TARA VALLEY

Index to Valley of Fear

Mini-Adventure sites
1- Caravan site(Prologue)
2- Forae’s cabin
3- Saurian Salt marsh
4- Village of Krios
5- Mine of Grelk
6- Half-helm village
7- Ship of Rust
8- Lunus woods
9- Emerald glade
10- Way stop village
11- The Rookery
12- Goblin isle
13- Darvus Dungeon
14- The Dam of Eldarus
15- The Bloodied league

Bestiary
NPC stats
Typical crocodilian and Bloodied league member
The Fall of the Dam
 Tara Valley

The VALLEY OF FEAR

INTRODUCTION

A train of refugees are about to encounter the rising of the blood mists,and enter a
world of terror beyond even their own horrific experiences. Will they survive? Will
they escape the inexorable tide of the Blood red mists.
THE PROLOGUE:THE CARAVAN

A weary train of refugees winds its way across the landscape, beneath the imposing
peaks of the Tara valley The players find themselves in this train of refugees for
individual reasons, or perhaps they were part of the same military unit, the same
home town etc…

Evening descends and the caravan draws to a halt on the trail, the peaks lie to the
north, and to the south there is a large, but sparse forest. The Bandolier (the caravan
leader) calls for a halt and the caravans are quickly circled around a large camp-fire,
and a lone violin plays sombre notes to remind the players and the caravan of the hell
they have come from for the train has been attacked a few times by Demons on their
travel home.

GUIDANCE FOR THE GM


The Prologue opens with the falling of
the blood rain, this falls along the
bottom edge of the map, to form
wisps(in the first round) as well as three
rolls for placing a wisp on top, left and
right edges of the map.
Each round, further blood rain falls
with 4d6 placing of wisps, as per the
Blood mist rules. N.B. Wisps move
stealthily and as such their location
should be hidden unless successful scout
roll made to spot them.
In short, each wisp moves randomly one
NEAR area a turn, if it encounters
another wisp it becomes MIST. If a
wisp is next to a caravan, stronghold
actions start to occur.
If a character should become BROKEN
empathically or in their wits(wisps make
empathy attacks) then the intensity level
grows.
Mist does not move, but produces 1
additional wisp a turn(starting in the
mists space).
Wisps move randomly each turn unless
there is BROKEN wits or Empathy
character on the map, in which case it
moves towards them(closest first if
multiple).
If a character becomes BROKEN in a
Mist area it becomes FOG, and if
broken in FOG becomes a STORM.
ROUND PROGRESSION IN
PROLOGUE
Round 1-Blood rain falls(generates wisps
as per above) any character ‘keeping
watch’ may make a contested roll against
the wisps stealth.
If successful they can raise the alarm.
ADVENTURE SITE LAYOUT
Each adventure site in the scenario, has
a Description, Legend, a Trope(a brief
mention of involved horror tropes for
that adventure site) a POV description, a
Mechanics section(rolls to be made in
certain circumstances), and
Statistics(statistics for NPC’s and a page
number for any monster involved)
In addition I have included a map for
each adventure site(at least in terms of
the likely opening scene).
 FORAE’S CABIN
DESCRIPTION
There is a small cabin at the end of the
trail, and what looks to be a large root
cellar at the back of that cabin, and a
well for thirsty travellers. There is a
large sign swinging from a pole, which
depicts a bow and arrow.
LEGENDS
The hunter-trader Forae is a fixture of
the valley and easy to take advantage of,
he would often visit Krios, and other
settlements but rarely if ever does now.
TROPE
Slasher, Hunted, Trapped
POV DESCRIPTION
“The characters approach upon a rutted
trail, they have been seeing faded marks
on trees for the last half hour, they all
point down the trail, saying two names,
“Foraes, the trader” and “Half-helm
village”. Feet are sore from the rutted
trail, as you begin to see in front of you
what looks to be a wooden cabin on the
side of the trail.
The trail seems to be obscured after it,
overgrown with brush, the cabin has a
large sign swinging from its porch,
saying ‘Forae’s the trader, at your
convenience”. It looks well kept and
there are tended flower beds along the
side of the building. The cabin itself
looks to be fairly small, it is a cabin
bungalow”
LOCATIONS AND MECHANICS
Traders cabin
POV description above.
A wooden cabin made of logs, with a
swinging sign which says Forae’s on it,
and a picture of a bow and arrow on it. It
has a shop where Forae sells various
animal furs, and other items. He won’t
necessarily attempt to attack/kill
characters unless they are ‘rude’ to
him(which might be any slight thing)
He mans it only occasionally,otherwise
he is checking his traps in his territory,
visiting Griseld’s grave(leaving presents
for the ghost), or the root cellar/prison.
If he is here when the characters first
encounter him, then he is a mild
mannered shop keeper type who lives up
to the legend.
Within the Shop of the cabin, all sorts
of goods are contained, though most of
the stock is hunting supplies(including
bear traps), there are goods being sold
from Forae’s victims too including a
bone handled knife)
“The characters approach a squat
building, made of rough hewn stone,
and blocked at its base by stone and
earth apart from a central banded wood
door, which looks sturdy. At the front of
this door, bound on a chain but
otherwise looking well kept is a large
hound, it has a water bowl full of water,
but [if it sees them] glares at the
characters as they approach, then
suddenly starts to whimper as they get
nearer, and tries to tug at its chain.”
The Root cellar, which is not too far
from the cabin has a number of root
vegetables in and underneath there is a
dank, mouldy prison full of cages which
are presently empty. On the cellar wall
scrawled in what looks to be blood is the
message “Dumb animals!” and carved
statements such as “Speak to me like
that”.
In the root cellar entrance, Forae keeps
a hound which guards the prison, and is
trained to not let any approach or to
lead them into a trap(as per hound lure).

Mechanics

Forae in any particular QD will be at:

Cabin on a 1-3.
A character may spot name inscriptions
on items in Forae’s shop of Forae’s
victims, and one which just says RUN!
Forae’s hound in the shop keeps a look
out for shop lifters (Hound scouting
rolls) and will notify Forae of this by
nuzzling his hand.

Root cellar prison

Mechanics
 There is a dirty window underneath
rocks placed around the root
cellar(removing the rocks allows the
scouting roll to see inside without
entering)
 The door to the root cellar has a
strong door which requires 100
damage to break down
 The Cellar basement has
cages(presently unoccupied),
exploring the cages reveals a robe
with the emblem of thorned rose
with successful scouting roll.
Griseld’s grave
“The characters approach what looks to
be a small copse of trees, which seems to
have wild flowers growing amidst the
trees, an assemblage of violets and
bluebells add colour to the ground. As
they get nearer, they see an Ephemeral
figure of a long brown haired woman,
standing looking down at a rectangular
gravestone, it looks back up at the
characters with mournful eyes. The
ghost seems to be wearing an assortment
of necklaces, and other jewellery which
can be seen on the grave, lovingly placed.
Otherwise the ghost is dressed like a
common whore”
Griselds grave is located underneath a
large tree near the cabin, it says on the
gravestone, “to my love, always mine”,
there are various decorations including
parts of animals, necklaces etc…
At the side of the grave is Griseld’s ghost,
who looks forlorn and helplessly down at
her grave, whatever present Forae leaves
on her grave instantly transfers to
Griselds ghost, overlaying her ghost
vestments which look like whore’s
clothing.
Griseld is not understandable when she
speaks, see mechanics
Mechanics
 Breaking the jewellery on the grave
makes Griseld more understandable
(each item of jewellery gives
scouting rolls -1 die to hear her). If
heard she is asking for her body to
be burnt and for vengeance against
Forae.
Forae’s place, which he calls what he
sees as his property is a hunting territory,
there are a number of locations within it.
Forae’s place has a general rule, that
players who have a mishap in the
territory(white dashed line) instead
encounter a ‘trap’ often with a lure.
They roll a D66
 Die roll Lure Trap
1 Food or drink (Forae has Bear trap ( The jaws shut
set out some food or drink and the player takes 1
as a lure/trigger) stabbing damage, and are
grappled, escape grapple is
at -1 and failure causes 1
stabbing damage)
2 Chest(If the chest is Spike trap (A poised
opened the trap activates) branch swings impaling
the target(if it passes
armour) for 2 stabbing
damage, escape grapple is
at -2, failure result in extra
1 stabbing damage
3 Hole in the ground (If Pit trap ( A pit in the floor
someone puts there hand opens which is at least 40
in then the trap is foot deep)
activated)
4 Hiding place(Forae has Noose trap ( The rope of
placed a trigger in an the noose trap activates
obvious hiding place) and the character finds
themself upside down in
the air from the nearest
tree, escape grapple -2,
failure results in loss of a
point of agility
5 Something shiny (Forae Net trap (A heavily
has placed something weighted net lands on the
shiny on the ground or on character, strength roll at -
a tree as a lure/trigger) 1 to escape, failure results
in agility loss)
6 Forae’s trained hound Cross-fire sedative trap
(The party encounter one (three missiles instantly
of Forae’s trained hounds, fire from three different
which acts injured or in directions, roll missile at
need of help) base 2, damage 1(stabbing)
if hits and bypasses
armour, then sedative
effects character if fail
Potency 2 poison roll, then
fall asleep.)
 HALF-HELM VILLAGE
POV DESCRIPTION
Standing out on the landscape is a squat
looking village, as you pass at a distance
you see friendly dwarves in the process
of hoeing overgrown fields. Around the
village are large holes in the ground, the
most visible looking like quarries.
The trail entering the village and which
you have been walking along is rutted
and strewn with rocks, and there are no
signs of caravan or other tracks of any
kind.
Mechanics
 The Dwarves are ghosts, realising
they are ghosts requires a long look
and a successful scouting roll.
 The skin walker can take the form
of any of the dead dwarves, realising
it is a monster requires a long look
and a successful INSIGHT roll
LEGENDS
The Guidebook in Forae’s shop, says
that Half-helm is a mining and
quarrying town that was once central to
the valleys industry. It is a dwarven
town and the people are friendly and
welcoming to all. There is a bustling
tavern where you can drink hearty ales
and a lovely set of upper rooms which
are well tended by a matronly dwarf
named Tilda.
TROPE
Ghost story, Creature feature,
Paranoia(possibly)
LOCATIONS AND MECHANICS
Overgrown trail
The trail is rutted and overgrown and
leads on to the village of Half helm,
amongst the debris is the occasional
wagon wheel which suggests that the
trail was once widely used. Near the end
of the trail is a cottage with a white
picket fence around a garden, standing
in the middle of the garden is an elderly
lady who looks in despair.
Mechanics
 Weeding the garden takes 1 QD if
two or more characters do it
 A scouting roll through the window
of the cottage will show an old
corpse near the window (and
otherwise the house is full of
cobwebs.
 Entering the house will cause the
old lady ghost to become
enraged(for she doesn’t like guest
when it is so untidy, a convenient
excuse for forgetting she is a ghost)
Main street
Main street is the single street which
runs through the village, along its side
are market stalls and a number of
villagers, most of them wear homespun
clothes, or workmans clothes, some
wear miners hats.
Behind the stalls are the villagers home
raised on small hillocks which run the
length of the village. Between the
hillocks are multi-coloured fabrics long
worn away, and bent pieces of metal and
wood.
[Investigating homes] In the home you
find a corpse of a dwarf and lots of
cobwebs populated by well fed and large
spiders
Mechanics
 On a 1 in 6 on any particular QD the
skin walker is patrolling the homes
and playing by taking on old skins
The Rock shrine of Huge
In a cleared area off of main street, one
of the hillocks is a hollowed out boulder
which has been carved out into a
makeshift temple, it is has carved pews
and niches along each side of the main
chantry which contain various rocks
collected from all over the valley. One is
missing and says a sample of Shrike-
stone from Rook’s mount.
There are two carved out rooms at the
back, one is empty except for mouldy
books, and broken bookcases, the other
contains faded grey vestments and a bed
containing a skeletal corpse.
Mechanics
 There is a 2 in 6 chance the skin
walker is here on any particular QD
inhabiting one of the stones in the
alcoves
 Under the bed are a series of carved
tablets detailing the rock priests
efforts to get stones from all the
mounts, they are hopeful that the
Shrike has left to mate, so that he
can get some shrike stone, after
going to pick up climbing gear from
his climbing base(with directions).
The Quarries
You look at the quarries, inside which
are a number of dwarves in work-mans
clothes and carrying picks while walking
around aimlessly.The quarry descends at
an angle downwards and narrows out in
one section which is draped in shadow.
[Investigating the dwarven tunnel] the
small tunnel is cramped as you walk
about 15 foot along it, there is still
evidence of the fire sticks planted in it to
bring down the stone, at its end however
is a shiny green stone(emerald) with
etchings on. There is also an old corpse
its fingers still outstretched to the
emerald with its bones shattered
everywhere.
Mechanics
 Touching the emerald at the end of
the tunnel or blowing it up with the
fire sticks will reveal an emerald
prison long since empty and built to
contain some monster.
 The Quarry workmen are ghosts as
are there picks.
 THE SAURIAN SALT MARSH
DESCRIPTION
Three small rivulets stretch through salt
laden trees and bushes, the vegetation is
sparse and strange with only those
adapted to living in highly saline
environments able to survive. Strangely
enough in the Tara valley many of the
plants had a certain amount of salt
adaptation.
Within the trees there is a number of
hunting lodges of strange design and
made out of serpent and fish scale, they
reflect the light a little.
LEGENDS
The salt marsh of the three streams is a
territory, with several associated
rumours, which can be related by people
in villages, or by the Artist.
A- Those who enter the marsh, rarely
leave and bodies that have been found
seem to have had large bites taken out of
them.
B- The Salt marsh is always well-
lit(even at night ethereal lights shine
from the salt draped woods)
C- Occasionally there can be seen
whirlwinds of salt that swirl through the
marsh,those who encounter them rarely
survive(those who have swear that the
whirlwinds are horrible monsters that
flay the skin)
D- One trader who was working their
way around the coast of the salt marsh
by rowboat, hid and watched a strange
ceremony where an Elven traveller was
eaten by some large reptilian sea beast
E- It is said that some of the salt dunes
in the marsh, are not dunes but horrific
fleshy monsters that dissolve their prey.
TROPE
Absorbed, alien landscape, creature
feature, sacrificed.
POV DESCRIPTION
“The Salt marsh spreads out in front of
you as you look from the hills towards a
large lake, ahead of you are sweeping,
swirling dunes of white, to the left of
which can be seen sat an artist admiring
the dunes. The dunes flatten out to
provide a ring around three streams
which are lined by salt laden trees, the
salt flats are brushed regularly by
twisting winds.
Within the forests that line the streams
of the salt marsh, can be seen a variety
of pools, salt laden trees and increasing
vegetation all the way to the lake. The
pounding of drums can be heard from
the forests as well as bright reflected
lights”
Mechanics
 Every QD that a character is in the
salt marsh they must roll
ENDURANCE or gain the thirsty
condition
LOCATIONS AND MECHANICS
There are several locations in the salt
marsh adventure site, with several
mechanics and POV descriptions as
below:
The Salt dunes
The Salt dunes, are raised mounds of
salt, which exist in ripples leading up to
the central hills. They are said to move
regularly, and there is close by to them,
a ‘dune artist’ who is a fairly mad
looking woman with wild hair, she is
well armed but likes to paint the dunes
regularly to see how they move. She is
famed in the valley for these drawings.
Salt dunes(at least some of them are
home to Giant salt slugs) which reside in
the marked place on the map.
“The characters stand at the foot of the
white dunes, the strong taste of salt in
your mouth, the dunes confront you
(pause for character choice to go up
Dune or not) you start to walk up the
dune and find it sliding beneath your
feet[pause for character roll, or monster
reveal] you ascend the solid parts of the
dune, which seem congealed by some
sort of mucus, and look out from the
top over the lands”
[Monster reveal] “The sliding sand
suddenly becomes an avalanche of
blinding salt, the air bitter with salt as a
gigantic amorphous greenish ichor-
laden slug rears up to attack whoever has
disturbed its rest”
Mechanics
 A Move roll failure(required when
ascending dunes causes the dune to
slip this reveals salt slugs, and
 prevents reaching the top of the
dune, the next roll is at +1)
 When a salt slug is revealed a
MOVE roll is required to not be
catapulted to a SHORT distance
and take 1 bludgeoning damage
 A successful SCOUTING roll will
spot Salt acid mucus(see Salt slug)
on a Dune before walking up it
The Salt flats
The Salt flats is towards the end of the
salt marsh and around some of its edge,
they are not watery like closer to the lake
or raised like the salt marsh closer to the
central hills.
It is a dessicated place around which can
be seen whips of salt, and small
whirlwinds. It is in this place that
legends say there are dessicated beings.
“The characters stand on the salt flats, a
strong breeze blows ripples of sand
across its surface, and up into the air
[Pause for character response] you walk
into the flats and the breeze grows, the
salt begin to grow into fast moving
swirls, and rising up [Pause for character
response-if they do anything other than
run, read monster reveal] The characters
run across the flats as fast as they can
towards the undergrowth on the other
side(move roll required, failure means
falling over in the sprawling salt with
the Monster reveal)
[Monster reveal] “The swirling sand
coalesces, and grows faster into an
excoriating whirlwind like shredding
glass, and within it are eyes like red
crystal.Suddenly the whirlwind forms a
being built of solidified and cutting salt,
its crystal eyes shining with savagery”
Mechanics
 When a character is in a swirling
sand whirlwind they need to roll
ENDURANCE or suffer -1 to
agility
Crocodilian Hides
Saurian hides are pools of freshwater in
which Crocodilians can hide(they are
amphibious), and ambush prey that
comes near, for Crocodilians are
ambush hunters primarily, relying on
animals to come to the freshwater to
drink. They also use the lakes edge for
this. They are found at the edges of the
salt marsh.(see map)
“The characters stand within the salt
laden trees, the xerophytes of the salt
marsh, there leaves pinpointed into
needles, their trunks dry husks,
although there can be seen on the
surface occasional pools of blood like sap
suggesting life buried deep within. The
ground is thick with the leavings of the
salt flats, but in places can be seen deep
black pools of water, most covered with
the sharp spines of the xerophyte trees
in them [Pause for character action if
they go to drink or approach a pool
within 5 foot read Monster reveal]
[Monster reveal] “As you approach the
pool, water canteen in one hand,the
waters erupt and a large pair of
crocodilian jaws come snapping towards
you, a long snout with large jagged and
hooked teeth” [Make a crocodilian bite
attack see crocodilian in Bestiary]
Mechanics
 When a character is in an Arm’s
reach of a Xerophyte tree such as
when hiding, they need to roll
MOVE to avoid xerophyte spikes
scratching them, if scratched they
become thirsty
The Crocodilian village
“As you bypass the crocodilian hides,
and look towards the lake you see a wall
made from the xerophyte trees, still
covered in salt which forms pools at the
bottom of the wall. There are three
towers upon which stand three
crocodilians armed with glaives. They
scan the xerophyte woodlands for signs
of intruders.” [if manage to bypass the
guards]
“Within eye-sight, you can see a large
rock promontory jutting out into the
lake, and a series of channels running off
the lake and from the stream”
The Crocodilian village is rustic looking
and coastal, roofs are straw as well as
wattle and daub. The walls are composed
of mud-brick with shells interlaced,
there is a palisade around the village,
with small towers on which stand
crocodilians as guards. There are only a
couple of them. There are also a few
pools of water(in which crocodilians
wait to ambush those who don’t smell
right)
Mechanics
 The Crocodilian guards make
scouting rolls each turn to spot any
hidden characters in the usual way.
 Xerophyte spines can do damage if
used, they do Stabbing 1 damage,
and Endurance must be rolled or
the target becomes thirsty. They
count as daggers for purpose of
weapon type.
The Fishery
“As you near the fishery, you see a
number of channels cut out from the
landscape and reinforced with solid salt
crystal on their walls. As you look into
one of the channels a large codfish
swims past, and through a gate into a
small reservoir full of fish. On a small
hillock, there seems to be a large open
vat where several of the reservoir
channels empty into”
Bordering the lake, and in between the
marsh and the rivulets are small
reservoirs that look like they channel
various fish into gullies, there are small
one-way gates in each gate which allow
fish to enter but not to leave. The
Crocodilians use this to collect fish to
feed the populace much like a field.
Within this there is a raised platform
where for some reason the crocodilians
gather fish and have surrounded it with
ritual objects. The plesiosaur comes here
to feed. The Fishery is close to the
village (see map)
which the crocodilians use to make
sacrifices to the Plesiosaur. Usually of
interlopers and other fishermen, the
Plesiosaur often prowls here in the
hopes that the Crocodilians have
captured someone.[It is possible that the
players or one of them at least might be
on the menu]

