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The Sea Of Vipers
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The Sea of Vipers lies south of Gandavor. Since the rise of the Technogogic Implementer, who promulgated new theories of magic, the fractious, traditionalist Rootborn magicians have opposed his unification schemes. After years of low-key hostilities, the islands’ magicians agreed to a Conclave Arcane, but the Implementer betrayed them and spoke the Word of Serpents, which killed hundreds of Rootborn, devastated the Island of Tamera, and triggered the Word-of-Serpents war. The Rootborn fought back, but they had already lost, and now the Technogogic Implementer’s five satraps, the Enthroned, rule the islands.
The Sea of Vipers
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Setting Elements
The Sea of Vipers is intended for use with nearly any fantasy role-playing game.
The New Gods
Once, the spirit-gods of the White Ziggurat Age ruled from their gleaming citadels, but that was long ago. They fell silent and an age of arcane magic flourished under the Rootborn, but in the last millennium, new gods have appeared–far from omnipotent, but ambitious, active in the world (literally–you can find them on the map), and eager to promulgate their own mythologies. These are the new gods, embraced by the Technogogic Implementer and distrusted by the Rootborn. The new gods are organized around aspect (Air, Land, Sea, and Dreams) and diametrically opposed visions of Law and Chaos.
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The Lawful Gods
Zeri God of Justice Magister of Mortality Melna Goddess of Metal She Who Banishes Flaws Lauthune God of Lineage Breaker of Waves Ti Deity of Enlightenment The Ascended Sage |
The Neutral Gods
Latu Goddess of the Sky The Divine Archer Kell Goddess of Earth The Secret-Keeper Varuz God/Goddess of the Sea The Fecund One Zish Goddess of Dreams and Memory She Who Remembers |
The Chaos Gods
Shilaq God of Storms The Face in the Whirlwind Thar God of Tombs The Silent King Ootoon God/Goddess of Slime The Flowing One Voolma Goddess of Madness The Icon of Screams |
The Old Powers
The gods of the White Ziggurat age are mostly gone. Some merged to create “hero-twins” revered by warriors across the Sea of Vipers. All eventually left, until only the Seven Monarchs of the Shedu remained–then they, too, died, leaving tombs tended by forgotten priesthoods.
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White Ziggurat Age Shedu The Wolf. Symbolic of Steadfastness. The Scorpion. Symbolic of Patience. The Eagle. Symbolic of Courage. The Lion. Symbolic of Mercy. The Carp. Symbolic of Clarity. The Bee. Symbolic of Craft. The Newt. Symbolic of Flexibility. |
White Ziggurat Age Spirits and Twin-Gods Alep-W-Shaptorn, the Rat-Newt (a monstrosity created by a mad heresiarch) Haplos, the Lion-Eagle "Hinthial," the Scorpion-Carp (secretly the new deity Ti) Shoth, the Wolf-Newt Zar Kannah, the Newt-Lion Ot-W-Roon, the Newt-Bee Bax Mani Bax, the Lion-Bee Terateca, the Eagle-Bee Wux, the Scorpion-Lion |
The Enthroned
Vice-potentates of the Technogogic Implementer, each is a powerful magician imprisoned in a floating throne that serves as a kind of mobile palace. The Implementer created them as his satraps, though many are now old and decrepit, and lack their master’s immortality magics.
The Throne of Carp and Lillies rules the East, the Throne of Antlers and Iron rules the North, the Sugar-Cane Throne rules the South, the Throne of Painted Macaws rules the West, and the Throne of Rings and Mirrors has dominion over the future and is prophesied to replace the Technogogic Implementer. The Thrones employ witch-knights, capable arcane warriors trained from childhood to serve as inquisitors, governors, and shock troops.
The Hero-Saints
Before the rise of the Technogogic Implementer and the cultural hegemony of Alu Pan, the best route to power was becoming a saint acknowledged by one of the old gods or the new. Then the proto-saint would claim a castle, rally soldiers to their banner, and challenge all worthy comers to single combat. This tradition still continues, and the marvelous castles of the hero-saints can be found all across the Sea of Vipers, though the hierarchy of the Technogogic Implementer asserts ever more control over their territory.
Vice-potentates of the Technogogic Implementer, each is a powerful magician imprisoned in a floating throne that serves as a kind of mobile palace. The Implementer created them as his satraps, though many are now old and decrepit, and lack their master’s immortality magics.
The Throne of Carp and Lillies rules the East, the Throne of Antlers and Iron rules the North, the Sugar-Cane Throne rules the South, the Throne of Painted Macaws rules the West, and the Throne of Rings and Mirrors has dominion over the future and is prophesied to replace the Technogogic Implementer. The Thrones employ witch-knights, capable arcane warriors trained from childhood to serve as inquisitors, governors, and shock troops.
The Hero-Saints
Before the rise of the Technogogic Implementer and the cultural hegemony of Alu Pan, the best route to power was becoming a saint acknowledged by one of the old gods or the new. Then the proto-saint would claim a castle, rally soldiers to their banner, and challenge all worthy comers to single combat. This tradition still continues, and the marvelous castles of the hero-saints can be found all across the Sea of Vipers, though the hierarchy of the Technogogic Implementer asserts ever more control over their territory.
The Hexes
The Sea of Vipers is organized into six-mile hexes. Initial letters indicate the environment type: (D)esert, (P)lains, (H)illy (L)ight (F)orest, etc.
> The ISLAND OF TAMERA: hosting site of the Conclave Arcane, its interior devastated and its people mutated by the Word of Serpents.
0216 D A swarm-intelligence of mutated condors who have lost their Key Mind Element; intelligence and group cohesion dropping fast.
0217 D A circle of stones where the desert tribes once met, permanently bloodstained after the Treachery of Gesh. Vampires feed at night.
0218 D In a cave, a White Ziggurat Age treasure trove including a STAFF OF SEVEN BELLS guarded by animated cave paintings of animals.
0222 D A meteoric central peak crater. At its peak, past irradiated flora, a blade trapped in crystal: VERTUN, a SWORD OF DIMENSION-DANCING.
0317 D TUSNA cult compound, pop 300. Melna-worshiping dwarf amputation fetishists with clockwork limbs, crystal eyes, lichen beards, etc.
0318 D The ruined manse of Kel, a Rootborn wizard killed during the Word-of-Serpents War. Cosmogogic eclipse golems roam the looted halls.
0319 D 20 Fur-clad berserk servants of The Throne of Antlers and Iron (a satrap of the Implementer). They seek the lost cairn of Gesh in 1019.
0320 D CLEVA fishing village, pop 600. The hero-captain MATHYX drinks to forget the horrors of 1404, ignoring his galley, the WHITE ARROW.
0321 D Recent signs of passage, easy for a ranger to read: horse warriors from a local tribe pursue smoke goblins south.
0322 D A dying heap of horsemen and horses, fused together. The warriors only scream; the horses whisper prayers to Ootoon, The Flowing One.
0323 D Smoke goblin fort, pop 80, ruled by a chieftain protected by a CAPE OF THE WHITE TORTOISE and guarded by 10 goblin fogblades.
0412 D Nameless city destroyed by the Word-of-Serpents. Spectral inhabitants eat the memories of the living to remember their own names.
0413 D Irrigated fields that once fed a city. Ditches and aqueducts now overflow with stone scorpions and the grain is petrified.
0414 D Current base camp of horse nomads, pop 900. CHIEF PENETH suspects one of his tribe is a vampire but does not suspect his favorite dog.
0415 D Giant termite mounds. Bandits--horse nomad youths who failed their initiations--strike from above, killing horses first.
0416 DH Werewoses. Cavemen bites shift your mind back to a prehistoric simian body when the moon rises, as your body runs amok in this time.
0417 DH An astral deva angel and a bone devil hunt the gem-wizard (in 1022) who cursed them with free will.
0418 DH A mirror-bright golden ax in a hidden cave contains a small dwarf clan. Anyone struck by or carrying the ax in sunlight joins them.
0419 D Gnoll bandit fort in the ribs and skull of a long-dead leviathan. Nothing remains but gray DISINTEGRATE residue and stolen gems.
0420 D Crooked kobold-riddled 500' tall iron pillar. On its surface or in interior tunnels, gravity within 10' points toward the pillar.
0421 D Water hole fought over by humans, dwarves, kobolds, goblins, gnolls. Carnivorous plants sustained by battle bear face-shaped fruit.
0422 D Obscure bird-headed aspect of Latu (Mother Sky) attended by faithless elf clergy turned to swindling and robbery; could save 0216.
0513 D Old roads now turned eerie by the Word-of-Serpents. They lead to whatever worlds or stars sit on the horizon in line with them.
0514 D MANSE OF MIRRORS, arcane tower abandoned because its shifting, reflective surfaces randomly vaporize things whenever the sun shines.
0515 D 30 troops from 1014 slain by a cloud eel summoned by the wizards in 0612. Their leader dropped a RING OF SEALING.
0516 DH DEAD LEOPARD HILLS. Leopards destroyed by the Word-of-Serpents; all that remains are their spots, teeth, and hunger.
0517 M Huge opal tooth mined by kobolds. Made by the wizard in 1022 to torment the priest in 1310, whose cure disease spells won't work.
0518 M Lintel bearing a White Ziggurat Age poem, defaced but interpolable. Restoring it reactivates the two-way teleport gate to 2802.
0519 DH Glamered bandits impersonate Castle Theena's planar sentinels (1019). They ask for help with a "rift" then push victims off a cliff.
0520 D Pavilion used for horse tribe chieftain weddings. Nearby gnolls plan to kill its eunuch guardians and steal its treasures.
0521 D SHUTHI, vampire cleric of Shilaq, god of storms, pits her will against a living sandstorm. Victory will let her block out the sun.
0522 D Intricate, hypnotic, mile-wide unfinished stone circle. The stones cry out for completion but cannot express their final form.
0523 D Lair of VEIS, Serpent of the Unclean Dance. Causes mania, tremors, the vomiting of worms; treasure includes the MANUAL OF SWANS.
0524 D A bolt of lightning frozen in the sly, glowing faintly. All who touch it die; scorched avians and flying machines litter the dunes.
0610 D ARNA, pop 220 + 950 eternal sleepers now ignored by the new locals. Thorny vines surround the town and maintain the sleep effect.
0611 D Former garden peacocks turned into vicious magical pack predators by their leader, AZOMANDER HEXRATH, a turkey-polymorphed wizard.
0612 D Wizards sent by the Throne of Carp and Lillies (servant of the Implementer) to study 0513; slain by horse nomads for their presumption.
0613 HD Gelatinous cube now dominated by the iron-willed warrior it devoured. She wants to return to 1016 but will melt in the sun.
0614 HD The STONEWIVES, dwarven statues animated from 0618, then destroyed in battle; remains riddled with huge stone carrion insects.
0615 HD Failed cryogenic arkship. Magically irradiated half-buried lozenge full of thawed corpses, angry ghosts, and escaped hybrids.
"WORD" indicates a hex still affected by the Word-of-Serpents: expect unnatural skies, chaotic magic, and the jumbled dreams of Serpents.
0616 HD WORD The GRAVEN HILLS. Any words spoken here (not in Draconic) get burned into the blasted hills with explosive effects.
0617 M WORD The Copper Tongue Gang. Mutated goat-folk who worship Thar the tomb-god; armed with copper blowguns and poisoned needles.
0618 M WORD The BRIDE-RIFT, a goat-folk-filled chasm where the Stonewives (0614) once stood. The trail of destruction leads north.
0619 D The DETRITUS DUNES. Toxic arcane trash blows off the sheer northern cliffs. Gnomes and kobolds sift through the broken wonders.
0620 D A loquacious sapphire rolls glinting toward its master in 1022. It would like a lift, but would-be thieves get DISINTEGRATED.
0621 D Twelve headless male giant mantises piloted by cybernetically-inclined Technogogic deserters turned to banditry.
0622 D Beneath a long-dry riverbed: ancient aboleth mummy guarded by skeletal flying fish. In its treasure hoard: the TRILOBITE OF HOURS.
0623 D Gnome clerics of Ti, god of wisdom, construct a replacement moon from silver and 0619-scraps, in case the current moon vanishes.
0625 D VARONTIQ, gnome village, pop 250. FULU FLER needs only a magic bottle (like in 1224) to try claiming the lightning in 0524.
0711 D Three ghosts warn travelers away from their own dead bodies, which rise at night as mindless cannibal ghouls with thunder magic.
0712 D A "horse" made of hundreds of severed hands tries to lure new "riders." Ten more hands and it can begin the process of mitosis.
0713 HD 5-headed statue of Thar, god of tombs. Its faces move each day to follow an Enthroned, the 5 satraps of the Technogogic Implementer.
0714 HD Village of 22 KEPU, bodiless doppelgangers who adopt the skills of the clothes they wear. Fearing goblin attack, they seek armor.
0715 HD Future archeologists dimly visible examining a horse and rider recently killed in a flash-flood. Locals know them as "the oracles."
0716 HD WORD The Garden of Endless Life. A 100' cube of force packed solid with agonized living things, as nothing within can die.
0717 HD WORD Rampaging magically radioactive arachnoform silver elemental. In silvery webs: gnomes hailing from 0623.
0718 HD WORD Magically ravaged hill tribe warriors seek the Garden of Endless Life (0716) to heal their mortally wounded chieftain.
0719 HD WORD Goblin cleric of Ootoon, The Flowing One. Bears the ROD OF MINGLED FORMS; plots the death of the chief in 0323.
0720 D Escaped shadow of the vampire Shuthi (0521) skulks in a ruined village seeking redemption for its crimes.
0721 D Magical von Neumann replicators from a hostile astral civilization have unionized and refuse to work until they get a pay raise.
0722 D An aarakocra desert druid cultivates mellified raptors, drowning birds of prey in honey to create potions of healing.
0723 D Rock troll vampire that couldn't reach its lair before dawn. It simultaneously burns and petrifies, forever, but can say 1 word/day.
0724 D Striated coastal cliffs frequented by pirates unaware that fog goblins have begun to steal their treasure.
0726 D Female giant praying mantis propitiated by regular gnome sacrifices from a eugenics-obsessed cleric of Lauthune, god of lineage.
0727 D Ash pole marks the site of an ancient battle. Natural lightning-strikes to the pole cause it to bloom, creating WANDS OF LIGHTNING.
0728 F Unicorn graveyard. Magically hidden until recently; anyone finding and speaking of it will trigger a horrible magic-horn gold rush.
0730 F Ruined aarakocra village. Feral bird-children worship a larval god that orders them to kill adults. The god has plans for 0216.
0809 D An unquenchable fire burns beneath the sea 100' off the cliffs here.
0810 D Small "forest" of petrified trees guarded by bone dryads, long ago betrayed by the bone devil in 0417.
0811 D Fog-goblin champion struck by lightning mid-fogification, now a rampaging living storm worshiped by frightened nomads.
0812 HD Hypnotic, spiraling box canyons lead to a desperate (but still evil and hungry) morkoth trapped in a shrinking water-filled cave.
