

After reviving Christian, the Cold Rock Boys had a reunion in a desecrated mausoleum under the Church of Lathander.

After discussing a plan, you all decided to make your way out of the church, only to find that the entire city was under siege by Christine and Cold Rock Logistics.

So as you left the front door, you were ambushed by the governor's son and his personal guard looking for Blipsy.

now we've got to tell Christine, right? I snap to the guy who's sitting praying in a pew and I say, hey.

He's got his hands like in the prayer.

He's pointing up and he says, please, Lathander, I'm so sorry.

I didn't mean to do anything.

Well, the

effects say that the Blessing of the Morning Lord is

active.

I

You can

play Pictionary.

I'll see on the Morning Lord to show up.

Like, it's there in the 10 hit points, but it's not showing up in the...

Yeah, she'll lend you a book.

What you do find is a lot of writings about... what is considered the triumvirate of the sky, which is a combination of Pelor, Selune, and Lathander.

So it's basically morning, noon, and night as the representations of the sky.

Okay.

Safina's going to go to Raziel and say, you have been blessed by Selune.

I descend from Pelor.

Your child was the Dawn Child, which I can only suspect now, after seeing these notes, refers to Lathander.

Our existence among each other cannot be coincidence, given this Prophecy.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, and it says it predates the establishment of any church in Barovia, but this definitely gives me big, like, Morninglord vibes.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

I, I think it's essentially a Morninglord holy symbol.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Last time on D&D Diaries, the party spent a cheery Barovian morning escorting the Burgomaster's corpse through town, prompting villagers to demonstrate their Olympic-level door-shutting skills.

At the Church of the Morning Lord, they met Father Danovich, who was held together mostly by prayers and poor decisions.

A quick trip to the Undercroft revealed his son Dono, now a vampire spawn with the agility of a caffeinated ferret.

Throm was immediately flattened, Candu couldn't hit the broadside of a crypt, and Rana's divine magic flickered like a Poundland candle.