Tear Jerker / Heart of Elynthi

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Session 1-5: Sacia Arc

• We get glances of Buck's greatest failures, which include him leaving behind his wives Talindra and Pamyel.

Session 6-9: New Bascay Arc

• Rama struggles to continue running his late father's inn, despite all his effort.
• Cecilia only puts on a show of being a strong gladiator and Elythian dragon to the public due to the pressure she feels to live up to the people's expectations as a strong person. This pressure only worsens due to her father's expectations on her, as well as his verbal abuse towards her whenever she loses a battle or appears weak.

Session 10-16: Pallitrios Arc

• Buck, after being made to question his idea of worshipping a god just for a pay-off and question what would he do after said pay-off does happen, collapses from mental and emotional exhaustion.
• The tension between Fritz and her biological father Astrapio is quite painful to watch. Astrapio justifies his reason for leaving his daughter behind, saying that she wouldn't be happy living under him and his wife while their situation was poor. While Fritz understands it as an adult, she wanted her birth father to apology to what he did to Fritz as a child. Even though it ended in a happier note, one cannot help but see how painful it was for both sides.
• Miquel is mostly isolated by the people due to his troublesome person, making him rather lonely. As a result, he is prone to feeling frustrated or betrayed when his Parental Substitute Sergi has to work instead of spending time with him. Even Sergi feels upset of leaving the boy all alone.

Session 17-?: Trevesetta Arc

• After Buck finally apologizes properly to his ex-wife Pamyel for leaving her, Pamyel made it clear that she cannot forgive him because his action of abandoning her broke her ability to trust other people. The female adventurer is still trying to heal her broken heart and trust, and told Buck that she cannot help him out with sorting out his own issues.
• Wurd, after getting a moment for himself, started doubting himself when he realized he doesn't know what he actually wants. Despite having an interest for wealth, popularity, and followers, he realized that he is unsure what his end goal truly is.
• Because Buck got the party caught in a trap which nearly killed Laira, Buck is finally forced into revealing about his obsessive search for Lady Luck and how toxic it is as it was why Buck abandoned people like his ex-wives Talindra and Pamyal. But when Buck admits that he will still continue this path of meeting Lady Luck again, despite being aware of how destructive it is to his life and other people, the rest of the party left Buck behind in the ruins. It was clear that the relationship between Buck and the other pilgrims had soured.
  • The painful outcome of this reveal clearly had an effect on Buck, someone who is determined to keeping searching for Lady Luck even at the cost of his relationship with other people, as he threw away his All-Or-Nothing Coin. As the gambler left with the petrified body of Tyrell, the enchanted coin just so happened to land on a heads (Nat 20).
• As the party is leaving Tigamura, Buck attempted to look for Pamyel in the crowd that is bidding the pilgrims goodbye. After successfully getting a high enough Perception check, Buck found out that Pamyel isn't even paying attention to the pilgrims' departure and is just busy browsing through the job posting at the adventurer's guild. This hammers it hard to Buck on how serious Pamyel was when she said that she could never forgive him, no matter how much Buck tries to apologize or change.
• The pilgrims can see how bad the gap between the rich and poor are in Trevesetta before they can even enter the walls. Countless poor people live outside the walls, making them more endangered by the Bloat and other elements. These people tried to seek help from the pilgrims, but are kept at bay by the guards escorting the party. And there is a growing plague that is affecting the poor and the workforce, but healers are prioritizing either people who are more important/useful or people who can afford their services. This results in a quarantine where the sick are heard from after being taken away.
• Alberta, the sweet innkeeper of Mierdcasa (the lower class inn), is clearly struggling to keep her business afloat and improve the state of her inn. Despite that, she refuses to accept any additional funds from Fritz and Wurd out of fear that her life would be put in danger by the Underthrone Societ for having too much money or from being associate with the pilgrims.
• Despite Laira's best efforts, she couldn't cure Torrelan of his Bloat-based 'sickness'. The pilgrims had no choice but to leave him in prison for now and hopefully find a means to cure him before it is too late.
• Pavita's Dark and Troubled Past. She grew up as an orphan before being forced into becoming the dragon of Trevesetta due to her showing potential. She then had to do perform dragon duties and help the people, with little appreciation earned and no end to the people's troubles. And to top it all off, she was cut off from making friends or any sort of relationship by Lord Nicholas, which is why she doesn't have a proper dragon's heart like the other dragons of Elynthi. Eventually, Pavita just reached her breaking point and ran away from Trevesetta to live a life alone with freedom and peace.
• In Session 26, the party realized that the previous dragons usually vanish from the public eye after passing their role as dragon to a successor. This highly implies that the dragon may be dead after passing over their role. With this possibility on the table, the pilgrims realized that Pavita's chances of getting out of Trevesetta alive has become even slimmer than they thought, especially when Pavita's plan was to pass her dragon role to Captain Arzire. Furthermore, Wurd mentions the possibility that they may have to kill Pavita if Lord Nicholas Tejero needs her life in order to become dragon. Nevertheless, as Wurd puts it, Trevesetta will definitely being leaving Pavita alone one way or another by the end of this.