Mechanics

 The Plesiosaur is at the fishery on a

1 on a D6 in any QD feeding at the
fishery(from the vat)

 Fishing rolls are automatically

successful in the fishery.

Sacrifice rock

“The large lump of black rock, juts out

into the lake, and has a number of smll
waterfalls of salty water falling from it,
there is a black glass stairway leading up
to the top of the rock which from your
vantage point you can see a grey slab
table, which has blood smears on and
heavy chains. Large scratch marks(teeth
marks) can be seen on the altar”
This large rock juts out into the lake, on
top of the rock is a small altar and chains
Mechanics
 The Plesiosaur is at sacrifice rock on
a 2-3 on a d6 in any particular QD
 If a character should find
themselves chained to the
rock(broken in any crocodilian area)
it takes a MIGHT roll at -1 to
escape
The village of Krios

DESCRIPTION
The settlement of Krios is a fairly large
settlement, which has a functioning
gallows at its centre, as well as a number
of other functions. It has a trail
connecting it along a route from the
outside of the valley to further in, the
trail looks fairly well used.
The buildings are low and squat and the
villagers are fairly unfriendly. There is a
large stone rampart around the
settlement that is mostly built.
LEGENDS
Krios is the ‘capital’ of the valley if there
ever was one, it is a harsh place
unfriendly to outsiders, but has a
market-place outside of its main
habitation where its people occasionally
mix with outsiders(outsiders are allowed
to go where they want, they just aren’t
treated well)
The mayor of Krios, has a seeming
interest in art and sculpture.
TROPES
Eaten alive, Sacrificed, Cult, Creature
feature
LOCATIONS
The Ramparts
“You walk along the trail and a walled
settlement begins to take form. For now
all you can see is a large stone rampart,
which is being worked on by
approximately twenty villagers. There is
no evidence of a gate just pure wall. As
you get closer, you can see a man in a
wide brimmed hat, with an unshaven
grey beard watching your approach
warily”
Mechanics
 The Villagers are xenophobic it
requires a successful Manipulation
roll at -1 to get information from
them
The Gallows
“As you walk through the unfinished
wall, you can see a wooden reinforced
structure, its central reinforced
platform has ropes swinging in the
breeze. A crowd has gathered to watch
the execution of a criminal. The crowd
jeers and the closest ones to the
characters, give them wary
glances.Looking again at the prisoner it
is one of the original caravan members”
 Characters who try to stop the
hanging will be accused of being
confederates with the ‘criminal’
being hung. They will need to make
standard lying mechanic rolls, or
PERFORMANCE rolls to be
likable enough to avoid being
lynched(hung on the spot)
  The Ghost may be spoken to and be
The Dungeon manipulated but the price is
ALWAYS rescuing her bones from
“As you walk through the streets close the oubliette.
to the gallows, you see a stone building
with metal bars on, it has a few stone
steps, and a stone door with a large sign
swinging from it saying the ‘Jail’” [If
characters enter jail describe interior]
“The jail has a large desk in it, manned
by a what looks like a thug clad in
leather armour with iron bands welded
on it. He has his legs up on the desk and
is playing with a large set of iron keys. In
the jail cell is a member of the
caravan(who was caught stealing along
with the executed caravan site member
on the gallows)”
The Marketplace
 It takes MIGHT rolls at -1 to find a
“The market-place is a hive of activity,
bar loose enough to pry free and
and the characters actually feel welcome,
rescue the captive
though it is outside the walls. The stalls
 Picking the lock of the jail is
are striped, and manned by peddlers of
difficult Sleight of hand -1
all stripes from a number of caravans. It
seems that the inhabitants are buying
The Oubliette
stone and other raw materials for the
building, they are also buying what looks
“You enter the cell, which is slightly
like art supplies and paints. They are
larger than the other cells you have
using coinage primarily, but
passed it leads down steps to what looks
occasionally trade goods and crafted
like a large grated hole, besides it is the
goods to get these products”
ghost of a woman, dressed in ragged
clothes, and even for a ghost looks like a
Mechanics
waste. She looks up at the characters and
says “release me” and points to the
 One of the peddlers in the
oubliette.
marketplace is an agent of the
bloodied league(Rachek’s Roses) if
The dank, dark room is built of room,
he is manipulated in any fashion by
and from it you get the feel of sorrow.”
strangers, those strangers have 2
QD’s before they are dragged before
 If a character is thrown in the
the mayor and accused. They will
oubliette, they must make climbing
then be either 1-2 Imprisoned for
rolls to escape at a -2(escalating each
hanging 3 Thrown into the
failure), if successful they must
oubliette 4-5 Tied up in a sack, to be
make a MIGHT roll to lift the
consumed 6-Let go but watched(for
grate whilst holding on to the wall
confederates) any other stranger
of the Oubliette
they speak to will be arrested
The Mayors house
“The Mayor’s house, is a large town-
house near the sculptural garden…it
overlooks its walls, the only building
that does.It is built of mudbrick but is
painted and decorated with elegant and
complex floral patterns. The windows
are clear and well cleaned, in fact a lower
floor window is being cleaned by an
bored looking peasant in grey. The doors
are made of Xerophyte wood, a white
and dry type of wood which cracks easily.
A worker is also cleaning the front door
with some kind of oil”
Mechanics
 Successful scouting roll required to
notice the ‘cleaners’ are also guards
 See the Bloodied league adventure
site
The Sculptural garden
“The characters see a wall which is
surrounded by flowers of all sorts,
especially creeping vines with lovely
blossoms. The door is ringed by these
vines which have rung around the
handle which is silver” [if the characters
open the door which opens easily read
the next] “The characters open the door,
and see a pleasant garden with small
paths, around a large central green space,
which has been decorated with porcelain
flowers and real ones, there are a
number of large holes in the ground,
which a number of villagers have been
tasked to dig [after successful scouting
roll looking at corner of garden] there is
a large, ornate decorated trapdoor,
covered in flowers(in pots)”
Mechanics
 If a character touches a vine, then
the monster knows where they
are,and the bloodied league will
attack them within 2 QD
 Spotting the trapdoor requires
successful scouting roll of the
flower bed in a specific place
The Wild place
“The characters walk towards a small
but beautiful copse of trees, which thick
green leaves, the copse has several sets
of booted footprints leading in and out,
and a discarded muddy spade.” [If
characters enter the copse] “The trees
swallow you as you enter the canopy
closing over you, as you follow the
footprints along a clear path, either side
is thick thorned gorse” [if the characters
follow the trail read monster reveal]
[Monster reveal] “On the edge of a large
clearing at the centre of the copse, is a
gigantic plant it has thick serrated leaves
of deep green and is surrounded by robed
figures(bearing a crest of a rose
surrounded by thorns), one of which is
bearing a large bag which seems to be
moving vigorously. At the edge of the
clearing is a large trapdoor which opens
as the characters watch and another
robed figure enters”
Mechanics
 Hiding here is at +2, however if
scratched by a thorn, the monster
and the league know where you are
hidden
Root chambers
“ The characters open the
trapdoor(either at the garden or in the
clearing, or in the basement of the
mayors house) to reveal a large tunnel
rimmed by thorned vines leading all
along its length, the characters smell
strongly the scent of grass, and blood
soaked earth. On a path in the centre of
the tunnel run footprints and they can
see a robed figure at SHORT range
walking” [The tunnels lead from garden
to mayors basement, to the clearing in
the copse]
 THE MINE OF GRELK
DESCRIPTION
This abandoned mine entrance leads to
the mine of Grelk, a famous miner of
the Meldar clan of dwarves, it is long
abandoned and the blood mists do not
seem to enter the entrance.
Inside the mine there is an abundance of
riches, sea shells and other
minerals(especially Emerald) at one
point the walls become constructed out
of what looks like sea shell, here there
are sea water preserved corpses of tritons
and others who seem to have died
around one particular sealed chamber,
with a picture of Old hob on(Demon sea
god from endless seas)
Mechanics
 Each hour inside the mine, there is
a tremor in the earth, this causes
the ceiling to fall, roll 1d6 this is the
amount of debris that falls on the
map, assign randomly to NEAR
areas, anyone in an affected NEAR
area must roll MOVE or be hit for
1 bludgeoning(and be partially
buried, MIGHT rolls to escape,
they can be helped.
 When partially buried, firther hits
on the character means they are
buried, they begin to asphyxiate as
per drowning, and MIGHT roll is -
1 to escape per cumulative rock fall
LEGENDS
The Legend goes that the miners of
grelk which used to mine precious
stones and rich abalone ore from within
the mine, released something from deep
within the mine which killed all the
miners bar one(at least it is is presumed the chamber. One of the skeletons has a
to be that way) dagger stuck through its ribs”

The lone survivor said that the last Mechanics

thing he heard whilst on his way to leave
the mine, was the discovery of some
ancient constructed tunnels far beneath
the earth. This had gotten everyone
excited but Hadri was too tired to stay
after his shift(he went to half helm
before moving on)
TROPES
Buried alive, Madness
LOCATIONS
Entrance
“The characters approach a cliff in
which is a carved entrance held up by
what look to be solid beams of wood
banded with iron, up close to the
entrance you can see it is unlit inside,
with discarded tools, the rock looks to be
fairly soft rock(e.g.limestone)”
Mechanics
 A successful LORE roll upon
looking at the dagger(which has
strange inscriptions on) will
determine that they are triton
symbols
Right chamber
“The right chamber ends at a solid black
wall of basalt. There are discarded tools
and a number of bedrolls(that look
decomposed) as well as tattered journals
and personal items from the miners, one
skeleton is laid down on their dessicated
bedroll clutching a keepsake(a brooch) in
their hands”
Mechanics
 Messing with the keepsake will
cause that particular skeleton to rise
and attack whomever carries it, “it
reads to my love, Weanda” (she is an
old halfing now in Way-stop)

 A successful LORE roll will tell a

character that the mine at present
needs propping up with at least two
pillars, these can be found just
outside the entrance. It takes a
MIGHT roll and a CRAFT roll to
install them.

