Emerald Enclave

A druidic organization with chapters across multiple planes, united in the mission to protect the natural order. Members wear a leaf pendant on their right breast as identification.

For most of the campaign, the Enclave has been the party’s primary ally — the briefer, the quartermaster, the one with the maps. As of Session 12, that picture has acquired a shadow.

Structure

High Council

Governs major decisions across all planes. Rook Targrave is a member, and as of Session 12 has emerged as the Enclave’s primary thematic voice — the figure who argues most directly against the Slanted Circle’s nihilism.

The Knock

A subfaction based in the Astgrove region, “protectors of the wildlands, friends of the forest.” Compromised in Session 8 by Harlix Darkleaf’s revelation as a Slanted Circle agent.

Verdant Hollow

The Sharn chapter, led by Elder Elarion Mossbark, hidden in a hollowed tower garden.

Resources

• The Keyport — Ancient planar junction beneath the Heartwood Oak
• Ley Stones — Powers travel through the Keyport
• Network of Contacts — Spanning multiple planes
• Astgrove command — Apparently capable of using the Maw Frame, as evidenced in S12 when Rook stepped through from Astgrove

The Stated Mission

• Stop the Slanted Circle from waking Vorthalax
• Anchor the ley lines to prevent world destruction
• Track down ley anchors across planes
• Root out traitors within their ranks

What the Mage Accused (Session 12)

In the Slanted Circle Mage’s monologue on the Maw Frame, he made several claims about the Enclave that Rook did not contradict:

“You found the thin places. The Enclave and Cannith mapped the anchors. You proved which seals still held.”

This frames the party’s adventures — and the Enclave’s broader work — as calibration for the Circle. Whether the Enclave knew their work was being read, or whether they were unwittingly contributing, is unstated.

“The Drow fear it. The giants worshipped it. The dragons guarded it. Even your precious Enclave knows the truth.”

The Mage’s claim is unambiguous: the Enclave is aware of Vorthalax’s nature as a reset entity — not just a primordial threat, but a cyclical world-cleaner that has acted before and is meant to act again. The Drow guard against it. The dragons guarded against it. The Enclave, per the Mage, knows.

Rook did not deny this. When he spoke after the Mage’s death, he reframed the question — arguing that whatever Vorthalax is, the world is unfinished and worth holding together — but he did not contradict the underlying claim about Enclave knowledge.

What This Means

The Enclave’s relationship to Vorthalax is now an open campaign thread:

1. Are they sentries — guardians who have known about Vorthalax for generations and concealed the knowledge to prevent panic?
2. Are they witnesses — aware but not load-bearing in the seals?
3. Are they reluctant partners — silent because waking Vorthalax was always part of the cycle, and they have been deciding when to allow it?
4. Or do they not know what the Mage thinks they know — is the Mage’s accusation a lie that landed because Rook was too principled to debate it on the Maw Frame?

Each of these reads has different implications for whether the party can trust the Enclave’s instructions for closing the Frame. Rook’s character — direct, perceptive, unwilling to lie — argues for the third or fourth reading. But that is the party’s intuition, not confirmed.

Internal Struggle

The revelation of Harlix Darkleaf as a Slanted Circle agent shook the Enclave. Trust is fractured, and suspicion runs deep.

The Mage’s accusation in Session 12 has now opened a second internal question: not about traitors, but about institutional knowledge that members may or may not be cleared for. If Rook knows things he hasn’t shared, the question is no longer “who can we trust?” but “what aren’t we being told?”

Stance

Ally — with a question mark. The party’s path forward runs through the Enclave (Rook’s instruction to close the Frame, transport, intelligence, the Astgrove command). But the relationship is no longer simple. The next time Rook briefs them, the party will be listening for what isn’t said.