What Has Gone Before
A band of heroes returned to Ratik with ominous news. Having met with the evil dragon Vesicwyr, and after months of hard trekking and adventure, they now knew the identity of the shadowy figure behind the recent spate of attacks on Ratik: the death knight Monduiz Dephaar.
This news is not yet commonly known by the populace; the Swordlords guessing (probably correctly) that such news could spark panic amongst the populace. But such a dire threat must be countered, and thus the Swordlords cast about for some weapon, device or stratagem to aid them in their defence against Lord Monduiz Dephaar and his shadowy master, the dread demon lord Demogorgon.
Sadly, the Heroes of the Loftwood and their companions are too high profile for such a quest — the enemy knows them or at least their reputations and their disappearance would likely be noticed in Lord Dephaar’s dismal castle perched deep in the eastern Blemu Hills. (Also, they’ll be dealing with their own problems when we return to their story…)
Enter the PCs. As fledgling adventurers of good standing they have been surruptiously chosen for what seems like an innocuous task of small importance. What they discover, however, will propel them into an epic quest across the eastern Flanaess to recover the seven parts of an ancient Flan artifact with the power to weaken the link between Lord Dephaar and his master.
Shattered Star Adventure Path
The focus of this campaign within a campaign is the Shattered Star adventure path from Paizo, which I’ll be modifying to better fit Ratik and Greyhawk. Unlike the main stream of the campaign, the Shattered Star will use the medium advancement track. While I much prefer the slow advancement track, the Shattered Star is written with the medium advancement track in mind, and I really don’t want to have to modify every encounter. The point of using an adventure path (after all) is reduce my prep time to manageable levels!
Our Heroes
- Karelia (NG female elf transmuter 11); currently polymorphed into a rat and lost somewhere on the planes
- Cortona, Sword of Mercy (previously known as Peta) (LG male human paladin [Heironeous] 11); current polymorphed into a cat
- Thaladan (LG male half-elf paladin [Heironeous] 11)
- Vesleng (NG male half-orc druid [Obad-Hai] 11); currently a stone statue in the dungeon below Guiltspur
- Shardane (NG female half-orc cleric [Pelor] 11)
- Makani (LG male human rogue 11) currently a (broken) stone statue in the dungeon below Guiltspur
- Ariquis Nythastyn (LG male elf sorcerer [draconic {bronze}] 5/dragon disciple 6)
The Missing & The Lost
- Sarif Axeheart (LN male dwarf rogue 6) Left the party after being accused of various murders on the sinister island of Nal-Kashel.
- Grooble Fizzlebottom III (CG male gnome cleric [Baravan Wildwanderer] 8) Left the party to draw away Demogorgon’s minions; whereabouts currently unknown.
- Narfu Shalmstaff (LN male half-orc monk 4/rogue 2/druid 2) Left the party to draw away Demogorgon’s minions; whereabouts currently unknown.
- Tristham Spicer (LG male human paladin [Heironeous] 4) Disappeared from the Mermaid’s Mistress in Lillywhite. Current whereabouts unknown.
The Fallen
- Nylond Axeheart (NG male dwarf cleric [Muamman Duathal] 1) Slain by mites below the Crow piling.
- Quinell (NG female elf bard 3) Slain by aquatic sinspawn deep below the Crow piling.
- Aq Quyonlu (LG male human paladin [Heironeous] 5) Slain by a seugathi beneath the Lady’s Light.
- Morden Cortez (CG male human fighter 4) Slain by a seugathi beneath the Lady’s Light.
- Nok (LN male half-orc wizard [transmuter] 4) Slain by a seugathi beneath the Lady’s Light.
- Kara Quyonlu (N female human sorcerer [undead] 5) Slain by a seugathi beneath the Lady’s Light.
- Zainnis Wilmatyn (CG male human ranger 8) Slain by a wyvern in the Dark Forest and again by greater shadows lurking under Windsong Abbey.
- Ausk Axe Ripper (LG male half-orc priest [Heironeous] 9) Ripped apart by vrock as he sealed the Doomsday Door below Winding Abbey.
Session Summaries
Use the links below to keep up with our adventures.
