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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wicht" data-source="post: 711769" data-attributes="member: 221">Note: After some delay, I am going to start posting my current campaign notes - which is turning into a sort of mega-module.  Some of the following is subject to change and some of it contains spoilers.  Because of the amount of maps, notes and area descriptions, it will be extremely broken up and added piecemeal as time allows me.The heart of Corruptionaka. Tilliana's Past Background: 25 years ago, four adventurers tamed a piece of wilderness almost halfway between Geanavue and Giilia.  These four, all from the coastal area, discovered a small four square mile area from which a number of evil things spread.  There was an evil temple, a cavern complex which they named the deep caves, and above it all, a castle in which evil forces lived.  They destroyed the temple, cleaned out the caves and then eradicated the evil from the castle.  They then settled down in the area and built their homes.      The adventurers were Roanai, a priest of Naemae, Fleet, a ranger who loved fast horses, Elias, a fighter with a penchant for big weapons, and Tamil the Demon-killer, a wizard, who among other things, dearly loved cats.  They did not build in the castle, for it was too inaccessible for what they wanted.  They had a vision of a large settlement, under their protection, for the area was good for farming, well watered, and fairly level in most places.  Instead they built about a mile east of the castle, from whence they could keep an eye on the structure, whilst at the same time accomplishing their goals.    Roanai had the ancient and evil temple razed to the ground, hallowed the site and then built a temple to Naemae along with a house for himself.  Elias chose an area about a mile south of Roanai and built a fort and then a water-powered millhouse.  Fleet selected some choice fields to the north-east and built a ranch on which he could raise horses.  Finally, Tamil built a Tower further downstream from Elias and settled down in it with his familiar, Angel, an awakened cat.    Over a period of about five years, the four friends continued to police the area, while at the same time offering generous leases to farmers who were willing to settle in the immediate region.  Soon two small villages had sprung up, one near Elias and one near Tamil.  Grain was being harvested and sent to Geanavue, as were horses bred by Fleet.  Roanai married a young woman whose father worked in Elias’s mill, and over the course of two years had two children.     And then 15 years ago, disaster struck.  A huge red dragon was spotted in the mountains to the west.  Rumours soon spread of an army of fire-giants ready to march into the region, perhaps all the way to the coast.  The four friends came out of their semi-retirement and made plans to kill the dragon.  They left for the mountains and never came back.  Soon word reached the villages – the giants had been decimated, but the dragon, in the end, had killed the four heroes.  Without the strong swords and mighty magics of the four, the villages did not stand a chance.  Evil appeared again in the caves and Roanai’s wife was forced to move out of her house and back in with her parents, leaving the temple to Naemae empty.  The evil grew fast however and the villagers and farmers were forced to leave the region entirely.  However, when the villagers left, they left one ‘person’ behind.  Tamil had not taken his familiar with him to do battle with the dragon.  Angel, the cat, was unwilling to leave his master’s tower and so they left him to fend as well as he was able.At the time of their settlement the four companions drew the following map.  The words under the bat read "evil onlee sleeps."  The words across the stream from the symbol of the Knight of the Gods reads "deep caves" and the words next to the crossed sword and axe read "mill."  In my campaign this was the map given to Tilliana by her aunt.</blockquote>

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