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<blockquote data-quote="chutup" data-source="post: 5898849" data-attributes="member: 6690844"><p><strong>The Temple of the Dead God (03.13)</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong>Far to the west of Thring, in a cold and haunted forest, there lies an evil temple which is the last great bastion of the Cult of Dead Tiamat. It is presided over by the witch-priestess Kolfrosta. The other inhabitants include a vulture with poisonous talons, a male slave who serves Kolfrosta, and a demonic bull shackled behind the temple's altar. When a pure-white heifer from the Lands of the Night Cattle is mounted by the demon bull, the heifer's flesh becomes corrupted. Thereafter, any who eat it will become corrupted and transform into ogrish monstrosities. Kolfrosta and all her predecessors began their service to the temple by eating this evil flesh.</p><p></p><p>Recently, Kolfrosta has seen in her scrying of the future that her life will not last another month. In order to continue the succession of the witch-priestesses, she flew out on a storm-cloud and kidnapped the maiden Hleid, sister of the lord who rules the Castle of Dances. It is her plan to feed the corrupting beef to poor Hleid, who will then become the new witch-priestess of the temple. However, it will take the slave a long time to bring the night heifer all the way from the Kingswood to the temple in the west.</p><p></p><p>The treasures of the Tiamat cult are stored in this temple, some ancient artifacts, some merely stolen by Kolfrosta from the surrounding regions. One of the most famous is a vulture's egg covered in gold script, which is rumoured to be kept in the nest of the poison vulture.</p><p></p><p>Hooks:</p><p>- Where is the Castle of Dances? Is it in Thring, or somewhere else?</p><p>- Why is Hleid the chosen victim? Why not kidnap a local peasant girl instead?</p><p>- Who was Kolfrosta before she ate the evil flesh? Did she eat willingly or not?</p><p>- Where is Kolfrosta's slave right now?</p><p>- What is written on the vulture's egg? What will it hatch into?</p><p></p><p>(this entry is taken more or less unmodified from a Viking saga called <a href="http://awizardskiss.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/from-classics-temple-of-jomali.html" target="_blank">Bosi and Herraud</a>. I always find a disproportionate joy in finding D&D-like things from before D&D was invented.)</p><p></p><p><strong>The Wedge-Stone (47.11)</strong></p><p></p><p>The land is barren here, in a narrow gap between the Keening Sea and the World's Edge. One of the few features of note is a small split in the dry earth, running northeast, into which has been inserted a huge wedge-shaped stone ten feet high. The point of the wedge is driven into the crack, while the flat top appears to have some sort of runes engraved upon it. The runes read:</p><p></p><p><em>All shall be as it was in the beginning. Drowned Andara again shall see the sun; black Serpantia, kingdom of worms, shall sleep beneath the waves.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>What Melnir did shall be undone; what the Traitor Prince did shall be undone; what the Drowned await shall come to pass.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Look to me when the Hammer of Bronze is forged anew. Look to me on the twelfth night when the sea boils. Look upon me, ye of Serpantia, and despair.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em></em>Sages say that the names <em>Andara </em>and <em>Serpantia </em>refer to ancient kingdoms, one of which was situated in the lands which are now the Keening Sea, and the other in the lands beyond World's Edge. The meaning of the rest of the inscription is currently unknown.</p><p></p><p>Hooks:</p><p>- Where are the lost kingdoms of Andara and Serpantia?</p><p>- Who was the Traitor Prince and what did he do? Was he the Prince of Men, or someone else?</p><p>- What is the Hammer of Bronze?</p><p>- Could this stone be used to drain the Keening Sea into the sunken lands beyond World's Edge? Who would want to do such a thing?</p><p></p><p></p><p>(I think this would be a more manageable apocalypse than the Long Day stuff. It would be a suitably epic change to the status quo, but the rest of the setting would be left more or less intact.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chutup, post: 5898849, member: 6690844"] [B]The Temple of the Dead God (03.13) [/B]Far to the west of Thring, in a cold and haunted forest, there lies an evil temple which is the last great bastion of the Cult of Dead Tiamat. It is presided over by the witch-priestess Kolfrosta. The other inhabitants include a vulture with poisonous talons, a male slave who serves Kolfrosta, and a demonic bull shackled behind the temple's altar. When a pure-white heifer from the Lands of the Night Cattle is mounted by the demon bull, the heifer's flesh becomes corrupted. Thereafter, any who eat it will become corrupted and transform into ogrish monstrosities. Kolfrosta and all her predecessors began their service to the temple by eating this evil flesh. Recently, Kolfrosta has seen in her scrying of the future that her life will not last another month. In order to continue the succession of the witch-priestesses, she flew out on a storm-cloud and kidnapped the maiden Hleid, sister of the lord who rules the Castle of Dances. It is her plan to feed the corrupting beef to poor Hleid, who will then become the new witch-priestess of the temple. However, it will take the slave a long time to bring the night heifer all the way from the Kingswood to the temple in the west. The treasures of the Tiamat cult are stored in this temple, some ancient artifacts, some merely stolen by Kolfrosta from the surrounding regions. One of the most famous is a vulture's egg covered in gold script, which is rumoured to be kept in the nest of the poison vulture. Hooks: - Where is the Castle of Dances? Is it in Thring, or somewhere else? - Why is Hleid the chosen victim? Why not kidnap a local peasant girl instead? - Who was Kolfrosta before she ate the evil flesh? Did she eat willingly or not? - Where is Kolfrosta's slave right now? - What is written on the vulture's egg? What will it hatch into? (this entry is taken more or less unmodified from a Viking saga called [URL="http://awizardskiss.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/from-classics-temple-of-jomali.html"]Bosi and Herraud[/URL]. I always find a disproportionate joy in finding D&D-like things from before D&D was invented.) [B]The Wedge-Stone (47.11)[/B] The land is barren here, in a narrow gap between the Keening Sea and the World's Edge. One of the few features of note is a small split in the dry earth, running northeast, into which has been inserted a huge wedge-shaped stone ten feet high. The point of the wedge is driven into the crack, while the flat top appears to have some sort of runes engraved upon it. The runes read: [I]All shall be as it was in the beginning. Drowned Andara again shall see the sun; black Serpantia, kingdom of worms, shall sleep beneath the waves. What Melnir did shall be undone; what the Traitor Prince did shall be undone; what the Drowned await shall come to pass. Look to me when the Hammer of Bronze is forged anew. Look to me on the twelfth night when the sea boils. Look upon me, ye of Serpantia, and despair. [/I]Sages say that the names [I]Andara [/I]and [I]Serpantia [/I]refer to ancient kingdoms, one of which was situated in the lands which are now the Keening Sea, and the other in the lands beyond World's Edge. The meaning of the rest of the inscription is currently unknown. Hooks: - Where are the lost kingdoms of Andara and Serpantia? - Who was the Traitor Prince and what did he do? Was he the Prince of Men, or someone else? - What is the Hammer of Bronze? - Could this stone be used to drain the Keening Sea into the sunken lands beyond World's Edge? Who would want to do such a thing? (I think this would be a more manageable apocalypse than the Long Day stuff. It would be a suitably epic change to the status quo, but the rest of the setting would be left more or less intact.) [/QUOTE]
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