Left chamber

“The characters look towards the left

chamber, which is like a large tunnel,
carved into the soft rock, around it lie
discarded tools, but also a number of
long decomposed skeletons. They lie as
of fleeing from a large shaft at the end of
 FEAR 1 attack, failing the insight
The Shaft roll causes a random effect

“The Shaft is deep and dark, there is a

ladder which extends downwards and Die roll Effect
into the darkness. The pins at the top of 1 Distance double
the ladder looks like someone has tried for the character
to remove them, they are rusted and in their mind
insecure looking. As you look 2 The walls seem to
downwards[successful scouting roll close in around
required and say the following if you (activates
successful] you can see a number of claustrophobia)
transparent webs, and an abundance of 3 You suddenly grow
small holes” dizzy and must
roll wits or fall
Mechanics prone until
unaffected
The shaft has a nest of ‘harmless’ spiders 4 Your skin
in it that feed of the flies and other crawls(activates as
insects that crawl through here(they all insect phobias)
may activate personal fears though see 5 A warning from
personal fears in GM’s section the dead (the
character sees the
The Constructed tunnels ghost of dead
friend who warns
As you descend the ladder and make it to them not to
the bottom of the shaft, you see a small progress further or
mined area which siddenly changes to a they will die)
type of greenish rock, which looks 6 A Nervosa is
constructed into solid bricks, some of born(see Bestiary)
the bricks seem adorned with pearl, and
other sea shells made into some kind of The Strange door
cladding, within the air is the smell of
the sea mixed with sodden earth. As you [If the characters make it to through the
step on to the first greenish stone there constructed tunnels see mechanics]
is a rumble in the earth, and dirt falls “Before you stands a door made out of
down through the shaft behind you. aquamarine and possessing a series of
There is a feeling as you progress further large shells which have been anchored to
down the tunnel that you are trespassing the stone and door as locks. At least
into somewhere forbidden, somewhere some of these appear to be smashed and
sacred” an eerie bluish light stretches from the
seam of the door into the tunnel. On the
Mechanics door is a depiction of a large demon,
which looks barbed on their elbows and
 Each turn in the constructed the back of the knees, behind him stands
tunnels will cause an INSIGHT a depiction of the wyrm, and behind
check, which if failed leads to a
them other gods too, they point towards
an open sea”
 Upon seeing the strange door, make
an insight check as per the
constructed tunnel
 A successful LORE check will
determine that it is depiction of an
old sea god/demon called Old hob
 Picking the locks requires a
successful sleight of hand check at -
1 although a dwarf with stone song
can easily open it.
The Temple of Hob
“The Door slides open with a groan of
ages old stone, before you stand the
temple of Old Hob. It is pillared in
limestone, which intersect pools of
brackish water either side, in which
stand statues of old gods, besides these
stood as guards are burly tritons. Old
hob sits on a throne of blue glass, and
laughs a hollow laugh which echoes
down his temple. Behind him are the
spirits of those drowned at sea, still
struggling helplessly against the wave in
transparent lockers that seem endless”
Mechanics
 Any one who can hear Old hob
must make an Empathy roll
reducing their empathy by the
successes(this is cumulative) if they
break their empathy they find
themselves drawn into the far wall,
and in a sea locker(there is no
escape,the character is alive but
trapped).
 A successful PERFORMANCE
roll which gets at least two successes
will allow the characters to leave,
and ‘rescue’ one person trapped in a
locker(additional successes over two
gets an additional person). Tritons
will not attack performers but will
anyone else.
DESCRIPTION
Jutting out from the lake there is a
rusted metallic looking ship, it stands
grounded on a rock, it has a broken mast
and is the source of many ghost stories
in the various settlements.
It has been there since before humans,
halflings, or even the dwarves can
recollect, if the characters look at a
distance the occasional undead might be
seen gazing forlornly over the misty lake.
There is a second boat(smaller in size
but sizable) lashed to the side of the
rusted boat when the characters
approach.
Mechanics
 When on the ship, a character must
roll INSIGHT or enter the time
away(see extra description in ‘time
away)
LEGENDS
The ship is cursed, and any who go there
will end up ‘serving the ship’ in some
way trying to prevent the rust, people
know this because spectral figures and
undead can be seen gazing forlornly over
the lake towards their respective homes.
The rusted ship has been there since
before the dwarves or anyone else
remembers, local legend suggests that it
has always been there, since it appears
even in the oldest tales.
TROPES
Drowned, Trapped, Ghost story, Lost
in time.
GM’s
The Ship is home to a corrupted totem
spirit, the obelisk was carried in the hold
and not worshipped for centuries until it
became angry(the original sailors sunk in
the orignal sea that was here). It is a
totem of an ancient deity(details left up
to you, but I suggest Rust(before the
totem was taken over by the demon
responsible for the blood mist).
If the characters are caught and made to
worship the totem of the rust god they
will be immune to the red mist, but also
be slavish worshippers who die here as
mindless puppets.
However, there are a number of
bloodied league on the vessel when the
characters arrive, who are attempting to
salvage it for Krios or alternatively the
league, who believe that it will help to
survive the apocalypse(see the bloodied
league)
The smaller ship has a prow of a thorn
around roses.
The castle of the ship have two broken
masts, and there is a stair going down to
the crew quarters.The rock is full of
birds, and little else
Mechanics
 If the character is in time away,
they will see a bustling crew(mostly
dwarf and elf but some others
possibly Ancaster Fea, and a wide
open sea interspersed with islands
 If the character is not in time away,
they may have to make the
occasional MOVE roll to avoid the
angry waves crashing over the deck
from the rock(or become PRONE)
this is each wave.

LOCATIONS

Main deck

The ships main deck (and the ship

generally has been smashed) by running
aground on a large black rock, it has a
smaller(and newer pinnace) alongside it
which is roped to it. The main ship has a
prow featuring a woman holding a
rusted spear.

There is a 1 in 6 chance that a

worshipper of the totem(an undead who
was formerly a normal kin who died
whilst being forced to worship the
corrupted totem) will be in this area in
any QD, looking out to sea.
The Crew Quarters

The Crew quarters have been empty for

a long time, and is now covered in sludge,
some of which has preserved what look
to be metal beds. The sludge makes
move rolls -1 difficulty.

There may be an undead here who if

communicated with may lay out the
story of how a group of Rust
worshippers were travelling into an old
sea specifically to set up a new
settlement.

 Any character in time away will see

the crew quarters as packed full of
various peoples as per the main deck,
the beds are there undamaged and
there is no sludge but on the walls is
the symbol of rust in blood

Totem-hold

The hold has a large obelisk in it

composed of metal and which has a
rusted depiction on it of an anvil. The
totem spirit has gone mad throughout
the ages it has been left on the ocean.

Mechanics

 Any character in time away will see

a well tended Obelisk, and around it
the captured spirits of the bloodied
league members who were
attempting to capture it. They will
be able to see the totem spirit in real
time
 Characters not in time away will not
be able to see the totem spirit unless
it choose to coalesce.
 EMERALD GLADE
DESCRIPTION
The Emerald glade shimmers with an
eerie green light on most nights, but is
impossible to find in day time. It has a
number of giant emerald shards which
stick up from the forest floor, around a
shimmering pool of greenish liquid.
LEGENDS
The valley inhabitants have many
legends about the strange flickering
green light which can be seen from
almost all over the valley on clear night.
Some say if you see it whilst walking
through a woods you are slated to die
Some say to have it flash when you are
having dreams makes those dreams
come true
Some say that kissing under the green
light means you are kissing your soon to
be bride/groom
TROPES
Dissolution of self, Rejection/Isolation,
Corruption(of beauty), Relgiious
horror(for an elf)
LOCATIONS
The Emerald glade(Uncorrupted)
“The trees part and for a moment it
looks like you are looking at another
world, the trees glitter with a green
phosphorescence.It could be from
another time for how much it differs
from the xerophyte trees, the dark oaks
of lunus woods or even the lush green
vegetation of goblin isle. The trees
almost move to welcome you. Around
the glade are emerald statues similar to
the statues you have seen in way-
stop.(only the windmill keepers statue is
absent) the statues murmur as you
approach, it has been a long time since
they have spoke with anyone”
Mechanics
 Druids and Elves can speak with the
trees as they are Emerald still elves
that have lived in and protected the
glade for a long time
 Interpreting what they say(it is all
sensations)requires an INSIGHT
roll.
The Emerald glade(corrupted)
The trees open up with a groan, and
before you lies blood red statues with
hints of emerald, they are partly cracked
and are groaning(for they are still elves)
on a small bole of a tree sits a blood red
gem it is smashed into several pieces, the
dead body of the bride upon it,
seemingly battered by large branches. As
the characters look at this scene, a few
surviving trees start to move angrily
towards the characters(they are about to
express their anger).
There are 6 statues which correlate with
the 6 statues of way-stop(not the
windmill keeper), set around the central
emerald, they are ringed with large trees
that sway, and as you enter one moves
across your path, awaiting something.
The statue ahead of you turns to look at
you, it asks ‘why are we denied entry to
the emerald longhouse?(the answer to
this is the isolation of the windmill
keeper in way stop).
Mechanics
 The Emerald statues are still elves
banned from entering the sacred
temple of the emerald elves,
incorrect answers and refusal to
answer incites the ire of the glade
(ents will attack after three
unsuccessful answers/failures to
reply)
 A successful answer allows the
players to enter the emerald long-
house (IF they wish)

Mechanics

 Druids and Elves can hear the anger

in the trees, convincing them to
spare the group is difficult,
MANIPULATION or
PERFORMANCE roll at -2

Statue glades(uncorrupted)

Emerald long-house(Uncorrupted glade)
The gem flashes and you are drawn in,
feeling your limbs grow heavy and
anchored, your feet growing into the
earth. But your mind goes to the
emerald long-house, it stretches before
you, its walls lined with living emeralds,
it is very beautiful and their is a
heavenly glow to it, your body grows
DESCRIPTION
The woods are large covering a wide area,
on the outskirts of which are various
‘warning’ signs,sticks placed in the trees
in different patterns, X’s mainly, some
of which with attached pieces of wolf fur.
Various wolf prints run in and out of the
trees and around it.
LEGENDS
still and begins to decompose(all those
who are not Elf die in peace, elves
survive to have their body regrow later).
At least you died happy.
EMERALD ENTS
Emerald ents are the same as ordinary Ents
from the GM’s guide, except they have an
additional Armour rating of 1(representing
the Emeralds within them)
The wolfkin of the woods are in a
territory, and aren’t very friendly,
although occasionally when the
settlements of the valley are holding
contests(v.occasional) the wolfkin may
hear of it and send a group to compete.
Once every full moon, it is said that
howls often erupt from the Lunus
woods which can be heard for miles
around.
TROPES

Hunted, Sacrificed, Lost in the woods,
Darkness
LOCATIONS
The Exterior of the woods
“You look at the ancient trees which run
up at a slant, your sight only extends so
far into the forest before it is obscured
by the sheer volume of ancient trees.
Just outside, and next to where you
stand is a pole, on which has been placed
the hide of a man-sized wolf hung
loosely from its frame in the wind [if the
characters step past the warning and
succeed at a scouting roll when looking
at the woods] “glinting yellow eyes look
out at you, clearly angry at your
trespass” [if go into the woods] “ the
eyes disappear and are replaced by angry
growls from all around your group from
the ancient trees, then the wolfkin tribe
breaks cover, ten or more wolfkin
surround you”[if lose fight go to lost
fight]
Mechanics
 LORE roll to know they are
warning signs
 Scouting rolls to spot hidden
wolfkin (fail forward provides hints
or glimpses of them)
 Battle hard fought if manage to kill
at least two wolfkin AND don’t flee
The Interior woods(fight won or hard
fought)
“Having shown your mettle, you find
yourself in the interior of the woods
which are on a slight slope, there are a
number of wolfkin warnings throughout
the woods and now their footprints can
be seen running in between the ancient
trees. You can also see other footprints,
human footprints that seem to ascend
the slope towards the mountain”
Mechanics
 Tracking rolls as per normal
SURVIVAL roll however fail
forward either sends in circles as has
you follow the wrong type of
footprints
The Interior woods(fight lost)
“The wolves consider you unworthy
competition, you find yourself beaten
and naked(except for undergarments) in
the middle of the woods in an unknown
location. Around you only dark trees
continue description as above but “from
you find yourself”
Mechanics
 Same as fight won mechanics(for
tracks) except that now you are
being hunted.
 There is one wolfkin hunting the
group as a band of individual
hunters(if the group flee failed
MOVE rolls bring hunters closer
by one NEAR area)
 Broken characters in the hunt are
taken for sacrifice(see Coven-stone)
Coven-stone
 If a character is restrained on the
coven stone, then it requires a
successful MIGHT roll will break
one strap (and allows the character
to free themselves(1 turn) or fight
anyone within arms reach(1 turn)
(freeing oneself takes a minimum of
three turns after the might roll

“You break cover from the woods to see

a small hillock, surrounded by small
caern stones and oboli with strange
runic symbols on, at the top of the
hillock is gathered 6 women gathered
around an altar slab, in their midst is an
urbane looking man, he is dressed in the
finest clothes and looks down at the
women gathered to worship him with a
coldness that permeates the air”

