The Market Spirit, Part I (Erastus (VII) 15th, 4712 AR)

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Once the heroes completed the ritual of the klars, they experienced a sensation of dizziness and that the world was melting away. The heroes were transported to the Ethereal Plane.

The Market Spirit

The heroes materialized in the Ethereal Plane in the same positions they occupied when the transition started. A ghostly, gray version of the Green Market stands around them, with larger trees, small hillocks, and Galdron Greenheart's altar occupying the space.

In a small clearing of sparse trees stands a solitary table of stone before a pool of clear water. A simple camp with a smoldering campfire and a large tent made from animal skins and wooden poles has been set up to the east. Superimposed over the idyllic landscape is a gray, ghostly image of the Green Market - its wagons, carts, and stalls seemingly untouched from a moment before. This image fades to mist approximately sixty feet away, revealing a great battle being fought farther in the distance on all sides.

The heroes can see the Material Plane from here, though they can't interact with it. They can see Zeeva and any other people in the market stare in amazement at the party, though the observers seem to look through the heroes.

When the heroes arrived, someone spoke to them in a booming voice that resonated strangely in the hollow space of the Ethereal Plane. "I was never a pacifist," the voice intone. "My belief was merely that the way forward for my people was unity. The Azghat divided us in the time before memory, but the world had moved on. Every quah could maintain its honor, but without the need to divide the people against itself. So I renounced the powers of the sun and flame, to walk the green path - to become the Green Heart."

"I was such a fool," a spectral, horrifying figure snarled as it appeared above the stone table. The figure is of a bald male, garbed in hide armor and holding a short spear in hand. A corona of fire sheathes his head and rises from his eyes. Molten gold drips from where a spearhead and shaft protrude from his chest, revealing the wound that took his life.

Arrayed in a semicircle behind the figure are several fire elementals that attack with it.

The figure lashes out at the heroes. He limited their movement with two walls of fire.

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