The Sea Taketh

Sister Maren burned a 4th-level spell slot to drag Torgun back from death mid-combat — then watched him die again to the same archpriest and spent her last Revivify to do it a second time in the same fight.

Finch forged the convoy's approach flag codes so convincingly that three armed ships let the Wailing Mare sail within boarding distance before anyone realized they were already under attack.

From the rigging of a ship being actively capsized by a Leviathan-class sea serpent, Finch scored three consecutive critical hits on the creature's exposed back — angles no one standing on deck could have reached.

Cael called a ceasefire mid-battle by identifying Calista Merrow on the opposing deck and deciding, unilaterally, that the fight was over — and it was.

At the apex of the Drowned Spire, the chest the party had carried across the Shattered Sea opened on its own — revealing not a weapon but a sea chart naming every ship the Pale Sereph had ever sunk, and the god responsible for all of it.