Changelog

A terse, reader-facing history of notable changes to the Nickipedia corpus. Newest entries are at the top. Engineering and build history are kept separately and not published here.

A terse, reader-facing history of what’s changed on Nickipedia. One line per notable change. For the engineering log behind the build, see _wiki/README.md and the source repo.

Newest first.

• 2026-10-25: Session 24 added: The Knight of Smoke. The sealed-door fight ends, a low chanting spreads through the ridge temple, and Rime warns that “she’s completing the ritual”. The party gets through a hostile mist, a room of six stone figures and a wall of roots that nearly kills Caelumn, wins two black orbs, and votes three to two to go on. Asked whether he abandons Bahamut for Vecna, Caelumn answers that he is “starting to see Vecna’s ways”, and a knight of smoke turns on his friends as the session pauses mid-fight. New pages for the knight, the spectres, the pink unicorn plush and two finds from the root room.
• 2026-10-25: The tidy-up is finished. Every people, places and things page now follows one layout, with a short entry for each session it appears in and a current status, and the encounters log gives every fight from session 2 the same detail (session 18’s three fights are written up for the first time). Old errors fixed along the way include Hugo’s pact (ten years of service, not seven plus three), the Wraith’s first visit (real, not a dream) and the Egg, which turned green but was never called permanently so.
• 2026-10-25: Every session recap brought to one standard, from session 2 to 23: the early ones fully cited and the recent ones trimmed, with hundreds of small errors fixed against the recordings. The timeline, house rules, spells, inventories and open threads now cover every session at the same depth (session 18 finally has its timeline entry), and about half the people, places and things pages follow a common layout.
• 2026-10-24: Every character page now has a short entry for each session the character played, from their first session to their latest, each linking to that session’s recap. The long write-ups of recent sessions are condensed to match.
• 2026-10-11: Quotations cleaned up. The session recordings are transcribed by software that mishears names and words; quotations across the wiki now give what was actually said, with no notes about the mis-hearing. A few pages moved to addresses that match their names (Sevryn, Eldwythe, Wyrmbough Grove); old links still work. Spells now carry their published names (Elminster’s Elusion, Fire Bolt).
• 2026-10-11: Session 23 added. A new player joins: Kole, a changeling warlock, is first seen in manacles, the prisoner of a cultist and her undead inside the Temple of Vecna. The party frees him, and Hugo wakes in time to fell a greatsword skeleton with one thrown axe. The DM reveals that an Aurelian binder holds the Egg and that Arcanthys and Aurelia are in a cold war. Rime comes out to help face Mother Sarah, but her door needs black orbs. Father Thomas hits it anyway, a voice says “Deal with them, my darlings.”, and the session pauses mid-fight. Barney’s player has left the table; no exit for Barney has been shown.
• 2026-09-28: The whole wiki checked against the session transcripts. New pages for Biogloom, Nullstone, Hugo’s Path of Bloodfury, the Gingerbread Steves, the kuo-toa, the crooked broom, the cracked red crystal and the Umbrafall Mining Company. Hundreds of fixes bring pages in line with what was said at the table. Among them: the session 11 cart family is not the Felds, the flameskulls belong to session 16, session 18’s long rest was on the beach, and nothing on record gives Vasquez necrotic resistance or puts Maelis’s soul in the Soulbinder’s ring.
• 2026-09-28: Session 22 added. The party finishes the living skin, burns the painting that kept a regenerating kobold alive, and whispers a secret to open a hidden door into the heart of the Temple of Vecna. Inside the great statue hides Rime, a young silver dragon shot by Aurelian hunters, who names the cult’s leader “Mother Sarah”. Two flameskulls merge and fall to Father Thomas’s Moonbeam, the Book of Secrets turns up on a pile of gold, and as the party rests outside, a cultist and five undead walk into the temple.
• 2026-09-27: The stats dashboard now counts what Brian, Ash and Trey say at the table (as Mike, Father Thomas, Steven and Barney), which it had missed since session 17.