Shards of Sin
Shards of Sin (an adventure for 1st-4th level characters and part 1 of the Shattered Star adventure path) by Paizo
- Shattered Star #1: A Beginning (25 February 2015)
- Shattered Star #2: Into Underbridge (4 March 2015)
- Shattered Star #3: A Desperate Battle (11 March 2015)
- Shattered Star #4: Into the Crow (18 March 2015)
- Shattered Star #5: Heroic Explorations (25 March 2015)
- Shattered Star #6: Defeat & Retreat (1 April 2015)
- Shattered Star #7: Fall of the Tower Girls (8 April 2015)
- Shattered Star #8: Passing Beyond the Doors (15 April 2015)
- Shattered Star #9: Skirting Disaster (22 April 2015)
- Shattered Star #10: Death and Glory (29 April 2015)
- Shattered Star #11: Delving Deeper (6 May 2015)
- Shattered Star #12: What Goes Up… (13 May 2015)
- Shattered Star #13: A Devilish Time…(20 May 2015)
- Shattered Star #14: All Devils Must Die (27 May 2015)
- Shattered Star #15: Fire & Water (2 June 2015)
- Shattered Star #16: A Watery Grave (9 June 2015)
- Shattered Star #17: Revenge (16 June 2015)
- Shattered Star #18: The Blue Dwarves! (1 July 2015)
- Shattered Star #19: The Second Shard (8 July 2015)
- Shattered Star: Where Lies the Third Shard?
Carrion Hill
Carrion Hill (an adventure for 5th-level characters) is published by Paizo
- Shattered Star #20: An Unexpected Storm (22 July 2015)
- Shattered Star #21: Decisions, Decisions (29 July 2015)
- Shattered Star #22: Into the Sunless Grove (9 September 2015)
- Shattered Star #23: Keepers Revealed (16 September 2015)
- Shattered Star #24: Realm of Madness (23 September 2015)
- Shattered Star #25: Everything’s Worse With Tentacles (30 September 2015)
- Shattered Star #26: Tentacles, Defeated (7 October 2015)
Travel Interlude
This adventure was modified from one appearing in Plunder & Peril by Paizo.
- Shattered Star #27: Warvil’s Folly (14 October 2015)
- Shattered Star #28: Nature’s Return (21 October 2015)
- Shattered Star #29: Chaos & Confusion (4 November 2015)
Curse of the Lady’s Light
Curse of the Lady’s Light (an adventure for 5th-7th level characters and part 2 of the Shattered Star adventure path) by Paizo
- Shattered Star #30: Into the Mire (11 November 2015)
- Shattered Star #31: Fire & Death (18 November 2015)
- Shattered Star #32: Going Deeper Underground (25 November 2015)
- Shattered Star #33: Island of Terror (9 December 2015)
- Shattered Star #34: Beyond the Portcullis of Death (16 December 2015)
- Shattered Star #35: Madness & Confusion (6 January 2016)
- Shattered Star #36: Madness & Death (13 January 2016)
- Shattered Star #37: A New Beginning (20 January 2016)
- Shattered Star #38: Revenge (27 January 2016)
- Shattered Star #39: Complications (3 February 2016)
- Shattered Star #40: Giant, Lizards & Ghouls (10 February 2016)
- Shattered Star #41: Attack of the Killer Bats! (24 February 2016)
- Shattered Star #42: A Touched Hand (2 March 2016)
- Shattered Star #43: Never Split the Party (9 March 2016)
- Shattered Star #44: Back Together Again (16 March 2016)
- Shattered Star #45: Onwards & Upwards (23 March 2016)
- Shattered Star #46: The Lady and the Lie (30 March 2016)
- Shattered Star #47: Death & Glory (6 April 2016)
From Shore to Sea
From Shore to Sea (an adventure for 6th-level characters by Paizo).