Mechanics

 A successful LORE roll reveals that

the runes are inscribed to aid the
summons of a Faustus(see Bestiary)
 THE ROOKERY
DESCRIPTION
High on the mountain-top can be seen a
large nest on a high ledge, [If the Shrike
is home(see below) then they can see its
bulky golden feathered form circling its
nest, patrolling for those it can see, its
beady eyes scanning the countryside far
and wide] [If Shrike is not home
Then they only see a nest full of dark
tree trunks snatched from the wood in
the valley].
Around the mountain fly flocks of birds
who have made their home on various
ledges and alcoves ascending the
mountain, and which seem to circulate
the large nest occasionally as if
protecting it.
A number of ledges can be seen covered
in bird droppings which run down the
mountain, but they seem in scalable
distance and many possess caves.
LEGEND OF THE ROOKERY
With a successful roll within any
settlement throughout the valley, lore
involving the rookery can be found from
within the inhabitants(see legends and
rumours in GM’s section). It is that
since time immemorial a large bird(as
big as a gryphon with metallic looking
feathers) has inhabited the mountain
here, passing along ownership to the
most aggressive of its young, each
generation(it is unknown how the shrike
becomes pregnant) but if the nest is
uninhabited then the shrike occasionally
disappears. It is noted that the Shrike
hunts mostly in a range covering
approximately 60 km x 60 km, and
locals know to stay clear.
Recently its attacks have been becoming
more common, and it is assumed there
is young.
Statistics for the shrike are included in
the monsters section.
Tropes
Eaten alive, Heights, Hunted, Creature
feature
Locations
Small nest mount
The small nest mount has two ledges
which connect to a large rope bridge
which swings above a chasm between the
two mounts. Each ledge is full of small
birds which fly around any characters
that choose to ascend this side,
thankfully the birds are merely a
nuisance. However the shrike can see
the characters ascent and likely attacks.
Mechanics
 Avoiding the Shrikes gaze, requires
a successful sneaking against the
shrikes scouting at -2 on the small
nest mount
The Rope bridge
The rope bridge swings across the chasm
for about 50 feet(two near areas) and is
swaying in the wind, it is profuse with
the dung of the birds, which look to
have eaten away at several of the boards
of the rope bridge.
Mechanics
 Any movement across the bridge
requires SLOW actions to avoid
falling, ANY fast action requires a
MOVE roll to avoid slipping
 If a character slips or is knocked off
by a shrikes attack, a successful
MOVE roll is required not to fall
100 foot to the floor and MIGHT
to hold on to whatever it is that you
have grabbed on to
Ledge 1-Rook’s mount
Ledge 1 on rooks mount is a scaling of
75 feet(3 near areas) this is a steep climb
without rope, the characters can see a
threadbare rope at the bottom of the
mount, and its broken off top on to he
border of the ledge.
[if characters manage to ascend] they see
a large ledge at the back of which is a
small overhang under which rests the
figure of a young woman whom
nevertheless has silvery grey hair she is
unconscious and bleeding and on her
leather armour is emblazoned a rose
with twisted thorns around it, there is a
trail of blood going towards her, and
around her lies a pool of blood too.
Clutched under one arm is a large shrike
egg.
Mechanics
 Climbing the cliff without climbing
gear requires MOVE rolls on the
first failure(fail forward) it starts
requiring MIGHT roll(1 success
must be used to remain on cliff face,
1 success or more means a
movement of 1 NEAR area
upwards(or sideways)
Ledge 2-Rooks mount
Ledge 2 is a hard climb albeit over 1 near
area(25 foot) and harder if carrying the
shrikes egg. On one side of the ledge the
rope bridge connects the two mounts,
with the rooks nest being a short climb
up, one near area(easy climb)
Mechanics
 Climbing the hard climb(without
the egg requires two successes on a
 MOVE roll to cross the NEAR
area(under same rules as Ledge 1)
 Climbing the harder climb with the
Shrike’s egg requires three successes
on a MOVE roll or MIGHT roll
 If fail forward after moving to
MIGHT rolls on a harder climb
requires straight agility roll to keep
hold of the egg.
The Shrikes nest
The Shrike if it is home will viciously
defend its nest, as will its young. Unless
the characters hold out the shrikes egg
in exchange for any trapped character
there.(this is the only way to retrieve a
character without some form of fight).
From the shrikes 125 foot high nest, the
characters can see the progress of the
blood mists, and see the dam.
Mechanics
 If a character is dropped into the
nest(Bludgeoning 1) and not broken
they may crawl between the trees to
escape the Shrike young.
 Escaping the nest requires sneaking
past the Shrike young and climbing
down the cliff(under the same rules)
 Scouting rolls reveal geographical
information
DESCRIPTION IF BEING
CARRIED TO THE NEST(Broken
characters)
The Shrike flies swiftly towards its
mountaintop home, as you struggle
meekly still shattered from your wounds.
Your struggles are in vain. It gets there
quickly, with the speed causing the wind
to slap against your body.
It begins to circle and beneath you you
see the hungry metallic looking beaks of
its young calling for food, it continues
to circle until the biggest of the bunch
forces its beak to the fore, shrieking with
glee as you fall towards it, it snaps you
up into your beak as it falls, but another
of the young grabs a leg and pulls.
Another clasps an arms, and you are
torn apart. You are dead but at least your
death serves to feed the next generation
of monsters.
 The Goblin isle
DESCRIPTION
The Goblin isle is a raised island in a lake,
in which reside the goblin tribe which
worship the totem of the bat, this tribe
is connected to way stop as part of the
lifecycle of halflings and goblins as per
the normal lifecycle of the
halfling/goblin.
There are a number of ritual birthing
areas(landing sites) on the coast of the
island, which are significantly back from
the shore in caves. The centre of the
island is dense jungle however and
mostly impassable unless you know the
way. From the tops of the trees can be
seen large posts, with bats on in
imposing totem poles.
There is at least one powerful goblin
shaman who all the goblins will flee to
on the approach of the blood mists, who
at least for goblin characters may be a
possible means of survival (at least
against the blood mists but not the
flood).
LEGENDS
There is a rumour that the goblins
sacrifice the occasional child to a strange
bat-like creature that inhabits the caves
here, though the goblins do not
mention this, only the ‘beautiful god of
their tribes’.
Sometimes ethereal music can be heard
from the isle, and it has been known for
sailors to be snatched from the shore by
some kind of long necked monster that
resides in the lake.
Tropes
Ritual, Hunted, Enslavement
LOCATIONS
Birthing ritual stone
“From the shore you can see a large
iridescent slab which reflects silvery
light constantly at the present state of
the moon, the slab reflects a crescent
shape. You see two stone gutters which
run down at a 60 degree angle to two
plinths near the sea. The iridescent slab
has blood stains on it”
Jungle trail
“You spot a trail, at least you think it is a
trail, which leads into the jungle ahead
of you. The vegetation slaps in your face
as you walk through its density. As you
walk you spot small ruins, and the
occasional fallen banner, suddenly you
step on something solid and it breaks
you look down and it is the small skull of
a goblin”
[If at night, and roll a 1 in 6 chance, the
monster is revealed]
“the jungle behind the last player in the
train[it is a one person trail] parts and a
figure emerges, your eyes blink from the
sweat of the jungle as you struggle to
make the figure out”[Read the Malefic
in Bestiary]
Mechanics
 Move rolls are required to stand
two abreast or more on the small
trail made by goblins (Halfling and
Goblin characters are not required
to make this roll)
 Lore rolls reveal amongst the jungle
debris fallen goblin totems(rat etc…)
and you remember a tale that in this
valley there was once a war of
totems with the bat emerging
triumphant.
 If the characters go off the trail, roll
for a D6 for each area of movement,
on a 1-4 they suffer a trap(roll on
Forae’s traps) as the goblins protect
the jungle
Glade of the moon
“The jungle clears and it is basked in a
strange ethereal light that illuminates all
of the glade. What you see is a number
of rocks bathed in the moonlight,
emitted by an altar sitting at the glades
centre from which ascends a large totem
depicting a bat, the moonbeams reveal a
cave entrance, in one of the large rocks”
Mechanics
 The cave is revealed when it is dark,
otherwise it takes a careful
inspection of the rock face and a
successful scouting roll to see where
the optical illusion is
 Placing an item of worth(in terms
of survival I.e. food, water etc… or
an object of beauty(especially silver
but not gold or copper) and
chanting in goblin has a 2 in 6
chance per QD of summoning the
monster from its lair
The Cave of the bat king
“The moonlit cave is set in a large
forested hill, upon entry the tunnel is lit
up slightly by the light shining through
moonstone shards that are set in the
walls. The tunnel opens up into a large
chamber

GOBLIN VILLAGE
Palisade
“The rough wooden palisade emerges
from the jungle in front of you, the tops
of it have been set with moonstone, so
that the light from the moon shines
around the village. There are small gates
and the palisade doesn’t look
particularly strong, the small gates are
manned by goblins with moonstone
pointed spears, from which they
occasionally catch moonlight in glints”.
Mechanics
 The Goblins may use their spears to
highlight specific areas with
moonlight if they suspect someone
is there and do so randomly every
three turns(if they do they get an
additional +1 dice on scouting rolls)
 The goblins if approached in a
friendly manner are friendly but will
still need to be convinced to let
players in with a manipulation roll
at +1 die
Shooting ground
“The shooting ground is an area within
the village and as you approach it near
the gates, you see goblin children at play
Attempting to fire at targets dressed up
as other jungle creatures/goblin
totems.They laugh as they hit targets,
even whilst goblin fathers target larger
targets with their short spears”
The Square of the totem
“The small village is dominated at its
centre by a large bat totem pole
ascending to the skies. It is clad in
moonstone and village jewellery. ON its
surface are the relics of several fallen
tribes embedded in the wood”
 Lore rolls will reveal the ancestry of
whichever goblin items that are
embedded in the wood.
 Taking an item from the totem
from an ancient goblin tribe
requires a MIGHT roll and
successfully avoiding the notice of
10 goblin guards set around the
square.
The Mud hut of the shaman
“Close to the square is the adorned mud
hut of the shaman, it has a small symbol
of the bat upon it, and a straw and mud
door baked from the heat of the jungle.
[If the characters open the door] “The
door opens and you see a humble goblin
abode, the walls have several weapons
with bat shaped hilts, an old goblin sits
on a wicker chair surrounded by pelts of
animals, especially the skins of
swimming mammals”

 If the characters approached from

the direction of the totem then the
shaman knows the characters
intentions
 A successful manipulation roll of
the Shaman reveals the worship of
the bat king, or any other
information the players want, for
any small price.
DESCRIPTION
The village of Way-stop is a halfling
settlement, which when the characters
arrive is in the middle of a day long
celebration, there has been a wedding
and there is festival going on, even a
representative from the goblin isle is
there.
Streamers and banners fly, some of
which say ‘all are welcome in this joyous
occasion, to the wedding of ….. and …..
They will not be likely to talk very much
to the outsiders, the village hall is
packed, and there are a number of social
cliques here, especially a particularly
mean set of wedding guests(who see
outsiders as wedding crashers).
Everyone is dressed up, but there is also
an extensive, open table.
Everyone is outwardly welcoming, but
whisper behind the players backs when
they think they are out of hearing.
LEGENDS
There are not many rumours about this
place it seems a typical halfling village,
they say that it is the perfect place to
rest. Their are a number of odd
structures on the outskirts of the village
which are regularly adorned by the
halflings with ornaments, and which are
thought to be elven in origin.
Tropes
Isolation, Exclusion
LOCATIONS
The statues
(6 different statues take 1 explore action
to investigate, 1 extra statue near the
windmill)
The statues are of from left to right on
map below, and one by the windmill
who needs to be explored seperately.
1-A sneering elf, who is taller than the
other statued elves, it is sneering down
at the watcher, it has a long frock coat,
which seems to be lined with silver.
2-An elf in armour, holding a noose. He
is dressed in hide armour, with an ornate
floral design on the bands
3- A jovial looking elf, holding a tankard,
he is pot bellied for an elf, and dressed in
bartending clothes
4-A large elf holding a cabbage in one
hand and a rake in another, his emerald
is marred and weather-beaten more than
the other. He is dressed in farmers
clothes.
5-An elf with riding breeches, and a
riding crop on top of a large horse. The
horse is looking angry, its nostrils
flaring. The rider is calm and serene
looking.
6-An elf holding aloft a large emerald
and dressed in fine robes, the robes are
cinched at the waist with a simple band
with a floral pattern.
Windmill statue- The elf statue near the
windmill is overgrown and hard to spot,
it is of a bent over elf, who looks back
over his shoulders with a mean look in
his eyes, he has a long fishing rod, which
extends into the moat.
Mechanics
 In order to gain the favour of an
emerald statue,it requires the social
access given by their respective
group in Way-stop, if not using
advanced social combat then this
requires Roleplay and manipulation
rolls
The Shrine of Old emerald
The shrine is an old building, which is
well tended by the halflings of the village,
it is here that a wedding is taking place
between a blonde-locked human female
who is small for a human but still much
taller than the male halfling (a tanner
see Amaetar’s tannery).
Mechanics
 A successful scouting roll when
looking at the bride, reveals that her
bouquet is a familiar looking rose
wrapped in thorns
The Gaelant gallows
The gallows is at the entry to the village
from across the moat, it doesn’t look
like it has been used often, having
mostly become overgrown, a few lazy
looking halfling soldiers, clad in leather
eye strangers with a dispirited but
hostile look and challenge strangers as to
their purpose. Their leather armour has
the same floral design as the elf statue
holding the noose. Some have been
asked to act as guards at the wedding in
an honourial role.
Amaetar’s tannery
The tannery is newly built and is
manned by a group of sneery stand-
offish halflings, who dress in
multicoloured clothing that they have
dyed themselves but with silver trim.
The tannery is still in operation but with
much diminished staff, the rest are at
the wedding.The wedding is between
Amaetar (male halfling) and a newcomer,
a charismatic short human female with
long golden locks of hair.

Mechanics

 A successful INSIGHT roll when

looking at the gallows soldiers will
reveal that they bear the same sneer
on their faces as the elf with a noose
 A successful manipulation roll will
gain the offer to fill in for one of the
honourial guard who is sick

Mechanics If before the wedding, the inn is full of

 A successful questioning of the
workers there which will require
MANIPULATION rolls at -1
reveals that the female, one Lenares
is not trusted but Amaetar suddenly
fell in love with her and planned the
wedding in 1 week
The Inn of Sera
The Inn of Sera is bustling(if the
characters arrive here after the wedding
reception it is bustling for all the
wedding guests move here)
suspicious looking old halflings,
drinking ale over a poker game(they are
millers and fishermen). If after the
wedding, the tavern is full and is a social
combat scene.(see the wedding reception)
Mechanics
 Winning the poker game will get an
invite to look around the old
windmill, this requires a successful
Sleight of hand roll, or INSIGHT
roll to see that the old windmill
keeper is bluffing (Alternatively play
it out)
The Garden of Greata
The garden of Greata, is well tended and
is a combination of orchard and
vegetable garden.It has a number of
workers within it, they are dressed as
farm workers(dressed similar to the elf
with a rake on), they all look up with
worn faces, lined with perennial dirt.
Some are at the wedding reception. The
halflings look at strangers with a look
that they might disturb their garden.
Mechanics
 A successful MANIPULATION
roll for food or anything else will
produce the price of taking some
flowers to a bridesmaid or apples to
the Inn (if the wedding has
happened)
The Library of Leanndra
though a bit overworked. If you put
your horses here before the wedding,
then there are five riders, one of which
is carrying the bride to the wedding. The
horses seem fairly fractious but are
being easily controlled by the riders who
have placid faces, even though it is a
slightly comical look, the horses are
much larger than the halflings are.
Mechanics
 A Successful ANIMAL
HANDLING roll before the
wedding will get a player an invite as
they control a horse
 A successful ANIMAL
HANDLING roll on the Brides
horse, will allow a Scouting roll of
the brides boots(which are muddy
and well used and bear the insignia
of the bloodied league

The library has a single occupant a

female halfling who is studying a large
tome, the library having plenty of old
books in, backed in many by emerald
green floral bindings. She is at the table
with a tear in her eyes, she is dressed in
humble robes, cinched at the waist.

The rest of the librarian-priests of the

settlement are at the wedding or
officiating.

