08/15/2026
DnD one shot tonight at 6:00pm at Spiral Wanderers. First-time players welcome. We will help you build a character. If you need a character and help building one, come early, and the DM will help you.
The Black Star of Shard, a Level 15 D&D 5e One-Shot for 4–6 Characters
Setting: Forgotten Realms / Shadowfell
Themes: Corruption, loss, forbidden faith, shadow magic, redemption vs. destruction
Adventure Premise
Once, Seraphiel Dawnstar was a radiant aasimar paladin devoted to Selûne. He spent decades hunting creatures of darkness and protecting travelers from the horrors that slipped through the veil from the Shadowfell.
Then his companions died.
Seraphiel begged Selûne to save them.
There was no answer.
But something else answered from the darkness.
Shar, Mistress of the Night.
Shar showed Seraphiel a vision in which grief itself was the true enemy. She promised him freedom from pain—not through healing, but through oblivion.
Seraphiel entered the Shadowfell willingly.
He returned changed.
His once-silver wings are now skeletal shadows dripping with black mist. His radiant halo has become an eclipse surrounding his head, and a shard of pure Shadowfell darkness is embedded within his chest.
Now calling himself Seraphiel, the Black Star, he has seized an ancient Selûnite temple known as the Sanctuary of the Silver Moon.
At midnight, he intends to corrupt its sacred Moonwell and transform it into a permanent gateway to Shar's domain.
If he succeeds, several miles of the surrounding countryside will be swallowed by the Shadowfell.
The characters have less than an hour to stop him.
