A more uneventful journey than most
The party set off immediately, acquiring horses and a cart for their travel.
Passing Coalgrove with no major issues and travelling onward to Greyshire, they encounter a fallen tree and a few tailing Kobolds, both dispatched with ease.
After 16 days, and a mended broken wheel the party reach the southern tip of the mountain ranges.
Entering a small clearing, the party is stopped by 3 young Mandoa. After Aranar greets them, Vorpan steps out, congratulating their students and leads the party towards the camp.
Aranar reunites with his parents, with warm embraces and long hours of talking.
After catching up a bit, the party discuss with Goran the current situation with the kobolds and the new powers Aranar is experiencing. After going through the stages of grief in record time, Aranar asks for his helmet to be fixed so it better suits the horns growing out of his head, and begins to accept that he may not be who he initially thought.
After staying near the Mandoa camp for 6 days, while Thryn drills with a sword, Anya returns to her lockpicking and Boba and Din do their best to inflict psychic damage on Aranar by telling everyone stories of what he was like as a kid, Aranar receives Charging Bear and the party sets out again.
With the great old volcanic mountain, The Seat of the Dragon, sighted in the distance the party ditch their cart + horses the day before and set out on foot to get to the edge of the mountain clearing.
There is a crack running up the side of the volcano to the Caldera, and the party can see small figures of Kobolds walking their way up the side of the mountain with a major encampment of semi-permanent tents at the base of it. Not all the figures here are warriors.
Anya scouts out first, scaling the mountain and finding a good trail for the other two to make their way up easier.
Looking into the volcano, she sees multiple chanting priest figures and some Kobolds apparently being mutated by the fire and magic. Scaling her way back down the mountain, she re-joins the party and they form a plan for how they are going to assault the caldera.