0813 HD Loxo (elephant-folk) funerary pyramid constructed during the White Ziggurat Age and looted centuries ago.
0814 HD TESHAN, lunatic village, pop 320. Conclave survivors summoned PIRX, a law spirit, who rules as psychiatrist-king of an asylum-town.
0815 HD WORD Explorers killed trying to take rocks from the Graven Hills (0616). Their leader wears a HELM OF METAPHYSICAL ADAPTATION.
0816 HD WORD The Axolaxiomatic, an axolotlform law spirit, seeks fragments from 0524 0809 1214 1602 1908 to destroy the dragons in 1017.
0817 M WORD Ruins of the Conclave Tower, bastion for the Technogogic Implementer's enemies, now a churning singularity of fire and serpents.
0818 HD WORD Tangled jungle of 3-10' green pipes cross jagged chasms. Mutated slimes fill the pipes; malicious anti-angels circle overhead.
0819 D WORD The CROOKED ORB. 50' orb with permanent MAZE effect to imprison the Technogogic Implementer, now filled with trapped minor evils.
0820 D Silicate worms feast on a dead metallic space whale. They crackle with stolen electricity if approached.
0821 D Oasis defiled by Gesh. Each tree has a hidden eye through which wizards can see; the same fate awaits anyone who drinks the water.
0822 D Ghosts of rootborn wizards' retainers cycle endlessly through 100' of broken road. If somehow freed they offer an IGNOSCENIC SHROUD.
0823 D Tiny (3-5') battleships litter the dunes. A search turns up tiny skeletons and 3d6 tiny cannonballs (SLING STONES OF INCINERATION).
0824 D Lost vinyl elementals created by Technogogic wizards to record and weaponize the sounds of thunder-ghouls (like in 0711).
0825 F Magetrap plants. Leaves w/spellbook-like inscriptions to distract wizards while vines extract the brain. 1% chance of working spell.
0826 F Unseelie guards of the unicorn graveyard (0728) who have slipped their geas. They wander the wastes armed with VITRIFICATION WANDS.
0827 F Rangers led by the werebear SHARACCA follow the radiant-gorey, trampled path of a mortally wounded angel southeast into the hills.
0828 F Ranger camp, pop 50, beneath the toppled statue of the WOLF SHEDU. Led by THAPPA THE KAPPA, a frog-knight cursed by the 0821 oasis.
0829 In a river guarded by evil kappas: the Throne of Accar, hero-prince slain by Gesh. Grants far-sight out to 120 mi. if brought to 1220.
0830 F 20 forest tribe barbarians led by THOON OF THE LONG HAND turn against one-another after a nighttime werewolf attack.
0831 F Redd of the gorgosalmon. She waits with her roe for a worthy male (of almost any species). Petrified unworthies line the shore.
0909 D Kindly old couple asks directions to the manse in 1022. They are mage-killer clockworks activated by a dead Rootborn wizard in 0920.
0910 D Penitents guard the miraculous AMBER HEART OF ZIVA, all that remains of the Technogogic Implementer's greatest foe.
0911 D Tangle of dead horses and riders from a magical battle during the Treachery of Gesh. One skeletal horse wears a BRIDLE OF FERITY.
0912 D Remains of an inn built on a White Ziggurat Age fort; ghosts of the inn staff need help escaping the torment of the fort's specters.
0913 D Broken 50' jade hoop that once served as the phylactery of a storm giant lich. Nomads fear the jade's "poison light."
0914 HD Horse nomads chase a wagon destined for 0722. The driver stole precious preservative oils used to inter the nomads' royal dead.
0915 HD Split-tongue dwarf nuns of Kell the earth goddess taste the air, hunting for magic treasure to "return to Kell's treasury" (bury).
0916 HD WORD Former temple to Lauthune, God of Lineage, half-submerged in a quicksilver lake and abandoned to mercury maggots.
0917 HD WORD 15 conclave refugees dwell in the mouth of a huge magic-resistant serpent they've wedged open with an unbreakable staff.
0918 HD WORD Magically uplifted silver-masked basilisks discuss arcane philosophy. Anyone with a silver mask can study magic with them.
0919 HD WORD Camouflaged basalt tower occupied by a cleric of Zish, goddess of dreams. The Word-of-Serpents affects nothing within.
0920 D Home of Brocla, a murdered Rootborn wizard. Her death triggered dozens of assassination orders that her ghost wants to rescind.
0921 D Mummified White Ziggurat Age blackbird gives a crown to one "worthy of a throne"--really a CROWN OF THE LEONINE METAMORPHOSIS.
0922 D Abandoned secret training ground for Technogogic assassins now full of hobgoblins trying to access the semifunctional Danger Room.
0923 D Fortress of ECU, wife of Gesh. When he killed her in a temple of Zeri, she returned as a jackal-spirit who still rules the fortress.
0924 D Cave of the Holy Twins. Pair off PCs within; each has the skills, feats, spells, etc., of the other and retains his/her own.
0925 D In a crevasse: a dormant, long-bloodless half-alien vampire in a cracked spacesuit with a heat ray and a life-draining whip.
0926 F Beneath the lake: dead elves in burned ships. Magic weapons thrown in will appear later in times of great need, wielded by wraiths.
0927 HF TOMB OF THE WOLF SHEDU. White Ziggurat Age relic. The priests test STEADFASTNESS. Their reward is the FANG THAT OPENS ALL THINGS.
0928 HF Angel, half-glass and dying from the 0826 unseelie, seeks the spires in 1082 to kill itself before its pain turns it into a demon.
0929 HF Orcs use barely-controlled werepigs to hunt down and devour terrified myconids.
0930 F Kobolds guard and maintain a bridge. They want payment in gold or memories, but their memory-taking engine is broken and dangerous.
0931 F Stone bears line the waterfalls after the passing of the gorgosalmon.
1007 D Coast patrolled by mermaid pirates in upside-down catamarans. The captain has a lobster on her shoulder that says "Yar!"
1008 D 1/4-mile cocoon surrounded by a tent city of apocalyptic cultist/raiders who wait for the BIRTH THAT MURDERS THE WORLD.
1009 D Infernalist surrounded by 33 magic circles panics and attacks if spotted. Anyone touching a circle during the fight frees a demon.
1010 D TOMB OF THE SCORPION SHEDU. White Ziggurat Age relic. Priests test PATIENCE. Their reward is the CARAPACE THAT REFLECTS ALL THINGS.
1011 D Dragon-blooded kobold with fire breath gleefully Godzillas a tiny fairy city. Butterfly-riders and spitting beetles cannot stop it.
1012 D Lightning-struck treantwife prepares to birth a plasma elemental who will change the world. Attended by a centaur cleric of Melna.
1013 D Cow cultists of Zeri armed with sacred brain-scrambling needles. They want to become mindless cattle for cannibals and need recruits.
1014 HD CASTLE THEENA. 50 troops led by 7 paladins of the Oath of the Watched Gate, fanatics who fight off planar invasions.
1015 HD Hill tribe nomads offer an ancient treasure, the HELM OF THE KARKADANN, for the return of their leader (in 0613).
1016 HD WORD Floating gold coins. Anyone grabbing one is plane-shifted onto a boat in Hell alongside other catches of the devil Fisherjack.
1017 HD WORD Source of 0524 0809 1214 1602 1908: 5 mortally wounded chromatic wyrms brought to a stasis cave by kobold dragon cultists.
1018 HD WORD FORT CORA. Pop "900". Razed in the war; its guardian spirit has turned to necromancy to convince visitors everything is fine.
1019 D Mummy-haunted temple of HAPLOS, forgotten White Ziggurat Age Lion-Eagle Spirit. Plans to reinvigorate itself with 0921 and 1025.
1020 D Lost barrow of Gesh, who betrayed the nomads to the Technogogic Implementer. Gesh's wraith wields PARXIS, a +1 CHIMERA-HEADED SPEAR.
1021 D Ogre parasitised and dominated by god-maggots from 0730. Seeking 0216 to take them over. Armed with a BLOODBEAK MAUL.
1022 D Manse of AKMON: gnome, gemsmith, enchanter, Cosmogogic loyalist. Crystal rooks guard the GEM OF FREE WILL and the GEM OF ALIGNING.
1023 D Albino Black Mane Tribe gnolls crawl sunburned and blind through the desert, hunting the couatl that stole their pigment (1420).
1024 F Castle of the SAINT OF THE CROOKED MOON. Fights w/ a boomerang. Opens her castle (450 troops) to any who can defeat her in the sky.
1025 D Were-eagle nomad cursed by the CROWN OF AQUILINE METAMORPHOSIS seeks his leonine foe (0921) to reenact an ancient mythic struggle.
1026 F Bones of CHOTH THE GOD-KILLER hidden by feeding shambling mounds and myconids. Latu's magic arrows still pepper the titan's corpse.
1027 HD Gnome cleric from 0623, armed with a silver MACE OF MIDNIGHT, wonders what to do about the ten werewolves she just killed.
1028 HF Crystal spires that once held CHOTH THE GOD-KILLER destroy anyone pricked by them. TURFIN, apprentice from 1022, appraises them.
1029 F Hell-Reflecting River. 50' mirror-smooth stretch of river spawns vicious reflection-devils. They cannot breathe here and soon die.
1030 F TEMPLE OF ZERI, Sky-God of Justice. Schism builds over whether to use the ROD OF HIERARCHY to turn Shedu spririts into Zerian angels.
1031 F Dominated by ARCHIFEX CHEKA in 1030, the TROUT KING wears a bejeweled slave-collar, sacrifices his fish, and dreams of freedom.
1107 D Sentient rowboat with a collection of dubiously scientific gnomish biology texts is trying to grow legs and walk on land.
1108 D Lamia-haunted tower holds the VEXILLUM OF ZIVA, which holds 33 planar allies of Ziva and foes of the Implementer in its threads.
1109 D White sands are in fact clouds above Hell. The damned burn 1,000' below. Grappling hooks give evidence of escapes...and a way down.
1110 D Corpse of a 1/2-mile dracolich slowly transforming into a single world-shattering spell, one rune-encrusted bone at a time.
1111 D Entrance to the Micro-Cosmogog (PDF Download)
1112 D Oasis patrolled by hobgoblins who killed the desert nomad owners and don't yet know about the aquamedusa and kapoacinth guards.
1113 D 15 goblins infected by a growing-plague. The smallest (20') struggle to find enough food as gravity crushes the largest (50').
1114 D Green-feathered fey jaguar drags a 100' sphere of damp rainforest with it across the desert, desperate to return to its own realm.
1115 D ZYENN, failed horse nomad shaman, wears a magic-granting jade fragment from 0913. He hides his sickness from his 90 followers.
1116 HD The hag VULU carries a bag of names. She buys names for 10 years of (healthy) life per letter and sells them as magic scrolls.
1117 HD The wereserpent AJAGAR lies distended and helpless (except for her charm magic) after eating a whole young hill giant.
1118 HD THE LAST WORD. Inn-fort 100' from the Word zone. INNKEEPER SHIVAINE has a bounty on the giant who "kidnapped" her paramour (1218).
1119 D CARROCCIO OF LAUTHUNE, ancient and magical war-altar (spells: DEEP BLESSING, TIDE OF GLORY, HERO'S BLOOD) lost beneath the sands.
1120 D Gnolls and slaves drag a funeral barge with their slain chieftain across the desert, seeking to usurp the elf-wraiths in 0926.
1121 D Starry godling sent to redeem the orcish race already half-devoured by sneering, laughing ghouls. Scattered astral regalia.
1122 D Broken road. If the dagger in 1219 is removed, the road reappears, along with the lich SAVARNA and his TOWER OF TWENTY-NINE ANSWERS.
1123 D Deserted wagon contains a throwing-glaive, a sword that shoots other swords, and other stupid but deceptively useful magic weapons.
1124 D ENAXILA THE ANTIDRYAD plots to annihilate the southern forest. She needs moonsilver and sunsalt to create an antitree to inhabit.
1125 F Village of JIRAD, pop 330. Sheriff interrogates the petty-magus RABBAH, who tried to steal holy salt from the shrine of Kell.
1126 F Immortal scrag acolyte of the Wolf Shedu refuses to let anyone fish in its pond no matter how many times the Saint in 1024 kills it.
1127 F MAD ORACLE of VOOLMA, Nightmare Goddess and the Icon of Screams, uses Thappa's curse in 0828 to hunt and destroy rangers.
1128 HF Wolf-wraiths guard the Stela of Curses, a record of tribal betrayals and crimes to be unveiled if the Throne of Accar is restored.
1129 HF Legends say tossing a coin in the river-branch here lets you jump from one timeline to another; it only convinces people it's true.
1130 HF Brigands waylay burglars who stole a false Rod of Hierarchy from 1030. The treed burglars just killed their "useless" wizard.
1131 HF Talking owl claiming to be half of the maimed owlbear god Derulo is really an automaton created to hunt long-extinct bear-wizards.
1206 D Sick dragon turtle full of parasitic kobolds needs someone to enter and save it. It’s had no luck getting anyone into its gaping maw.
1207 D Sand-adapted angler fish drags its lure, which resembles a dying camel, across the desert to lure in carrion birds (or travelers).
1208 D Mad rootborn wizard ZOXUNE has stolen the trunks of five elephants and whips them into service with his ROD OF THE PENTALASH.
1209 D Corpses of polar bears tossed about by a vortex elemental sent by Miribai in 1808 to spy on Zoxune in 1208.
1210 D Temporary geniekind bazaar full of genies, spices, slaves, and illusions. A rogue paladin from Theena (1014) has been murdering jann.
1211 D Fallen githzerai bounty hunter in crocodile armor rides an undead rhinoceros to 0920 to collect his reward for the massacre in 1312.
1212 D Terrified ogre with gems growing from his head and arms (escaped slave of Theeree in 1311) flees a duo of greedy dao slavers.
1213 D Cocoon cultists from 1008 tried to raid a caravan. Their arrow-filled corpses litter the sands as a Latu cleric prays over them.
1214 D Unmoving cloud of toxic chlorine fills a dry ravine. Wretched elf vampire hides in the chlorine and hunts stray merchants at night.
1215 D Huge rectangular stone blocks hint at unfinished statues. Temple of feral sphinxes holds broken tablets of golem-construction.
1216 D Angel of Melna weaves on a LOOM OF FATE the destiny of the Technogogic Implementer. She is behind and needs magic wool to catch up.
1217 D Marid-cursed temple of Zeri, god of justice. Magically drowned in seawater to bury its clerics’ experiments in wishes and "justice."
1218 HD Hill giant herbalist brews shrinking potions to woo the innkeeper in 1118. The potion only worked once, and then not for long.
1219 HD A heart with a magic dagger through it in a cave filled with destroyed undead. Removing the dagger awakens the lich in 1122.
1220 HD ACCAR'S HILL. Where the tribes met before the fall of the last high king. Restoring Accar's throne (0829) may reunite the tribes.
