Loviatar, Goddess of Pain
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A MODRON’S REPORT: DOMINIONS OF DEITIES WORSHIPPED BY THE INHABITANTS OF REALMSPACE AND THE PRIME MATERIAL CONTINENT OF FAERUN. VOLUME #1: EVIL DIETIES A- L -1st Edition, 1335x catalog of prime material research from The Great Modron March & by modrons serialized 856,223.043 – 900,103 Commissioned by The One and the Prime. Coded by Quinton #7,601,342,695 Planar Alias = “Scribbles” Sample file Written by Jestin L. Lightner Illustrated by Jestin L. Lightner A Dungeon Masters Guild Publication (2016) A MODRON REPORT PREFACE Recovered from Spelljammer ship wreckage, it took Modron’s are a very technical, very complex years for the top scholars of Candlekeep to finally break constructs with little understanding of anything other the code that this text originated from. Once the than its own rank within modron society. This lack of complicated math riddle was solved the text was understanding shines through in the original decoded translated into language common to the realms and then texts and thus the reason for the rewrite. Currently another translation of the original code is underway now “78423, that we have a broader understanding of what we are looking at. Some of the maps or other information that SEVEN ATE FOUR TO THREE, seems incomplete may be discovered soon but the truth 7 – 4 = 3” be told the accuracy of how these dominions sit in the -Ancient Modron Proveb elemental soup that is the multiverse has yet to be tested thoroughly. So some of the info may be dated and rewritten and edited so that even mortal citizensSample of useless file we are not sure. We are however thankful for Faerun could understand it and not just complicated what we have uncovered. Who knows what new secrets modrons. And though these writings have changed our we may demystify as the progress of our own understanding of the universe at large, they have been mathematical schools progress like wild fire every day held in secret and alas only one copy of the translated and the original code is looked back upon through the and rewritten works had ever been created. That is until years. Who knows, maybe the code we found that we the late King Azoun of Cormyr’s estate was inherited have yet to be able to translate will lead us to a stronger upon his death and the original translation\edit\rewrite understanding and show us in depth the dominions of once again saw the light of day. Certainly, if this the gods of light? And that is what I chase when I information were to reach the masses chaos could ensue approach this subject: A better understanding of my and so it is understandable that Azoun hid this away own deity through the research of his enemies. from prying eyes. But now, here you have your very The exact age of the report is unknown. It’s existed own copy of the new edition in your hands ripe for the on Toril for over decades hough and some of the reading. material the original author claims came from The Great DOMINIONS OF DEITIES WORSHIPPED BY THE INHABITANTS OF REALMSPACE AND THE PRIME MATERIAL PLANET KNOWN AS ABEIR-TORIL Modron March itself! It took a lot of digging in an extra- planar library in the City of Doors to finally find that the last time there actually was a modron march was 186 years ago. That means it is possible this report is a hundred years old or more. With that said, as mentioned we have yet to verify any of these findings for not a soul dare travel to the evil places defined within. Things change however and it can be assumed for at least the chaotically aligned gods that things may be different in there dominions now that it is a decades into the future since this text was originally encoded. Some of the original languages vernacular has been kept in place here and there as our studies have defined some of the otherworldly lingo quite accurately (as far as we can tell) but most all of the long winded systematic descriptions written by the modrons have been replaced with a more human friendly approach. We work tirelessly to revise a new edition while in the meantime hope you put this knowledge to good use. -Siloan Caledan, Sr. Candlekeep Librarian Sample file Introduction Anyone that knows me as a DM will tell you how much I love the planes. It’s safe to say I’ve sent adventuring parties to every outer plane and half of the inner planes and back again. Ever since Planescape was released I’ve been hooked on the “afterlife” of D&D. With that said, as great as 3.5 was and as bad as 4e was, they both had about the same amount of info available when it came to the planes: A Manual of the Planes and a couple of source books. INSIGNIFICANT when compared to the wealth of material we had in 2e! It is my aim to at least attempt to bring some of that back with, in this case, a Forgotten Realms spin. I first started running games in the Realms back in middle school. I would DM for the whole lunch table and boy did we make some noise when someone rolled a 1 or a 20! Enough for the principal to nearly ban the game cause we were having too much fun. I continued to dump any cash I had on Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance, and Planescape material as I got into high school and even sold my first car and dropped over $1,000 from the proceeds on D&D books! Let’s just say that when Planescape was released, I pretty much became the dungeon master from hell…..which was awesome. So with that said, I have nearly 25 years of Dming experience and it has always been a dream of mine to one day be a writer for TSR\WOTC #whatevertheycallitnowadays. I have had some success with posting material to Smashwords in the past with nearly 10,000 downloads and counting so when I saw this opportunity @ the Dmsguild.com site it got my attention to say the least. So I came up with this fresh little idea, it’s extra-planar (of course) while still being realms based so it should be cool. Keep in mind that I am a writer and not an illustrator and I did the best I could with a ruler and some graph paper. Some Dominions have not been mapped out yet because I’ve had to throw away the rough drafts I sketched up cause they were going nowhere fast. It’s tough to map out The Demonwebs for instance because of the chaotic nature of Lolth spinning her web so many different ways over time it could never be truly accurate unless the in game cartographer made the map literally just within the past few days. But that type of dark would come at a crazy high price……Maybe even a life or two. With that said I hope you can get some use out of this when it comes to your games. I have added an adventure hook in the last section in order to help get the ball rollingSample for you. If you filehave any questions or comments feel free to contact me. Please go easy when it comes to the reviews as I am not a pro I’m just a gamer like you with my own perspective of the hobby. And remember the dominions of the dark gods of the realms are beyond deadly (some say the planes are too OP cause many DM’s run them wrong) and if the combat is ever close to a TPK, use your best judgement as a DM and whatever happens, just make sure everyone is having a good time and laughing their way through it……it doesn’t hurt to fudge some roll’s behind the screen now and again either ;) -Jestin .