Realms of Arkania: Shadows Over Riva - Side Story

Side Story

There is a side quest involving the disappearances of corpses from the city cemetery known as the Field of Boron. The group finds one freshly dug grave to be a fake leading to a shapeshifter's quarters below ground. Upon killing the shapeshifter and its demon summon, there is information indicating the presence of a Felimia, an Elven vampire.

This leads the party to another side quest to investigate the sewers where they run across a massive humanoid rat, the city's rat catcher, and an old slight hag. Upon further wandering through the sewers the group runs into the city's secret underground resistance. There the old hag suddenly displays inhuman powers as she grabs the nearest elf and proceeds to kill him and change into a beautiful elven female sporting vampiric canines.

The group finds out from different citizens that the last time the city caught the Felimia, they imprisoned her in a coffin buried in the Field of Boron. Digging up the coffin the group finds it empty with a hole in its bottom that leads to the shapeshifter's quarters. The Felimia had bypassed the charms place on the cover of the coffin by breaking through the bottom of the coffin.

Later the underground contacts the group and gives the message that the last time they fought the Felimia they used Moonlight and that Moonlight can kill the Felimia. With the help of the underground the group finds the Felimia's liar behind a magic mirror. There they find a magically locked trunk that belonged to the resistance and open it with the password given to them. Inside is a moonlantern, moonstone, a cloak, and magic dagger.

The cloak turns out to be an invisibility cloak that allows the wearer to turn invisible to normal people but also the ability to see the Felimia. At this point the resistance member dons the cloak and sees the invisible Felimia standing right next to them in the room and attacks her with the dagger chasing her into a room of mirrors.

Finally the group kills the Felimia in the room of mirrors when they light the moonstone and place it into the lantern. The beam of the lantern rebounds off several mirrors until it strikes the Felimia who was charging at the group. The moonlight kills the Felimia reducing her to nothing in a brilliant flash of light. With this the underground resistance is forever grateful to your group and later aids you when you are framed for murder.