1221 D Ghost-maimed desert nomad can point the way to Gesh’s tomb in 1020. Jackalwere from Ecu in 0923 hunts the nomad to keep Gesh buried.
1222 D A flock of stonesheep, which petrify in sunlight, then revive at night. Gnomes and wizards value their photoreactive fleece.
1223 F The desert tribes slew the traitor Gesh here in the scrubby borderlands. Broken weapons rise at night to reenact the final battle.
1224 F Magic bottle once used to hold a void genie. Its corpse lies nearby, a void in space. 0625 and 1808 would both pay for the bottle.
1225 HF SHAXIS: werewolf chief, scheming merchant, Ootoonic heretic. Haggles with outer gods to sell the current moon and keep his powers.
1226 HF 40 forest barbarians feed intruders to a bag of devouring so huge (10') it's ready to burst and disgorge its transformed contents.
1227 HF Old-timey brontosaurus bred by Theeree in 1311 from outdated gnomish references cornered by sleek pack-hunting feathered raptors.
1228 M Ancient cave paintings create and sustain the source of the ERUSIN RIVER, which flows west. Sacred newt shedu mummies guard the cave.
1229 HF Out-of-control orc incubation beast. Swollen, porcine, mad with pain and rage, wriggling with orc-grubs.
1230 HF The Brides of Shoth, eight vampire rangers armed with arrows that turn into blood-sucking weasels a moment before impact.
1231 F Throne carved with runes that teach perfect kingship. The runes work; the perfect king is then killed by extraplanar maenads.
1306 D Laxshmara, pop 120. Voolma-worshiping drow fort-village in a giant clamshell that crawls across the ocean floor or up dry riverbeds.
1307 D Ant-headed psionic trolls regenerate all damage except psychic and thunder. Their "senex schism" mind-blasts disrupt clerical magic.
1308 D Shrine to Kell the earth goddess where 15 dwarf zealots chain down, castigate, and sacrifice "impure" rocks and gems.
1309 D The "Serpentine Giantess." Seems mountain-size from a distance; up close just a half-ogre (about 7'). Has slain many "giant-hunters."
1310 D TEMPLE OF MELNA, Goddess of Metal. High priest is desperate to stop his toothache (caused by 0517) before Kell cultists topple him.
1311 D Rogue biomancer THEEREE OPAL breeds ogres and mimics to make bags of holding. She stole Akmon's spellbook to make the ogre in 1212.
1312 D Village (pop now 150) hit by bounty hunter in 1211. Slain: chief merchant-alienist of Shaxis (1225), who had a buyer for the moon.
1313 D 30 Ootoonic corrosion cult sahuagin armed with sea cucumber guns that vomit forth their own guts to cause acid damage.
1314 D Dwarven Kell cultists from 1308 rob travelers of their "impure" jewels for sacrifice ("pure" jewels are just regular-stolen).
1315 D The Throne of Painted Macaws (an Imperial satrap) has sent a witch-knight to capture the cleric in 0719; she plans to study with him.
1316 D The Sea Cow, a pirate ship. Pirates under the minotaur captain SHOKOR wear sharpened horned helmets and learn to fight like a cow.
1317 D Ex-guards of the inn at 1118 turned bandits. The high priest petrified their faces when they mocked Melna. One has a map to 0218.
1318 D Pearl-panoplied nymph knight with LANCE OF THE TAPESTRY guards the road from bandits and any who might resurrect the lich in 1122.
1319 D In her obelisk, a mummified cat guards the CROWN OF AQUILINE METAMORPHOSIS, awaiting the success of its champion in 1025.
1320 D Lair of the Zerian angel in 0827, sent to stop the lion-eagle spirit Haplos in 1019. Countless scrolls: journals, spells, traps.
1321 D Loxo ghosts command a tusk golem with a massive central cage half-filled with terrified sacrifices. Destination: 1521.
1322 D Pool of skulls. Huge troll skulls in this alkali pool demand human bones for prophecies; 10% chance of taking bone from asker.
1323 F Trees damaged by the Word of Serpents grow strange and feed on spells. Slowed spell zone: spells take 1 extra round to go off.
1324 F Rat king stretched over an electrified polyhedral dome: psychic enemy of the Throne of Rings and Mirrors (a satrap of the Implementer).
1325 HF SHEJIN the oni, ally of Theeree in 1311, rides the severed rotting head of a celestial dragon, using the dragon's huge pearl to fly.
1326 HF Amber stasis-coffin of URTANNAH, champion of Ziva, carried by dragon-headed golems seeking a cleric who can heal the Chimera Wound.
1327 M Castle of the SAINT OF STOLEN FACES whose mask steals the face of anyone who removes it. Challenges visitors to mimicry contests.
1328 M Goat-folk champion with colossal hollow horns that create wind-blasts and bring whispers from faraway lands.
1329 M TEMPLE OF LATU. The high priest could not heal Urtannah (1326) and now seeks darker wisdom from the birds of 1418.
1330 HF 8 bandits led by IRKEI THE DRAGON-BULL, who is really two kobold fighters and one kobold illusionist in a trenchcoat.
1331 S Lair of GOZ, Serpent of the Egg Within Itself. Banishes foes to private pocket hells; treasure includes MIMIC INK and ECU'S NEEDLE.
1401 LF GOLGAMMANNAH, CITY OF PAINTED HANDS, pop 800. Near-ruined port city. Created magically as a glory, melting with so few to admire it.
1402 P Herd of 22 displaced Bigby's Hands thunder across the plains, stalked by a small pack of 4 Mordenkainen's Hounds.
1403 P 40 dead Sahuagins killed by drow from Laxshmara (1306). One bears an invitation to the aboleth mummy in 0622.
1404 P Seaside cave large enough for a galley serves as the creche for a larval sea-god that needs 316 more human brains to be fully born.
1405 D Inverse deep sea diver in bulky suit. Umbilical leads to water. Cracked diving bell; wearer exploded in our too-thin atmosphere.
1406 HD Genius architect who made new castle for the Throne of Painted Macaws marked for death; hunted by jaguar warrior assassins.
1407 HD Long-depleted White Ziggurat Age copper mine serves as maze/arena where captured humans flee monsters to amuse UX THE TROLL KING.
1408 HD Knights of the Gecko Saint in 1508 hunt a witch-knight of the The Sugar-Cane Throne while she brews a sandstorm to escape.
1409 D Traveling tinker and Melna cleric uses magic golden wires to repair iron, copper, leather, friendships, insanity, past mistakes…
1410 D Short-term dimensional waystation used by couriers between the City of Brass and the Chameleon Duoverse. 10% chance of courier.
1411 D ZAR KANNAH, a White Ziggurat Age spirit reduced to a fragile whirlwind, desperate to grant clerical magic and regain its status.
1416 LF Mosquito swarm carries "eidolon fever," which turns its victims ice cold and turns the heat from their fever into fire elementals.
1417 LF DOMIO, pop 100. Villagers grow grapes and olives. Frequently raided by bandits, they believe the nymph in 1318 is a bandit queen.
1418 D Legends say the gulls here eat people and re-form them as disciples of Latu the Sky Goddess. Other legends say they just eat people.
1419 LF A lion-stag aggressively defends its kill--a juvenile treant--from a pack of gazelle-dogs.
1420 LF Couatl alchemist seeks to invent a new color for its plumage and will pay for art and for interesting creatures' pigmentation.
1421 F Huge lotus seed pod holds worried mind flayers. Lured to this world by promises of a moon for sale, they fear the couatl in 1420.
1422 F Legendary rootborn "fire mage" ORPO THE MIGHTY is in fact a *fir* mage with awesome power over pines, spruces, other conifers.
1423 F Deer buck with a spider in a web in its colossal antlers; their brains have merged to form a genius-level gestalt intelligence.
1424 F Lair of MINN, Serpent of the Ulfire Pearls That Circle. Distorts gravity, causes blindness; treasure includes the IOUN BRIDE.
1425 F Treasure map to 1219 tattooed on the skin of a mummified nymph. Wearing the skin gains the tattoo and great beauty (charm at will).
1426 HF Rangers mourn after an orc ambush. They recite the LAMENT OF THORNS that will turn their fallen into wooden weapons and guardians.
1427 M White ape pirates with clear brain cases smuggle radium guns to 1324. Their shipment is late; the mind flayers in 1421 awoke them.
1428 M Sacrificial altar to Thar destroyed by a cleric of Kell (now slain) whose scripture, perverted, fuels the zealots in 1308.
1429 HF 30 slime goblins led by GLEEM, a kappa, and his hulking werecatfish lieutenant MESSICLE MANDRAGORA.
1430 S Adventurers finish off a "frog god" (a petty-angel of Ootoon). Some loot its temple. The rest, all goofy on frog-licking, attack!
1502 P The KNIGHT STOCHASTIC gains power (+1 temporary HPs, +1 to all d20 rolls) whenever a d20 is actively rolled within 20 feet of her.
1503 P CHEZZIREI (half-elf scholar) seeks the fire mage Orpo to stop the spread of eidolon fever in Golgammannah's (1401) Jigsaw District.
1504 P TREPANATORS OF ZISH offer clericism to any who open their skulls to Heaven. They seek an amulet (2806) to fight the cultists in 1013.
1505 P Farmstead. Beneath: cultists of the larval sea-god in 1404 have learned how to harvest human brains and weave them into magic nets.
1506 HD Any blood spilled on any of three 1/4-mile slate hexagons summons the hungry ghosts of trolls and, later, their elf-wraith jailers.
1507 HD Last of the wild trolls that once hunted northern Tamera: slithering, formless gray predators who sold their teeth and bones to Ti.
1508 M Castle of the GECKO SAINT. Opens his castle (pop 900) to any who can beat him in a vertical cliffside joust. Guards the BLACK ORB.
1509 HD When stars appear through the crescent moon from this platform, clerics can call down astral flamestrikes with the amulet from 2805.
1510 D Whirlpool of bones. Causes horrific slashing damage to anyone not armored head-to-toe; teleports to underwater cave in 1916.
1511 D Diviner TULE MANI TULE scries victims of 0821. Cursed by a bee-spirit (2602), she breeds birds that look like flowers to hunt bees.
1517 LF DALAH, pop 300. Cleric of Lauthune teaches a starving but clothed otyugh the concept of shame. Filth builds up in the village above.
1518 LF Traveling necromancer knows how to turn breath into gold. In his wagon: Strange spun-gold sculptures, cats, asphyxiated corpses.
1521 LF Abandoned loxo (elephant-folk) shrine of Thar the Tomb God half-restored by humans, which infuriates the lingering loxo ghosts.
1522 F Death Knight champion of Thar the Tomb God. Bears an ax carved from 1028 and the hand of Ti, God of Dreams. Seeks the rest of Ti.
1523 F From his stolen wasp nest, MIREI the vampire, get of Shuthi, works to transfer his vulnerability from the sun to a long-period comet.
1524 F Signs of genocidal orc-on-orc warfare: burned-out caves, scorched corpses of orc children, poisoned incubator-beasts.
1525 F Woods dotted with vine-wrapped obelisks and regular solids that chime when touched. Lost shrine to Voolma (goddess of madness) below.
1526 F Drowned coliseum barely visible from the road. Giant geckos. Ghosts of White Ziggurat Age gladiators teach forgotten battle-arts.
1527 HF Kobolds have paralyzed the titan EKUMEDI with a Word of Serpents rune and now tunnel into his bones to extract magical marrow.
1528 HF Extradimensional ethereal-jaunting maenads armed with copper knives seek the "perfect king" in 1628, slaughtering as they go.
1529 HF The POOL WITHOUT NAMES. Bathing in it removes diseases, tattoos, brands, and prepared spells. People believe it nullifies oaths.
1530 HF LACVEI, pop 400. Village long ruled by a cruel baron until his defeat. Their new ruler is gone; people fear Baron Pethom's return.
1601 P Stelp Manor and Melchinion's Garden (PDF Download)
1602 P Unmoving 50'-diameter acid sphere fills most of one section of the river. Water flows around it. Boats do not.
1603 P Cloudstone boat with 20 templars from 2203 seeking "Citadel of Astral Fire" (1509). Cleric captain wields the flail SUNDERED MEMORY.
1604 P Wide clear river with underwater petroglyphs depict dragons battling a titanic airship around the sun and moon.
1605 HLF Bees and the flower-like birds (created by 1511) that hunt them. Dwarf from 1902 died of bee stings hunting the delicious birds.
1606 HD Sacrificing anything to the gray altar to Thar here lets you command its shadow for 33 nights. After, it flees with your seed.
1607 HD Former rootborn apprentice DUMI THE BOOKSELLER peddles tomes (magical and mundane) from his teleporting wagon.
1608 HD The ACCIDENTAL LION hunts here. Enough chaotic material (overturned wagons, dust devils, frantic melees) may manifest the lion.
1609 D PEI WEX, a sphinx, guards the CLOUD CHALICE and asks the RIDDLE OF THE DOG WITH SINNERS IN ITS BELLY.
"A dog must take 3k souls 1k miles down to hell. It holds 1k souls. A soul escapes every mile down but not up. How many souls can it damn?"
1618 LF Convoy from 1517 to the temple in 1720 massacred by orcs. Devils tempts the guardian angel of a slain holy child toward revenge.
1619 LF NOOTH PAR, cleric of Zith, lies badly wounded in a seaside cave after the overthrow of his temple (1720).
1624 F BARON PETHOM PAHR, ex-ruler of 1530, travels with 20 knights to regain his village with the help of his brother, a cleric of Zith.
1625 F Corpse of an archangel of Latu slain by Choth the God-killer hallows these waters. Her blood creates potions of underwater breathing.
1626 F Corpses of bandits hanged along this road float upward, as Latu wants to make angelic archers out of their souls for her own reasons.
1627 F Bandits came to a fatal disagreement near a golden idol of Voolma. The idol has no powers, but the bandits will rise as idol-wraiths.
1628 HF After a month studying the throne in 1231 and a month of ruling Lacvei (1530), AROS the "perfect king" hides from frenzied maenads.
1629 HF Ogre cave. In the treasure: a book that promises magic to any who bring the MANTICORE BROOCH (1812) to 1910 and aligns it properly.
1702 P The LAST CHANCE, ship of the Knight Stochastic (1502). Soon it will head upriver to fight cultists of Shilaq from 2203.
1703 P Old abandoned villages reveal the former dense population of northern Tamera. Feral halflings and terror birds hunt at night.
1704 P Estate of the ZOLYARI family. Their Technogogic sympathies saw them burned alive by Rootborn wizards. Ghosts? Yeah, ghosts.
1705 P Fishermen hunt the legendary pike BLACKFIN in this river. Only one halfling shaman knows Blackfin is the polymorphed Zolyari heir.
1706 LHF Beginning of colossal White Ziggurat Age wall that once protected the north from hill trolls. Holes indicate removed warding runes.
1707 HD Mummified troll hunter in a bone chariot determined to destroy the last trolls in Tamera, goaded on by mocking, invisible devils.
