Dioz Brightblade – Goblin paladin of Heironeous comes back to camp. Wounded but carrying a prisoner, a goblin warrior called Malak Beastblood – warrior of the Eater of Worlds. Malak turns into a ‣ .
Scenes
Interrogating Malak Beastblood.
Entering the Veins of Rot.
Elven scouts seek the sisters at a foggy crystalline megalith of Saint Cuthbert.
The priest Hester Twiceborn – Priest of the Black Harbinger has come to the Demon’s Bowl to draw power from the Obelisk of the Black Cathedral in the center of the acidic pools of the slain demon.
A seer named Doreen Stitchbristle at Raven’s Hollow says she sees a war of darkness taking over the lands.
Two immortal enemies of hideous violence and death smash against one another while a third lurks in the shadows hoping to step in when the other two fail.
Nogrog sent his bands of goblins, hobgoblins, and bugbears loyal to the Eater of Worlds to murder Hester and his acolytes. He’s been moderately successful.
Nogrog’s champion in the Demon’s Bowl is an ‣ named Goorn the Devourer who wears a bestial mask of a roaring baboon (two attacks).
Long ago a demon was slain here in the Demon’s Bowl. It’s skull still serves as an altar to demon worshippers with caves leading deeper in. The blood of the demon flowed into the bottom of the bowl forming a pool of acid known as the demon’s lifeblood.
A nearby hamlet known as Raven’s Hollow is populated by suspicious folk, hunters, fisherfolk, and those trying to stay away from the bustle and corruption of Dulwich or the rest of the empires.
Nogrog is a goblin born backwards, known as a Nilbog and considered a sacred jester of goblin tribes. He assassinated his king, a goblin king named Kav Blackwood of the Blackwood tribe. They got along with the local populace but despised Nilbog and drowned him in a pool of black liquid. Nogrog returned, killed the king, and convinced the remaining goblin tribe to follow him under the banner of the Eater of Worlds – a demon prince who devours entire planets and will soon come to this one.
The followers of both the Eater of Worlds and the Black Harbinger hope to find a place known as the Black Cathedral and open a gateway there to bring their demon prince to this world.
There are five pillars of the Black Cathedral around Dulwich. They triangulate the location of the Black Cathedral itself.
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The Lady’s Kiss – Emerald dark elven vicious Weapon (rare). When you roll a 20 on your attack roll with this magic weapon, your critical hit deals an extra 2d6 damage of the weapon's type. Once per day you can use your action to spit venom, making a ranged attack with a +5 bonus at a creature within 30 feet. On a hit the creature takes 4d8 poison damage and if the target is a creature, it is poisoned until the end of its next turn. Alternatively you can coat the weapon in venom and inflict an extra 1d6 poison damage for one minute.
