Bliss Unmade
c. 100 ADW
With He Who Slumbers re-subdued in the caverns beneath Kingdom Grand, the four guilds send adventurers back down to clean up the aftermath. The surviving Cinder Guard stand masterless in a Bliss-Leeched stupor, and the coven that stole Molokite youth-magic has withered into bitter Witchlings and Withered Crones. Guided by Guildmaster Teyla Coalmaker and the hidden medicine woman Raphira, the party brews an Antidote of the Wardens, cleanses a corrupted cistern, and frees the Cinder Guard en masse—restoring the memory and name of one guard, Veyl.
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This module is referenced by the following lore entries:
Factions and Organizations
- MolokiteAn ancient elven people—not a metal—known for pale skin, ethereal green veins, large black eyes, and regal bearing. They once traded with the dwarves of the Dwarven Mountains until they sought power from a demigod, attacked mortal races, and were driven underground. There they found a shrine to The Evil One and later worshipped He Who Slumbers, a biomantic horror bred from a tarrasque corpse. Holt was raised among them and led them alongside the Slumber Cult to awaken their god. After Holt's defeat, the few Molokite who survived—including the medicine woman Raphira—helped the guilds re-bind the Beast and rearm the freed Cinder Guard with sunsteel.
Legendary Characters
- Guildmaster Teyla CoalmakerA proud and energetic dwarf with dark hair, keen dark eyes, and a mechanical monocle. She wears an oil-streaked apron and silver-laced red armor and has a prosthetic robotic arm. She is the Overseer of Kdor's Adventurers Guild and believes in second chances, but not thirds. She likes using mechanical metaphors and is known to be a fast talker. Always has a backup plan.
- RaphiraAn elderly Molokite medicine woman who survived the Molokite cult's reign by hiding in a false shrine to Vitalia beneath Kingdom Grand. She holds the formula for the Antidote of the Wardens, used to cure the Bliss Leeches infesting the surviving Cinder Guard, Withered Crones, and Witchlings.
- VeylA Cinder Guard—an ancient Molokite construct-warrior—who serves as liaison between the guilds and the last of his kind after the Bliss Leeches are cleansed from the survivors. The first to shake off the leeches' stupor and recover his name, he helps track down the lost sunsteel forging rite and, when no one else steps forward, volunteers to become the Living Seal that keeps He Who Slumbers bound.
Legendary Items & Artifacts
Locations
Military Units and Creatures
- Cinder GuardA Molokite elf warrior bound to living stone, once tasked with guarding the seal on He Who Slumbers. Left masterless and leeched into a stupor after the Beast was re-subdued, the Cinder Guard fight in packs and unleash a swarm of cinders, but can be freed and rearmed with sunsteel blades once cured of their Bliss Leeches. Veyl is the first to recover.
- He Who SlumbersAlso called the One Who Sleeps, or simply the Beast by the Molokite who once served it. A primordial horror created by The Evil One from a tarrasque corpse through biomancy, grown stronger with each life sacrificed to its bio-vats—the younger the victim, the greater the offering. The Molokite worship it in the dungeon beyond the Great Dungeon Gate, and Holt believed Lullwater would let him control it upon awakening. After the guilds forced it back into slumber, it could no longer be held by the failing rites of the last Molokite survivors alone, and a living soul had to be bound into the Sealing Chasm to anchor it once more.
- WitchlingA young apprentice of the coven that once stole youth-magic from the Molokite, fighting with an obsidian dagger and a hurled curse. Found guarding the caverns beneath Kingdom Grand alongside the Withered Crones.
- Withered CroneA witch of the coven that stole youth-magic from the Molokite, aged decades into bitterness when He Who Slumbers slept again and the stolen magic failed. Attacks with a fear-inducing wail, a withering touch, and hexbolts.