1708 HD Lair of SHEMENIKI the Dragon Peacock. She seeks her mate (killed by Shejin the oni in 1325). Her breath inspires psychotic avarice.
1709 D Witch-knight of the Throne of Rings and Mirrors, a satrap of the Technogogic Implementer, wounded by the serpent-hunters in 1710.
1710 D Shilaq zealots attack GRALL-W-GYS, Serpent of the Middle Fire. They fear its LIGHTNING PLAGUE but desire its RING OF RIVEN CLOUDS.
1720 LF TEMPLE OF ZISH, Goddess of Dreams. Clergy replaced by murderous shapeshifting were-octopi who want their masters in 1313 slain.
1727 HF MODRIOS, pop 1400. Maimed by the death knight in 1522, Ti, God of Wisdom, struggles to enlighten this town and so heal itself.
1728 F Witch-knight of the Throne of Rings and Mirrors builds a secret gate to teleport a vampire-frying solar-reflecting mirror into orbit.
1801 P 2-mile gap between high and low tide. Vast liminal space once exploited by Rootborn wizards now teeming with unspent elemental power.
1802 P The Annihilated Herd: unicorns vaporized by the serpent in 1906. Only their crushing hooves and goring horns remain, floating in air.
1803 P Predatory halflings use stilts and poles to scout the tall savanna grass, then attack from cover with blow guns and giant war ants.
1804 D The TITAN-ENGINE OF AIR, a huge airship concealed by the SKY KURETES. Unaware slaves from 2203 mine lightweight cloudstone deposits.
1805 LF Forest turned to multilevel thorn-maze by minotaur druids guarding the BLACK LABRYS taken from the devils of the Blackshards (2008).
1806 LF White Ziggurat Age wall. It creates illusory tigers stalk the woods. They've begun to breed with illusions created for the last war.
1807 D Dry riverbed runs from here to 1506. Boats still float despite the lack of water, a secret known to Miribai (1808) and her servants.
1808 D The ZAZMIARY OF MIRIBAI. Here the eponymous Rootborn witch tends to her zazms--flowers of alien geometry and awesome psychic power.
1809 D Remains of CHETHIN, Serpent of Crooked Flowers. Its bones still grow in strange fractal patterns, sheltering psychic wild dogs.
1812 D Conclave of Parrots and Monkeys. Pirate pets meet astrally to plan the economic impact of piracy in the region for the next 10 years.
1826 F Rotting hulk in shipwreck maze: TEMPLE OF OOTOON, The Flowing One. Priests want to kill werewolf in 1225 before he destroys the moon.
1902 P NORTH FIELD, pop 2,200 dwarves and humans led by the dwarf hero NINE BOUND. Heart of the resistance against Shilaq's storm cult (2203).
1903 P Dwarf merchants pay well for the "sweet birds" of 1605--a treat that maintains morale for the resistance against Shilaq's cult.
1904 P The WOMB OF HALF DEATH. A cave shaped like a goat's screaming mouth leads to the breeding pool for the shadows summoned from 1606.
1905 P Hidden tunnel from 1804 lead to the SKY KURETES' research chambers, filled with fog goblin brood mothers and air elemental hybrids.
1906 P Lair of THREEN, Serpent of the Forgotten Sky. It can hide in memories and arguments. Its hoard includes the PECTORAL OF THE LOST SUN.
1907 LF Ruins of White Ziggurat Age wall. Strange illusory lights at night. Ferns can be used as CLOAKS OF ELVENKIND that last 1d4 weeks.
1908 D Eternally frozen ice storm in a ravine. Dwarves and nomads throw their criminals in from the ROCK OF SHAME and believe it is Hell.
1909 D Abandoned village claimed by dwarven Oootonic serpent cultists who animate their beards and send them out to kill and steal.
1910 D VAKRIN, pop 600. Aligning the MANTICORE BROOCH with a mountain, obelisk, and (now burned down) mill leads to the DUNGEON OF CHAINS.
1916 D Underwater cave accessible from 1510 leads to an ape-haunted island with a shipwreck containing the MANTICORE BROOCH of 1910.
2001 P Blackened skeleton charioteers wreathed in white fire. Animated by a witch-knight (2006) to find the amulet that killed them (2805).
2002 P Fanatical airwhale slowly turns herself into a living cathedral to Lauthune. Those swallowed may gain clerical powers--most dissolve.
2003 P GREEN WAVE, pop 280. Enslaved by 2203. Shilaq cleric-scientists feed dwarf blood into cloudstone trying to produce true airships.
2004 P A passing sage of Ti cursed the wildlife with enlightenment. Peccaries and wild dogs scream and try to claw out their third eyes.
2005 P Fallen Rootborn tower with magic mouths that all trigger one-another. Nonsense words have begun to attract and charm predatory fey.
2007 D SHILAQ, chaotic god of storms, the Face in the Whirlwind, considers action against his technogogic-leaning new high templar in 2203.
2008 D The Blackshards. Crystalline obsidian cliffs reflect and create devilish versions of anyone who looks too long into the facets.
2022 D Lost JUGGERNAUT OF OOTOON, ancient magic war-altar that traverses land and water (spells: SHAPE OF PAIN, COIL CHILD, MORPHIC CLOUD).
2102 P Prison of the Rune of Veins, a branching horror that offers to replace a body's blood with it. Benefits of this are unclear at best.
2103 P Dullahans animated by idly cruel Shilaq cultists terrorize the local farmers with spine-whips and balefire.
2104 P Cloudstone poisoning of local fish has caused the "floating death" among villagers, who drift into the air and suffocate.
2105 P Nine false druids of "Hinthial, the Restored One" (2309) flee an air elemental sent by an offended White Ziggurat Age spirit in 1411.
2106 P Aberrant servants of Miribai seek the lighthouse-keeper in 2308 to learn about Voolma. One carries a SCEPTER OF SIDEREAL PRAXIS.
2107 P Shilaq cultists bear their slain champion away from the castle in 2206, while scheming to steal his armor, the WYRMLINK COAT.
2108 P Grassy caldera of long-extinct volcano serves as "extreme cold weather training" for commandos of a race of warlike fire elementals.
2109 D Clerics of Ti can't remember their temple's location or even their god's name hunted by rangers loyal to Hinthial the "Restored One."
2128 V Poison-spewing volcano. Ancient arsenical bronze temple to forgotten salamander godling holds secrets of magical bronzeworking.
2202 P ARAHOON, pop 1120. Center of the Shilaq cult. Savage cultists plot against the new high templar for reining in their butchery.
2203 P TEMPLE OF SHILAQ, God of Storms. The new high templar is an evil scholar who cares only for Shilaq's power, not his ideology.
2204 P Cursed gamblers are secret werepolyhedrals who turn into burning dice on the full moon and thunder across the plains killing at whim.
2205 P Evil storm elementals fight. Some are Shilaq loyalists; others, armed with lightning guns and winning, follow the new high templar.
2206 HF The WHITE CROWN SAINT has the bones of trolls in 1507. Any who can outduel the ever-healing saint can use them to heal Ti in 1727.
2207 P Halfling girls armed with wooden swords count coup against grazing dinosaurs in order to claim the husbands who are the best cooks.
2208 P In a ruined border-fort: an aristocratic ghoul and foppish vampire argue over matters of etiquette while their food screams for help.
2222 O Wreckage of an arcane airship that sought Ootoon the Flowing One after stealing the MANTLE OF THE SCREAMING SKY from Shilaq.
2303 P River swarming with ammits, lion-crocodiles that devour only the most wicked and most righteous to balance the scales of creation.
2304 P Left-for-dead ex-Shilaq high templar uses the lake to scry out who stole Shilaq's Mantle and brought about his downfall (2222).
2305 P Prairie fire! Fire elemental gazelles race ahead of the wave of flame.
2306 P Huge iron lotus flower contains a dwarf sage of Ti who taught, and now seeks to destroy, the high templar of Shilaq in 2203.
2307 P Scorched tree sends those within to the City of Brass in the plane of fire when a prairie fire touches it--a secret known to 2308.
2308 P Lighthouse keeper is a sound mage who can unlock 1525 to reveal a dungeon with the secret history of Voolma, the Icon of Screams.
2309 P Temple of "Hinthial." Wounded by Thar, Ti masquerades as Hinthial, the Scorpion-Carp, a White Ziggurat Age spirit, to grant miracles.
2322 S Brachiating octopuses hunt in mangrove swamps near OOTOON, The Flowing One, who desires the World Tree of the Three Orbs for itself.
2327 H The First Mountain (PDF Download)
2402 P Centaur necromancer who lost his lower half grafts hideous replacements until one can help him defeat his mutilators in 2001.
2403 P Three drunk medusas petrify passing birds while laughing their asses off. They share secrets in exchange for strong drink or magic.
2404 P The Lirex--a tribe of bearded and horned lion-legged satyr cannibals--hunt with javelins and hypnotic songbirds.
2405 P Azers that came to this world from 2307 killed by halflings and giant ants. One azer had a HELM OF ROTATING FACETS.
2406 P Spear farm. Elves grew magic spears here in a wheat-like field. Abandoned, the spears have grown feral.
2407 P ANAXOS, immortal and accursed cyclops murderer. Bound with adamant, fed by his infernal one-eyed progeny of raptors and wild dogs.
> ISLAND OF MIDRI MEC, small island ruled by the treacherous ATLAMMAH, THRONE OF PAINTED MACAWS, satrap of the Technogogic Implementer.
2414 P PORT BORT, Pop 2200. Technogogic town divided into sealable zones patrolled by wyvern riders to prevent Plague-of-Serpents outbreaks.
2424 O The JUBILANT, metal fish of the SAINT OF VERDIGRIS AND WINE. Any who defeat him in underwater battle can use his (damaged) submarine.
> ISLAND OF ALU PAN, largest and most populous island in the Sea of Vipers, ruled by the Technogogic Implementer and his five Thrones.
2428 LF TEMPLE OF VOOLMA, the Icon of Screams. The archifex guards the sonic vorpal sword BOSTEROME that creates serpents in severed limbs.
2429 LF Clairvoyant rat king hides in an artificial cloud and trails the ground with copper wires like a man-o-war to electrocute people.
2430 LF Witch-knight of the Throne of Painted Macaws flies through the air on a chariot pulled by a million butterflies and hummingbirds.
2431 LF SOLCE, pop 2300. Gnomes rebuild a T. Rex skeleton. It's a lich that will awaken once they put the Big Skull Crystal back into place.
2502 O Secret underwater tunnel maintained by werefish gnomes fighting a losing battle against drow Voolma cultists.
2514 P Giblet kids--gore-devils come down from the hills after a dimensional mishap to claim organs. Armed with vicious screws and drills.
2515 HF The THRONE OF PAINTED MACAWS. She knows the order to free the Antigods (Abundant Worm's Scepter, Tor Col, Shekuneth, Chedec, Ondor).
2527 P 2527 LF WEEPING, pop 880. Halfling wizard bakes gingerbread men to replace anyone who draws the Voolma sacrificial altar lottery.
2528 LF The Neorxnaelves: elf lighthouse-keepers and Lauthune zealots armed with poison-smeared tridents and a hatred of ugliness.
2529 LF CHEDEC, Antigod of Lauthune. Imprisoned behind a curtain of eyes. Virgin archer who teaches parthenogenesis and water/lunar magic.
2530 LF Huge pit of black bleeding earth is a failed orcish breeding pit. Torn veil here permits ghosts to feast and prophesy.
2531 LF In cave: Big Crystal (2431), psychic dino ghosts, ancient spells to repair the metal fish of the Saint of Verdigris and Wine (2424).
> Forgotten sacred experiments from the Age of the White Ziggurat litter the ISLAND OF ETERU, which saw the first coming of the new gods.
2601 P TOR COL, Antigod of Zeri, god of justice, imprisoned by his own knotted ouroboros hands at his throat. Thief of beauty and obscenity.
2602 TOMB OF THE BEE SHEDU. White Ziggurat Age relic. The priests test CRAFT. Their reward is the JAR OF UTTER RESTORATION.
2621 F TEMPLE OF LAUTHUNE, GOD OF LINEAGE. Archifex Ramus QUESTS visitors to find the Carrochio in 1119 to thwart the Technogogic Implementer.
2623 LF URMISH, the THRONE OF ANTLERS AND IRON. Has a 50' WICKER BEAR stuffed with drugged bears and ready to rampage if anyone ignites it.
2624 LF Orcs dying of psychic sepsis after being forced to sing along to a fairy tune. The fairies flutter over them, laughing and laughing.
2625 P GLITTERING PHAYLIXEE, dwarf knight of Melna bedecked in shattered stained glass. His glass axe and grappling tear enemies to shreds.
2626 P Colossal stone apotropaic deer created by Lauthune face northwest toward Ootoon. Drow and slime cultists plot their destruction.
2627 P 100' pyramid of stirges in a magic barrier. Pool in the center turns to blood 1/day to feed them. Dispel magic breaks the barrier.
2628 HLF Huge carved winged sun disc: husband of Terateca, a slain White Ziggurat Age spirit, and also a giant sleeping flying machine.
2629 LF Gingerbread man has gained sentience. Armed with magic items, it flees the oven golem servants of the halfling baker/wizard in 2527.
2630 LF Starry hookstone: arrested asteroid carved with jade hooks to catch those ascending to heaven. Contains 3d4 now-insane souls.
2702 D In a cave: scroll of MAENADISM (cleric 4). Makes you a marble statue (as STONESKIN) that causes murderous mania in religious women.
2703 LF Xorns and vampires meet in a bower to offer prayers and sacrifices to the amber medusa in 3002. Paladins of Zeri prepare an ambush.
2704 P Beholder godling hollows out a 6-mile spherical miniworld where it will be the sun. It has apes and dinosaurs, but needs people.
2705 P Forgotten temple to a younger, crueler Melna. The ancient dead materialize at night to writhe and scream on iron impaling poles.
2722 P Immortal Ibis-headed heresiarch MINDERCOTHI BLIR combines White Ziggurat Age spirits in new forms to worship them as god-priest-king.
2723 P Witch-Knights of the Throne of Painted Macaws killed seeking the Abundant Worm. Lauthune radicals who will kill to hide the massacre.
2724 LF ALEP-W-SHAPTORN, crippled new WZA spirit. Made by Mindercothi (2722), the "rat-newt" screams for death as sacrifices keep it alive.
2725 P Paladin of an extinct shrew-like race that slew the last dinosaur-liches waits in suspended animation beside a psychic crystal sword.
2726 P Dogwitch devils--dog-headed fiends--lead chanting zealots around a standing stone to raise and enslave SHOTH the Wolf-Newt.
2727 P Empty but cozy inn is a mimic brood mother that shrinks to 6" in size to crush and devour its prey. Some of its parasites may help.
2728 P Fractured tabernacle of Zeri accesses the god directly. His divine radiance blasts the wicked and turns his followers into zealots.
2729 P Mercurial fountain. Anyone who drinks of it gains shapeshifting (and brain damage). Items dipped in it can turn into similar items.
