4th Arodus 18 - The Age of Exposition

 At the designated time Emissary the fey nobleman apparates into the main hall at Wyvernshore palace, where the group are awaiting his arrival along with the council, key citizens and armed guards, all of whom are keen to hear what the fey has to say.

Emissary has arrived to tell them a true tale, make his confessions, bid his final farewells and face them in combat.
He serves Nyrissa, a Fey Queen from the First World who fell in 'love' with Count Renalc, an Eldest (god-like fey who can affect the environment and magic around them), who used her as an experiment, granting her a significant growth in power born from shadow magic. But as a result Nyrissa grew arrogant and incurred the wrath of others as she attempted to carve out her own section of the First World and turn herself into an Eldest. Offended by this, the eight Eldest Fey punished the ninth who had granted the upstart an increase in stature and then tore from Nyrissa her Love (which they formed into a sword), her Greed (which they infused into a mortal land) and her Vengeance (which was moulded into a lesser version of her and imprisoned in a demi-dimension). They then reduced and isolated Nyrissa’s domain from their own and cast the queen out into it, to wallow in her misery and loss.

It took many centuries before Nyrissa was able to pull herself up and start to look to the future. Because of her power she is able to manipulate her realm of Thousandbreaths to suit her moods and has gathered more power and allies as she attempts to reclaim her full power and status before she was cast down.

Nyrissa wishes to free her Vengeance and merge with it. This will increase her magic abilities and mental manipulations, become more commanding and able to form armies instantly at her behest. However, the group of heroes have defeated the personification of this Vengeance when they destroyed the Shadow Queen many years before and so this step has been delayed for the time being.
Nyrissa wishes to obtain the sword, Briar, which was born from her Love and subsequently could be used against her to hurt her. Wielding it she would become more physically powerful and able to withstand more effects and damage. To complicate things for the queen, the Eldest hid the sword from her sight and it was foretold that this blade would one day fall into the possession of heroes who would end her life! This sword is currently in Miros hands...
Nyrissa wishes to gather up her Greed and present it as a gift to the eight Eldest Fey in the hopes of getting back some of her standing and gain face.
Nyrissa voluntarily parted from her Empathy, giving it the form of a purple fey male known as Emissary, sworn to do her bidding. Whilst Emissary might grow to like those he works with and colludes against, his first duty is always to Nyrissa and no magic on Golarion can alter that.
To achieve her goals, Nyrissa kept the land which harbours her Greed a wild and untamed place (the humans have named this region the ‘Stolen Lands’ due to the lack of ownership over it) so that she could wear down the boundaries between her domain, Thousandbreaths, and the mortal Stolen Lands until such a time where the border is thin enough that she can send energy and life from her domain into the mortal lands in the form of ‘Blooms’. This energy will suffuse with the mortal land and will allow Nyrissa to ‘bottle’ the land up and present it as a gift to her peers. This starts tomorrow!

Over the next 28 days blooms of natural, nature and magical energy will spill out into the nearby kingdoms as the queen conducts a ritual. Magical oddities and powerful minions will spill out of breaches during this time, marking the location of the blooms which weaken the boundaries between worlds. On the 29th day, Nyrissa will then be able to gave all the energy up from everyone and everything in groups piecemeal kingdom leaving only a barren husk behind. The more blooms and minions that remain in the kingdom, the greater her chance for success. The leaders of Dragonmere have two options:

• quickly gather several bloom remnants and take the fight to the fey queen early before she can complete the ritual and risk almost certain death due to the number of allies that would populate her domain, or
• face down the blooms and fey intruders as they appear in the material plane and then take the fight to the queen after that; this does pose a timy amount of risk from the queen possibly succeeding in her ritual (and any blooms missed would only increase that liklihood) but the upside is that the PCs would be able to deal with her strong allies at a more sedate rate and as a consequence will find it easier to reach and defeat her in her own realm.

Briar will start to grow in power for each bloom and strong ally of the queen that is defeated in its vicinity. It may even regain all its powers and would be the greatest tool to fight Nyrissa and her allies.

Emissary informs the group that in the north of Pitax's largest forest are ruins that mark the thinnest boundary to Nyrissa's relam of Thousandbreaths. With remnants from destroyed blooms and a powerful artefact such a Briar they will be able to breach realms and enter the fey demi-plane.