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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daztur" data-source="post: 5825120" data-attributes="member: 55680">Map updated, the compilation has been updated but is still not 100% up to date, will add another entry and bring the compilation up to date tomorrow.A Wizard Did It or BEES! GIANT BEES!Hex 10.10 description and backstory for hexes 13.08 and 2.08.At the heart of the web-shrouded village (13.08) lies an abandoned wizard tower. It was once the home of Severard of the Seven Circles and his apprentices. The village that grew up around his tower was ruled and protected by him and he set about improving the lives of the villagers through the rational application of magic. Some of the locals chafed at his demands that they do all things “rationally” but most considered it a small price to pay for his aid and protection.As the village, then known as Severard’s Town, grew the wizard became annoyed by constant talk about food production and set about solving the problem. He developed magic that could greatly increase the growth of animals and tested it on centipedes and bees. He set up colonies of these creatures both west in the Tashtan Plains and as well as to the east (hexes 2.08 and 10.10) in order to study them, caring little about their effects on others. He was wrapping up his experiments on spider growth and preparing to move on to chickens and other delicious animals when, in a moment of carelessness, he was poisoned and killed by his prize spider specimen.  He villagers became concerned when Severard failed to come out of his tower and cats and other small animals began to disappear from the village. But by the time that they had gathered up enough courage to venture into Severard’s tower it was too late. The spider had grown too large and too cunning and drove the villagers from their homes and cast her webs across the villager. Perhaps a means to reverse the magical growth of animals lies within Severard of the Seven Circle’s tower, but none have been able to retrieve it.Although Severard now lies dead, his creations yet multiply. Away from his tower (10.10) his bee colony fills a large copse of trees with its dreadful buzzing. The bees that live here range out miles from their hive, seeking the sweet nectar of the purple kingscrown flowers. The locals, while they wisely fear to approach the hive, do go in the dead of winter (when the bees lie mostly dormant) to gather honey. The locals are willing to kill any intruders who attempt to poach their honey, for the purple mead that can be made from is their only valuable trade good.Hooks:-Who are the locals who harvest the honey?-What makes the purple giant bee honey so valuable?-What happened to Severard’s apprentices?-Why was he called Severard “of the Seven Circles?” What circles?-What is the means of reversing animal growth that lies within Severard’s tower?-A wizard’s tower must have some other interesting things in it. Right?Hex 29.07The Holt of the Bloodied KingNote: the first paragraph of this post has been adapted from a post by “drek” on the rpg.net forums.At the heart of the Kingswood lies the Holt of the Bloodied King. At night and during the very darkest depths of winter, the Seelie Court retreats into their central Holt. Tiny motes of purplish light arise from the trees during this time -- the last remnants of the Unseelie Court that once shared ruler-ship in Kingswood, before being chased out hundreds upon hundreds of years ago.Near the Holt where the Bloodied King of the Elves of the Kingswood reigns, a great geyser bursts from the earth. It is the source of the Witchwater, a river that flows through and out of the Kingswood.The heat of the water spewed from the geyser keeps the Witchwater remarkably ice-free in winter and for much of its length it is shrouded in a great serpent of mist. In many places it is warm enough to bathe in comfortably year-round, although any human doing so would surely be a fool...Hooks:-Where did the Unseelie Court go?-Why’s there such a massive geyser in the middle of the forest?-Why would it be foolish for a human (or other species as well?) to bathe in the Witchwater?/Again with the hot springs. Winter is doing things to my brain.</blockquote>

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