2730 P Ants charmed by the baker in 2527 re-enact in miniature the court of the Technogogic Implementer, except they do not speak.
2801 HD ISSHEX, a cruel and slovenly green dragon. Its intelligent magic items, good and evil, plot against it to find more worthy owners.
2802 HD Long-forgotten, concealed, currently deactivated teleport gate to 0518. White Ziggurat Age directions point to other gate.
2803 LHF ALACT, pop 200. Kell priestess needs snakes from 2826 to finish replacing her blood with perfectly-harmonized poisonous snakes.
2804 P Gnoll wizard-chef (disciple of the halfling in 2527) cooks shifting lycanthrope meat with strange and terrible properties.
2805 P Lighthouse-keeper: cleric of Zeri with a fire amulet and the SHIELD OF DRA (it shows the greatest virtue and vice of its wielder).
2820 P SHMOPOLIS, pop 90. Its leader, the lighthouse-keeper SHMOLLY, saves migrants from the war-torn Wire Universe, where people are wires.
2821 P DURAD, pop 180. P Loom wizard EPLO CO LALA needs adventurers to dig up bog mummies and return with undamaged ancient textile samples.
2822 P Angel of Voolma. Anyone it kills becomes a labyrinth 50' across per hit die filled with jade treasure and ibex-headed minotaurs.
2823 P Troglogytes with gasmasks, muskets, and bayonets. They claim a global gas war cost them the surface world, but now they're back.
2824 P CLOND, pop 400. Renowned home of the Hand of Varuz the sea god: huge blue watery hand that can be ridden by anyone worthy.
2825 P Heads on pikes indicate orc territory. Heads on pikes that vomit fire and scorpions indicate orc SHAMAN territory.
2826 P Mating dance of the magma worms. Everything within a mile has been reduced to ash. Halfling Kell-shamans dance among them.
2827 P The ABUNDANT WORM guards the RECTIFICATION SCEPTER, which straightens all knots and cures all madness (except Ootoon's).
2828 P Screaming black pigs on stilts with thunder magic are angels of Voolma sent to punish orcs for insufficient piety.
2829 P ZVOLIZ, Pop 620. Vampire breeds mimics to serve as mobile crypts for her burgeoning army of spawn, with which she plans to take over.
2902 H Quartz hills create a tree made of moonlight on the 1st day of the crescent moon with magical healing quinces that grant prophecies.
2903 Temple of Kell. The Archifex seeks the intelligent sword KODMOS (2801), which can yank out a person's skeleton (fatal) and control it.
2904 LHF Finches trained by ancient elves in archery patrol these woods with tiny sleep arrows. Those who fall are usually eaten by bears.
2905 Elf martial artists covered in moss and flowers has meditated for 1000 years and is close to perfecting his ultimate technique.
2906 Castle of the SAINT OF YELLING AND FLEXING ALL THE TIME. Opens his meat-castle (pop 900) to any who bests him in wrestling.
2920 P NEW LO'SAH, pop 200. A bitter ex-cleric of Zeri manufactures starry hookstones to capture the souls of the righteous.
2921 P Looted and blown-apart Labyrinth of Voolma from 2822 now inhabited by kobolds ruled by a morkoth hashish-eater.
2922 P Beastmaster seeks rat king killed to create Alep-W-Shaptorn. She has the ALPHORN-GUISARME OF DANDERIC and her wrath will be terrible.
2923 S Old defaced temple to Ootoon, called here The Bringer of the New World. Crude graffiti reads THE NEW GODS ARE A DISEASE OF LANGUAGE.
2924 S Troglodyte uplift-hospital with uplifted lizards (kobolds, lizardfolk, wyverns) and a colossal supergenius spellcasting white dragon.
2925 LHF Brigand-priest of Tor Col has learned to steal salvation and hunts clerics. His dagger, MISABUNDANCE, steals knots and buckles.
2926 LHF Local orc tribe wears thorned vine armor crafted by the druid in 3128 and troglodyte gas masks to fight cockatrices and gorgons.
2927 LHF Lair of NHAND, the Vivacious Serpent, who causes rapid growth of plants, hair, nails, children; treasure includes the WIRE MOON.
2928 LHF Rootborn "rebels" against the Technogogic Implementer turned to banditry and Ootoon worship; financed by theft and occult opiates.
2929 P Gesh's forgotten vizier. Has the ARTIST'S PERSPECTIVE STAFF that moves things close/far or grows/shrinks them--even down to nothing.
2930 P Fishers of the Sugar-Cane Throne kill fish, check them for magic items in their stomachs, throw them away. Local villagers starve.
2931 P The SUGAR-CANE THRONE, satrap of the Technogogic Implementer, experiments with growing halflings in seed pods. Seeks the orb in 3022.
3002 H TELEPHERA, the amber medusa. Shining mosquito-haired monstrosity who drinks sap. Her gaze transmogrifies to blood or amber.
3003 P Lizard-riding recruits from the Chameleon Duoverse study horse archery under a centaur warmaster.
3004 P 2602 Ot-W-Roon the Newt-Bee, demigod who stole fire from the gods, now offers humanity fimbulwinter, cannibal copper, ultradeath.
3010 D Gigaloxo temple to a forgotten human-headed god. Elephant-folk feed and pray over feral humans like they were sacred rats or monkeys.
3018 P OLD CAT, pop 2,800. Dwarf town built on and in an ancient stone sphinx, unable to stop the legendary wizard-thief HRADDI HANDS.
3019 P Statue asks a riddle: IF GOLD IS THE NIGHT, WHEN ARE DOGS ABOVE THE MOON? There's no answer. It just disintegrates anyone who speaks.
3020 P Too-clever town guard driven from his home by the wizard-thief in 3018 who cursed his reflection and shadow to resemble a serpent's.
3021 P Wire Universe mage knows the secret of ritually murdering keys and locks to turn them into ghosts, thwarting ordinary lock-picking.
3022 P CHENZ CO SHU, pop 450. HARUMAX the merchant sells (inefficacious) medusa heads sealed in clay "for your safety, brave adventurer."
3023 S Thar-worshiping dwarf clan has abandoned metal and stone and now works only in the bones of the dead. Their craft is exquisite.
3024 LHF Ultrabeholder: deadly eyes appear and vanish as an ancient aberration strives for godhood against Ootoon and other cthonic deities.
3025 LHF Huge iron sundial guarded by the LIGHTNING-STRUCK EMINENCE casts shadows of hidden suns that can be used to summon demons.
3026 HLF ONDOR, Flower-Eater, darktreant Antigod of Melna, imprisoned in an electric pentacle guarded by a dapper man (rat king in a suit).
3027 HLF Segmented 50-legged "tigerpede" seeks a tree for its eggs. Charmed tigers follow it worshipfully, foreheads aglow with its sign.
3028 P The digestive tract of the monk DU MU has achieved total enlightenment and body mastery. It (and only it) is a deadly martial artist.
3029 P Fast-healing cow-angel of Zeri offers curative steak, healing milk, magic horns, magic leather for dealing with the vampire in 2829.
3030 P HOOP OF BAX MANI BAX. Genies forced their criminals through this glass ring to make them (fatally) solid. Mortals gain gaseous form.
3103 HD Half-dragon djinn wants info on whether or not to join Shilaq. Offers a knocker that, when thrown on a door, unlocks it with a bang.
3104 P Fallen druid cursed by White Ziggurat Age spirit with a piece of sunstuff for a head. Dwells in white-hot tower with ifrit servants.
3119 P 50' sphere of fire imprisons a water elemental godling beloved of Varuz dimly visible through the flames.
3120 P WHEELGHOULS hunt clay mud pits where, long ago, clerics of Melna made golems. They dig through the machine-cemeteries and grow fat.
3121 P Birds try to feed a cleric of Zish perched on an obelisk trying to reach enlightenment; a cleric of Voolma picks them off with a bow.
3122 P Crucified, tasty, nutritious, alchemically lobotomized trolls line the road--the Technogogic Implementer's replacement for apple trees.
3123 P Lake full of huge (100') ancient swords carved with runes. Razor-sharp but cannot be moved.
3124 P Storm rhinos. Their huge glass horns project lightning and conjure sylphs. Intelligent and peaceful, but one has gone rogue.
3125 HLF School for animalweres. 20 cats, wolves, pigs learn about human culture from antiquated textbooks. They want to tour the capital.
3126 MLF SHREKLIN, pop 330. Gnome geonecrovivimancer ZIZ PLOOK hawks made-to-order weapons made of the carefully severed heads of a hydras.
3127 MLF AP LADU, pop 800. Mage studies the BOOK OF THE NINE SECRET SUNS, which allows for the conjuration of each of the new gods 1/year.
3128 HLF Thorn druid breeds needle-potions and plots to kill the unicorn in 3328 with a "gift" of a poison horn.
3129 P The STASIS SWORD, flying lycanthrope-slaying blade used by Melna, goddess of metal, in her cruel youth, seeks a new wielder/thrall.
3130 P Windmill made of carapaces and spider silk occupied by ettercap slavers who grind out magical grain for the halfling baker in 2527.
3131 P Wereseacucumber sea elf has fled his sahuagin masters to study Thousand Gut Style martial arts under the intestines of Du Mu in 3028.
3202 D Necromancer PALUNE PAIA gathers shed skins of Kell snake cultists in 2803 to create skin golems and/or torment the followers of Kell.
3203 D TAKI TEPU, cleric of Melna, promises she can transport anyone anywhere by staking them out and hitting them with her hammer.
3218 P HWEIL and AWAH, suncats who come from space and devour light, leaving behind tattered darkness and magic scrolls burned onto rocks.
3219 P Cyclops armored in glass made of lightning-struck sand terrorizes the plains--invincible except for glass weapons and radiant damage.
3220 P Oni cemetery lined with black jade caryatids atop which swim the souls of the balefully reincarnated awaiting their rebirth.
3221 P Labyrinth of Voolma from 2822 has forced itself into the shape of a dragon and now roams the countryside.
3222 P RAMU, pop 4,300. City knights fight over the murex-shell HELM OF CONCH CONTROL, the IRREFRAGABLE RUNE, and DANDERIC'S VESTIBULE.
3223 P Temple to Zeri, god of enlightenment, long since destroyed except for its runes, which float in mid-air and still hedge out evil.
3224 HLF THE PALE CASTLE. Married wizard-rulers in a tower with invisible walls once again arguing about the toilet situation.
3225 MLF Tufo, pop 300. Coaxed by the STASIS SWORD (3129), fallen knight VASTER CO CHEX has murdered a beloved werebear and faces execution.
3226 MLF CATEGOGICA, pop 16,300, capital of Alu Pan and seat of the Technogogic Implementer and the SILVER HIERARCHY.
3227 MLF Rune-carved tree hung with eyes of would-be rune-wizards inches toward godhood. One or two more bandit-hangings should do it.
3228 HLF Witch-knight peddlar sells enchanted cachaça from the Sugar-Cane Throne and boneless attack mummies in clay jars (smash and run!).
3229 P Lovely patterned cobblestones along this road really a snake created by the Word-of-Serpents. Spilled human blood will awaken it.
3230 P Cleric of Ti, god of enlightenment, teaches meditation techniques to 30 brains in a barrel he stole from an illithid.
3231 P Mimic in the shape of an icon of Varuz the Sea God worshiped as an archangel called the Bound Shark by 50 piratical acolytes.
3302 D Lair of WUTHRA MAI, Serpent of the Ink Mask. Causes runification of flesh, eyes, and teeth; treasure includes the BLUE ORB.
3304 D All the blood shed by the sword KODMOS has accreted into an eloquent panther-shaped vampiric horror that hunts the sword-wielder.
3318 P Crashed frost giant iceberg ship infected by a single 10,000 year old dwarf shadow. Everyone is dead or undead; the shadow is gone.
3319 P OLPAH CO MO MO, cleric of Melna, wants to use the Sword Pond (3123) to cut a rough gem to turn the demon within to the side of law.
3320 P Spider-godling BOHOC can wrap you in webs for 7 hours to teleport, plane shift, shapeshift, or cure you, in exchange for favors.
3321 P Halflings drive tobacco wagons to the dragon in 3820. They and their gnoll hunters are unwitting pawns in a (literal) cosmic game.
3322 P Githzerai monk flees 3022 with a strange Golden Orb, pursued by bounty hunters sent by an irate merchant who did know what he sold.
3323 P Divine scroll of the UNEMPYREAN EMBRACE (cleric 5). Works like DISINTEGRATE (range touch) vs. outsiders, clerics, and divine items.
3324 P Fox-wolves have stolen the Apples of Death. They flee Thar's hounds and ravens, seeking a buyer.
3325 HLF Terracing of these hills to create more farmland has intoxicated SIALCA, Melnic angel of steps, who dances ruinously every night.
3326 MLF Ruined shrine contains Hive Eagles, solar ghosts, and the Book of Stone Motion (can awaken the the Beloved of Terateca in 2628).
3327 MLF CHACRALOHXI, pop 800. Factory town famed for its magic loom that creates arcane scrolls modeled after the LOOM OF FATE (1216).
3328 MLF Dark Unicorn pupil of the centaur in 2402 uses cybernetic necromancy to replace its long-lost horn with different magic weapons.
3329 HLF SEPHUNE, pop 300. Gray-shaded town secretly ruled by a color-eating couatl that groans with satiation from its prismatic manor.
3330 HLF Insane druids seek to free Ondor in 3026. They sell stone MAGELOCK WHEELS (snap onto a gun/crossbow for fast reload).
3331 P Cow skulls are golems that spy for the merchant in 3423 and can jump up, revealing tattered gowns and rusted blades, to fight.
3332 P ARAMM, pop 880. Bicycle-knights loyal to the THRONE OF RINGS AND MIRRORS guard against pirates from their well-maintained roads.
3409 P Half sea cucumber dragon is the reincarnation of a failed martial artist. It "breathes" out its acidic guts and hunts monks.
3417 P Humans turned to automata to balance the scales when the HOLLOW HUNTER (3526) became a real human, now rebels against the Implementer.
3418 P SHRUUK, half-demon unicorn hunter, armed with twin horns, wears the bloody white hides of his prey, flies on pegasus-winged boots.
3419 P Giant ants with their antennae replaced with human-like hands that signal and cast spells.
3420 P DUROVINO, elf knight, bears the sword NAFFA, which teleports anyone struck into a permanent MAZE effect on the sword's etched blade.
3421 P SRADA, pop 200. Filthy town dump holds the SHIFTLINGS, 20 hideous and motley shapeshifters caught partway through their changes.
3422 P River-merrow trading post. Pneumacamels (which store air in their humps) available for expeditions deep underwater.
3423 P Lirex merchant sells broken lich phylacteries for use in arcane experiments. Less than 10% chance of baleful spirits!
3424 MLF Huge (acre-sized) robe of medusa hair-snakes once worn by the storm giant lich of 0913 hisses promises of immortality.
