A Human and a Drow fight a Devil

With Arlo and Ansem left to fight the Ice Devil which blocked their path from ascending the great bastion in Kintyre which rose to the plains of Cania, all seemed hopeless. However using their wit and courage the slowly turned the tides into their favour and dispatched the creature.

They then crawled along the icy wastes towards the shining jewel of Mephistar which lay perched ontop of a great glacier. Ansem slowly losing consciousness and Arlo not far behind. Bands of scouts were seen departing the great city and heading out into the wastes, however, a lowly imp crossed their path, and in payment of soul coins gave them safe passage and warm hovel to recuperate.

From there they convinced the Imp called Igneous to set up a meeting with the Dean of the College of Hellfire Quagrem, who was a powerful pit fiend.

The Imp set up a meeting but played it off as the party being seized by Quagrem's soldiers. After talking with the pit fiend and trading the skull artefact they had retrieved in Kintyre and made a deal for Quagrem to place a hidden Infernal mark upon Arlo. Quagrem gave them safe passage into the court of Mephistopheles. Slowly ascending the countless staircases which wound their way up towards the library.

A great hellfire artefact which hovered in place by spinning rings crackled with energy at the top of the vast ceiling with the last remaining stair case before the great library being guarded by Hutijin, the most loyal of Mephistopheles' pit fiend commanders.

Quagrem traded the party to Hutjin for a large sum of soul coins and Hutjin took the party into the great corridor, at its end stood an inactive Arcane Gate, he lead them to the centre of the corridor and the edge of the libraries limits.

They looked into its vast and endless rows of bookshelves, however Ansem determined that there were signs of a path decorated by statues of Demons.