Element I · Water
The Sunken Tear
Claimed · Session 15
Recovered from the sunken church after the rift was closed. The Lion's Pride sailed into a watery anomaly, the party freed a trapped ruler, and Captain Summer's debt was earned in pirate gold. The first socketed gem.
Element II · Fire
The Sanctum Coal
Claimed · Session Gnoble
Recovered from the inner sanctum of Gnoble after the elder brain was wounded. Fenwick's Counterspell missed by one — the brain fled wounded to another plane. The gem stayed. The second socketed gem.
Element III · Air
— unknown —
Unclaimed
No sighting. No rumor. No rift. The Banner has crossed open ocean and stormy skies without a whisper of where the Air gem rests.
Element IV · Earth
— unknown —
Unclaimed
Mara Stoneheart — an Earth Genasi professor — is the closest thread. Whether her affinity is coincidence or breadcrumb is unanswered.
Element V · Lightning
— unknown —
Possible missed opportunity
Five bolts of Living Lightning struck the Lion's Pride in S17. They were destroyed, not collected. In hindsight: were they a rift the party didn't recognize?
Element VI · Ice
— unknown —
Dormant deity
Fari's frost goddess spoke once, in S6, demanding she gain power. Her hammer froze. The deity has been silent since. If any gem has a herald, it may be this one.
Element VII · Light
— unknown —
Unclaimed
No sighting. The Dawnfather cleric Lady Nina is the only Light-aligned figure the party has crossed paths with — and she has not reappeared.
Element VIII · Shadow
— unknown —
Vadis's element
Vadis spent 8,000 years in the Shadowfell. His artifact axe woke up in Gnoble. If any of the eight is already looking for the Banner, it is this one.
The thief's orb
Blackthorn's Stolen Orb
In S6, the legendary thief Blackthorn escaped the University with an elemental orb. The party later traded for an orb in S10 — the one she stole, or a different one? Both threads are loose. Whichever element it belongs to is currently unbound to a rift, unbound to a Banner.