3425 MLF With the underworld unguarded, a fox-wolf has set up outside a fissure to the underworld to re-unite the dead with their families.
3426 M Zish, goddess of dreams, meditates here. Penitents may ask her one question. She replaces the mouths of the unworthy with third eyes.
3427 M WARU TOWER. White tiger and black dragon fight eternally to symbolize duality. Gnomes have tied ropes to them as a power source.
3428 M Horned wolves seek the tongues of foxes and the hands of elves for a master they call the PITILESS KING.
3429 HLF Roots of the forest here have started to turn into the branches of a forest in hell as evil druids plan their escape to 3330.
3430 P Illithid revenants, mangled by the cleric of Ti in 3230, seek revenge with the help of obsidian golems sent by Thar the tomb god.
3518 P Ancient dwarf shadow heads for NARIKI (3617) to unleash a shadow-plague apocalypse. It fears only the stolen Golden Orb.
3519 P Peripatetic town of RUC, pop 800, bobs through the air. Locals say it's carried in the palm of a mile-tall gorilla named KING BORBOC.
3520 P Pit of Ootoon turns anything thrown into it into cursed gold that becomes a poison gas elemental upon passing to its third owner.
3521 P Doddering THRONE OF RINGS AND MIRRORS has forgotten how to turn his fort into an unstoppable robot but knows the answer is in 3528.
3522 P Attempts at a north-south steam train line fail due to an outbreak of werewolfism among the train cars. (The cars are werewolves.)
3523 P SHARD, pop 4,300. The Throne of Rings and Mirrors' geomantically-arranged factory town. Lousy with weremosquitos and Ootoon cultists.
3524 P Twin castles, ONYX and GARNET, exist in the same space but do not touch. The thief PASHO tries to steal from both using blind-spots.
3525 HLF Sacred siren of Lauthune sings ghosts down to her pool. Dark prophecies surround the pool's ruin, as only it can stop some undead.
3526 M The HOLLOW HUNTER, automaton made by the Throne of Antlers and Iron, became human and now hunts his "twin," the PITILESS KING (3628).
3527 M Eternally iced-over bridge, cursed during the war, nearly impassable. Greedy kobolds and murderous dwarves offer alternate routes.
3528 M The TITAN-ENGINE OF LAND, a huge forgotten mole machine secretly half-restored by a witch-knight of the Throne of Rings and Mirrors.
3529 M The GRAY LADY rides her gecko seeking a cure for her people in 3329. Sugar-cane Throne Witch-knights hunt her as a rootborn witch.
3530 P Godling kidnaps the party and forces them to fight against the officers of some kind of "space ship." (The party represents "evil.")
3531 P Medusa stonemason-cleric of Thar hunts for "perfect likenesses" of the tomb god's brides to metamorphose into basalt slaves.
3532 P The SAINT OF PERFECT COILS. Makes coral "clockworks" of humbling complexity. Opens her giant nautilus to any who bests her equations.
3617 P NARIKI, pop 500. Voolma, the Icon of Screams, sends nightmares to the town's demon-worshipper warning him of a shadowy apocalypse.
3618 P Witch-knights of the Throne of Rings and Mirrors hunt the Empress to Come, led by a child-prophet allegedly from a horrible future.
3619 P Fast-healing snake-angel of Zeri spills its blood to create divine scrolls. Captured and ritually mutilated by the vampire NESHUR.
3620 P Evil fairy witch hunts from atop her hippo familiar. Its mouth leads to a vast pocket universe with everything it's ever eaten.
3621 P The EMPRESS TO COME drags five screaming clerics with her. They secretly heal her in combat, rendering her all but invincible.
3622 P Shaggy, fanged half-wolf half-steam-car hunts the plains whenever the full moon rises.
3623 P Penitents found so unworthy by Zish in 3426 that she turned them into mouthless beholders now roam the plains, trying to die.
3624 HLF Lost castle of gilded cages full of clockwork children. Any would make a good familiar to those who resist their charming songs.
3625 M Dancing through the hallucinogenic MINE OF PRINCESS DOTHREI is said to grant Kell's divine earth magic to survivors.
3626 M Papery cliff city inhabited by sadistic wasp-people in search of a new queen.
3627 M Ancient mechanisms in a forgotten language allow the invisible bridge to turn in a complete 6-mile circle around its center here.
3628 M The PITILESS KING, wolf-headed titan abandoned by the Throne of Antlers and Iron, wants to drill to Fairie w/the mole machine (3528).
3629 P Villagers forced by an evil fairy to dance to death are now capering skeletons that have begun to master dance-based magic.
3630 P Sloshing, wheeled, bear-pulled capsule carries 20 merfolk clerics of Lauthune on a mountain pilgrimage to find their god.
3718 O Water around the TITAN-ENGINE OF THE SEA churns with blood as sahuagin tribes fight the elemental magic of the WATER KURETES.
3719 P Bears wait around an empty-appearing field for their favorite prey: seals poking their noses into our plane from the Plane of Water.
3720 P ACMIRE, pop 430. Necromancers enchant stolen human skins that grant skeletons (regular or undead) wrapped in them strange powers.
3721 P Voolma-corrupted ravens suffering from excess enlightenment are vile masses of eyeballs, feathers, and baleful magic.
3722 P VOOLMA, the Icon of Screams, writes an epic poem to re-weave its own history. It needs a Loom of Fate and a New Canon of Lauthune.
3723 P Fox-headed hydra seeks the foxtail flywhisk of the Throne of Antlers and Iron, believing it can thereby gain divinity.
3724 HLF Web golems created by ettercaps in 3130 and led by an intelligent poison elemental seek out anyone associated with a Loom of Fate.
3725 HLF The APPLES OF KELL. Once granted immortality. Now, some heal, some cure sickness, a few contain fatal wasp eggs from 3626.
3726 M EARTH KURETES driven off by the witch-knight in 5328 plot revenge with the help of extradimensional minotaurs mounted on gorgons.
3727 M Fallen flumph paladin with a LANTERN OF PLAGUES and a SPEAR OF SLAYING BILATERAL SYMMETRY hunts on its flying jellyfish mount.
3728 M Manticore lies dying after striking a a 10'-wide near-invisible glass bridge that runs from 3627 to a spot one mile southeast.
3729 M TIBURAC, pop 830. At night, cat-faced witches of Voolma burn owls to death in sacrificial baskets and interpret their screams.
3730 HLF SHEKUNETH, Antigod of Ti. Trapped in a circle of flowers. Illusionist. Her chatter makes mouths open where a third eye should grow.
3731 HLF Ten bandits slain and one mortally wounded by the "Sky Saint," a figure from the apocryphal (and heretical) New Canon of Lauthune.
3808 HLF PORT REVENGE, pop 200. Pirate base in the corpse of a giant turtle. 'Ware cutthroats, turtle-ghouls, crooked runebone diviners.
3817 P Apostle of Varuz hunts the witch in 3620. He thinks her familiar's stomach contents can recreate the world after shadows destroy it.
3818 P Black cat with sextant and compass offers to calculate ideal transverse curse angles. Lessons (>1,000 gp) improve curse magic.
3819 P Monks from the Monastery of the Forgotten Parable (4023) hunt a renegade who seeks the power in the Mine of Princess Dothrei (3625).
3820 P Dragon and giant play chess across the continent to decide who will be dissected to build a new cosmos and who will be the Creator.
3821 L LAKE SENNO is a melted clockwork fortress of magical ice that a single spell from the Book of Nine Secret Suns (3127) could restore.
3822 P The Soul Shadow Crystal. Sinners reformed by Zeri poured their sins into it. It's corrupted its guardians and now seeks a golem body.
3823 HLF Witch-knight of the Throne of Antlers and Iron leads plate-armored gorillas against the White Lion Bandits of Chorumaschku in 3825.
3824 HLF Castle of the cloud giant WEIA LUR. "Bricks" are elven coffins of indestructible glass. Weia seeks the grave of Princess Dothrei.
3825 M CHORUMASCHKU OF THE WHITE HANDS, albino cloud giant who has sewn rootborn wizards into his hands and tongue to blast his enemies.
3826 M TOMB OF THE EAGLE SHEDU. White Ziggurat Age relic. The priests there test COURAGE. Their reward is EYE OF FLOOD.
3827 IM Huge blue hands drift down from the sky to crush and rend, as this mountain is a child's toy in a higher reality.
3828 M Mammoths infected with brain-altering fungus seek high ground to be eaten by rocs. The fungus affects animals but not humanoids.
3829 HLF Horrid remnants of the treant-roper war: broken earth and trees, predatory limbs, fanged caves, magical treasures caught in sap.
3830 LF The Great Treant, ancient tree city gone haunted and feral. Divided into three warring clans, two of elves and one of hobgoblins.
3831 LF The SKY SAINT, a figure from the heretical New Canon of Lauthune, flees the King of Bright Teeth and his Voolma cultists.
3909 HLF The Charalexian Rock. Letting the "Black Wave of the North" strike you here is said to grant the powers of Varuz the sea god.
3916 S Tomb of PRINCESS DOTHREI, Kell cleric reduced to a silver oracular head. She knows Voolma's plan (3722) but her acolytes ignore her.
3917 S Panther-bodied sphinx cursed by Thar the tomb god has lost her internal monologue and all her riddles. Her babble causes CONFUSION.
3918 P URDOTH, a werepenguin in a gnomish cryo-suit, hunts the fox-headed hydra in 3723 with the god-killing bow DREAMS OF CHOTH.
3919 P Dozens of sphinx riddles have escaped their owner's brain and now crawl across the rocks like mind-warping runic insects.
3920 HLF Alien castle made only of shifting gravity currents. Transparent, filled with treasure and monsters, all visible and hard to reach.
3921 P Elf druid AXORN wears an elaborate city occupied by tiny buds of the Great Treant in 3830. Pixies guard him.
3922 P "Flying fish" bulettes, like real flying fish, can only glide short distances (<1 mile). So there's nothing to worry about.
3923 P Five blind, venom-immune white mastiffs: medusa-hunters. Dangerous, but eager for a new master.
3924 HLF OAXA, now-bodiless flowering treant whose flowers can infect and purify corpses. Currently possessing 23 skeletons and a dracolich.
3925 M Huge "trepanned" storm giant crystal ball now filled with water and used as "orb of prophecies" by owl-masked clerics of Ti.
"EDGE" entries indicate the edge of the world (which makes no sense and is impossible since the world is really and definitely round).
3926 EDGE
3927 EDGE
3928 IM Demons imprisoned in the gilded ribcages of sacred mammoths promise power and the names of titan-engines in exchange for freedom.
3929 M Goblin shaman POLIDEIZIUS THE GRAND has discovered the trick of teleporting from bear to bear. The gory, explosive trick.
3930 HLF Orc mummy RUC CO CHOR cuts the heads off horses, seeking a prophet's face hidden in the neck of one who can end his immortality.
3931 LF DOLAH's RILL, pop 350. Former Zerian templars of the Soul Shadow Crystal (3822) torture the mentor of Palune (3202) for golem lore.
4015 S Fallen temple of Thar. Insane elf dervishes wait for the medusa in 3521 to turn them into building blocks for the new temple.
4016 S Castle of the GREEN SAINT. Offers services and one of nine formless children to any who best him/her in a shapeshifting contest.
4017 P Hanged spider godling cultists float in this mansion on uncuttable strings, kicking and strangling. One wears the MOON SPUR.
4018 P ZIZA, foreign barbarian, wields ANSERMEE, huge sword made of part of an ancient viewscreen. Looking through it reveals scanning data.
4019 HLF The DOOMGUARD OF TERATECA, once mighty hellmounts, now best described as "chibi lamassu," bear messages of love from the god Zeri.
4020 P The CHILD OF CHAOS. Angel of Shilaq. An embroidered saddle that corrupts its mount and conjures the shadow-form of an armored lancer.
4021 P The CROWN OF HAPLOS, now a tower-fortress for ELEB, the Meridian Serpent, who swims between this age and that of the White Ziggurat.
4022 HLF TATHWN, "necromancer" w/staff of resurrection, commands slaves whose relations the staff raised. The staff just stopped working.
4023 M MONASTERY OF THE FORGOTTEN PARABLE. Aloof monks revere Zish and master BROKEN PARABLE STYLE, which disrupts sound and flesh.
4024 M The QUEEN OF SHIPS, godling daughter of Melna and; Lauthune, lies broken on a mountain: golden sails, masts, rigging, hurt angelic crew.
4025 M Lair of NALMAH, Serpent of the Closed Door. Monks from 4023 guard her honeycomb lair as a source of savage enlightenment.
4026 EDGE
4027 HM Mountain peaks dotted with illusory signal flags that once communicated messages, long since hijacked by mischievous devils.
4028 V Volcano pours a molten lava "waterfall" over a hidden city once inhabited by fire giants and now ruled by TALIQTANG, an ifrit exile.
4029 HLF Dead Monastery of the Forgotten Parable renegade monk. Sought the mine in 3625, killed by Taliqtang and flung off his mountain.
4030 LF Broken dam has flooded a village. Crocodiles feast, risking lacedon attack. Sleek apes leap from roof to roof hunting survivors.
4031 LF Coastal island once used for duels. Exploited by generations of necromancers for undead warriors, it lies fallow, a null-magic zone.
4106 D Temple to the POISON GODS OF ZVIN once used by assassins. Murals are semifunctional gates to prehuman temples in 1215, 2128, 3010.
4116 S Crashed etheric dimension ship, source of ANSWERMEE and ORDINATOR. Temporal radiation spawns hostile time-clones.
4117 S Cadaver synod of Ti clerics judges undead brought before them; offers penitence and salvation. One cleric has vanished.
4118 HLF Rootborn wizard DUMOS accidentally teleported into LEECA CO EL'S ballad. Her bards keep the song (and useful wizard) alive.
4119 HLF Stinging gnats spread a disease that turns humanoids into clouds of gnats. Some who survive become chitinous, gnat-filled vampires.
4120 P VERRANG, pop 350. Defiled by the living sewer in 4121, locals seek the Green Saint's intercession to prevent fatal mutation.
4121 HLF The awakened sewers of SUN STONE (4223) flee the city's guards in the shape of a (smelly) orangutan led by a cleric of Ootoon.
4122 HLF HUNDRED CLOUD ROOSTER, enlightened victor of 10,000 cockfights. Teaches kickfighting and the path of Zeri. Seeks the MOON SPUR.
4123 HLF TULTO, Cleric of Melna, seeks ZIZA in 4018, eager to reunite ANSERMEE with the the (secretly insane) thinking machine ORDINATOR.
4124 M Dwarf wizards from SUN STONE (4223) offer portable mazes in exchange for rumors leading to their escaped sewer system.
4125 M Lightning strikes here form the shapes of celestial maps with navigable astral routes marked. 10% chance of nomad wizards.
4126 EDGE
4127 EDGE
4128 HM Former queen of the wasp-people in 3626, EXUMAH, BLINDER OF ELEPHANTS, hunts godlings with only her necklace of prophetic skulls.
