Amavin – Rogue who knows about the slyness of Parsis the Hidden.
Kal – Lost her vinyard to Fames Wyrmwatcher
Matteo – Mechanist who knows of Red Portals.
Tolstoy – Wants to wreck the empire. Bound to Ketel who wants to convert Tolstoy into a Dragonslayer of Mot.
Joe's Ranger. Family wiped out by the DE.
Strong Start
Shadows peel away from the wall and attack!
Scenes
Shadows attack
Ketel recruits Tolstoy
investigating the libraries
Returning to the surface (level 4 + campfire tales)
To Ziggurat: Bloodsucking giant poisonous snakes 355 at chained bloody columns of Mot with a ritual circle.
To the Ziggurat of Thoth-Hermes and the Red Portal
Secrets and Clues
The gateway opening up into a Red Portal exists hidden in the depths of the Ziggurat of Thoth-Hermes.
The Lord of Unending Thirst was worshipped by Khandirians who sought the lord's connection to blood and hunger as a source of magical power to fight the Dragon Empire. Symbol: purple worm with tentacle tongues of skulls.
The Khandirians bound a devil of Mot named Katel into the puzzle box hoping to use it and other devils as weapons against the dragons but never got the chance.
Mot – God of Eternal Death, Lord of the Undead, the Death of Fire, Emperor of the Silent Land of Mirey, Prince of Necromancers, and High Potentate of Dragonslayers (Southlands 260).
Ibbalan the Illustrious is heavily engaged in the current holding of Kyprion and Rumela, taken from the Seven Cities.
Parsis is the Morza establishing the illicit artifact train to Nuria Natal. Parsis is the most tricky of the Morza.
The Puzzle Box of Katel can open a Red Portal to the ruins of Nurduran or Siyaz.
Ruins of Nurduran: A Nurian human city that resisted the arrival of the dragons in the first rush of Mharoti expansion. Charred stones and a few pillars are all that remains.
Ruins of Siyaz: A great experiment by a kobold alchemist named Mektree the Mad went horribly wrong in Siyaz, releasing vampiric mists and flesh-rotting vapors that turned the town from a thriving metropolis to a tomb almost overnight. Scattered bands of gnolls use its empty buildings, but the dragon urmanli consider it a place best left fallow.
Thoth Hermes is the God of Knowledge and Learning, The Wise, Creator of Language, Lord of Merchants, Patron of Scholars and Thieves, Master of the Arcane Realms, Patron of the Magocracy of Allain. Green and white feather quill with green ink.
The priests of Hune cannot be trusted.
Notable NPCs
Fames Wyrmwatcher – Urmanli Governor of Ibbalan the Illustrious who took Kal's vineyard.
Sister Ethelia – Goblin sage of Hune seeking puzzle cube.
Ketel – Chain Devil follower of Mot held in the puzzle cube.
Vyncent Blackspell – dwarven cult fanatic of the Sanguine Path.
Brother Cleo Cloudsoother – Priest of Hune
Monsters LEB 4
Shadows pg 292
Black Pudding 62
Skeletal guardians of the temple 295
Gray thirsters
Ghoul priests of Unending Thirst 181
Wounded explorers of Black Venom
Treasure
150 CP, 112 SP, 248 GP
8 × 10 GP obsidian gemstones
50 GP natural copper pot
50 GP shadowy bolt of cloth
goblinoid startouched glove that casts Hideous Laughter once
The Putrid Tome: The Putrid Tome reeks of rotting flesh. Its curdled green pages rot flesh and putrefy the eyes. A creature able to withstand its fetid words gains power over decay and disease.
The Sanguine Resurrection: Blank book only appears with a healthy dose of blood.
