Chronicle of Certain Witnesses: Canonical Annotations
What follows is drawn from an ongoing record of subjects flagged for canonical significance. Entries prior to the subjects’ crossing into the Feywild are fragmentary. The record does not concern itself with ordinary lives. It concerns itself with witnesses. The record thickens accordingly when arriving at a specific, documented moment.
Gaps in the early entries are noted where they occur. They are not errors.
Session 01 — The Ambush on the Triboar Trail A group of travelers take a job escorting a wagon for a dwarf named Gundren Rockseeker. Goblins ambush them on the Triboar Trail.
The full record: Session 01 — The Ambush on the Triboar Trail
Session 02 — Exploring Cragmaw Cave They follow the goblins to a cave and find a prisoner being held in the tunnels and the first real answers about who set up the ambush in the first place.
The full record: Session 02 — Exploring Cragmaw Cave
Session 03 — Arrival in Phandalin A small settlement under quiet pressure from something its people won’t quite name. They arrive, ask questions, and start pulling at the edges of it.
The full record: Session 03 — Arrival in Phandalin
Session 04 — Investigating the Redbrand Hideout A gang operating out of an old manor, with prisoners in its cellars and a man behind it pretending to be something he isn’t. They empty it out.
The full record: Session 04 — Investigating the Redbrand Hideout
Session 05 — Conyberry and the Road South Sister Garaele sends them after a banshee named Agatha, hoping to recover the location of a lost spellbook. The road runs through the ruins of Conyberry and into a cockatrice ambush, where two wandering elves — Rithlin and Shydwyn — step in to help finish the fight.
The full record: Session 05 — Conyberry and the Road South
Session 06 — Agatha the Banshee Agatha drains their strength in exchange for answers, and tells them more than they expect — about her curse, her past, and a stolen book that could finally set her free, if someone retrieves it for her.
The full record: Session 06 — Agatha the Banshee
Session 07 — Back to Phandelin A short return to Phandalin to resupply and report back to Garaele before moving on.
The full record: Session 07 — Back to Phandelin
Session 08 — Sister Garaele and the Necromancer A necromancer named Haman Kostyk, found at Old Owl Well mid-research, is killed by a mysterious assassin before the party can finish dealing with him themselves — the second time that same shadow has appeared and done exactly this. From a ridge above, they see Defiance Draw for the first time. They never go back.
The full record: Session 08 — Sister Garaele and the Necromancer
Session 09 — Entering Defiance Draw Deep in Defiance Draw, Silenus finds a flute resting on a stone in an empty meadow — and the moment he plays it, the meadow answers back.
The full record: Session 09 — Entering Defiance Draw
Session 10 — Arrival in the Feywild Their first morning in the Feywild. A river, two creatures made of driftwood, and a two-hundred-foot waterfall that falls upward instead of down. On the far side, a clearing — and something waiting in it.
The full record: Session 10 — Arrival in the Feywild
Session 11 — The Twig Jesters The Twig Jesters demand a story from each of them, and give back something stranger than what was asked for. Every gift comes with a price none of them have fully paid yet.
The full record: Session 11 — The Twig Jesters
Session 12 — The Singing Pools An endless party that nobody can seem to leave — and once Luna looks beneath the water, they understand exactly why. A road that won’t lead home. A chasm that has to be jumped, one impossible leap at a time.
The full record: Session 12 — The Singing Pools
Session 13 — The Court of Echoes Each of them goes into a private chamber alone and comes out changed. What happens in there is theirs to keep. One of them doesn’t come out the same person who went in — and doesn’t come out at all.
The full record: Session 13 — The Court of Echoes
Session 14 — Auntie’s Boys and the Unicorn Abduction Cyrene joins them at a ruined alchemist’s hut, just before fighting two flesh golems — and then a unicorn dragged screaming through a rift while they watch, helpless to stop it.
The full record: Session 14 — Auntie’s Boys and the Unicorn Abduction
Session 15 — Goldpine and the Games Archfey Play A pixie dresses the whole party in ribbons and runs them through an obstacle course as the last move in a stalled Archfey’s game. Willow finds her cousin Rowan among the freed villagers and walks her home.
The full record: Session 15 — Goldpine and the Games Archfey Play
Session 16 — Road to Silverthread A hag who’s built her own monsters meets them on the road to Silverthread and doesn’t survive the introduction. The city waiting for them has a sky that can’t settle on a single feeling — and one of their own chooses, that same day, to go home.
The full record: Session 16 — Road to Silverthread
Session 17 — Exploring Silverthread Their first full day in Silverthread surfaces a bridge that no longer exists and a cartographer caught between what he remembers and what the record says. Then a document changes its own name while someone is holding it, and there’s no good explanation for how.
The full record: Session 17 — Exploring Silverthread
Session 18 — The Merchant Wagon A merchant wagon turns up three bodies and a pack of displacer beasts working with clear direction, not instinct. On the way back to the city, they find the same kind of beasts again — circling something alive.
The full record: Session 18 — The Merchant Wagon
Session 19 — Saving an Owlbear Five displacer beasts prove far more dangerous than the four they’d first counted, and the fight costs them dearly before the last one falls. The owlbear lives. The body in the circle has not yet been searched.
The full record: Session 19 — Saving an Owlbear