Rise of Tantal

Chapter 1
Iron sends Spherot to Mystikke to ask Acheron and the Spriters residing there to come to his aid. However on the way to Ferron the Spriters get interrupted inside Spherot's portal by a hooded figure, introducing themselves as Rantul, one of Tantal's men. A battle ensues, however the spriters seem to be outmatched against the Viornian's trickeries. Before Rantul can finish the group off with a massive attack they get saved by Spherot, who managed to breach through Rantul's influence.

Spherot then proceeds to take the Spriters to the royal palace where Iron informs them of the events that had transpired before their arrival. As he is explaining everything to them during a meeting with the other leaders of the various districts of Ferron the group notices various energy signatures entering Ferron's atmosphere heading towards the planet's surface. Calling the meeting short he takes them to an underground area beneath the palace. Down there evacuation measurements are being taken to protect the population of Ferron's capital. There Iron calls the Spriters a Fossio Major named Gaia for transportation to take them to Giha Village, and underground village in the far east of Ferron. When the group asks why they cannot just use teleportation to get to Giha village Spherot responds that Rantul - the man they previously fought- could use it to intercept them again and pinpoint their location more easily. The group parts with Iron for the time being as he has important matters to attend to, trusting them with closing in and potentially infiltrating Tantal's supposed hideout erected at Mount Summalum, a lone cliff pyre located northeast the coast of Ferron. They are accompanied by an old friend of Iron, Danaja.

Chapter 2
The spriters and Danaja proceed to travel underground inside Gaia's mouth, however instead of Giha Village they first arrive at the magma district, an underground network of large tunnels with magma coursing through. They eventually reach a massive lake in the center of the district and plan to pass it, however by doing that they wake up the there residing Lavaiathan. They manage to drive it back and proceed.

Shortly after they encounter 2 cloaked figures, one of them introducing himself as Tantal. After a brief conversation they are easily subdued by a demonstration of power from Tantal. He warns them about getting further involved and takes his leave, not before incapacitating Danaja.

The group continues on their way and they eventually reach Giha Village, staying in for the night. The next morning they discover that Danaja had recovered and went to investigate the scene of their encounter with Tantal. They meet up with the village chief Orrick Rustbeard who encourages them to look around the village until they can continue their journey. The group then split up with Maka and Flare going to the local Archive while Acheron heads towards the guardhouse.