• 2026-09-27: The DM’s answers are in. The session 21 village is spelled Greysmere, its innkeeper is Orrin Sol and his son is Pell. The wiki no longer guesses which undead wore the crown (see the burial-robed undead) or calls the skeleton’s whip cursed. Also settled: Velkris has no apostrophe, the Wraith’s order to Hugo was to return to Umbrafall, the city that hunted dragons alongside Aurelia was Karvos, critical fumbles are not a house rule, and crits follow the 2024 rules.
• 2026-09-27: Tidy-up. Where a sentence cites several transcript lines at once, such as (s20 L417, L553), every line now gets its own footnote instead of leaving stray line numbers in the text. Session infoboxes give in-game dates in words, and every internal link now leads to a page or is marked as an article still to be written.
• 2026-09-27: Session 21 added. The mill-pond settlement where session 20 ended is named Greysmere, a village of graves too small for the map. Its innkeeper hires the party to find his son Pell, taken by charcoal-robed kidnappers who said “Mother wants him alive”, and Father Thomas leashes the severed hand they left behind and follows it north to a ridge temple marked with the symbol of Vecna. Six undead fall at the door, then a creature of living skin bursts from a sealed cell and the session pauses mid-fight. Also new: portraits for 21 characters, creatures and places, Father Thomas’s own art, and complete NPC and location indexes.
• 2026-07-25: Session 20 added. A new player takes the fifth seat, so Steven is retconned out and Barney Amoran, a High Elf artificer, is written in as though he had always been there, then promptly made the party’s decision-maker. The party talks past an Aurelian binder patrol, crosses the Eldwythe bridge to find the town’s occupation lifted, and hires on as caravan guards to the merchant Laura Bennett for the road to Umbrafall. On the way they learn the world’s ley lines are failing (a brownout of arcane power tied to the dying world-dragon) and survive a night ambush of ghouls and ogre zombies under a lone necromancer. No one dies; the road ends at a mill-pond settlement with a still-twitching severed hand pinned to a chopping block.
• 2026-06-27: Session 19 added. After burying Mike, the party abandons the Aurelia raid for the Egg and turns back toward Velkris to redeem a forged ledger. A Pure Light priest from the very patrol that killed Mike (Father Thomas, Brian’s new character) defects to the party to atone. On the night watch the Black Mask undoes Hugo’s Ascendancy conditioning (the first payoff of her s17 promise) while pressing him toward a “second deal”, and a wandering goblin reveals that Seraphine, the ruler of Aurelia, once destroyed five Archmages single-handed in the Arcanvian War. The session ends with a fey ambush (a pixie and will-o’-wisps) that turns Terry into a chicken but kills no one.
• 2026-05-25: Session 18 added. The reef-line cliffhanger resolved with Steven’s nat-20 dagger crit killing the Brinemaw Wyrm. A gargantuan red dragon flew overhead toward Arcanthys; a giant winged acid catfish destroyed the boat; the party swam ashore. The next morning, an Aurelian patrol stopped them on the road; the lead knight Glenn executed Mike for casting Message via the Mizzium Apparatus. Mike (Brian’s character) is dead; the apparatus and spellbook were confiscated; Hugo buried the body roadside. Caelumn’s full Vhal’Zarim / Platinum Order / Bahamut backstory was revealed for the first time. DM rulings: Bladesong counts as unsanctioned arcane power in Aurelia; healing potions need sanction; the woman rescued on the boat is named Nessa.
• 2026-05-17: Session 17 added. Two new players join (Brian as Mike, Ash as Steven). Vasquez and Althea captured by Aurelians (s16 retcon). Black Mask renegotiates her pact and pledges to “crush” the Ascendancy. Hugo’s race named: Voidforged. Cliffhanger combat against a Rimeclaw Skulker.
• 2026-05-11: Sevryn renamed. The silver-dragonborn quest-giver’s canonical spelling is Sevryn. Page renamed; aliases preserved so existing wikilinks still resolve.
• 2026-05-11: Wiki goes live at https://nickipedia-wiki.web.app.
• 2026-05-11: Initial 15-session corpus published, with 5 active player characters, 4 deceased, ~50 NPCs, ~38 locations, the campaign bible, and the full session recap chronology from session 2 through session 16.