Chapter 2: Gazetteer of tal’Dorei 95ruins of o’noa aDventures
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For low-level characters: New O’Noa is a seedy town filled
with strange magic. A serious suude addict named Shef
Silverleaf is in major debt to Waken, the tiefling leader of
the town. Hired by Waken to aid in collecting his debt,
the party breaks down his door to discover that Shef ’s
body has been turned to solid silver. Was this foul play, or
poetic justice? Waken will take Shef ’s solid silver corpse
as payment, but what if the silver-skinned man were still
alive and able to magically walk away?
Scar of the Cinder King
The realm around Emon will never fully recover from
Thordak’s elemental corruption. His presence not only
incinerated his enemies, it wounded the land itself. Even
the Pyrah Ashari, called from across the sea by the
Council of Tal’Dorei, could not completely mend the
devastation. The wounds under and east of Emon are not
the extent of Thordak’s destruction—his indelible power
lingers in several isolated corners of Tal’Dorei, such as
the Ashen Gorge and the ruins of Serpent’s Head—but
their proximity to such a large social capital makes them
the most devastating. The invisible power that radiates
from the wounds Thordak left here may corrupt areas of
the land for generations to come, if no one figures out
how to cleanse them.
While the crater within the Cloudtop has received
intense attention due to the affluent nature of the vicin-
ity, the land devoured by the Scar was mostly outer
farmland and forest, occupied by serfs and laborers.
Some displaced survivors whisper that the members of
the Council are more concerned with rebuilding their
mansions than healing the Scar. Whether or not these
concerns are valid, the fact remains that thousands of
Emonian families still have not found a home, and many
have turned to thievery, banditry, and burglary to make
ends meet.flamereaCh outpost
Flamereach Outpost is a stout, makeshift fortress of
unassuming gray stone that stands at the edge of the Scar.
Its denizens keep watch over the Shivergreen Grove, a
small forest at the edge of the Scar that never stopped
burning. The trees of Flamereach Grove, as it is now
called, are little but blackened skeletons, but they burn
eternally. The fortress was built as a base for the druids
and elemental specialists who traveled to Emon to heal
the Scar. Led by a half-orc fire ashari named Lorkathar,
a group of firetamers from Pyrah keep constant vigil
over the supernatural devastation, and those who watch
the undying flames at night swear they can see creatures
moving within.