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<blockquote data-quote="Daztur" data-source="post: 5885302" data-attributes="member: 55680"><p>Nellisir and Sanglorian: I'm not as familiar as I should be with different licenses, but any sort of copyleft license is fine by me. If chutup agrees I'll go and spam all of the past contributors to get them to sign off on it. As for blogs, I love Monsters and Manuals insanely and I've been reading through noism's ginormous PDF version of his 2ed MM read through thread and am copy and pasting bits of it into my steadily growing "stuff to rip off for the shrouded lands sometime or other" file. As for Land of Nod, Alard of Oldstones is inspired by a snippet from his blog but I haven't used it for anything aside from that. I bought one of the Land of Nod PDFs and some others are free, so I'll mine them for inspiration once I get a chance. Really good stuff there.</p><p></p><p>Note: this one draws inspiration from this: <a href="http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?261519-D-amp-Dish-The-city-built-around-the-tarrasque" target="_blank">[D&Dish] The city built around the tarrasque.</a> discussion thread.</p><p></p><p><strong>The Doom That Was in Bergolast</strong></p><p>Hex 38.28</p><p></p><p>For long centuries a great city of Bergolast stood in what is now the Burning Lands, but Bergolast stands no more. The Gates of the Nine Directions have been torn down, the glazed bricks of a thousand colors crushed to dust, only jackals and fouler things walk on its onyx streets and the Tarrasque has been freed.</p><p></p><p>It was as had been foretold by Jarmond of the Knife, a priest of Alberon who went to Bergolast to preach of the glory of his god. The Bergolasti laughed and told him that they had no need for any but the Tarrasque that lay imprisoned at the heart of their city. Did not its ever-flowing blood feed them, did the flesh of its liver grant them strength each day and did not the adamantine chains that bound it protect them from its howling wrath? Before being flung down the Tarrasque’s gullet, Jarmond of the Knife pronounced doom upon the city and so it came to pass that following the death of Tiamat, the Shrouded Lands shook, the Keening Sea raged against its shores (51.12) and the Tarrasque tore free from its bonds.</p><p></p><p>The wounds of centuries healed in moments and it gleefully ravaged the great city and pursued its people from the World’s Edge to the Keening Sea to the Sartanger Falls before stalking away into the west where it has been found by the Lord Sanguine.</p><p></p><p>The men of the City and the dwarves of the north came to Bergolast to loot its treasures and claim the shattered links of adamantium that had bound it. Strangely, little gold and only a few links of the adamantine chains were ever claimed and many (51.29) claim that much of the wealth of Bergolast remains there still, hidden away by the last sorceries of its people.</p><p></p><p>Today the remnants of the Bergolasti people are the trolls of the Shrouded Lands. Centuries of feasting on Tarrasque flesh has left a mark on them that can never be erased and they are foul to behold but regenerate from wounds just as the Tarrasque does. They are an ignorant folk and have forgotten most of their heritage, but some (15.01) remember enough to reenact the old Bergolasti rites in their own crude way.</p><p></p><p>Hooks:</p><p>-How did the people of Bergolast catch the Tarrasque to begin with?</p><p>-Aside from eating it, what else did they use their endless supply of regenerating Tarrasque for?</p><p>-Eating of the Tarrasque turned the people of Bergolast into trolls. What were they originally?</p><p>-What is the Sartanger Falls?</p><p>-What happened to all of the treasure of Bergolast, especially the adamanium? Why does the Great Mother of the gnolls (51.29) think she can get it?</p><p>-How much does the Prophet of Grahakzahak (15.01) know of his ancestors? It appears that by feeding his flesh to others he is trying to play the role of the Tarrasque in his strange little cult.</p><p>-Two trolls have been mentioned (15.01 and 30.15). Are there any others about?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Daztur, post: 5885302, member: 55680"] Nellisir and Sanglorian: I'm not as familiar as I should be with different licenses, but any sort of copyleft license is fine by me. If chutup agrees I'll go and spam all of the past contributors to get them to sign off on it. As for blogs, I love Monsters and Manuals insanely and I've been reading through noism's ginormous PDF version of his 2ed MM read through thread and am copy and pasting bits of it into my steadily growing "stuff to rip off for the shrouded lands sometime or other" file. As for Land of Nod, Alard of Oldstones is inspired by a snippet from his blog but I haven't used it for anything aside from that. I bought one of the Land of Nod PDFs and some others are free, so I'll mine them for inspiration once I get a chance. Really good stuff there. Note: this one draws inspiration from this: [url=http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?261519-D-amp-Dish-The-city-built-around-the-tarrasque][D&Dish] The city built around the tarrasque.[/url] discussion thread. [b]The Doom That Was in Bergolast[/b] Hex 38.28 For long centuries a great city of Bergolast stood in what is now the Burning Lands, but Bergolast stands no more. The Gates of the Nine Directions have been torn down, the glazed bricks of a thousand colors crushed to dust, only jackals and fouler things walk on its onyx streets and the Tarrasque has been freed. It was as had been foretold by Jarmond of the Knife, a priest of Alberon who went to Bergolast to preach of the glory of his god. The Bergolasti laughed and told him that they had no need for any but the Tarrasque that lay imprisoned at the heart of their city. Did not its ever-flowing blood feed them, did the flesh of its liver grant them strength each day and did not the adamantine chains that bound it protect them from its howling wrath? Before being flung down the Tarrasque’s gullet, Jarmond of the Knife pronounced doom upon the city and so it came to pass that following the death of Tiamat, the Shrouded Lands shook, the Keening Sea raged against its shores (51.12) and the Tarrasque tore free from its bonds. The wounds of centuries healed in moments and it gleefully ravaged the great city and pursued its people from the World’s Edge to the Keening Sea to the Sartanger Falls before stalking away into the west where it has been found by the Lord Sanguine. The men of the City and the dwarves of the north came to Bergolast to loot its treasures and claim the shattered links of adamantium that had bound it. Strangely, little gold and only a few links of the adamantine chains were ever claimed and many (51.29) claim that much of the wealth of Bergolast remains there still, hidden away by the last sorceries of its people. Today the remnants of the Bergolasti people are the trolls of the Shrouded Lands. Centuries of feasting on Tarrasque flesh has left a mark on them that can never be erased and they are foul to behold but regenerate from wounds just as the Tarrasque does. They are an ignorant folk and have forgotten most of their heritage, but some (15.01) remember enough to reenact the old Bergolasti rites in their own crude way. Hooks: -How did the people of Bergolast catch the Tarrasque to begin with? -Aside from eating it, what else did they use their endless supply of regenerating Tarrasque for? -Eating of the Tarrasque turned the people of Bergolast into trolls. What were they originally? -What is the Sartanger Falls? -What happened to all of the treasure of Bergolast, especially the adamanium? Why does the Great Mother of the gnolls (51.29) think she can get it? -How much does the Prophet of Grahakzahak (15.01) know of his ancestors? It appears that by feeding his flesh to others he is trying to play the role of the Tarrasque in his strange little cult. -Two trolls have been mentioned (15.01 and 30.15). Are there any others about? [/QUOTE]
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