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Voomer wrote:

ToiletSloth wrote:

Maybe it *does* take that long to make a dragon pillar. In addition, maybe it took several attempts for Jahsi to retake the temple. Having to fight off attacks from the Ekujae could have slowed down construction of the dragon pillar.

Thanks. Do you have a sense of how long before the start of the AP that Malarunk arrived? It doesn't seem like building a pillar should take TOO long, since I guess the Cinderclaws put up a bunch of others without the Ekujae knowing about it. But maybe the Elves damaged the pillar in one of the attacks and it could not be completed without re-supplies from other Cinderclaws. So the pillar went unfinished even though the Cinderclaws held the temple for a month. Of course, one wonders why it took the Ekujae so long to re-take the temple...

Would it also be plausible that Jahsi was wounded in a separate recent border skirmish with the Ekujae even though they took back the temple very quickly?

I wish the module would give a little more guidance (including suggestions for how the timeline might need to be moved based on how a particular campaign unfolds), because my players are always asking about these timing issues.

It could simply be that the temple was the battleground for a month of skirmishes between the Cinderclaws and the Ekujae, and that it was only recently that the Ekujae were definitively victorious. Perhaps it even changed hands a few times before the Ekujae ended up with it.

You're right in that it's also possible that Jahsi's wound is completely unrelated to the temple battles, and that he was injured fighting Cinderclaws somewhere else.

Malarunk arriving in the Citadel is the instigating event for Book 1 of the Adventure path. His grauladons collapsed the main stairwell of the fortress, trapping himself and his compatriots on their respective floors. So I figure that Malarunk has been in the citadel basement from the beginning of the campaign, but not a moment sooner.

At the beginning of the AP Warbal mentions that the Bumblebrashers leader has missed the last two of their meetings and they meet bi-weekly and they have never missed a meeting before. Going off of that I would assume that Malarunk has been down there for 2-3 weeks at least.