Mechanics

 See the Bloodied league

 A successful MANIPULATION
roll will reveal that the Librarian
was in love with Amaetar

The Stable of Steavan

The stable of Steavan has a number of

horsehands who are friendly seeming,
The Training ground
The same lazy soldiers seen at Gaelant
gallows are more active here, and they
seem to be frustrated types(having been
denied attending the wedding for
various mistakes or insubordination,
some failed to protect the village against
an orc raid). They attack the
mannequins with a corresponding
viciousness, and are likely to start fights
with strangers who interrupt them.
 Any interruption by a non-resident
will resolve in a fight if this is
somehow got around then a
successful manipulation roll with
the price of sparring will give them
information from a scout on
Darvus’s dungeon(location etc…)
THE WINDMILL
The windmill is mostly abandoned, the
millers playing poker in the tavern. One
miller man’s it and is loath to have
anyone enter especially strangers. On
the bank of the moat, is the windmill
statue of the old elf if the characters reel
in the fishing rod, they gain a glowing
emerald, the old elf statue turns to face
the players and says, “take the emerald
to the glade, good luck to you and I hope
they let you in…they never let me in and
suffer for it!
DESCRIPTION
The characters approach what looks to
be a small wooden outpost besides a
large rusted metal grate that is on the
side of a cliff. Orc’s guard the entrance
and the top of the wooden outpost,
armed with glaives.
There is a party of them before the grate,
guarding a number of what look to be
Dwarven prisoners, thought there is a
smattering of others. The whole cliff
casts a shadow over the environment.
If look closely the prisoners are being
tooled up with pickaxes, and there is a
trail of footprints heading eastwards
along the cliff edge. There are a number
of armed orcs(with missiles on the cliff
ledge and on the ramparts of the outpost)
LEGENDS
The Dungeon is known as a stronghold
of orcs, that have been raiding
settlements all over the valley, they
moved in relatively recently as part of a
larger force whose intentions are
unknown. They broke through the
mountain from an old dwarven mine
similar to the Mine of Grelk.
After a few years they started raiding the
Dwarven village primarily but
occasionally the halfling village of Way-
stop and Krios. The few prisoners that
have managed to escape and make their
way back to their villages, spoke about
them ‘looking for someone, amongst
the dwarves especially”
Tropes
Enslavement, Imprisonment
Locations
The Bastion
Ahead of you you see a large outpost, on
its small towers stand orcs manning
mounted crossbows. The stone gate
frame has a large iron banded wooden
double door, which look like they are
operated on some form of chain pulley,
used by the orcs in the towers [If the
characters make it inside] there is a
small open plan courtyard in front of
you at the back of which is another set
of inward doors. The bastion walls
stretch around the courtyard, with stone
steps heading upwards
Mechanics
 It takes a MIGHT roll to open the
front doors of the bastion using the
pulley
The Entrance hall
The Entrance hall is bordered by
mountain walls, and the broken
remnants of dwarven statues, one
remains where a particularly gifted orc
has managed to make an original
dwarven statue look orcish, the hall ends
in a Y junction, thickly barred with solid
iron bars.
Mechanics
 A successful LORE roll will reveal
that the dwarven statues represent a
line of dwarven chiefs, starting with
Eldarus(see the legend of the dam
of Eldarus)
Cell Block A
“Looking down the left side of the end
of the corridor, a series of cells locked
and guarded by heavily set orc’s loop
round in a semi-circle. Mid-semi circle
there is a large set of stairs heading
downwards [If make it to the stairs] the
characters look down and see the stairs
descend to a tunnel leading off into the
darkness of the mountain, you can just
see the remnants of sappers equipment
[at the end of the semi circle] the cells
link up with Cell block B, and there is an
ascending spiral stairs”
Mechanics
 The Orcs carry keys to the cell
blocks, but without them it take a
MIGHT roll to open the cell doors
 Descending the stairs lead away
from the scenario and is one of the
only ways to escape the blood mist
Cell Block B
“ Looking down the right side of the
end of the corridor, there are many
empty cells most of which have been
emptied. They are still wandered
through by armed orcs. In the middle of
the semi-circle is a small alcove, towards
the end of the semi-circle in a small cell
sits an old dwarf in prison rags”
Mechanics
 A successful MANIPULATION
roll of the old dwarf(who in an
addled state thinks the orcs have
been sent to ‘get’ the information
from him. The dwarf has only one
piece of relevant information, “once
I heard someone sing a tune or was
it play a tune”. The rest of the
information from the dwarf are
legends the players have already
heard or gossip.
The small alcove/secret tunnel
“The small alcove looks made of
obsidian, upon which is scratched a
strange series of numbers in dwarvish,
and the words, 7 of white, 5 of black.
BEAD. Otherwise the alcove looks plain
and ignored”

Mechanics
 If the players don’t figure it out,
then any character may make a
LORE roll to figure out it refers to
music.
 Minstrels may play and know it
refers to music as soon as it is read
or observed by them.
The Spiral stair
“Over you is a spiral staircase winding
upwards and in a circuitous path
through the mountain, there is no light
and whomever walked these stairs did so
ages past, every ten metres or so is a
sconce made out of obsidian with
ancient ash stains on”
Mechanics
 One sconce about halfway up is
different it doesn’t have ash stains(a
successful SCOUTING roll will
reveal another entrance to the
secret tunnel
Revelatory mountain
“The spiral stair opens up on top of a
plateau, to the left is a rocky slope
leading downwards, this is shockingly
full of the blood mist slowly ascending
towards the cliff edge. To the far right is
a ledge which leads round to what looks
like the top wall of a dam holding back a
large inland sea”
Mechanics
 The Blood mist moves as per
prologue
 The characters flee over the small
hex map towards the dam, this has
unsafe areas from many years of the
mountain being mined
GM’s section
The Orcs are looking for the chief of the
mine that was here, and torturing those
they find to get this information, this
chief knows of the dam of Eldarus,
essentially how to work the
mechanism(this is needed by the agent
of the bloodied league, see the agenda of
the bloodied league).

DESCRIPTION (Also known as the
Dam of Eldarus
The Party approaches the end of the
valley, they have been seeing the
growing presence of a monstrous sheet
of rock for at least a day, a brown and
grey slab cast across the mouth of the
valley in defiance of natures laws.
As they get closer(QD/1 hex) they see a
gathering of people at the base of this
monstrosity, to each side are carved
stone stairs, carved by ancient hands for
they are weather-beaten and cracked.
Armed people man these stairs, the
insignia of the bloodied league
emblazoned in badges on their chest, (a
wicked curved sacrificial dagger dripping
blood).
The work-crews carry pick axes, with
which a number are attempting to
smash their way through the rock. At
the top of the dam are other figures that
can be barely seen, gazing from the
central castle of the dam.
THE LEGEND (THE DAM OF
ELDARUS)
A successful Lore roll or visiting the
dwarven tavern in the dwarven village of
Half-helm will cause a character to
remember an old dwarven tale about an
Ancient Dwarven king called Eldarus, of
the Beldar clan, who came upon an
inland sea in the middle of mountains,
which stopped the spread of his army.
He used powerful sorcerors of the stone
song, and the lives of his fellow dwarves
to construct a massive stone slab against
this sea, and pushed it back, and then set
a number of dwarves to guard and
protect it as well as work a complicated
yet powerful water mill within the dam.
Soon however the dwarven king was
overthrown by his own people for
 gratuitous overspending, and the dam
was left untended
Locations
The Left stairwell
The left spiral staircase burrows up the
mountain to the top of the dams left side, as
you open the door you see it winding up and
outwards. Its sides are made of basalt and old
volcanic rock. Below you there is the smell of
hot steam, and occasional bursts travel up the
stairwell.
Etched within the walls are bas reliefs of ages
old kings and queens who look sternly down on
you as you ascend.
Mechanics
 A successful LORE roll will reveal a
hereditary dynasty/family tree of the
Beldaran dwarves ending with the dwarf
king Eldarus
Tropes:Burnt alive, Buried alive,
Drowning, Race against time,
Enslavement, Sacrificed.
The Left chamber
Intersecting the left stairwell, is a large
chamber, around which the bas reliefs change
to depictions of dwarven mistresses and
courtesans. The room looks like it has been
preserved in some way as many of the trappings
remain, including one skeleton that has been
lovingly adorned by a resident female undead
who has never left her lover, and is held by the
shame of betrayal(the dam was betrayed before
its fall by a forbidden love between the dwarf
courtesan and a visiting orc.
The orcs gained entrance via a secret passage
leading from the dam to the dungeons of
Darvus. The courtesan still lovingly tends to
the corpse of her ex-lover and the courtesans
chambers.
Mechanics
 If the corpse of her ex-lover is disturbed
the courtesan ghost will attack
 A successful manipulation roll of the ghost
of the courtesan will reveal how she saw a
ragged dwarf to whom she felt was kin
enter the tunnel recently
The Secret tunnel
The secret tunnel runs for a number of hexes
between darvus’s dungeon and the dam, inside
of the tunnel is the hidden dwarven leader who
escaped from the orcs when they took
possession of the dungeons, his name is Darvus
and he has access to the tower keys, which are
needed to survive the fall of the dam at the end
of the scenario, as it allows access to the ‘safe
room’ a room designed by the dwarves in case
the dam should ever fall. The Bloodied league
are looking for Darvus in league with the orcs.
Mechanics
 The dwarf chief hides in a number of side
tunnels and will try to avoid everyone he
may be coaxed out with food,water etc…
for he has grown quite feral over the years
 If the group is looking in the right tunnel
they will be able to find him, or if they
leave out food/drink etc… they may be able
to corner him, a successful ANIMAL
HANDLING roll is needed to reassure
him(as said he has grown feral)
 A successful MANIPULATION roll is
required to get him to divulge information
The Right stairwell
Similar to the left stairwell in description,
except that the steam is hotter and the walls are
not smooth basalt but rough(there are newer
deposits if GM feels generous they are still
giving off extreme heat).
When the characters enter the stairwell, there
will be a spasm of violent seismic activity, and
the doorway entrance will be closed. There will
be an expulsion of scalding hot steam from the
lower layers of the stairwell. Each turn the lava
will rise up the shaft of the stairwell(growing in
speed-see map).
Mechanics
 Each turn the characters are in the right
stairwell there is a rumble and a 2 in 6
chance that seismic activity will happen,
the first time this happens the bottom
stairwell gets blocked by falling rubble
 Digging out of the stairwell take three
turns(each round there is a 2 in 6 chance of
seismic activity, on the third seismic
activity, it changes to eruptive activity(the
lava starts to rise)
The right chamber
The right chamber is full of dwarven riches and
is being guarded by a bloodied league
member(who knows the password for the basalt
trapdoor at the top of the stairwell). There is
gold galore here, precious statues and lost
works of art.The characters might stop to fight
the cult member who is gathering treasure, or
to pillage the place. If they stop it is highly
likely they will be overrun by the lava and boil
alive. If they flee without the password(they
need to break the cultist to get the password)
they will reach the basalt trapdoor, and not be
able to open it and likely boil alive.
If they are at the trapdoor with the cultist or
have somehow managed to get the password
they can get it open in a particular
round(however if this is the same turn as the
lava arrives here, they will need to force it
closed in time(Might rolls against the rising
and burning lava, this will increase in pressure
for 3 turns if they have failed to close it then
the trapdoor flies open and lava spews
out(move rolls required to escape along the
dam avoiding flying pumice.
Dam castle tower
The upper tower ramparts have evidence of
large animals being slaughtered(the rook feeds
here occasionally). Its central spine is where the
rook perches occasionally when not hunting in
its territory. It is also holds the safe room, a
central pillar which can survive the breaking of
the dam.
Mechanics
 There is a 1 in 6 chance that the Shrike will
be perched here on any particular QD
 The Bakery of Eldarus

Beneath the mill is the bakery which has been

pressed into operation by the cult and orcs to
feed the workers.

The Guard room and fountain

The lowest room is a guard room and fountain

which is used to prevent thirst in the cult, the
orcs and the workers.

The throne room of Eldarus

An ancient throne room once occupied by the

noble Eldarus, its treasure have been removed
elsewhere(see right chamber). It is occupied by
the Second Sangarch of the cult, a woman
named Mellitus and her cultist followers.
There is a water mill in the room used to make
flour
 THE BLOODIED LEAGUE
(Secret society adventure sitr)
DESCRIPTION
A typical Bloodied league member when
dressed in robes, wear purple with silver
embossed hoods, on the front of the
robe when it is tied is a picture of a what
looks to be a ‘spiky rose’. Which is a seal
on all their ‘links’ which may be found in
the game, members keeps one of these
roses in their homes, which scratch
anyone who is not a member.
A typical Bloodied league agent is
handpicked by Yildrim, they tend to be
local discontents initially who have been
forced or otherwise coerced into agency,
and believe in a coming
apocalypse(which is imminent, the
group believes)
The Leader is Yildrim, who is a flaming
red haired firebrand who took over Krios
with his vision and passion only last
season, he immediately set up sweeping
changes(such as building the rampart,
and hiring the Welches (master builder)
see dramatis personae.
IDEOLOGY
The Bloodied league believes in a
coming apocalypse which will need to be
survived, as such they feed the monster
secretly outside of the settlement, which
has its roots throughout the village. The
monster has instructed the league to
collapse the structure at the end of the
valley.
Yildrim is seen as a ‘saviour’ who will
lead the village to a new greatness, the
central sculpture being part of this(a
kind of mosaic garden), he also enforces
order strictly and there have been many
hangings of ‘evil doers’ i.e. strangers.
THE AGENTS AND WHERE THEY ARE?
WHAT THEY ARE DOING?
Agent- Ancaster Fea(At cache on first
QD, then runs NE on map around the
salt marsh, then on to the ship of rust by
skiff boat(which he has arranged to be
there, where he goes to assist the
society members to secure the totem,
but will run afoul of the corrupted
totem spirit)
Agent- Lenares Haem(seduced Amaetar
in Way-stop to access the glade after
the wedding reception(all new brides
get to consult with the still elf statue)
Agent- Brukil Barnubus(stuck on ledge
of rooks mount after stealing a shrike
egg, a bribe to allow access to the roof
of the dam castle and thereby the ‘safe
room’
Agent-Rachek(inquisitor-executioner)
looks to protect the Sangarch in Krios.
REVELATION POINTS AND
WHERE?
 In Krios, the society can be caught
red handed as they feed the ‘knot’
plant.
 In Way-stop, the plans of the society
and Lenares Haem, can be found in
her journal in the library(where she
stalked him to find out all of his
hobbies and interests and there is
mention of using him to reach and
corrupt the emerald glade
 Ancaster Fea will ‘slip up’ by leaving
a boat marked with the insignia of
the league(thorny rose) in the boat,
along with the contact names and
locations of the other agents, on the
sea shore near his tracks.
LINKS AND WHERE?
The Cache(The skull in the ‘central hills’)
The Cache contained tools which the Agent
Ancaster Fea is to use to help remove the
obelisk from the ship of rust, namely a
powerful stone saw(invented by the valleys
dwarves), it also has weapons and armour
within it.
The Library in the library(at waypoint)
The hidden library behind the library shelves in
way-stop contains the journal of Lenares, and a
Set of occult books on cultivating knotweed,
and a tome of blood magic(emphasising
sacrifice)
Instructional letter at Darvus’s dungeon, on
the main jailers desk
There is an instructional letter sealed by the
societies insignia, and co-signed by both
Sangarch’s, instructing the orcs to organise and
attack the dwarves, and to find Darvus. They
are promised a safe haven in Krios if they
should bring the dam down.
On the road(paranoia seeds in a secret nest,
guarded by a cultist)
In a secret nest of seeds stowed away by the
cultists(insurance) in case the mother plant and
the league should fail in its mission, the cultist
is to lock himself away and when the ‘pbvious
sign comes’ to swallow a seed and run for the
hills with as many seeds as possible.
In Krios, in Yildrims house, the name of the
two leaders of the cult, Yildrim and
Mellitus(Sangarchs)
This information can be found in Yildrim’s
lounge, the sangarch has been lax in his clean
up duties, and there is evidence that he has
recently had some meetings, there are scrolls of
communication between Sangarch Yildrim and
Mellitus, as well as the three agents. The scrolls
have been copied as he is a meticulous record
keeper.
In addition, he has his ‘garden’ plans here too,
with a fairly obvious space for the knot plant in
the centre, and an additional space for the
obelisk.
Outside of Forae’s territory, can be found a
communication in a tree stump(to be picked up
by Ancaster Fea.
The tree stump here has been carved with the
insignia of the bloodied league, and has a small
hole at the base in which is hidden orders in a
scroll signed with the name of ‘Sangarch
Mellitus’, it is ordering the agent Ancaster Fea,
to ‘visit the ship in the valley’s sea and utilise
the stone saw to chop up the obelisk for
transport back to Krios’
Outside of Half-helm, is an area full of mining
and climbing gear, an old cache for the the
miner and quarrymen of half-helm, some of it
has been looted and their are tracks leading
north east.
The cache is in an old shed full of stones and
other masonry, it looks abandoned and full of
cobwebs. Hung on pegs is durable rope and
grappling hooks, picks and mining/caving
equipment is also littered around the shed. It is
built on loose earth and a set of booted
footprints headed to the north east.
MONSTER THA T THE LEAGUE
‘SHILLS’ FOR
The League feeds a ‘knot’ plant(shown below)
within Krios, that has sensed through its roots
that the world has changed(I.e. the blood mists,
the demons etc…). Many of the villagers of
Krios are aware of this but choose to ignore it
especially as the Knot targets strangers and
malcontents. It is included in the Bestiary.
The main aim of the knot is to flood the
valley(to remove opposition especially the ents
of emerald glade) and has instructed the
Sangarchs to build the large wall around Krios,
to move its bulk to the garden, and to collapse
the dam. It also has sent an agent to corrupt the
emerald glade with its seeds.
The Sangarchs (Yildrim and Mellitus) carry
vine whips with fruiting bodies(grow the vine
fruits) and paranoia seeds.
Agents carry vine whips without fruiting
bodies.(and paranoia seeds)
 STATISTICS AND BESTIARY FOR THE
VALLEY OF FEAR

