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Forbidden Lands Word Template This supplement is a submission to the 2021 RPG Geek 24-hour RPG supplement contest. Some artwork © 2015 Dean Spencer, used with permission. All rights reserved. Some artwork used under license of Tortoise & Hare Creations. Art by Indi Martin © 2017. All rights reserved. Maps are used with permission of The Forge Studios. All rights reserved. This product was created under license. Forbidden Lands and its logo, are trademarks of Fria Ligan AB. This work contains material that is copyright Fria Ligan AB and/or other authors. Such material is used with permission under the Com- Samplemunity Content Agreement for Free League Workshop. file All other original material in this work is copyright 2021 by Simone Matzanke and published under the Community Content Agreement for Free League Workshop. 2 Black Rose Keep Like crooked fingers the old towers of the Fortress try to to read the girl's fortune. Unbeknownst to Fredrik and his grasp the sky, an imposing sight from afar. But on drawing wife, Medea was in truth the demon Gagmonor. closer it becomes clear that the hand no longer grasps for any- „Medea“ made a big show of things and ended the for- thing: Blackened and broken lie the once proud towers. But the tune telling with a sinister prophesy: On her eighteenth air does not smell of soot, but – roses? Come closer still and you birthday, Dimia would die in the flames of a fire. will find the old walls gripped in a thorny grasp and dark red roses are in full bloom even in thickest winter. Come closer still Horrorstruck and furious at the careless way the witch and you will find the smell is the sweetest scent in all the wide was frightening his wife and household (and himself), world. And is that a lone figure beckoning from a broken win- Fredrik had the witch thrown into a hole that was soon to dow high above? Come closer still, weary wanderer, smell the be the fortress well, but Gagmonor turned into a rat and roses and meet the Lady of Black Rose Keep. escaped unharmed. Years went by and the prophesy was forgotten by all ex- cept for the most superstitious souls in the area. But Gag- monor, of course, still remembered it well. And so, on the night of Dimia's eighteenth birthday, it snuck back into the castle and set fire to the stables, the barracks and the living quarters of the noble family. When the alarm sounded to rouse everyone and evacuation of the fortress was in full swing, Fredrik could not find his daughter anywhere. In horror, he remembered the sinister prophecy and in his an- ger he cursed the witch. Who promptly appeared at his side and offered her assistance in his plight. He offered her any reward she claimed, if she only saved his daughter from the flames. An offer that was too good for Gagmonor to refuse: So it turned into its true form, killed Fredrik's wife in grue- some fashion to devour her life's essence and delighted in her husband's terror. It then set out for the tower, where Dimia was surrounded by flames, It tore her soul from her dying body and shoved it into one of the corpses on the cemetery. The girl reawakened to a dark grave in a decaying body and clawed her way out into the light. When Fredrik realized what sort of rescue the demon had bestowed upon his daughter, he fell to madness and BACKGROUND took his own life by running into the flaming inferno. Oh, Black Rose Keep was constructed during the Alder what a feast this day was for Gagmonor. Wars, which puts the age of the fortress at something a bit The undead creature Dimia had become still retained over 300 years. Its original name is lost today. Construc- her consciousness, but her new existence also meant she tion was planned and conducted by Fredrik of Summer- needed living flesh for sustenance and she was driven quite garde, a nobleman from Alderland, who was tasked with mad by all that had happened to her. In the coming years, setting up defenses during the Quelling. The fortress was Gagmonor and Dimia forged an unholy alliance: The de- finished in 850 AS, soon after the first demons came to the mon would lure wanderers to the fortress with cunning and Ravenlands. magic, where Dimia would satisfy two of her most dire Fredrik came to the Ravenlands with his pregnant wife, needs. For once, she longed for company other than the who soon after their arrival gave birth to their firstborn demon's, so she would try to talk to her „guests“, put them Sampledaughter Dimia. A witch, who called herself Medea Thorn- at ease and offer what succor she cofileuld in the burnt out ru- heart, came to the Fortress under construction and asked ins. Only at some point, when her hunger grew beyond 3 Black Rose Keep what she could bear, or guests turned violent or something Lady of the Rose and that morning just up and left. They disturbed her otherwise – she would kill and devour the un- are worried he might be on his way to Black Rose Keep, de- happy men that had the misfortune to meet her. spite the tales people tell about the place. The young men Gagmonor in turn could feast on Dimia's despair and know the cautionary tale version of the legend and can re- the terror of her victims. The roses Gagmonor uses to lure count it to the adventurers. and faze hapless men grew thicker and thicker throughout the centuries and nowadays the fortress is completely over- grown with them. The thorny vines are tough as steel and the rose petals cut like razors and pour poison into the wound. So this wall of roses doubles as an effective defense LEGEND mechanism. The legend for this site comes in two varieties, depending The legend as told by the demon in its various roles (the on who tells it: favourite being the witch) is a somewhat romanticized ver- sion of the events above and is obviously almost entirely TOLD BY MEDEA THORNHEART: false. While the cautionary tale told around the fires of vil- lages across the land strikes a lot closer to the truth. A long time ago, before the Blood Mist came, there was a noble- man, renowned for his wisdom. When his first daughter was born, he sent for all the wise men and women of the land to give her their blessing. And the wise people came, from all peoples of the land and they blessed her and each gave her a word of ad- GETTING HERE vice. One of the last ones to come was of the smallfolk, a goblin crone. And she resented the way the tallfolk all looked down on Apart from just stumbling into the site these are the two her and so she did not give her blessing and instead cursed the most common ways to get here: child thusly: On her eighteenth birthday, she would perish in a terrible fire. The parents were horrified, but a kind witch came up to them and said: „I cannot take back the curse, but I THE WITCH can at least diminish it: The fire will not kill her, but she will Gagmonor is ever on the hunt for new visitors for the lady. be marked and she will not be able to live among people any- In its favourite disguise as Medea Thornheart, it can tell more. But roses will protect her from the world, until someone the legend below to the adventurers and put one of them can finally lift her curse.“ And thus goes the story of Black Rose under its alluring spell. It mainly hunts male of any kin. Its Keep. spell is a variation of the ENTICE spell, cast with a Power Level of 5. The symbol the victim is drawn to is the rose. If the spell is successful, they will feel compelled to seek out TOLD AS A CAUTIONARY TALE: Black Rose Keep (even if they do not know where it is lo- A long time ago, before the Blood Mist came, the master of cated or that it even exists, they will be drawn to the loca- Black Rose Keep resorted to the help of a demon to save his tion). If the spell fails, they will still know about the loca- daughter from a fire. The demon took his wife's soul as a pay- tion, but no longer be compelled (magically) to seek it out. ment and laughed at the torment this caused the Lord of the Keep. But he also fulfilled his end of the bargain: As the body of the young girl could no longer be repaired, he put her soul into THE VICTIM another woman's corpse. The vile creation and the demon to- The adventurers happen upon a group of young men from gether slaughtered the rest of the family and ever since does the a nearby village. They are worried about a friend of theirs, dark Lady of Black Rose Keep dwell behind the briar wall Samplewho spoke to a mysterious woman that came to visit their made from roses of the darkest red andfile she still feeds on men village. After that conversation, the young man Thorleif coming to visit her. seemed absent and preoccupied. He kept talking about the 4 Black Rose Keep 1 6 2 4 7 5 3 Sample file 5 Black Rose Keep 3.
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