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Rise of the Abyss

Characters, places, people, loot, and everything that's happened so far — click anything for the full write-up.

Characters

The party — player characters and their write-ups.

Lia

A prophecy she never asked for, and the family who won't let her forget it.

Level 3 HumanFighter — Warrior of LegendMythic
Lux

A dragonet convinced he's an Ancient and Powerful Dragon Lord— and increasingly hard to argue with.

Level 3 Platinum DragonSorcerer — Draconic BloodlineMythic
Ottora

Witch on the outside, but so much more

Level 3 Goblinish(Anadi)Necromancer
Rowan Mercer

A reformed thief whose new god has never told him its name.

Level 3 KoboldDragonscaled KoboldCleric
Shim

Zellen's best (and only) acolyte

Level 3 KoboldSwashbucklerDraconic Acolyte Dedication
Vosk Hammerfist

He didn't ask for a revolution. He just kept standing until it was one.

Level 3 Dwarf GuardianArchetype: WrestlerRock Dwarf

Locations

Cities, ruins, taverns, and everywhere else the party has been.

The Abyssal Gorge

Three pages are named after it. None of them say what is down there.

Southern FrontierHeld by IronwatchLargely Undescribed
Bellhaven

Prosperous, well fed, and pleasantly unremarkable — which is exactly how it likes it.

Population ~12,000River TradeFarmland
Bellhaven University

Founded to make battle-mages for a war that stopped. It has been quietly becoming something else ever since.

Arcane CollegeFounded for IronwatchResearch Library
Ironhollow

Mining and forge city built into a mountain shoulder · Private-mine economy

Dwarven Ancestral HoldPopulation ~9000Mineing and Smithing
Ironwatch

Valecourt Manor

The Lord's Manor in Ironwatch — site of Adrian's betrothal ball and the ghoul ambush.

Veyrhold

The name on the maps, the academy and the noble houses — and a long way from anywhere the party has been.

Imperial CapitalHouse ValecourtHouse Montclair

NPCs

People the party has met, for good or otherwise.

Adrian Valecourt

Noble with a lot to prove, in the shadow of his father.

Heir to IronwatchBetrothed
The Coalbrook Concern

Not a villain. A balance sheet that keeps arriving in towns just after their worst year.

ConglomerateMining ConsortiumBuying Ironhollow
Lady Elara Montclair

Lord Garrick Valecourt

Nicholas Kozlov

Held the kitchen doorway alone against ghouls, and was still angrier about the mushrooms.

GrippliHead ChefValecourt Manor
The Finch-Masked Cultists

Hooded portal-channelers in articulate finch bird masks; their only defining feature.

The Raven

Thessarak

Items

Loot, relics, and the occasional cursed thing nobody will admit to picking up.

Nothing here yet. Add the first item.

Storyline

The big threads — what's unresolved, what's closed, and what everyone is still arguing about.

Fallen Into the Abyss

Displaced over the gorge, the party fell for a very long time and landed in an enormous web in the dark.

The Abduction of Adrian Valecourt

The ball was a screen: someone came for the young lord specifically, and nearly got him.

The Burning of the Adventurers' Building

Ironwatch's fixed point for all gates and teleportation was blown open — and then portals started opening everywhere.

The Finch-Masked Cultists

Bird-masked summoners opened two portals in a lord's house on the night his son was to be taken.

The Man Behind the Door

A kobold cleric lost his god, took a stranger's power to keep healing the sick, and still doesn't know whose it is.

The Raven

A raven-masked man who outclassed the party, carried an artifact-grade token, and dropped them into the Abyss rather than fight.

The Wall's Broken Contract

Thirty thousand soldiers on the abyssal wall are not getting what they signed for, and Garrick is paying out of pocket.

Thessarak, the Coiled Prophet

A colossal serpent rose out of the Abyss preaching a lord's love to the sun-blessed surface.

Sessions

The session log — what actually happened at the table, in order.

The Betrothal Ball, and the Long Fall After

A servant girl, a tiny dragon, a sailor and a labour organiser walk into a noble's engagement party — and end up falling into the Abyss.

Session 1