1. NPC stats
2. Typical statistics
3. Bestiary
4. GM’s extra’s

Non-player character statistics and

descriptions in order of likely appearance

The Painter Amianah

The Painter Amianah is a middled aged

looking woman with mad hair that has
been placed through several ringlets(of
amianahs own design) they are white and
look like salt crystal. Her eyes are focussed
as she sits in a long dress delicately
painting an easel, she looks alert
somehow however for she regularly pauses
to scan her surroundings. She has chubby
cheeks and a fairly cherubic appearance
in general.
She is sat on a wooden lounge chair and
her long dress has loops in holding a long
sword, whilst a crossbow sits idly on the
floor at her feet and under a small table
full of small pots.
STATISTICS
Strength 1 Agility 3 Wits 2 Empathy 3
Skills- Performance 2 Melee 1 Insight 2
Scouting 1 Marksmanship 2
Pride- I have painted in many different
locations in the Tara valley
Equipment: Easel, paintbrushes, paints,
sword, crossbow, small paintings
Forae (the hunter-peddler)
Forae has a face which looks perpetually
down cast and servile, and he never seems
to look up(though he obviously looks up
for he responds that way) he wears a wide
brim hat over brown-black hair. He has
dimples and when he is serving smiles
easily this smile reveals a number of
crooked teeth. He has a face marked with
acne scars and an unshaven moustache
which yet seems unable to grow to form a
full moustache, each individual hair
being somehow visible.
He wear loose hunting clothes of greyish
brown, and in his hands seems to always
be a dog lead which he plays with
occasionally if watched, the other hand
always seems to be tapping on something.
Strength 2 Agility 3 Wits 3 Empathy 1
Skills- Survival 3 Marksmanship 2 Melee
2 Insight 2 Scouting 3
Pride- I am devoted to love even beyond
death
Equipment: Leash, Dagger, Axe, Shortbow,
Dog treats, painting of Griseld
Agent Rachek
The merchant looking over the floristry
and pottery stool, is a pinch faced
merchant with beady looking eyes which
are blue. He wears the same clothing as
the other merchants here, a servicable set
of trousers and non-descript blue
undershirt. Yet his pinched face has a
direct looking feel as if constantly
weighing something in his mind, and a
haughty almost upturned chin.
Strength 3 Agility 2 Wits 3 Empathy 1
Skills- Might 1, Scouting 2, Insight 2,
Performance 1, Melee 2 Marksmanship 1
Talent: Cold blooded, Path of many faces
2 eyes betray his younger age for they are
Pride: I am proud in my power in the
community
Equipment: Vine Whip, Short sword,
Manacles, Cloth hood(when on gallows)
Sangarch Yildrim
Sangarch Yildrim is a tall imposing man,
whose robes speak of luxury they are silk
and trimmed with wool, they tend to give
off a shimmer as he moves. His boots are
tall and look like supple leather. Looped
in his robes is his long whip(with
fruiting bodies) and what look like riding
breeches.
His face has a solid blonde beard greying
at its fringes, which reflect his eyebrows.
The eyes are emotionless and stern
wherever he walks, unless he spots
something of beauty or art when they
light up with a fervent passion.
In any QD, Yildrim will be at 1-2 In the
forest 3 walking through the town 4 at
his house front sitting room instructing
the populace 5 in the garden 6 asleep at
home
Strength 2 Agility 3 Wits 3 Empathy 1
Skills-Insight 3 Performance 3 Scouting 1
Melee 1 Lore 2
Talent: Path of Blood 3
Pride: I am proud of my ability to create
beauty for my master
Equipment:Fancy robes, Whip with
fruiting bodies, Hand-ax
Agent Ancaster Fea
Ancaster Fea look weathered and beaten
by the elements his face is taut and his
lips are thin from not enough water. His
lively and skip around as if taking in lots
of details, when looking at a person they
almost seem to gleam with some inner
reflection. He carries a whip coiled
around his shoulder blade, which he
occasionally has to readjust. [If captured
by the totem spirit that gleam is missing]
Strength 3 Agility 1 Wits 2 Empathy 1
Skills-Survival 3 Melee 3 Scouting-3
Insight 1, Lore 1
Talent: Path of Blood 1
Old Hob (Demon god of the sea)
Old Hobs appearance is unearthly, his
skin is like fish scale in dampness yet
looks dry and carved like a mountain.
The grey skin undulates and his teeth are
jagged, his eyes are large and seem to have
two pupils of green and blue each. His
elbows and knees are spiked. Somehow,
his body and the water flowing over its
surface look like salty tears leaving trails
on his cheeks.
When he laughs it is hollow sounding
like an empty tin being scratched, and
even the air seems to fluctuate in
disapproval when he issues his hollow
laugh. He carries what looks to be a large
curved scepter.
Strength 30 Agility 30 Wits 30 Empathy
20
Sbatspik(Goblin shaman)
Sbatspik is as described earlier in the
scenario
Strength 2 Agility 3 Wits 4 Empathy 2
Skills-Lore 2 Survival 2 Marksmanship 2,
Insight 2, Performance 2
Talents: Path of the Shaman 2
Darvus(the dwarf in isolation)
Darvus is an old and battered looking
dwarf, his beard is overgrown and ragged
and mixed with stone dust, the beard has
what looks like the leavings of some kind
of meat, and is a little soppy around the
mouth where Darvus has drunk recently
from a fountain.
The beard is grey in appearance, the nails
are dirty and he is almost naked due to
his rags being so poorly cared for, his
mouth looks constantly like it is going to
break into a growl.
Strength 2 Agility 1(dehydration) Wits
1(Hungry) Empathy 3
Skills- Lore 2, Melee 1, Marksmanship 1,
Survival 3, Scouting 2
Talents- Stone song 2
Sangarch Mellitus
Sangarch Mellitus is a non-descript
looking woman with scrunched up
brown hair, she is dressed in dirty
leather armour emblazoned with the crest
of the bloodied league, at her waist is a
long sword and a whip of the knot with
fruiting bodies.The weapons unlike the
rest of Sangarch Mellitus look well
tended and polished.
She has blue eyes and one eyebrow
tarnished by an old scar, and her eyes
look tired as if she has had to do too
much too early in her life, you could
estimate her age to be in her early thirties.
Sangarch Mellitus is overseeing the
destruction of the dam.
Strength 3 Agility 3 Wits 3 Empathy 1
Skills- Lore 3 Melee 3 Marksmanship 2,
Survival 2, Insight 3, Scouting 2
Talent- Path of Blood 3
Equipment-Vine whip with fruiting
bodies, Long sword, leather armour
 Typical statistics
Typical Bloodied league member
Furtive eyes scan all who are not
known(I.e. strangers) by the memberas if
expecting the subject to make some kind of
sudden movement or to fulfil whichever
stereotype the member believes of
‘outsiders’. They come in all shapes and
sizes but are mostly made up of locals (if
look closely then there may be evidence of
a paranoia seed somewhere on their
person)
As per kin statistics but -1 empathy
armed with fishing spears(as a matter of course),
guards carry billed hooked spears.
They wear clothing suited to holding a sizable
quantity of time waters, they seem positively
armed with it. When they stretch out they look
like a larger than average Saurian that hasn’t
quite managed to figuring out bipedal
movement completely.
Strength 4 Agility 2 Wits 3 Empathy 1
Typical Skills:Survival 3, Melee 2
Talents: Unbreakable bite- The Crocodilians
large jaw on a bite attack institutes a
grapple(escape DC -1) any skulls on the
bite do slashing damage

Ambush predator- The Crocodilian

Gets a bonus 2 dice on the first attack
Typical Crocodilian
In a combat if able to ambush
Large hooded eyes on a curved body with a
fronge of spikes going down their flanks, they
Negative: Sleep inducible (Crocodilians fall
have extended jaws full of backwards facing
asleep if their eyes are covered or there is no
teeth. Their skin look dried out to casual
light and cannot be woken until they see ligh
inspection but careful inspection reveals life
inside that thickened exterior with the sight of
a bright red veins. The ears are flattened and are

The Bestiary(in potential appearance order)

1. The Giant Salt Slug

2. The Silicants of the salt marsh
3. The Knotweed of Krios
4. The Plesiosaur of Goblin lake
5. The Skin-walker of Half-helm
6. The Witches and the Faustus of Lunus woods
7. The Malefic of Goblin Isle
8. The Triton’s of Old Hob
9. The Shrike of Rooks mountain
10. The Nervosae from the Mine of Grelk
11. The Corrupted totem spirit from the Ship of Rust
12. Bloody eyed banshee (if mists enter Half-helm)
 THE GIANT SALT SLUG

The Giant salt slug is a breed of

Massive Giant sea slug which lives in
salt marshes and act to create Dunes
of Salt which it absorbs for
sustenance. They are said to live in
Tara valley’s salt marshes and attack
those who walk on their dunes, for
they are territorial and aggressive,
some say they can be appeased by the
giving of water.
You start to traipse up the sand dune but soon
find the salt has a mucousy quality that burns
your hands as you use them to scale the dune.
Then the salt shifts even more, and rearing
below your feet is a ginormous slug, it shakes
and you are thrown off, flying through the air,
you manage to roll away before being buried in
a mound of salty mucous.
Drawing your sword as you roll you stand to see
the behemoth approaching, and are caught in a
spray of salt acid that burns and makes you fall
back again, you just manage to clear your eyes in
time to see the slug slide over you. You scream
but it is muffled by the slugs body as it starts to
digest.
ATTRIBUTES:
STRENGTH 20, AGILITY 2, WITS 2, EMPATHY
0
ARMOR RATING: 1(salt piles)
MOVMENT: 1(covers whole of an area)
SPECIAL RULES FOR COMBAT: The salt slugs
body has salt acid running through veins on
its surface, any hit with a slashing or piercing
weapon which does damage, causes a salt
spray towards the attacker(see salt spray)
NEGATIVE: Slow- The salt slug always moves
last in Initiative order, and fleeing is at +1
BONUS: Dune regeneration- The slug can enter
a dune(the salt sticks to its body) this
regenerates 5 hp and restores armour

MONSTER
T6 ATTACK

1 Slam (Base 5, ARM’s reach, Bludgeoning 2) The slug undulates its body, and
the part nearest the target ripples out to slam against them

2 Salt acid spray (Base 5, SHORT/ADJACENT NEAR AREA, Effect) The

Slug’s body ripples and from it a small set of tubes, that spray out salt acid, all
those in the NEAR area targeted need to rolll MOVE or be sprayed with salt
acid(they take 1 damage to AGILITY a turn until they wash it off with
water*this necessitates a resource roll)
3 Salty mucus spray (Base 5, SHORT/ADJACENT NEAR AREA, Effect) the slug
opens its mouth and from it shoots a sticky sheet of greenish mucus which
covers the area(if the slug fails its roll the salty mucus sheet is too thin to
cause the effect. Anyone who fails a MOVE roll in targeted area gets a -2 to
MOVE rolls until they wash it off(this necessitates a resource roll)

4 Sticky grapple (Base 5, ARMS REACH, Effect) The Slug targets within arms
reach if successful the target is grappled, Escape Grapple -1 die and they are
targetable by absorb next round.

5 Absorb (Base 5, Grappled target, Agility damage) The slug begins to absorb the
victim if the absorb is successful the target becomes Thirsty and loses Agility. If
the target becomes broken in this way they will die of dehydration in D6
minutes unless pulled off the slug with a successful MIGHT roll

6 Move- The Slug moves to an adjacent NEAR area, all targets within that area
must make a MOVE roll at +1 or get rolled over. If rolled over the target is
trapped underneath the massive bulk of the slug, they may escape grapple
using MIGHT only, they are considered grappled for the purposes of absorb
 SILICANTS

Silicants are made of conscious salt

crystal that can crystallise into
humanoid beings or any other form
as well as travelling in whirlwinds of
excoriating salt. They inhabit the salt
flats of the Tara valley and dissipate
in low salt environments.
It is unclear how many Silicants there are
on the Salt flats or what kind of society
there may exist among them, but
occasional great Salt storms gather and
sweep across the flats.

They are similar to the other

inhabitants of the Salt marsh in that
they are aggressively territorial over
the flats and rarely enter the Dunes or
the Forests of the Crocodilian villages.
You are walking across the salt flats when ATTRIBUTES:

the swirling sand coalesces, and grows STRENGTH 15, AGILITY 5, WITS 2, EMPATHY
faster into an excoriating whirlwind like 0
shredding glass, and within it are eyes ARMOR RATING: 0
like red crystal.Suddenly the whirlwind
forms a being built of solidified and MOVMENT: 2

cutting salt, its crystal eyes shining with SPECIAL RULES FOR COMBAT: Phasing- The
savagery. Silicant is able to phase from a cloud of salt
back and forth to silicate form, as such they
take half damage from everything but water,
fire or electricity

NEGATIVE: Fear of water -Silicants are

afraid of water(in greater volume than a
small cask), if they see it they will flee

MONSTER
T6 ATTACK

1 DEHYDRATING VACUUM- Base 4, NEAR AREA, Effect

The Silicant targets an individual within a NEAR area and dries out their body and
item water. For each success water is drained from the body, this results in thirst first of
all and then resource rolls(1 for each success) if no water then Wits damage

2 BLINDING STRIKE-Base 5, NEAR AREA, Effect and Bludgeoning 1

The Silicant targets an individual within a NEAR area and strikes at their eyes,
success causes the individual to be blinded(they need to roll scouting after each
action to see if it is properly executed) until they clear their eyes with water

3 SWEEP THROUGH-Base 5, NEAR area, Effect and Slashing 1(salt crystals)

The Silicant transforms into wind and sweeps round a NEAR area as an excoriating
wind of salt crystals like daggers, targets in the area may make MOVE rolls to escape
the wind to an adjacent NEAR area.

