26 April 2023 – Wednesday Ghouls

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Strong Start

The Shattered Caves. A big vast cavern. Inside terrible things await. Some are already dead. What passed through here?

Outstanding Questions

  • Who are the attendees of the Blood Marriage?

Scenes

  • The shattered cavern
  • The throne of the Lost Jotun
  • The tunnels to the lower steppes
  • The Lower Steppes
  • The Midnight Temple

Secret and Clues

  • During the battles of the dwarves and giants, Boreas the devouring wind shattered the land beneath Nordheim opening rifts to Qes-Al-Marit, Shifting Hell of Darkness and Bone Dunes.
  • Demons of Qes-Al-Marit still haunt the dwarven ruins, as do the lost souls of the dwarves.
  • Creatures of undeath or horrible filth often find themselves unsullied while crossing the Wolfheim.
  • The vampires, ghouls, and red sisters have a portal they’ve opened to go back and forth from the Midnight Temple to a similar temple in Morgau.
  • Boreas brings autumn storms and winter gales, and the biting wind carrying sleet, hail, and snow. Son of the Winter Maiden Marena, his duty is to deliver his mother’s killing cold to the world. It’s a job he takes seriously.
  • Boreas aims to cover all of Midgard with eternal winter, and prophecies foretell that he’ll one day succeed.
  • Beneath the lands of Nordheim is the fallen dwarven temple known as the Midnight Temple from which the corrupted followers of Boreas called upon their god who used his ice pick and shattered the land, opening rifts to Qes-Al-Marit.
  • The ghouls and vampires chose this temple for its remote location and its connection between two worlds – one of which is as twisted as their souls.
  • The vampires and ghouls are apprehensive of their alliance. It worked well for them but now the ghouls are getting greedy and the vampires worry there is a rift within the hierarchy of the ghouls.
  • Its greatest city is Sa-Mozan, the City of Silences, the home of Alquam. Its walls are made of black glass ten feet thick, carved with hideous protective wards, resembling glass shards or spikes that project from the walls, which cut everything they touch. These walls are often bathed in the blood of creatures executed there, enemies of its people.

Fantastic Locations

  • Locations
  • The Shattered Cavern
    • Crumbling bridge
    • Frozen pool of hellish water
    • Dead Spawn of Alquam
  • Throne of the Lost Jotun
    • Throne of ice
    • Heads of huge beasts
    • Pool of life
  • Caves of the Frozen Damned
    • Crevases to Qes-Al-Marit
    • Frozen mutated dwarves and other horrors
    • Howls of battle
  • The Lower Steppes
    • Huge rift to Qes-Al-Marit
    • Visions of the City of Silences, walls of black glass, glass spikes with shredded remains of victims.
    • Wind gusts that threaten lives
  • The Midnight Temple
    • Unholy temple sitting atop a huge floating earthmote
    • Tendrils of black energy flowing from its steeples
    • Glyphed front door, back door protected by a darakhul and vampire spawn.

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Treasure