-Using a commune spell with St. Cuthbert to find out the correct use of the scroll scraps.
-The party finds an immense chamber of purple stone at the center of which is a stalagmite/stalactite pair between which rests an orb of impenetrable darkness. Cruum surmises that this must be one of Nidhoggr's eggs. Andronikos senses that he is capable of controlling this force, but declines to do so.
-The party finds the final chamber of the cave, in which rests an immense Roman sundial wrought of iron upon which falls a sing shaft of watery light. Speaking the Word of Power shatters this, freeing the wizard Merlin from his long stasis. He is impassive when told of Orestia's longing for him, chuckling and making a quip about "a bit of action on the side."
-The party re-encounters the lava children with Merlin in tow; the great wizard annihilates them with an excellent prismatic spray stored within his staff.
-The wizard levitates the party through the cave's watery entrance. Once outside, he calls upon the Five Winds to pick up the party and carry them to Gafulforda (Cornwall).
-Leads the PCs to a humble cottage and retrieves some spell books, then out to a field where rests Artur's Dolmen. The wizard speaks some arcane words, and lightning splits the dolmen in twain, revealing the figure of King Arthur returned. Merlin enjoins the PCs to kneel before the true king of all Aglarron.
-The PCs reluctantly bend the knee to the the reborn Arthur, feeling wary about the whole thing, except for Andronikos.