4 CATAPULT-Base 4, Arms reach, Effect

The Silicant concentrates their wind in concentrated blast at a target witin
Arms reach, they must counteract the effect with a MOVE roll/Dodge or be
catapulted to an adjacent NEAR area and take Bludgeoning 2 damage
5 DEHYDRATING STRIKE-Base 5, Arms reach, Piercing 1
The silicant concentrates and perforates a targets skin within arms reach,
for 1 piercing damage, additional damage is to Wits

6 WEAPON OF SALT- As per weapon of choice

The Silicant transforms one of their limbs into a weapon made of solid salt, this is
discarded on the floor after the first strike and may be picked up and used by
others for 1 QD before it discorporates
 THE KNOT

The Knot is a type of insidious plant,

which leaves its mind altering seeds
within victims, which become the
‘Servitors of the knot’, the seed when
implanted does its work subtly,
inducing paranoia and working to
‘plant’ that seed in soil prepared by
the order, often with the special
ingredients such as blood.
Once a knot is planted it quickly
matures into a central plant which
appears as a normal looking fruit tree,
but its roots are invasive, and the
fruit is a seed.

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The forest clears, and what lies before you is a
thorn filled maze, in the middle of which stands a
gigantic shrub with long serrated leaves. You
watch as masked figures throw a struggling form
inside and the knotweed shakes as it consumes its
victim, you turn to flee but knotted vines and
roots grab you, dragging you forward…but you are
not to be consumed you are to bear its seed.
Fruiting leaves and roots, enter through your
mouth, stifling your cries for help…now you will
bear the seed of the next generation and if you
are good at your work become a grand
knotweed, of serrated leaves, purplish fruits, and
hard knot.
Agency Bonus
An Agent of knotweed, are expert herbalists,
they may brew up a number of knotweed
poisons which act as a Paranoia poison(Virulence
2). They often carry knotweed vines as
whips(sometime with fruiting bodies.
ATTRIBUTES:
STRENGTH 30, AGILITY 0, WITS 2, EMPATHY
0
ARMOR RATING: 1(knotted vegetation)
MOVMENT: 0 (roots move 1 under the soil)
SPECIAL RULES FOR COMBAT: Paranoia seed,
if a target gets implanted with a seed, they see
everybody else as a potential threat, this extra
caution means they perform fast actions as
Slow
NEGATIVE: Vulnerable to fire, fire damage
does an extra two damage to the plant, which
will act to stifle the fire(even with the use of
mortal bodies)
BONUS: The Plant can regrow from any part of
it remaining leaves, roots, seed, to be killed all
must be destroyed

MONSTER
T6 ATTACK

1 Fruit throw(Base 5, SHORT) The Knot plant throws its seed-fruit at a target in short range, the
flesh breaks and the target must roll ENDURANCE against Virulence 2 or have a seed

2 Vine whip(Base 4, SHORT, Bludgeoning 1) The Knot shoots out its vine and attempts to hold a
target still, if their is a successful hit, the target can escape grapple at -2(the vine extends if they
try and break it, it thickens etc…). The next turn the tree can invade.

3 Invade (Base 3, ARMS LENGTH, Slashing 1)

The Knot invades the openings in the targets body, anchoring the target. The Knot will grow a
fruit within the target if they do not burn themselves till they are broken. Escape grapple at -3,
and the rhizome is still inside(it will fruit in a QD) unless burnt out

4 Escoriate (Base 4, Bludgeoning 1, Arms length) The vine rotates around a target at a rapid pace
its knobbly branches, escoriating the flesh in several rounds of bludgeoing knots

5 Trip (Base 5, Bludgeoning 1, SHORT) The vine sweeps along the floor, the opponent must makea
MOVE roll to avoid being tripped and being knocked prone.

6 Erupting roots(Base 4, Grapple, SHORT) The ground erupts under the target, and attempts to
grapple for each success one limb is grappled, escape grapple is at -1 for eachlimb grappled by
the roots. When stood, a target can only have two limbs gripped, all 4 may be done so when
PRONE.
PLESIOSAURUS
The Plesiosaurus is a large carnivorous
Saurian and Piscivore which sometimes
targets sailors on deck, fighting only if
discovered. When fighting it uses it massive
flippers to stir the waves, its long neck to
make precision attacks, and its tail to make
powerful tail slaps.
move:2(swimming)/1 land
STRENGTH:25 (Neck 7) AGILITY:10
WITS:2 EMPATHY:0
Bonuses- Sinuous neck(once a neck is
wrapped around a target there is a 2 in 6
chance of hitting who it wrapped around)
Negatives- Weak neck(If five damage done to
a Plesiosaurs neck in 1 combat round, it is
considered severed, and the plesiosaur is dead
Actions
1. Neck swipe (Base 3,Bludgeoning 2, SHORT)
The Plesiosaur swipes its long neck across the
deck, all who fail their MOVE check are
knocked prone and take damage. Any crew
next to vessel side(missile fire from deck)
are swept into the water.
2. Bite (Base 7, Stabbing 2, SHORT)
The Plesiosaur bites a target in SHORT
range, with its small, razor teethed mouth
3. Tail swipe(AR1, Base 5, Bludgeoning
6,NEAR)
The Plesiosaur turns and swipes its tail into
the vessel or a sea creature, which must roll
MOVE or be moved to Short range
4.Ram(AR2, Agility check, Bludgeoning 6,
NEAR)
The Plesiosaur rams a vessel for an AR2
attack, or a swimming creature which must
pass MOVE or take damage.
5.Smashing leap(AR2, Agility check,
bludgeoning 6, SHORT)
The Plesiosaurs leaps high into the air, landing
on the deck in a smashing leap, it conducts an
AR2 attack, bypassing Hull armour. Any
creatures under the landing plesiosaur must
roll MOVE or be crushed(Escape grapple -3)
and take damage. 6.Wrap and drag ( Base 5,
Bludgeoning 1, SHORT)
The Plesiosaur attempts to grapple a target
with its neck and drag them off a deck
(Escape grapple -1) and overboard unless
succeed on successful strength check -2.
 Skin walker
A Skin walker is a terrifying monster which can take on the skin of others in a perfect facsimile, it especially
delights in mimicking the leaders of settlements or tribes. But often enters a settlement by mimicking animals at
first. It is thought to be a totem that has been abandoned or an evil sorceror who has abused an ideology.

Skin-walkers are very adept at corrupting totems and beliefs and are called when people talk about them as an
entity, as well as having a physical form, they can enter devotionals and subsume worship all whilst preying on
the townsfolk. If possessing a devotional they must be fought using Ideological combat, and if a religious social
group is the ruling body when a skin walker has possessed a totem, the society becomes a Tetrarchy instead of a
theocracy.

When the skin walker is not possessing a devotional it attacks as a type of beast of its choosing from which it has
fed, as such it likes to receive offerings of animals.

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You walk back into your settlement and notice your
religious leaders piling the carcasses of dead animals around STRENGTH 5, AGILITY 4, WITS 3,
the obelisk, rolling your eyes, you head to bed, unaware of EMPATHY 3
the threat now facing you. 2 Ideological AR/DR to establish terarchy

ARMOR RATING: As per animal form

You wake in the middle of the night, to a low growl, you are
about to get up an investigate when a huge wolf jumps on
your sheets and begins to tear into your flesh. You lay there
dying and the wolf gets off and transforms before your
closing eyes into Anauros, the village elder. The last thing
you see is the skin walkers unnatural smile.
MOVMENT: 1
SPECIAL RULES FOR COMBAT: ANIMAL
STATISTICS- The Skin walker has the animals
strength it is inhabiting as its armour, or the
ideological DR as armour if inhabiting a
devotional.

UNNATURAL- The Skin walker is unnatural in

the extreme, and as such a successful insight roll in
ATTRIBUTES: a NEAR area will be able to tell if it is inhabiting a
beast, or give a ‘strange feeling’ from a devotional.

T6 ATTACK

1 ANIMAL ATTACK- Attacks as an animal it is inhabiting

2 IDEOLOGICAL ATTACK-It makes an Ideological attack upon a settlement it is
in, if successful in inhabits a devotional
3 POSSESS- Th Skin walker kills and wears the skin of an animal within a NEAR
area., or takes its form with a spell see below.It may only possess kin if they are
dead.
4 CAST DRUIDIC MAGIC- The Skin walker may cast a druidic spell up to rank 2
for free.
5 CLAW- The free skin walker makes a base 4, slashing attack against a target within
arms reach(can only do when not inhabiting)
6 BITE- The Skin walker makes a base 4, stabbing attack with its teeth at a target in
arms reach.
 SABBAT WITCHES
Sabbat witches are groups of
‘wronged’ men and women who
sought redress of the wrong by
signing away their ‘soul’ to a ‘Faust’
who whilst the Faust redressed that
balance, as soon as they did, the man
or woman lost their ‘soul’ becoming
unable to feel, becoming part Faust,
part Mortal, they gained access to
magics and other arcane knowledges
accessible through sacrificial magic,
they gain the ability to transform
into supernatural dark creatures, and
other evocative powers. Many
possess cauldrons from which they
brew up potions and concoctions for
their master/mistress Faust and do
the entities bidding.
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Fausts themselves are devoid of
all emotion and particularly enjoy
playing with the mortal heart,
behind their eyes is a level of
knowledge undreamt of by most
Mortals…however it comes with a
price for Fausts are obsessed and
dangerous creatures who give
themselves away often with their
inability to feel.
Behind the evil mask of every witch,
an astute person can see the soul of
a person who now deeply regrets
their past decisions.
Sabbat witches often dress in attire that the
Faust feels reflects their nature as the FAUST STRENGTH 15 AGILITY 5 WITS 8
EMPATHY 4
Fausts pawn, for witches of all genders this
often means that they are dressed in rags, ARMOR RATING:0

with the attire of a servant or slave common MOVMENT: 1

to the local area, but might take such looks
SPECIAL RULES FOR COMBAT: Faust’s use the
as domestics, scribes, administrator for they power of contracts, which extend beyong death
are often tasked by the faust with such and will, on a turn a Faust may activate a
things. Fausts look lile ‘Handsome devils’, contract and call forth a witch,undead, ghost,
agent, or demon to aid them(once per combat)
‘Beautiful vixens’ and dress only in the
finest attire of the local culture, they often Negative: Contractual obligation, if the
bear sword-canes, and hood their faces. The contract of a faust is known it may be used to
control/manipulate the faust.
Faust however is also obligated to enact
whats on each contract it owns.
Typical Sabbat Witch: Strength 2 Agility 3
Wits 4 Empathy 1
Path of Blood 1 Pick a druid path 2 (Instead
of Willpower a Witch may sacrifice flesh,
bone or blood to activate a talent)

T6 ATTACK

1 CONTRACT OF FIRE! The Faust calls on their contract of fire, and sets a NEAR
area on fire with a word (All those within that area must make a MOVE roll or
become burnt Agility damage 1 Strength damage 1

2 CONTRACT OF IRON! The Faust calls on their contract of iron and calls forth a
metallic sword, which it whips at a target in arms reach(Base 6,Arms length,
Slashing 2)
.
3 CONTRACT OF WILL! The Faust targets an adventurer within SHORT range, and
performs a will attack, at Base 6, Damage to EMPATHY(then to willpower). If a
target loses all willpower then they will agree to sign a contract..(resisted with
insight)

4 CONTRACT OF THE MORTAL COIL! The Faust emits an aura in NEAR area of
aging and decrepitude, those who fail a MOVE roll take an attack at base 8,
against Strength(anyone who becomes Broken ages one age bracket for each damage
over the 0 strength it does). The Faust can reverse this if the contract is signed. .

5 CONTRACT OF MAGIC! The Faust casts any magical talent without utilising
willpower at level 2 or lower

6 CONTRACT OF THE BRIDE/GROOM! The Faust issues a contract which links a

characters will to their own, they must voluntarily agree to it…if they do the faust
must perform one task, if this is done then the charater becomes an agent,
 MALEFICS
Malefics and Beatifics are supernatural ghost like
entities with forms of outstanding beauty, which
never look the same to any individual, but which
reflects what they most think is beautiful in
humanoid form. They claim to be serving good or evil
from a time ‘before the world was young’ however
they always live alone, however they are often
sought out to answer questions and to give people
purpose.
Those who have somehow seen the Malefics and
Beatifics in their true believe they may be related to
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bats or moths in some fashion, for that is certainly
what they look like. A Malefics/Beatifics cave is often
cloaked in illusion and it appears to represent the
closest settlements version of good or evil,
depending on what they claim to be.
They also claim to hate the ‘other side’, Beatifics hate
malefics and vice versa. If all of a malefics/beatifics
illusions are penetrated then they retreat to a place
underneath the earth.
Malefics speak in silken words, which are perfectly
balanced and poised, it is a perfect rehearsal of
speech, such that most trained actors would kill to
have. They toss their golden hair, and smile with a
joy that turns to a righteous ire when
crossed…when next you turn to look at them your
eyes cleared what is before is a sunken beast, with
bats wings on its back and feet, its toes and
fingers gnarled, its teeth cracked and broken it
grins at you with a devious cunning knowledge.
ATTRIBUTES:
STRENGTH 5(+1 per Special rules) AGILITY
3(+1 per special rule below), WITS 4 EMPATHY
4
ARMOR RATING: 1 (Toiugh skin)
MOVMENT: 1
SPECIAL RULES FOR COMBAT: Malefics add
+1 to most of their attack options per
enamoured individual in long range, as well
as their strength and agility.
LOSS OF BELIEF: Malefics are dependent on
belief, but enamoured individuals may be
convinced to give up their enamoured state.
 MONSTER

T6 ATTACK

1 Present wind ( Base 2(+1 per enamoured individual within long range), Bludgeoning 1 on
landing). The Beatific calls the wind and it howls from the cave and away from their presence,
catapulting the characters away from them to a long distance.Enamoured individual are
strangely unaffected(unless the creature chooses for it to effect them). A character may make
a Wits roll if unenamoured, to resist the wind, or a ftIGHT roll at a - equal to Present wind
bonus if enamoured.

2 .Shout/Screech (Base 2(+1 per enamoured individual within long range), FEAR damage)
The creature issues a commanding shout which drives the enamoured to their feet, or the
unenamoured to burst their ear drums with fear. Damage is to wits, the enamoured prostrate
themselves(if broken and will follow the shouted command immediately) unenamoured
individuals bleed from their ear drums, and are deafened.(they cannot be effected by shout
screech)

3 Terrible aura (Base 2(+1 as above), FEAR effect for the enamoured
The creature suddenly emits an aura of power and control, this extends to all within sight for the
enamoured, and at NEAR for unenamoured. Those whose Wits are reduced to 0, are blinded
and subservient to the creature. Unenamoured smell the most vile smell within Near range,
which damages Empathy for 1 damage(if fail a wits roll). The Aura also emits light.