4129 M Wounded by Mindercorthi, who broke into his heaven, Lauthune hides and recovers among a special copy of the NEW CANON OF LAUTHUNE.
4130 HLF Windmill turns with a secret astral wind. Its rootborn wizard owner prepares for a psychic storm as prehuman godlings do battle.
(The southern mountains of Alu Pan are, as you may have guessed, CRAZY high level. Every peak has a godling, archangel, or demon prince.)
4131 LF Furious angel of Lauthune seeks the PENIS OF LAUTHUNE in 4022. Its rage blinds, scorches, and conjures fangs from stone and water.
4132 LF Underground prison for flowers maintained by a gnome who insists they all "damn well" belong behind bars.
4215 S Tower of the Apostle of Varuz now in 3817. Symmetrical, half-underwater, with mirrored angelic servants above and below.
4216 HLF Displacer beast has learned the trick of displacing its image, hugely magnified, onto clouds and hunts invisibly on overcast days.
4217 HLF Hedge psychiatrist sells bird-beaked "plague masks" he believes keep its wearer safe from insanity.
4218 HLF The CHILD OF LAW. Angel of Zeri. Transforms mounts into living crystal. When he leaves, mounts either die or gain clerical powers.
4219 P Grass curves back on itself, forming 4' tunnels full of grass kobolds currently at war with a spawning of green dragonlings.
4220 P Long-legged wolves hunt in the tall grass. The SKY SWINE OF ZERI died here and stained the skies with fecundity: birds are numerous.
4221 HLF Four dwarf templars carry an amethyst chair, awaiting the return the "Queen of New Light." Brigands follow them for the chair.
4222 HLF Watchtower coated in soft, enveloping moss that will exsanguinate anyone who spends the night. Stilt-legged wolves prowl.
4223 M Deep town of SUN STONE, pop 3,200. Dwarves effortlessly fend off 3,000 hobgoblins using sliding blocks and deadly shifting mazes.
4224 M Lycanthropic ettin prays to an idol of BAX-MANI-BAX, the Lion-Bee. An ancient spirit demands he destroy the beast-court of Kell.
4225 EDGE
4226 EDGE
4227 IM Clay statues of 3-headed dragons. Angels of Melna bake bricks, believing Melna will appear when they finish the 100,000th dragon.
4228 IM Mummy chariot-archer wrapped in black rice paper patrols the perimeter of a long-ruined clay wall in a red jade chariot.
4229 M JADE HALL, deep village, pop 900. Dwarves fight a doomed retreat against minotaurs who move effortlessly past their maze defenses.
4230 LF Cleric of Ti from 4117 drank mirror water from 4215. Morally and chromatically inverted, he rules bandits as the DEAD HEAVEN SAINT.
4231 LF Deadly alien slime mold has consumed a river-island manor and its occupants. Only the swift current stops its spread.
4232 LF Lair of ALACTO, Serpent of the Jeweled Puzzle Box. Has no size; banishes that property in others; just lost its city ring.
4316 S Sailor wears the chryselephantine ring of PORT BORT (2414), which grants control over the town's buildings. He plans to become king.
4317 P Sanctified specter from 4117 seeks a missing cleric of Ti. An undead parrot follows and endlessly screams holy wisdom. People flee.
4318 HLF Bullywug assassins of the POISON GODS OF ZVIN seek AXORN (3921) to prevent him from helping restore the World Tree.
4319 HLF PALDERGHAST ASYLUM, home to wizards and soldiers deranged by the War of Serpents. Fenced by beholder eyes that radiate null-magic.
4320 P Three oracles transformed by Voolma into freshwater squid share one crystal eye among them. Wise in astrology and potion-lore.
4321 P Watery grave of DANDERIC the bard, slain by Voolma. Insane undines, once his pupils, file their pearl teeth and hunt the riverways.
4322 P Bullywugs attend the last cleric of the POISON GODS OF ZVIN, who journeys in spirit form to destroy the Apostolic Numerator in 5227.
4323 HLF Huge tree is really the antler of a huge enlightened stag of Ti who has found humanity wanting and will soon awaken in holy wrath.
4324 M A lamia queen and a rakshasa compete for rule of their castle of illusions. Whoever's illusions reaches 81 real kills first wins.
4325 M Ice yetis hunt sources of living heat to appease the last of the prehuman gods of Zvin, a radioactive slag heap called COLD LIGHT.
4326 EDGE
4327 EDGE
4328 IM Furious stone giants and their white dragon bloodhounds hunt the "sea spirit" in 4427 as an intruder and enemy of the earth goddess.
4329 V Scarred prehuman altars, magma, toxic gas, bubbling mud: an ancient temple to the gods of Zvin lost to frog-demons and black dragons.
4330 M Geometer-knights of the SAINT OF PERFECT COILS (3532) hunt the so-called "Dead Heaven Saint" before he targets their master's palace.
4331 HLF Thousand-winged angelic raven courtier of Kell seeks the Great Treant and incorrectly heads for the stag of Ti in 4323.
4332 LF Enslaved gargoyles draw malevolent drolleries on holy books of Lauthune, to be unleashed to effect Lauthune's final destruction.
4415 P LOTHIC, pop 200. Village of cosmic wreckers who lure dimension travelers onto their spikes, murder them, and steal their treasure.
4416 P SKAERIS, pop 300. Village overrun by a psychic rat king that demands tribute in the form of books to eat, so it might grow wise.
4417 P URMAH MOONEATER, elf lycanthrope-hunter in her ever-shifting wolfskin cape, fights a small army of were-beetle Ootoon cultists.
4418 P The spirit RANUKI THREER is a collection of golden needles in a vaguely humanoid form that seeks to stitch things together.
4419 P Shadow trolls live under an arc bridge and reach out to steal reflections. They send the reflections to the Apostle's Tower in 4215.
4420 HLF Desperate mage-bandit ZILMINIUS uses a spell that causes books to fly away like birds in order to feed the rat king in 4416.
4421 P The road here twists like a corkscrew, echoes of some ancient magic. Plants nearby grow in toxic spirals, trying to escape the earth.
4422 MF Twisted road leads to a destroyed, forgotten city overrun with intellect devourers guarded by decerebrated sphinxes and manticores.
4423 M Two (un-illusory) red dragons fly to the lamia queen's castle of illusions (4324) to serve as a real surprise for her rakshasa rival.
4424 M Devils sell ram skins that disguise fiends and undead as living things. They discourse learnedly on the damnation of animals.
4425 EDGE
4426 EDGE
4427 IM Dozens of red mountain elk with missing hearts scattered across the slopes. Concerned angel of Varuz tallies the dead.
4428 V Purple egg tended by a silver dragon contains a four-headed dwarf witch. The dwarves in 4221 would schism if they knew this.
4429 M Lauthune zealots hunt copies of the NEW CANON OF LAUTHUNE, determined to destroy the "heresy." Their leader knows their god's fate.
4430 HLF Colossal (whale-sized) squirrel claims to be drunk on the "mead of cosmic wisdom" and asks for directions to the "World Tree."
4432 LF Massive air-filled tubes off the coast form the shape of a colossal divine man: an abandoned sacred project now haunted by wraiths.
4504 D Atoll of VARUZ the Sea God. He/she is spending 33 years summoning his/her lovers for a grand reunion that will birth many wonders.
4517 S Clockwork shamans of Melna pass a lunar month in this swamp to grow strong and to understand the ugliness of a world without metal.
4518 P Tonal ankhegs burrow through songs, tunneling out of music to spread carnage. They currently feast on the corpse of three bards.
4519 P Pupil of NENNI (5604) seeks advice from the druid AXORN (3921) about finding the Three Orbs to restore the Elves and the World Tree.
4520 P Witch-knight breeds pixie-camels that can go without being obnoxious for an astounding seven days, making them useful as messengers.
4521 HLF Two "knights," one controlled by imps, one by quasits, fight to claim a sacred tower with an imprisoned lover of Varuz the Sea God.
4522 HLF Dire lioness with teeth replaced by magic swords is bad news. Insane half-clockwork dwarven Kell cultist is much worse.
4523 MLF Cavoritic wolfhounds. Their bite causes one to become unmoored from gravity and float away into the heavens.
4524 M The TOWER OF LAW, home of Zeri, Melna, Lauthune, and Ti, currently run by scheming chatelaines who turn away even worthy petitioners.
4525 IM Shimmering colors that represent the principle of law in some distant reality flit north, making things last forever as they pass.
4526 EDGE
4527 EDGE
4528 IM The HEART OF THE HUNT, an ancient demon, tries to reform from the hearts of slain mountain elk from 4427. It needs only a sacrifice.
4529 M KELL the earth goddess sits without her beasts and giants as they roam to stop a sacrifice that will restore the demon in 4528.
4530 M Eternally frozen lake full of tunnels inhabited by psychic albino kobolds and huge furry ants living in symbiosis.
4531 HLF Bird-masked wizard teaches spells that grant things bird-like properties. Wants to sell his soul so Shilaq does not claim it.
4607 P The TEMPLE OF THAR. The archifex employs corsairs to steal limbs and bones to create a golem-clone of the Technogogic Implementer.
4617 P Castle of the COURSER SAINT. Opens her 150-troop castle to anyone who can out-race her and her mount, WUX the scorpion-lion.
4618 P ZORN SHEB, pop 800. A well contains eternal fire hauled up in metal buckets. Metal tools, everburning torches, fire-based novelties.
4619 P Elephant-sized sky platypi wing through the air hunting huge crayfish here where the material/ethereal border grows thin.
4620 P Owl made of knotwork escapes its fresco in a standing stone to teach the mysteries of LATU, Goddess of the Sky.
4621 HLF The vampire DELUZIL's coffin-earth was secretly replaced by an earth elemental that now rampages with Deluzil trapped within.
4622 HLF 333 black snakes have joined in the shape of a huge panther to get revenge on a lizardman who has betrayed the BLACK ZIGGURAT.
4623 MLF BLACK ZIGGURAT ACOLYTES. Thar cultists claim this is a false timeline made by time-traveling hero-twin spirits from the last age.
4624 IM The conjuror PETHO claims to have found a backdoor into the TOWER OF LAW (4521). His infernal guide is leading him off the EDGE.
4625 EDGE
4626 EDGE
4627 IM Paladin of Zeri protects an antlered sylph destined to be the sacrifice that re-awakens the HEART OF THE HUNT in 4521.
4628 M Mated pair of white-furred tyrannosaurs hunting mastodons across the mountain peaks.
4629 M Red elk with a gate to hell between its antlers flees a banished devil desperate to regain its former position.
4630 HLF Centaur alchemist sells potions of enlarge created from T. Rex feathers that are really potions-of-your-arms-turn-tiny-and-useless.
4708 P Oh shit, weresnails!
4719 P The RAVEN'S RUNE Tea Shop, a traveler's inn popular with witches, corsairs, and drow submarine crews.
4720 P Lizardman ex-Black Ziggurat cultist turned to worship of Wux the Scorpion-Lion carries a bottle that contains a new holiday.
4721 P Crystal cage swinging from an iron tree binds a malicious radiance elemental that once served the HEART OF THE HUNT (4528).
4722 P Master thief ESHI CO JIJICO plans to employ a wicker basket full of tiny, flexible bonsai dryads to rob the doctor in 4823.
4723 P Elven cleric of Ti collects chains taken from destroyed poltergeists to snare and rectify devils.
4724 M Spirit of the poison cleric in 4322 flies to murder the Apostolic Numerator in 5227, cannibalizing anyone along the way for power.
4725 IM The MAIMED KING, a vampire flayed to leave a circulatory system and a throbbing brain, hunts illithids for their cold alien blood.
4726 EDGE
4727 EDGE
4728 IM 45 gargantuan stairs carved into the mountain, each guarded by a dwarf disciple of Kell trapped in an incomprehensible status game.
4729 L SKYBOTTOM LAKE. Forbidden love between a sylph and a galeb duhr has already caused the dueling deaths of two gnomes and a djinn.
4730 M Floating 20' rune-sphere hedges out ghosts, demons, other possessor-spirits. Levitating monk inside seeks "empty soul" enlightenment.
4731 HLF Gnoll chaos bards wear capes of holy books they've desecrated on their quest to destroy all writing for VOOLMA, Icon of Screams.
4732 LF Decapitated corpse of ranger who bought a winged mask from the centaur in 4630. (It ripped his head off. It's flying around nearby.)
4805 P Tomb of the NEWT SHEDU, a White Ziggurat Age relic. The shedu's children test flexibility. Their reward is the PHILOSOPHER'S HORSE.
4819 P The devil BLAUN claims he will renounce darkness if he sees no evil acts on his trip to Weeru in 4823. (True sight/scrying at will.)
4820 L LAKE NAX. Legends say a triton oracle was mortally wounded and lies comatose in this lake, but she is invisible underwater.
4821 P The TOMB OF THE CARP SHEDU. Here the ghost of KING RARWYN tests CLARITY. His reward is THE UNREAL AND INFINITE LADDER.
4822 HLF Painted wagon drained by the color-eating couatl in 3329 houses a terrified fortuneteller with blank cards.
4823 HLF WEERU, pop 400. Half-devil doctor has poisoned the well and uses sick villagers as excuse to perform horrid experiments and grafts.
4824 IM Alien cloud of toxic gas wants to stop the Dark Cloud in 4929 and steal any useful magic words it's learned.
4825 EDGE
4826 EDGE
4827 IM The world's nine nine-tailed cats have come together to decide whether to gift all lions with magic. Right now it's 41-40 against.
4828 M MONASTERY OF THE PEERLESS FLAME. Gentle monks revere Ti and master SEVEN GOLDEN HANDS STYLE, which gives and takes life energy.
4829 M The QUARRY OF OLD KING RARWYN contains his magic orb (and ten million identical stones.) Magic fails here, birthing demons.
4830 HLF Wicked half-marid bandit chief CHAX RIN CHAX claims his death will trigger an apocalyptic tsunami. His angel bodyguards agree.
4831 LF Blue-scaled semiaquatic jaguar in regal gold panoply seeks the elf wizard in 5322 to learn magic.
4906 P Cats with tarot cards on their blank faces are all that remains of a failed prophecy.
4919 P Fog goblin wood knight rides a boar made of leaves and brambles in a mad quest to destroy all electricity.
4920 P Thousands of undead songbirds. They can't fly (no feathers), but they run fast, sing beautifully, and peck out eyes.
4921 L LAKE NAX. The INFINITE EEL coils here. Geased by KING RARWYN in 4821, a vampire seeks both ends.
4922 P Intelligent basilisk has declared itself the king of serpents and leads a thousand vipers to the tomb in 4821.
4923 HLF LEEMA, marid half-sister of Chax Rin Chax (4830) knows how to kill him without drowning Alu Pan (w/the treasure of King Rarwyn.)
4924 HLF The OAK OF OLD KING RARWYN contains his magic crown and can only be damaged by natural lightning. (It's in a cave.)
4925 M Lair of OLMUNE the Nine Salts Serpent. Desiccation breath has turned her army into powdered salts: instant army, just add water.
