I used some of your suggestions, however, when I ran it, the first part all the way up until they killed gaedren was a dream within a dream.one pc dreams about the city going into chaos and zellara then wakes up, for shadowing future events. TheY meet zellara find gaedren eventually and defeat him. When they found the Queens trinket, the pc woke up from this dream for real. and found it in his lap with the note from zellara. They headed back to town only to find it up in flames and in chaos