4 Enamour(Base 2(+1 as above, contested by Insight)

The creature, attempts to enamour a target within sight, success for the creature means that
the target is now enamoured, success for the target means they remain unenamoured. The
creature may attempt again for every other enamoured creature in the targets near range,but
at an increasing -

5 Mighty blow (Base 2(+1 as above), Slashing, NEAR)

The creature stands from its throne(or similar) drawing forth its powerful weapon, and strikes
a blow against a heretic.(enamoured) the unenamoured see the creature reveal long claws

6 Cocoon (The creature becomes invisible to the enamoured)

The Creature becomes invisible to the enamoured, who leave still under the creatures control.
The unenamoured must make scouting rolls to spot the cocoon(which looks like rock) and
the creature is considered to have an armour of 5
TRITON
Tritons are the guardians of the waves; they
look like brawny humanoids armed with
tridents and the ability to command the waves
to some degree. Their skin is greenish blue but
slick looking, and they possess gills and deep
blue irises of all one colour. They are servants
of their king(also named Triton) who lives in
the ocean depths. They often have long blonde
hair which hides their enlarged sunken
ears(which they use to hear song-smiths, and
the cries of sea creatures.
MOVE:2/1
STRENGTH: 20 AGILITY: 6
WITS: 4 EMPATHY:6
Skills: melee-3 marksmanship-4
Bonuses- Sacred to King Triton a dead triton
may draw a further response from King
triton(1 in 6 chance).
Negative- Sensitive to song a loud
performance may drive the Triton away,
performance damages Wits
Negative-Compassionate a Triton may be
convinced to leave a vessel alone
Actions
1. Thrown trident (Base 6,3 Stabbing,
marksmanship, Short)
The Triton launches its trident, at a
SHORT area from the waves to impale its
target. If target takes a critical injury they
are
IMPALED(need to remove trident before
healing)
2. Fork attack(Base 6,Melee, Stabbing 2,Near)
The Triton attempts to impale a target in a
NEAR area with its large fork. If opponent
takes a critical injury they are
IMPALED(requires moving trident before
healing) and may be pulled into the sea by
the triton.
3. Echo(Base 7,Bludgeoning 5, NEAR)
The Triton opens its mouth and the echo of
deep resounds out of its mouth, any creature
in a NEAR area must pass MOVE or be
knocked prone. Any creature in a SHORT
range must pass WITS or be deafened for 1
day
4. Fear of the Deep (Base 6. Fear, NEAR)
The Triton enlarges and its form becomes a
terrifying reflection of the horrors of the
deep causing Fear within a NEAR range.
5. Strangle (Base 5, Bludgeoning 4,
Arm’s length)
The Triton grapples a target within Arm’s
length and attempts to squeeze the life from
them as their body water flows into their lungs,
take bludgeoning, and roll for drowning
6. Stir the waves (AR2, Effect, NEAR
to LONG)
The Triton places its trident into the waves
and stirs, creating a huge wave(target a
vessel with an AR2 stronghold attack) any
area the wave hits makes creatures make a
drowning check at -2

SHRIKES
These large birds of prey are specialist
predators of surface ocean creatures, it can
dive and burst up through decking, sliding
along the surface of the hull should it target a
vessel.
They have large metal tipped wings and claws,
which they use devastatingly to lacerate its
large prey, and a metal tipped jaw full of sharp
teeth to grind up smaller prey. It especially
likes blood.
They often nest on high cliffs on remote
islands, near shipping lanes and where whale
pods may congregate. Often joined there by
other birds of prey which look to the shrike as
leader and dominator of their nesting
community. Their feral intelligence has
caught many off guard.
Move:3(flying)
STRENGTH: 15 AGILITY:15
WITS:4 EMPATHY:0
Bonuses- Flyer- The Shrike is a fast-moving
flyer, it is considered at LONG range at most
times, it can dive to NEAR in a single round
and back to long similarly
Bonuses- Community leader- The Shrike is
accompanied by other birds which fly around
to protect it, there is a 1 in 6 chance of
hitting one of these birds rather than the
Shrike.
Actions
1. Dive and Hurtle(AR3, Base 9, Bludgeoning
5, LONG to Arm's LENGTH)
From High in the air the Shrike smashes
into the side of the vessel into the water, or
targets a creature in the water which must
roll MOVE or take damage
2. Stabbing Beak (Base 7, Stabbing 3, Arm’s
length)
The Shrike stabs at a nearby target which it
can do whilst hovering or landed.
3. Claw (Base 7, Slashing 3, Arm’s length)
The shrike extends its claws and slashes at a
nearby target.
4. Rake(Base 6, Slashing 4, Near)
The Shrike rakes across a near area, all within
the area must roll MOVE or take damage.
Any crew next to deck edge fall in with fail.
The Rake may also rake sails(see Slashed sail
critical ship injury)
5. Wing slash(Base 5, Slashing 4, Near)
The Shrike flies across the deck its razor-
sharp wings extended at head level, all within
the area must roll MOVE or take damage, if
this causes critical injury move result to
nearest lost body part(upwards)
6. Grab (Base 5, Effect, NEAR)
The Shrikes grabs a target in NEAR range
and flies off with them struggling if they fail
MOVE. The Shrike drops them in the sea
before its next action
 Nervosae

Nervosae occur throughout the forbidden lands, but occur especially within the mists, they are xtremely
malleable creatures that grow in strength and power based upon the amount of fear they generate in a target or
group of targets.

In their natural form they are invisble, sentient patches of electromagnetic activity, so that passing through one
or near one is enough to cause a shiver down the spine. They manipulate these invisible fields to create little
fields of sensory activity, in order to generate fear and feed.
The Night descends and you patrol your campsite
dutifully, noting the distance at which the mist is.
What was that in the tree? You stand there staring for
several mintues but it doesn’t repeat. You are shaken
by the sight of it though.
STRENGTH 1, AGILITY 1, WITS 1 EMPATHY 2 (All
statistics are added to by Nervosae attacks)
ARMOR RATING: N/A
MOVMENT: 1

You sleep close to the fire in a light doze, when you SPECIAL RULES FOR COMBAT: EMPATHIC- The
Nervosae can be driven away by conquering your personal fear
are suddenly roused by the sound of eerie music from one of its attack or by Blood magic (only creature in
which comes and goes as quickly as it starts. Fully on which this is allowed)
guard you look towards the mist. Did something just
touch you ont he shoulder? You spin to find nothing
Was that a footfall behind you? You spin again
beginning to panic. What is that? Materialising
before you a fanged snake you have only seen in your
nightmares, your heart pounds and you turn to flee,
but the snake grabs you and tears into your neck.
When your body is found its eyes are wide and staring!
But there are no fang marks on your neck.

T6 ATTACK

1 SMELL OF FEAR, the Nervosae produces a Fear 1 attack, with a smell at SHORT
range. If successful damages target it gains 1 in Strength and can roll +1 die on fear
attacks against the target
2 TASTE OF FEAR, the Nervosae produces a Fear 1 attack within ARMS LENGTH
at an adventurer. If successful damages target it gains 1 statistic of its choice
3 TOUCH OF FEAR, The Nervosae produces a Fear 1 attack within ARMS
LENGTH of an adventurer. If successful it gains 1 Empathy and can roll +1 die on
fear attacks against the target
4 SOUND OF FEAR, the Nervosae produces a Fear 1 attack within LONG RANGE
of an adventurer, if successful the nervosae gains 1 wits and can roll +1 die on fear
attacks against the target
5 SIGHT OF FEAR, The Nervosae produces a Fear 1 attack within EYESIGHT,up to
distant if unobstructed and the nervosae is aware of the target. If successful the
nervosae gains 1 agility and can roll +1 die on fear attacks against the target
6 EMBODY FEAR, The Nervosae makes a Base attack equal to its empathy, to
determine a targets personal fear, if successful it doubles its fear attack dice. Up to
SHORT RANGE.
 Corrupted Totem spirit

A corrupted totem spirit is born when a settlement and its belief’s are destroyed by the ravages of the mist, the
mist coils around the obelisk/totem and corrupts it sometimes this occurs over a long time as the vestige of the
totems power holds out, other times the totem is angry about being abandoned by those who used to believe in it,
and becomes angry or full of hate.
Walking through a dense patch of overgrown brush STRENGTH N/A, AGILITY 5, WITS 3, EMPATHY 2
following an ancient overgrown trail, along which
small gravestones have been appearing. ARMOR RATING: N/A

Wisps of blood red smoke traipse towards
you,between the bushes.You start to run but the mist
grows thicker, then suddenly you emerge into a
clearing. A large black obelisk, carved with the faces
of animals. You gaze up at it, the mist curled around
the hooked beak of an obsidian raven.
MOVMENT: 1 tentacle
SPECIAL RULES FOR COMBAT: The Mist wraith is
immaterial and composed of fear. It has 1d6 material tentacles
which have strength of 4, agility 5. The mist wraith can be
driven off by empathy attacks, or by Fire

Then a set of fiery, angry eyes materialise in front of

you, its hands clasping an obsidian dagger, covered in
old blood. It drives the dagger into your chest, and
stands over you its twisted face certain in its actions.

T6 ATTACK

1 MIST LIKE TAR The Corrupted totem spirit, concentrates on the mist in a
NEAR area it becomes likes tar, all MOVE rolls are at -2 in that area
2 BLOODY DAGGER The Corrupted totem spirit coalesces and drives its knife
towards a targets heart within ARMS LENGTH, it makes a Base 8, 1 slashing
damage
3 EYES OF ISOLATION The totem spirits burn with the fearful fever of
isolation, it makes a FEAR attack, with base 5, damage 1
4 ANIMAL ATTACK, the totem spirit attacks in beast form(related to the
individual totem animal, it may move at speed two and make an attack at Base 8, 2
damage(blunt,slashing or piercing)
5 TOTEMIC BLAST, the totem spirit calls on the latent power within the obelisk,
which sends out a beam from its location focussed on hate, it makes a Base 8
Empathy attack at a target within SHORT range of the totem. Resisted by targets
INSIGHT, failure results in the target feeling hatred and trying to attack the
nearest target on their next initiative
6 FEARFUL EMBLEM, the totem spirit becomes a symbol of FEAR, it appears
powerful and terrible it makes a Base 9 FEAR attack, at a target within a NEAR
area, if this breaks a target they start to worship the totem.
 Blood-eyed banshee
The Blood eyed banshee is born from gangrenous spores(see the gangrene) which infect ghosts caught in the
mist. They get driven mad by the incessant gnawing of the hate filled spores.and take on a greenish red colour,
the blood mist rims their eyes, and their pain becomes evident in their haunting shriek. They can be found
floating in different parts of the blood-mist, and are often driven before blood mist storms in a screeching wave.
You are looking out the settlement window, at the blood mist at
the fringes of the settlement. It gives you pause especially as you
know the settlement has been in difficulty.
Then it begins to stir, and the high pitched screeching begins…the
banshee have gathered, you begin to panic and bolt for the door,
knowing the storm will overrun the settlement and the safest
place is in the town shrine.
STRENGTH 15, AGILITY 4, WITS 1, EMPATHY 0
ARMOR RATING: 0
MOVEMENT: 4
SPECIAL RULES FOR COMBAT: IMMATERIAL-
Banshees can only be harmed by death magic and fire

T6 ATTACK

1 BUFFER. The Banshee pulls a portion of the storm ahead of her as a buffeting front,
move the banshee across the map towards a target, anyone caught in the way must
make an ENDURANCE roll or be pushed in the same direction. Each area that the
storm front pushes through roll for Blood lightning
2 SCREECH The Banshees screech is high enough to pierce ear drums, it makes a base
6 attack, blunt damage 1. Those in hearing range(SHORT) roll ENDURANCE or
have ruptured eardrums(deafness) until healed. Ruptured eardrums counts as critical
damage
3 BLOOD EYES The Banshee looks at a target within NEAR range, drawing them in
with her hollow blood filled eyes. Make a FEAR attack, base 8. Any screams enter the
banshees eyes and are not heard by anyone
4 FINGERNAIL CLAWS The banshee makes a claw attack with her long spectral
fingernails base 5, slashing 1
5 BANSHEES KISS The Banshee kisses a target within arms length all whilst staring
with her hollow eyes, make a FEAR attack base 8.If successful the banshee becomes
the targets personal fear +2 dice to FEAR attacks on target
6 RAKE The Banshee rakes across the target with spectral talons as she moves through
an area(she must spend 1 movement to move within arms length of target as she
moves, but makes a base 7. stabbing 2 attack
GM’s extras

Advanced play

 Survivors setting
 Death scenes
 The Blood mist as enemy
 Incorporating advanced combat into the scenario
 The Fall of the Dam

The Survivors setting

When the settlements(if they are) are overrun by the rising blood mists, portions of their population
will flee, the characters can merge with them as they flee and try to leas them to safety or attack other
strongholds through advanced combats.

At the beginning it is possible for the characters to flee from the caravan site with the survivors of the
attacked caravans(Max AR/DR 4 in terms of people this is 40+the characters).

This might give the characters the ability to ‘overthrow’ the terarchy in Krios, or join the society of
any of the settlements except half-helm (because it is a ghost town)

Death scenes

When a character dies, or there is a total party kill the new players get to watch their other players
deaths from a distance before introducing their new character or party into the adventure. This gives
the player a chance (if they should so wish) to try and recover lost items but also the chance to see
their previous characters death and make it more personal to the players.

The standard backstory is that they were part of the original caravan that the characters came into the
adventure on.

The Blood mist as enemy

The Blood mist itself is the catalyst for the players to enter the valley and is the main enemy that
prevents the characters from pausing for too long in anyone place for the blood mist moves move
slowly but inevitably towards the dam at the end and will swallow everything in its path.

Having said that there are a number of ways to survive the mist all involving compromise, these are
listed below:
 Krios is the best bet for players, however it will take defeating the monster, and joining forces
with the bloodied league’s original plan (Krios needs the obelisk to survive the mist and/or
ramparts to survive the flood)
 Wolfkin can survive by joining the wolves in the Lunus woods(the bloodmist) and by hiding on
the edge of the mountain when the flood comes(which requires either joining or defeating the
witches.
 Elves can survive in the emerald glade, however they will be buried underneath the sea(but
survive as an emerald)
 Halflings and goblins may survive on Goblin isle but they also have to live with each other, and
either defeat the malefic or come to worship them
 Dwarves can survive in the dungeon of Darvus, but will have to face constant orc interruption
 Everyone can escape in the dwarven pillar at the top of the dam.

THE FALL OF THE DAM

When the dam falls, there are several ways for the players to survive if they figure it out, these are

1. Be in the spire where the dwarves built a safe room should the dam fall(they will require the entry
key known of by Darvus
2. Be on board a boat(these can be found on the other side of the dam, and on the lake)
3. Be on Goblin isle(which is raised up and was an island in the Inner sea long ago)
4. Be in Krios with a finished wall, this can only be done if the monster and the cult has accomplished
its tasks.

The wall of water travels down the valley one line of hexes at a time, until it reaches the hills
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