29 March 2023 – Wednesday Ghouls

  • Review the characters

Strong Start

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Scenes

  • Facing the Marsh Dire
  • The treasures of Bacco
  • Meeting the Huldra scouts
  • Huldramose
  • Meeting the queen
  • Journey to the Ragnarok cultists
  • Celebration at Huldramose
  • The Valkyries journey to Wolfheim

Secret and Clues

  • The Cult of Ragnarok seeks to bring the end of days. They’re following dark gods to bring about the end of all including Chernobog and Boreas.
  • Chernobog (393) is the embodiment of all mortal fears, and his shape is variable and horrifying. He most often resembles an enormous black bear with horns and eyes like coals, his fur matted with blood and ichor.
  • He is the master of the dead, not through respect but by compulsion; entire
  • Boreas (392) aims to cover all of Midgard with eternal winter, and prophecies foretell that he’ll one day succeed. He works tirelessly to ensure that his day of victory comes soon. From the highest mountain in the North he brews storms and dispatches giants, thuellai, yeti, and other
  • The Huldra worship Frigg, wife of Wotan, and mother of the world. She is clever and powerful in the ways of magic with a connection to the Jotun.
  • The spawn of Chernobog lead giants and other fell creatures out of Jotunheim and turn farmholds into bloody nightmares, leaving grisly tableaus in their wake as they make their way south.
  • Thorgerd and Dark Irpa hide something. Something extremely valuable. Grella would like to know what it is. She gives the characters a small leather sack. When you learn what it is, put either a note or a piece of the thing into this bag.
  • Thorgerd knows a way to get the characters to Nordheim. Traveling on foot is folly. Giants walk the land and they would like nothing better than to hammer the characters into the ground.
  • The gods are displeased with the calling of ragnarok. Appease the gods by locating their dessacated standing stones to the east. Find and kill their high priest. End their false vigil and the gods will be pleased.
  • The giants claim Jotunheim, a land that bubbles with primal energies. This is the last remnant of a much greater land (so they claim), destroyed by the gods shortly after the First War, when the Aesir and Vanir joined forces to crush their dreams of glory.
  • During a terrible winter in which the overland routes to Nordheim were blocked, something crept up from the depths of the earth to extinguish its hearths and forge fires, destroying the dwarven capital from within.
  • The queens of Huldramose conceal the presence of a World Tree sapling, the Two Queens’ Tree, said to be cut from the World Tree the dwarves once attacked in Thorn. Few know of the tree outside the royal household, but its growth is swift—soon it will be too tall to keep the secret of its existence.
  • South East of Huldramose, across the Shieldfall River, is an old elven ruin called Windrise. The cult leader of the Ragnarok cultist, Marakon Cloudbane – Leader of the Ragnarok Cult near Huldramose

Fantastic Locations

  • Locations
  • The unhallowed crypt of Baccho the Elven God of Poetry (MWB 369)
    • Unholy circle of Chernobog
    • Defiled crypt
    • Statue of Bacco / Bragda the Northern Traveler and Poet
      • As a bonus action, succeed on a DC 13 Charisma Performance check to cast bless
  • A moontouched bladed tree of Sif. Tree of Moonlit Spears. A landmark for the Huldra used along their hunting paths.

Monsters

Treasure

  • 693cp, 6993sp, 2277gp, 117pp (4036gp); Bloodstone (opaque dark gray with red flecks, 50gp), Bloodstone (opaque dark gray with red flecks, 50gp), Citrine (transparent pale yellow-brown, 50gp), Citrine (transparent pale yellow-brown, 50gp), Jasper (opaque brown, 50gp), Moonstone (translucent white with pale blue glow, 50gp), Sardonyx (opaque bands of red and white, 50gp), Zircon (transparent pale blue-green, 50gp), Zircon (transparent pale blue-green, 50gp) 450gp; Adamantine armor (chain mail) (uncommon armor), Staff of the adder (uncommon staff)
  • A ruby undead stone disk of Chernobog the Black God (MWB 393) that casts Crushing Curse
    (Lvl 0)
  • A flaming abyssal forked rod of the Goat of the Woods – Queen of Decadence (MWB 395) that casts Catch the Breath (Lvl 3)
  • A hallowed dreamcatcher of Wotan the Northern Rune Father (MWB 354) that casts *Tree Speak*  (Lvl 1)

Session Notes