Dage Saga II: the fortress and a new alliance
Scorn at the Palace Gates
The official June 12, 2015 release presents the assault on Dage's fortress as a bridge between the older Fotia adventure and the Dage–Laken conflict. The Story So Far supplies the recap. It is a return to an earlier struggle within the guide's larger saga, rather than evidence that every event shown here happens after Brightoak in the world's chronology.
The community recap describes the Frozen Flame as a relic protecting Fotia and sheltering a queen's spirit. Long before, she ruled beside an ambitious mortal king named Dage, who cast her aside. Her rage endured within a crystalline shell until she emerged as Scorn, Queen of Vengeance, and left her followers to pursue revenge. The account also attributes the spreading rage among women she encountered to her influence. Its broad references to centuries and millennia do not fix a precise date for that history.
The recap then brings the Hero through the Hydra, the Vale of Mourning and the Judges' tests to possession of Dage's Dark Seal. Those are earlier stages summarized here, not a second set of completed adventures in this chapter. Sibyl warns that Scorn has reached the palace and turned its inhabitants against their master. The Seal grants the Hero permission to approach Dage, but also makes its bearer a target for the enchanted guards.
Underworld Security Protocol 333
The preserved fortress dialogue routes male characters to Aeneas and female characters to Sibyl. Both guide versions warn of Scorn's intrusion and the danger to Dage. Their shared quest list describes one passage through the fortress; it does not require the Hero to undertake separate campaigns for both guides. These are recorded character-routing conditions, without selecting a version for this Hero.
Protocol 333 has concealed the route to the throne. The tasks first clear enchanted defenders and lead to a key, then assemble a Compass Stone. That stone opens access to three map-piece tasks involving different fortress enemies. The pieces and stone produce the map, whose symbols point toward the Room of Rune-ation and its rune. The dependencies matter more than the order in which those tasks appear on the quest page.
Grrrberus, the three-headed Underworld guardian, blocks the final approach. The quest requires defeating the enchanted beast, and A New Alliance shows Scorn taking control of it during the encounter. Afterward, the guides say Scorn is gone for now and the fortress must recover. Their talk of retraining its guardian does not establish a permanent death for Grrrberus, despite the quest objective's use of “Slain.”
Two Plans for an Alliance
Dage responds to Scorn's power with calculation. In the community scene account, he admires the strength needed to enter his home and considers containing her rage through chains. He wants the power and the followers she could bring. The Hero asks how he could trust her; Dage admits he cannot, but thinks her former loyalty and present strength make the attempt worthwhile. This is a proposed capture and recruitment, not an agreement Scorn has accepted.
Scorn has pursued a different objective. The account says information taken from Dage's minions has given her a way to arrange an alliance against him. Outside the fortress, she approaches a shadowed figure who already knows something of Dage through Laken. The figure wants to move against Dage while keeping Scorn's involvement secret from friends.
The prospective ally speaks of later plans for a world of Good, Light and Justice, after making a move and letting the dust settle. The figure is not named in this scene. Neither Dage's ambition to recruit Scorn nor her secret approach has yet become the completed political settlement either side imagines. The guide next turns to Dage's origins, a retrospective that needs its own place in this tangled history.