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, […]
Endless Dungeon 9: Demon Lord
The stair down is steep, and as it descends, a sickening smell rises to meet you: sweet incense and rotting corpses, the acrid scent of coal fire. The stone of the staircase turns to broken tiles of ancient black marble. The entrance is marked with an infamous sigil, that of a demon lord.
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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 […]
Faerie Ballroom
Golden sunlight, warm and dappled, bleeds through the stained glass and falls across the crystalline floor of the expansive ballroom. The glass depicts myriad figures and events, radiating outward from a towering tree whose branches entangle them all, connecting history through root and bough. To the left of the tree, golden figures bathed in light […]
Adventurer’s Guildhall
A massive wooden door surrounded by high stone walls protects the guild’s campus, red banners decorated with the guild’s emblem hanging from the ramparts. To the left of the front door is a job board with petitions, bounties, and advertisements nailed to its face. To the right, stables have been built into the wall. A […]
Sheltered Oasis
Scattered cookfires sputter beneath the chill wind of the desert’s oppressive night. The oasis hosts many this eve, small groups huddled together in the shadow of towering dunes. The horseshoe-shaped freshwater lake reflects the stars above, glimmering like a pool of diamonds amid the surrounding sand that spans leagues in all directions. Light flickers from […]
Faerie Falls
The realm of the faerie folk, beautiful and fickle. Mirthful and mischievous. A circle of stones might be a place to unload burdens and rest an aching back, or it might be the threshold to a world unknown. A waterfall enchants the senses with its beauty, the coda of its cascade burbling the merriest of […]
Serene Lakeside
Amid a lakeside meadow stands a small cabin of rough-cut lumber and shaved logs. The grassy approach is framed by two wide dirt paths. Next to the house is a fenced garden. Beyond is a lake with a glassy surface, reflecting the forest on the opposite bank. Thin smoke curls from the cabin’s chimney.
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Owl Cave
Shadows and light dance over the rough floor, thrown across the chamber and up the walls by torches ensconced in stalagmites. They reveal a great gap in the floor spanned by a sturdy bridge of stone. Somewhere in the dimness below, a great subterranean river flows. You spy signs of past travelers strewn about the […]
