Characters

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Strong Start

Dioz Brightblade – Goblin paladin of Heironeous comes to the camp. She’s hunting the goblin cultists of the Eater of Worlds who are likewise hunting cultists of the Black Harbinger. Dioz’s group of rangers, clerics, and paladins were killed by Nogrog – Nilbog Caller of the Eater of Worlds’s cultists.

Scenes

• Meeting Dioz Dioz Brightblade – Goblin paladin of Heironeous

Secret and Clues

• [ ] High priest Nogrog – Nilbog Caller of the Eater of Worlds has come to the Demon’s Bowl to wage war against the cult of the Black Harbinger.
• [ ] The priest Hester Twiceborn – Priest of the Black Harbinger has come to the Demon’s Bowl to draw power from the Obelisk of the Black Cathedral in the center of the acidic pools of the slain demon.
• [ ] Hester Twiceborn – Priest of the Black Harbinger set up camp in a series of caves known as the Veins of Rot.
• [ ] Nogrog sent his bands of goblins, hobgoblins, and bugbears loyal to the Eater of Worlds to murder Hester and his acolytes. He’s been moderately successful.
• [ ] Nogrog’s champion in the Demon’s Bowl is an ogre named Goorn the Devourer who wears a bestial mask of a roaring baboon (two attacks).
• [ ] Long ago a demon was slain here in the Demon’s Bowl. It’s skull still serves as an altar to demon worshippers with caves leading deeper in. The blood of the demon flowed into the bottom of the bowl forming a pool of acid known as the demon’s lifeblood.
• [ ] A nearby hamlet known as Raven’s Hollow is populated by suspicious folk, hunters, fisherfolk, and those trying to stay away from the bustle and corruption of Dulwich or the rest of the empires.
• [ ] Nogrog is a goblin born backwards, known as a Nilbog and considered a sacred jester of goblin tribes. He assassinated his king, a goblin king named Kav Blackwood of the Blackwood tribe. They got along with the local populace but despised Nilbog and drowned him in a pool of black liquid. Nogrog returned, killed the king, and convinced the remaining goblin tribe to follow him under the banner of the Eater of Worlds – a demon prince who devours entire planets and will soon come to this one.
• [ ] The followers of both the Eater of Worlds and the Black Harbinger hope to find a place known as the Black Cathedral and open a gateway there to bring their demon prince to this world.
• [ ] The Graywhisker curse came from a creature in the depths of the Shadowed Keep many centuries ago. Only it can remove the curse.
• [ ] There are five pillars of the Black Cathedral around Dulwich. They triangulate the location of the Black Cathedral itself.
• [ ] Zalthor Darkthrone – High Priest of the Black Harbinger seeks to activate three of the five obelisks to locate the Black Cathedral.
  • [ ] Demon’s Bowl
  • [ ] The Shadowed Keep
  • [ ] The Ladyfingers
  • [ ] The Forest of Grey Spires