Mountain Camp
A steep trail winds along the lowest point of the ridge, through snow-dusted meadows with grass browning in the season’s chill. Fiery colors of autumn light the trees, all young and short. Upslope, to the northeast, an orderly palisade of thick logs and timber watch towers guard against ascent. Clouds flood the lower reaches of […]
Mountain Outpost
The approach to the outpost follows a deep valley with a dry riverbed. The shrubs are in autumn colors, and pale grasses clutch the ground. Granite scree and wet snow hold to the mountainside, but the valley runs under the looming potential for avalanche. The outpost is sturdily constructed of the mountain’s own stone and […]
Mountaintop: Cosmic Dragon and Hot Springs
Six inscrutable yellow eyes—each the size of a wagon wheel—regard you with unfathomable curiosity. Wisps of etheric mist swirl around the dragon’s enormous head—like hair caught by a summer breeze—flowing in a current you cannot feel. Lights pulse in a hypnotic pattern throughout the majestic creature’s body, dancing across the fluid star-scape that drifts over […]
Mountain Arena
Blue mist flows from the hollows below the cliff face, pouring down the sheer stone walls like a slow waterfall until it hits a line of faint, silvery glyphs. There, it reverses. It curls back on itself, then dissipates in wisps. Beyond, moonlight reveals a misty valley and reflects from a river far below.
This summer, […]
Mountaintop Observatory
The view through the telescope is astonishing. Stars that once looked so uniform from the ground suddenly gain stark individuality. They vary in size, brightness, color… Even how they twinkle through the telescope’s glass has taken on a life of its own.
This map depicts a marvelous observatory perched far, far above the surrounding lands, on […]
Mountain Totem
Though you’ve never set eyes on it before, this place feels both familiar and abhorrent, like seeing some hated enemy you’d thought long dead. Wind whips across a grassy clifftop roughly encircled by a deep crevasse. A natural bridge of stone crosses the gap and connects to a much-used muddy path that leads between rib-like […]
Door to the Mountain
This illustration is perfect for an attack or defend encounter, or the beginning of a session spent travelling deep into the mountain. Find finely crafted boxed text in this scene by hovering over areas on the illustration, or browse all included scenes in the list below. Toggle to the nighttime illustration by using the box […]
