Air, Earth, Fire, and Water

When LiKi put all four keys together, they pulsated and contorted, swirling around one another in flashes of multi-colored light until suddenly the four had reassembled into a new device. The component parts were seamlessly joined. Strange, previously unseen runes burned bright. A new symbol emerged on the edges of this new key. LiKi knew that this was the symbol of Elemental Evil. The party had felt this symbol burning in their minds previously, when they tried to descend into the lost dwarven city of Tyar-Besil, only to be blocked by strange magical barriers. The party had the strong suspicion that this artifact would now allow them access. Yet, they hadn't become aware of an entrance in or around Feathergale Spire or the Sighing Valley.

Here's what they had discovered so far:

• Elemental cults are active in the region; there seems to be both lines of alliance and violent rivalry; the party wasn't specifically aware of how these lines were drawn, however, they suspected the air cultists despised both the earth and water cults;
• A letter revealed that the air cultists served a "queen" named Aerisi Kalinoth;
• The aarakocra, a sentient avian race that occupied the sighing valley seemed to be reliable contacts, if not allies;
• The Knights of Samular have proven their devotion to fighting evil and strengthening their alliance with the Order of the Gauntlet by assisting Kahntun and Alexander.
• The people of the Dessarin Valley are bewildered and desperate to put an end to the destructive elemental chaos and increased monster and bandit activity;

• Marlos Urnrayle is the Prophet of Earth;
• He was drawn to a place called "the Fane of the Eye" by powerful visions. There he found "Ironfang, the Holy Implement of Earth Power," and took it for his own;
• Marlos established the Temple of Black Earth in a section of the ruins of a long-abandoned dwarven stronghold that exists below the Sacred Stone Monastery;
• He nurtures something called the Black Geode, and when all is ready, "the Evergrowing Mountain shall come and remake these lands in his own image."
• This is in reference to the evil elemental god known as Ogrémoch;
• "The Sacred Stone Monks" was just a ruse to guard the secret existence of The Black Earth Cult;
• Larrahk and the "Bringers of Woe" were attempting to spread the influence of this cult until our adventurers destroyed them in the Tomb of Moving Stones beneath Red Larch (see Chapter 1 Part 1: Arriving in Red Larch);
• Wiggan Nettlebee's private documents confirmed much of this information and revealed the name of a high-ranking earth cultist named Miraj Vizann, the mud sorcerer;