- Shattered Star #48: Into the Jaws of Death (13 April 2016)
- Shattered Star #49: Questing Tentacles of Doom (27 April 2016)
- Shattered Star #50: The Ancient, Ruined Island of Nal-Kashel (18 May 2016)
- Shattered Star #51: A Worsening Affliction (25 May 2016)
- Shattered Star #52: Twisted & Confused (31 May 2016)
- Shattered Star #53: Bloody Slaughter (8 June 2016)
- Shattered Star #54: Five Short Minutes Later (15 June 2016)
- Shattered Star #55: A Parting of the Ways (29 June 2016)
- Shattered Star #56: Grappling with Success (6 July 2016)
- Shattered Star #57: Getting About a Bit (13 July 2016)
- Shattered Star #58: Going Underground (20 July 2016)
- Shattered Star #59: Betrayal Most Foul? (7 September 2016)
- Shattered Star #60: Confusion & Illusion (14 September 2016)
- Shattered Star #61: Death in the Depths (28 September 2016)
The Asylum Stone
The Asylum Stone (an adventure for 8th-10th level characters and part 3 of the Shattered Star adventure path) by Paizo
- Shattered Star #78: To the Halflight Path (22 February 2017)
- Shattered Star #77: Onwards to Kaer Maga (8 February 2017)
- Shattered Star #76: The Boy with the Wilted Flowers (25 January 2017)
- Shattered Star #75: The Final Battle (18 January 2017)
- Shattered Star #74: Breaching the Keep (11 January 2017)
- Shattered Star #73: Back to the Forest (4 January 2017)
- Shattered Star #72: Death (28 December 2016)
- Shattered Star #71: Into the Dark Forest (21 December 2016)
- Shattered Star #70: The Tide Turns (Nasty) (14 December 2016)
- Shattered Star #69: Waves of Attackers (7 December 2016)
- Shattered Star #68: Beyond the Trapped Door (23 November 2016)
- Shattered Star #67: D9lving Deeper (16 November 2016)
- Shattered Star #66: Swarm of Death! (9 November 2016)
- Shattered Star #65: An Orrery? Here? (2 November 2016)
- Shattered Star #64: Into the Loathsome Dark (19 October 2016)
- Shattered Star #63: In the Tavern, Getting Drunk (12 October 2016)
- Shattered Star #62: Onwards to Kaer Maga (5 October 2016)
To Piren’s Bluff
- Shattered Star #79: Homeward Bound (1 March 2017)
- Shattered Star #80: The Dead Walk (8 March 2017)
- Shattered Star #81: Finding Heaven’s Fury (15 March 2017)
- Shattered Star #82: Adventurers About Town (22 March 2017)
- Shattered Star #83: Fire in the Night (28 March 2017)
Beyond the Doomsday Door
- Shattered Star #84: Inconcievable (12 April 2017)
- Shattered Star #85: Death from the Shadows (19 April 2017)
- Shattered Star #86: Corridor of Spiky Death (26 April 2017)
- Shattered Star #87: Mum’s the Word (3 May 2017)
- Shattered Star #88: Victory Over Death! (10 May 2017)
- Shattered Star #89: To The Doomsday Door (24 May 2017)
- Shattered Star #90: How Many Vrocks? (31 May 2017)
- Shattered Star #91: The Fight Rages On! (7 June 2017)
- Shattered Star #92: Ardathanatus, Defeated? (14 June 2017)
- Shattered Star #93: Pirate Treasure (and Tentacles!) (21 June 2017)
- Shattered Star #94: On the Way Up! (12 July 2017)
- Shattered Star #95: Death Isn’t the End (19 July 2017)
- Shattered Star #96: Back into the Light (2 August 2017)
Into the Nightmare Rift
- Shattered Star #97: Like a Stealthy Shadow Panther (16 August 2017)
- Shattered Star #98: Into the Giants’ Lair (23 August 2017)
- Shattered Star #99: Into the Mists? (30 August 2017)
- Shattered Star #100: Don’t Touch the Exhibits (13 September 2017)
- Shattered Star #101: The End of it All (20 September 2017)
Notable NPCs
Below appears a list of notable NPCs with which the party have had contact. As the campaign develops, so this list will grow.
Marner
- Ayala Javeski (female wererat human): Leader of the Tower Girls, Ayala escaped the Crow by extracting promises from the party that they would let her go free without hindrance.
- Fester the Blight (male human): An odious, disease-ridden slum landlord living in Underbridge. Dislikes Nylond intensely as the dwarf tried to kill him.
- Shel Heidmarch (female human): A retired adventuring who owns Heidmarch Manor in the Alabaster District. Hired the PCs to find Natalya Vancaskerkin. Known to move among Marner’s elite and to have great influence among the great and the good.
- Koriah Azmeren (female half-elf): A famed adventurer; friend or acquaintance of Shel Heidmarch.
- Natalya Vancaskerkin (female human): One-time street informer for Shel Heidmarch and member of the Tower Girls, Natalya was driven mad by the Shard of Pride. Found lurking in a dilapidated building in Underbridge she was defeated by the PCs and returned to Shel Heidmarch’s custody.
- The Amazing Zograthy (male human): Street denizen and Harrow card reader, the Amazing Zograthy is also a pesh addict.
Kaer Maga
- Abra Lopati (male human ranger): Member of the Duskwardens and the party’s guide on the Halflight Path. Slain by a shadow demon.
- Gav Nahli (young human male): The party’s young guide in the City of Strangers. Possessed and then slain by a shadow demon.
- Koifa (old female human): Librarian at the Therassic Spire.
Other
- Helena Mertien (female human): Once a Grey Maiden, Helena has joined the party after being betrayed by her fellows.
- Markessa (female human): Captain of the Mermaid’s Mistress.
- Maroux (female half-orc): Crotchety hermit living near the Lady’s Light.
- Shiyara (female trifling cleric of Hextor): Warrior priestess aiding the party on their quest to Windsong Abbey.