Kdor's Adventurers Guild

Featured In Modules

This lore entry is featured in the following adventure modules:

• A Goldsteil FestivalBefore leaving Kdor, Guildmaster Teyla Coalmaker invites the adventurers to represent Grand's Guild in the city's annual Festival of Rebirth at Kdor, a celebration of Kdor's reconstruction and the rise of the Goldsteil family. The highlight is The Gauntlet, a contest of martial, mechanical, and magical prowess with strict rules: no magic on others (only yourself), stealth is encouraged, and the only way to lose is to be knocked out. The competition includes puzzles, stealth challenges, skill challenges, and a final combat footrace. First place earns a special item and the Medallion of the Gauntlet, second and third walk away with gold, and all competitors earn prestige in Kdor's eyes. After the festival, Teyla teleports the party to Evenfell to investigate troubles with the city's guild.
• All Aboard to KdorThe Adventurers Guild is hired by the city of Kdor to provide security for the maiden voyage of its new monorail, which is transporting a vast amount of wealth. The journey is attacked by Mechanist Raiders affiliated with the Industrialists, who also have saboteurs aboard the train. The adventurers must defend the monorail and root out the saboteurs before the train derails.
• Bliss UnmadeWith 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.
• Evil from the PastThe four guildmasters of Kingdom Grand, Evenfell, Kdor, and New Arcanum send adventurers to Holt's abandoned laboratory beneath the temple of Vitalia, discovered through Sage Elbera's final intelligence. A magic mouth delivers Holt's farewell before vents release shimmering Lullwater that floods the chambers. Navigating rising water and failing magic, they recover Holt's journal revealing his childhood among the Molokite, his manipulation of their ancient desires, and his belief that their "god" was one of The Evil One's experiments—a creature grown from a tarrasque corpse through biomancy, controllable by the Lullwater. They escape the drowning ruin as the guildmasters prepare a full strike on Holt's camp at the dungeon gate.
• Forge FireThe freed Cinder Guard need weapons, and only a sunsteel blade forged in divine fire can permanently harm He Who Slumbers's tentacles. Guided by Guildmaster Alyndor "Aly" Marvale and the ghost of Captain Kaelen, the party relearns the lost forging sequence at the Sunsteel Forge and uncovers the Book of Molok, Chapter IX, a prophecy naming the Living Seal needed to hold the Beast forever. The first new Sunsteel Blade is forged for Veyl.
• Nightmares and Old MagicsNightmares grip Kdor after the Goldstiel Festival. Citizens report identical visions of ancient stone laboratories, strange waters, and a crow-shaped monster watching them. Guildmaster Teyla Coalmaker urges adventurers to enter a dream realm with Holt and sever the connection before the nightmares spread. The Crow Knight was defeated but its mind survived and is now projecting visions: memories of something far older. The party must enter the Crow Knight's dying mind, navigate a surreal labyrinth of ancient experimentation, and confront the Crow Knight in his fractured consciousness.
• Sound the Horns of WarThe four great guilds unite to stop Holt and the Molokite from awakening He Who Slumbers. Their combined forces march on the ancient gate beneath Kingdom Grand, where the final dungeon has opened and Holt's army has already entered. Adventurers join the vanguard, clearing Molokite cultists, mind-controlled adventurers from Evenfell, and remaining defenders to establish a forward operating base before the assault on the dungeon proper.
• The Living SealThe Liturgy of Binding holds He Who Slumbers, but with the Molokite civilization gone it needs a permanent living anchor. Led by Guildmaster Elrin Veymar, the party descends to the Sealing Chasm, fights off Dreamleechers at the threshold, and sings the Liturgy while the Beast's Dread tempts each of them with their deepest desire. Veyl steps through the arc of light to become the Living Seal, sealing himself into the binding forever as Captain Kaelen's century-long vigil finally ends.
• Yeti or NotThe Kdor's Adventurers Guild tasks a party with tracking and eliminating a dangerous yeti that has been disrupting the work of ice harvesters near Lake Arrek. The party finds the harvesters' camp, a makeshift fort, and learns that three men have gone missing. They track the yeti to a cave where they find the frozen bodies of the missing men and discover a larger-than-normal yeti clutching a smaller, dead yeti. The mutated yeti has glowing eyes and strange abilities, and a brass and glass device with a glowing green liquid is found stabbed into its body. After the mission is complete, Guildmaster Teyla Coalmaker reveals there is new dungeon activity in the region.