Doomwood III: Stonewood Forest and Kyger's Training
A Secret Meeting
The Deadtech Fortress finally comes into view. Stellaria warns the Hero that their whole world will look like this if they do not stop the enemy's advance. She asks the Hero to stay behind while she attends a top-secret meeting.
Stellaria promises to explain when she gets back, but says the meeting might be called off if anyone is spotted with her. The Hero jokes about being left behind like an NPC, then gives in to Stellaria's plea. She says she will return soon and runs off alone.
After waiting, the Hero spots cat ears on the ground and picks them up. The Hero wonders if Stellaria left them behind and hopes they were not important; the scene does not explain why she left them.
Stellaria’s abandoned cat ears send the Hero after her. Cat Ears? asks the Hero to find her on Screen 2, ending with the line, “There she is!” The next encounter, however, brings the Hero face to face with Asherion.
Who's There!
The Hero sees Asherion instead of Stellaria and immediately calls him a Doomknight, demanding that he surrender. Asherion warns the Hero to leave before it is too late.
The Hero says Asherion should be the one running and counts to three. Asherion sighs and asks if they are really going to do this. The scene ends without showing how the confrontation turns out.
The next task, EN GARDE!, calls Asherion a powerful ally of the High Technolich and asks the Hero to defeat him. His friendly NPC account belongs to a later source state: the intervening scene explains that he is Stellaria’s brother and mole inside Deadtech.
The Hero's Apprentice
Before the Hero can finish challenging Asherion, Stellaria yells for the fight to stop. She reveals Asherion is her big brother and her secret mole inside the Deadtech operation. Asherion confirms that he was born with the power of darkness and says his Doomknight role let him get close to Deadtech.
Asherion says that after Kalron was defeated, he became next in line of succession and now speaks directly to the Technolich. The Hero is stunned to discover that Artix has three children, and Stellaria, Asherion, and Kyger all answer together.
Asherion apologizes and says the Hero trained him in combat; Stellaria confirms that the Hero trained both of them. When the Hero asks whether Kyger was trained too, Asherion says no. Stellaria begins to explain that Kyger was too young to fight, then trails off. The Hero blurts out a fear of being dead in this timeline too, and the siblings fall silent without answering.
The Hero sets out two next steps: Stellaria and Asherion will develop a plan to assault the fortress, and Kyger will come with the Hero to learn how to fight.
Kyger is eager to learn to fight and asks to meet the Hero at his father’s axe, the Blinding Light of Destiny. The Light Of Destiny quest follows EN GARDE! and frames the axe as an inspiration for Kyger’s training.
Training by the Axe
Artix speaks through the Blinding Light of Destiny, saying the Hero may not remember training Stellaria and Asherion and offering to guide Kyger’s training. The quest track begins with gathering materials for practice.
Artix begins with simple practice: gather wood and dry grass, build Kyger’s target dummies at the marked places, and clear the nearby area. Then Kyger fights the dummies beside the Hero, learning by taking part himself.
The next lessons build courage and protection: Kyger fights slimes, then the Hero searches for armor stolen from fallen adventurers. Artix’s praise marks the training as progress, while the tasks keep their focus on practice rather than claiming Kyger is already ready for the Technolich.
Kyger’s next lesson turns toward the CryptHackers. Artix says fighting them will hone Kyger’s skills while protecting his people; a clue found there leads to a broader search among the Deadtech for a hidden nest in the forest.
With the nest suspected, Artix proposes a bomb against the undead and asks for acidic ooze from slimes and explosive tech from NecroDrones. His warning is practical: do not let the ooze touch you. The task gathers the ingredients; it does not say the bomb has already been used.
Lesson 6 sends the Hero to search the western woods for a cave hidden behind thick shrubs. The map note says the bushes cannot be passed before this lesson, and the task ends with Artix wondering what is inside. The source account does not continue into the cave here.
Compassion
Kyger and the Hero encounter undead villagers who beg them not to hurt them. Kyger calls the villagers enemies because they are undead, but the Hero asks him to hear them out.
The villagers say Deadtech took them from a nearby village. They escaped before Crypthackers could assimilate them, with help from the Hero, whom they call a heroic friend. But they say their bodies began to rot shortly after they left and that they were already undead. They only want to live in peace.
The Hero names the lesson compassion and tells Kyger the villagers are not the enemy. Kyger agrees not to hurt them. Their freedom from the Crypthackers had not spared them their rotting bodies; the villagers do not explain why.
Battle On!
After Lesson 6: Searching, Get the Axe sends the Hero back toward the axe for more practice. Its objective points to Screen 6 and its completion text says, “There it is.” The following Never Give Up task requires Get the Axe.
Sir Kut calls Kyger Artix's youngest child and claims he is the only one who can wield Artix's axe. Sir Kut says he found Kyger before Kyger learned how to use it. The account later shows Kyger pulling it free, but Sir Kut's exclusivity claim remains attributed to him.
Kyger recognizes Sir Kut as a former Pactagonal Knight and fears they may all be doomed. The Hero gives Kyger the last and most important lesson: no matter how bleak or hopeless things get, never give up.
Kyger jumps forward, grabs the Blinding Light of Destiny, and pulls the axe from the stone. It glows as Kyger and the Hero prepare to attack together, both shouting 'BATTLE ON!' The account stops before the fight's result.
For Kyger’s last lesson, Artix asks him to test his skills against Sir Kut, a former Pactagonal Knight. Artix says the fight should give Kyger confidence to face the High Technolich; the task’s completion text celebrates the two of them for succeeding.
No Time to Waste
After pulling the axe, Kyger says he is not just a kid anymore, and Stellaria tells him she is proud. The Hero jokes about a babysitting achievement badge. Asherion says the Hero has played an important role in each of their lives; when the Hero says they wish they had gotten to know him, Asherion replies that they will if the group succeeds in sending the Hero back in time.
Stellaria asks if they are ready to assault the Deadtech Fortress. Asherion will go back to the Technolich's fortress and open the door; Stellaria says they will fight their way inside, slay the Technolich, and use their Time Machine. Asherion warns Kyger that the chance of success is below one percent and that they might not all survive.
Kyger agrees to come even if the chance of victory is only one percent, saying the Hero has always been there for them and will always be there for all of them. The Hero wants to remember the moment. The community account describes three photographs: a group hug, the Hero fighting Asherion while Stellaria holds Kyger in a headlock, and the Hero carrying Kyger. Native art confirms the picture montage, although its offline child poses do not independently verify every described action.
The closing caption calls the Deadtech Fortress a place of cybernetic horrors and the Technolich the immortal master of the augmented undead. It gives the Hero’s mission a 0.0003% chance of success, a figure also legible in native art. That fits within Asherion’s less-than-one-percent warning. The account ends with preparations for the assault.
After Never Give Up, Kyger says he has done it and feels he is no longer a child. Stellaria thanks the Hero for helping her younger brother, and Asherion says the plan is ready and the group must assault the Deadtech fortress. These are their reported next intentions, not an account of the assault itself.