4926 IM Step pyramid with one side that possesses infinite steps. Here sinners against MELNA, Goddess of Metal, trudge upward for eternity.
4927 EDGE
4928 IM A quarter-mile of runestones slide around. Pushed in the order given by the oracle in 4820 they reveal the location of LEEMA (4923).
4929 M All words spoke under the DARK CLOUD are absorbed by it, preventing speech and bringing the Cloud closer to learning the Final Word.
4930 M Curious marked 6" blocks are dwarves struck by the WOOD THRONE LIGHTNING (4932), which loves shambling mounds and hates lumberjacks.
4931 M The White Iron Tower, source and vessel of the alien cloud in 4824. Full of superscience treasures; totally electrified at all times.
4932 LF The cloud WOOD THRONE LIGHTNING, poisoned by Ootoon, plots against dwarves, woodcutters, and the clouds in 4824 and 4929.
5018 LF ARGENTINE LIBRARY. A wizard who become 612 books but who botched the job and is now under linguistic attack by scribes of Lauthune.
5019 LF ZORNIRA, evil fire spirit, watches the treants in 5121. Her plan: burn books and treants together to become omniscient and immortal.
5020 LF Wild elf tries to break in a leucrotta as a mount. It's not going so great.
5021 LF Five-eyed psychic leopards hunt by casting pentagrams on the ground that imprison living things.
5022 LF Castle of DARAKAN FEYR, nominal Technogogic loyalists, secret servant of the Aether Kuretes, guardian of the Titan-Engine of Aether.
5023 HLF Accursed wizard PLORCIX, whose head is an albino lobster and whose cape is a million red beetles, fights Black Ziggurat acolytes.
5024 HLF Witch-knight of the Throne of Carp and Lillies flees the KNIGHTS OF FEYR (5022) after seeing the "Dream-Killing Machine" in 5122.
5025 M Carp-headed lions stalk the mountains, licking snow to stay moist. They can swim through ice and their bite is poison.
5026 IM The KNIGHT OF THE OPEN DOOR guards the road. Anyone striking his painted shield falls into the pastoral scene it depicts.
5027 M Flying castle of ogre magi, buoyed by the subconscious terrors of the gold dragon RAHI whom they keep imprisoned in nightmares.
5028 IM Beehive-shaped ovens full of pale green fire. Once used to cook magical food, the secret of their use has been lost.
5029 M Witch-knight mortally wounded by Chax Rin Chax (4830) hands her +2 MACUAHUITL OF BUTTERFLIES to any who will avenge her.
5030 M The STONE OF OLD KING RARWYN contains his magic axe and can only be opened by a fall of at least 10 miles.
5031 LF Gnome paladin DEMYA HORSEBREAKER hunts bandits with her magic hammer and a set of nails that maims whoever's footprints they impale.
5106 LF A lighthouse that casts a solid beam into the astral plane on which people can walk or ships can sail.
5112 V Tarantula-riding gnolls hunt trespassers to offer up to their volcano god (really a fire wizard in need of souls for experiments).
5119 LF WHITE HEART, pop 840. Village built into a sea cliff. Ruled by a masked orc mystic who consults the heads of 13 oracles he's killed.
5120 LF Knights made of cinders from the flaming well in Zorn Sheb (4618) ride glass horses, guarding the road from plant monsters.
5121 LF Treants armed with an APPLE OF RESTORATION march on the Argentine Library (5018) to "free" their "butchered" comrades.
5122 LF The TITAN-ENGINE OF THE AETHER, huge forgotten radiant crystal guarded by the AETHER KURETES, who appear as dreams and nightmares.
5123 P Countless tunnels of dire prairie dogs. Hairless jaguars adapted for burrowing hunt their native prey and thoughtless adventurers.
5124 HLF Sorcerer lover of the petrified dragon in 5223 forges her new magical-mechanical intestines before trying to de-petrify her.
5125 HLF Slain gnomish bounty hunter with a lamp that reveals the past. It has dials for one hour, one day, and one year.
5126 M Insubstantial but visible corpses who starved to death after offending the AETHER KURETES, who made them partly ethereal.
5127 IM Magnificent winged war pigs flown by featherbeard dwarves on patrol. They seek the return of their captain's golden helm.
5128 IM Brass-gilded 20' hourglass grants the effects of a WISH when turned over, but only for one hour, then its opposite for one hour.
5129 M Shadows of the antlers of a huge elk reveal figures locked in combat when the stag moves: champions of Zeri and Shilaq.
5130 M The TOWER OF BRIGHT FEATHERS, temple of Shilaq in the heart of an eternal snowstorm, clinging to the rock with a single talon.
5131 M Cleric of Kell cursed by Aether Kuretes in 5122 cannot touch the ground. Floating, she pleads for help as demons of Shilaq hunt her.
5132 LF Disciple of Du MU (3028), master of Worm in the Bowel Style, travels to stop the sorcerer in 5124 from creating magical intestines.
> The ISLAND OF CALSU. Failed Gandavori colonies litter an island now returned to the native Calax people and the Unmarked Elves.
5202 LF Decaying manor. Taxidermied ostriches rule over a servant-class of stuffed animals. Old paintings serve as portals.
5204 LF Elf bandits have imprisoned an ettercap for her ability to create enchanted bowstrings from her silk.
5212 HLF The forest here is dotted with huge (50') stone orbs. RUNUS (half-elf bard) seeks the lost song that can make them fly.
5220 LF ALWYZE, pop 5,450. Lauthune's annual Festival of Cleansing is near, when all wounds and illnesses are magically dumped in the ocean.
5221 P Ghost of slain psychic ooze has begun making its own afterlife and now lurks outside of town with 50 (and increasing) captured souls.
5222 P Burned out dwarven factory, its original product obscure, now overrun with giant bees. Halfling bandits seek to tame them.
5223 P Waterfall spills from the mouth of a dragon petrified and then gutted by the medusa cleric in 3531. Pool below full of aquamedusas.
5224 HLF Traveling dwarf offers to bottle any imaginable trait--virtue, beauty, strength--for use later. He is a mesmerist and a fraud.
5225 M MONASTERY OF THE CLARITY BEYOND WORDS. Vicious monks revere Voolma and master TINY MIRACLE STYLE, which conjures evil, fanged dreams.
5226 M Angels carry people from an exploding riverboat they've time-frozen. One is a future apostle. Also frozen: hostile clerics of Shilaq.
5227 M The APOSTOLIC NUMERATOR, a divine machine attended by AETHER KURETES, wants to find someone worthy of the Titan-Engines' power.
5228 M Trio of mimic knights, demonic warriors with the power to duplicate any feat or fighting style, hunt atop their giant vulture mounts.
5229 M The titan-wombats are marching.
5230 HLF Road broken by epic battle between a wereporcupine and a manticore. Both are dead; quills cover a quarter-mile in every direction.
5231 LF 100' temporal golem, the true purpose of the hourglass in 5128, is now 90% complete. Archcleric of Voolma makes final preparations.
5232 LF An ape has the golden helm of the Featherbeard Dwarf captain stuck on its head. Elite goblin assassins hunt it through the woods.
5302 LF Lair of IR SHAH, Serpent of the Thousand Cubes. Hides the ORRERY MADE OF FIRE among her name-eating, ever-shifting terreracts.
5304 LF Charmed partridges bred by elves to be eaten have escaped. They make tooth-shattering charges at the nearest humanoid mouth.
53043 LF Goblins wait in obvious ambush behind a tree. Calax illusionists-bandits who created the goblins wait, invisible, up the road.
5305 LF Elf demagogues argue the cultural significance of ear-sharpening cream. The issue is obscure; opinions are mandatory.
5322 LF Sea elf wizard uses giant clams and special stones from 4822 to grow pearl arrows that can quench flame.
5323 P A dryad hires the party to hunt the Memory Eater of Gwa. If they agree, they wake up in 5323 weeks later with no memory of that time.
5324 P A candle lit from the bedside candle of Zeri, God of the Sky, burns here eternally in a tiny shrine.
5325 HLF The GUT BIRD is a huge avian of living darkness that steals lengths of bowel for its shadowy nest. It has neither eggs nor chicks.
5326 M Cloud bears wiggle up invisible streams to return to their airy spawning grounds. Huge salmon-shaped air elementals wait to eat them.
5327 M Mirror eaters swarm from pits. Starved, denied even reflective pools, they aim for shiny swords but will settle for glossy eyeballs.
5328 M Rings of ice rise from rock. Passing through them grants you ice magic and immunity to cold, but you melt when it's above freezing.
5329 M The False Stone lets its wearer disbelieve in fire, water, or metal, and gain immunity to it while not being able to perceive it.
5330 HLF The Throne of Wind, sustained by seven zephyrs, has failed: somewhere, a breeze is wounded. The guard-cleric of Zeri is troubled.
5331 HLF Deserted inn. Quick knights--coffee bean golems wearing burlap sacks--attack, spreading their haste magic like a plague.
5332 LF Treant necromancer ritually drowns spiders and ettercaps to extract their climbing powers and graft them onto his undead knights.
5402 LF Well full of martyrs' heads. Its water is poison to all save the righteous, who gain great powers and then die within 333 days.
5403 LF DURGA, pop 110. Worn by a guard: garnet carved to show Latu's debate w/ Terateca the Lion-Bee. Changes bees to arrows and vice-versa.
5409 D Mile-long floating sarcophagus of THAR the tomb god, covered with carrion angels and their scalding, sacred droppings.
5422 LF Pipe plague infects the forest here. Trees twist into the shapes of clarinets, oboes, trumpets, even whole pipe organs.
5423 LF Crystals on copper wheels here let you rearrange the constellations in the night sky. Not the stars, just the constellations.
5424 LF Arrows carved in trees are only half-visible and lead to a hungry green dragon; seen in moonlight the marks reveal a candle (5324).
5425 HLF The SAINT OF BLACKENED LIPS. Opens his castle (600 troops) to any who can best him in a contest of spreading lies.
5426 HLF Centaurs flee in terror, offering prophetic warnings: butterflies have entered their cocoons and soon some new thing will emerge.
5427 HLF River full of all-but-invisible glass alligators created by the wizard Milocius (5431) that guard the SWORD OF NINE SOCKETS.
5428 HLF A dead infernal dragon full of huge, ever-growing maggots. Many of them now have person-like faces and want to learn language.
5429 HLF From a carved platform here the moon appears to be flooding. Leaving restarts the process. Watching too long summons water weirds.
5430 LF Assassins of the THRONE OF CARP AND LILLIES clash with beguilers of the SAINT OF BLACKENED LIPS. The combatants are all invisible.
5431 LF The BAFFLED DARKDOG TAVERN. Contains a secret blue-black ANTITAVERN on the ceiling where wizards drink cocktails from hourglasses.
5502 LF. ESKUMIA, pop 400. Contains a busy wizard-dentist who crafts wondrous false teeth that never escape, no, never.
5503 LF Section of ancient aqueduct of magical milk and honey created for a forgotten elf princess. Now full of bees, giant and otherwise.
5504 LF Elven vampire princelings duel with hawthorn daggers in a circle of garlic sanctified by a kidnapped low-level cleric of Lauthune.
5505 LF The TOWER OF WINGS, made of millions of fluttering wings, once a cult center of Shilaq, now ruled by cruel, squabbling Hive Eagles.
5524 LF Remnants of Alwyze's Festival of Cleansing (5220) wash up here to form a floating filth-mass of cancer elementals and scab golems.
5525 LF MILOCIUS ritually kills lions, anointing sacks with their blood to create the invincible burlap hides of his quick knights (5331).
5526 LF Sap golems of Milocius (5431) slip from among conifers under the ground, rising to animate trees and attack with their sticky claws.
5527 LF One of the seven zephyrs that sustains the Throne of Wind (5330) hides wounded in a hollow tree after an attack by witch-knights.
5528 LF River fortress of the THRONE OF CARP AND LILIES, who faces mutiny by a witch-knight who wants to become the Prince of Wind.
5529 LF Balubith the Harpy. Her song, instead of luring people off cliffs, has the power to create cliffs of force in midair.
5530 LF The Pambo Burglar Gang, former pirates diminished after a shipwreck. They employ Balubith (5529) to wreck ships, paying her in teeth.
5531 LF Clouds here grow denser, more treelike, before thickening into an upside-down forest of white conifers haunted by pearl apes.
5602 LF The severed hands of all the condemned thieves in Eskumia (5502) have started to grow together in a huge underground tree.
5603 LF Pig-headed men armed with hooked swords claim that they are the true orcs, replaced by alien simulacra during an enchanted sleep.
5604 F Grove of NENNI (elf druid) will see the growth of a new World Tree and the restoration of the elves if the Three Orbs arrive here.
5614 D A glass well full of sand. A fistful of the sand is a full day's food, water, and air. Removed from the well, sand lasts eleven days.
5623 LF AMBERSNIP, pop 600. Ambersnippians believe they will be remembered as a legendary nation of philosopher-kings in the distant future.
5625 LF Someone has carved the elvish glyph for "bamboo" into these monoliths. They're growing over a yard a day.
5626 LF Storm giantess weaving a shawl of lightning for her slain husband. She needs the Throne of Wind restored before her work is done.
5627 LF Herd of PLAGUE UNICORNS, normal horses infected with Ootoonic mushrooms that grow from their skulls, try to ram the party's horses.
5628 LF SKARAMAXIS, pop 800. Village built into a giant's cottage. Secret sacrifices "keep the giant away" and serve a demon's soul-hunger.
5703 LF Castle of the TEMPORAL SAINT. Opens his castle (pop 800) to any who can defeat him as a boy, man, elder, and ghost, all at once.
5704 LF The UTILITOUS WOOD. One axe-strike turns trees into useful wooden items, from spoons to boats. Elvish runes explain what's what.
5722 LF TEMPLE OF VARUZ the Sea God. Paranoid, treacherous hierarch convinced the Throne of Wind will destroy Varuz if re-occupied.
5723 LF The SIRENS OF YIX, three women with hair tangled together like a rat king. They dispose of the Hierarch of Varuz's enemies.
5726 LF DWEE, pop 900. Dogheaded Latu cleric claims she's a "fairy-gnoll" and her people endure enchanted sleep while false gnolls run amok.
5803 LF PELOPEX, pop 350. Every object in this town features (or is in the shape of) the face of a woman with a third eye.
5804 LF Six-inch tall fey "jackal-hunter" just going absolutely hogshit crazy on a whole tribe of gnolls.
5805 P The MEMORY EATER OF GWA. (See 5323.) Currently groaning with satiation after eating the memories of LATU, Goddess of Air.
5905 P GHELLIX, pop 300. Native Calax shedu cultists sacrifice hearts to Shoth, the Wolf-Newt. The sacrifices live on as cruel husks.
6003 LF LATU, Goddess of Air, wanders her island with her bow and sky-hounds, memory lost, third eye shut, unable to restore the Sky Throne.
(End of the Sea of Vipers.)