White Willows pt6

Hidden Locations

[[[twocalf note, if you are one of my players, please do not read any further]]]

Scattered about the canton are places spoke only in rumors and legends. While most are just the creations of gin soaked brains of drunks a few exist.

The Fumarole

Hidden deep in the Sleeping Ones is a place known as the Fumarole. A smoking caldera lake, it is surrounded by the skeletons and rotting corpses of hundreds of animals (and a few humanoids). Rumors abound of strange shapes that emerge from the lake at night and of a hidden treasure on its gas obscured island.

Tannhausers Gate

Tannhausers Gate is one an old stone gate dug deep into a complex well hidden in the Sleeping Ones Mountains. A small order of paladins guards the gate as they have for centuries. It has been long forgotten as to why they guard the gate however.

Forbidden Vale

A grove of crystalline trees and four armed white apes, the Yeth-Ti, is rumored to lie somewhere in the Sleeping Ones. They are rumored to produce fantastic drugs.

Sky Dock

Hidden above the clouds is a Void Elf Skydock. Weird and decadent (as with all things Void Elf) there is a large observation deck where visiting Void Elves can eat finger sandwiches and mock the peasants below. For an extra fee they can send out a monster or disaster to spice things up. Despite looking like something out of the cover of a 1970’s utopian sci-fi novel, the Sky Dock is the Elven equivalent to a truck stop. There is a lot of weird Elvin food and tchotchkes for sale.

The Lapis Observatory

This crumbling structure is a former elven observatory and early warning soul-radar. Like much of the old Elven equipment it is powered on Souls and is long derelict. The Lapis Observatory was long used as an old Elven party spot (the early warning soul-radar being unnecessary for this backwater sphere) until things got way out of hand and a large party/orgy/drug binge turned many of its participants into weird oozes that still roam its halls. Its auto-party machinery still functions, up close its bright lights and thumping bass heavy music but to the peasants below its aurora borealis and out of season thunderstorms.

The Needle

The Needle is the tallest mountain close to White Willows. No one has ever made it to the top and many rumors exist about what is up there.

Crash Site EX-2-BP77

Deep in the Sleeping Ones is a crashed Voidship. Most of its sliver body is hidden by scree and snow but its damaged thumalogical reactors are beginning to corrupt the local wildlife (Think star-nosed mole but a bear). Strange high tech items can be found near the site.

ASE

Pretty much just the ASE from that module, just hidden in the Sleeping Ones.

Goblin Market

Deep below the Broken Hills is the Goblin Market, a filthy flee ridden cavern complex run by a group of goblin traders. Catering not just to goblins, but morlocks, sub-humans, ghouls, and other strange and disgusting creatures this can almost be thought of as an anti-metropolis or a negative White Willows.

Witches Coven

Hidden in the Wychwood is the Witches Coven. Dark rights and curses. 

Sleeping Place of the Feathered Swine

Totally as-is in the Sleeping Ones (hey, even the name fits!)

Fairy Animal Conclave

Fairy animals, highly intelligent animals that can morph into a human shape meet here every equinox to discuss the state of the forest. For years they have sought peaceful cooperation with the humans but encroachemnts threaten this peace.

Were-burg

 This small camp, little more than a collection of tents in a clearing is home to a small colony of lycanthropes escaping persecution from the civilized lands. Recently their population has surged and is forcing them to hunt closer and closer to human settlements. Jamesons Redoubt’s militia offers a reward of 2,000gp for the location of the ‘city’

Ghoul Castle

Its walls are bone, when the wind whips through it it sounds like screams. It awaits its long lost lord. Somewhere in the Sleeping Ones

Sky Islands

 Save but for a learned few, is the knowledge that many of the clouds about the surface are solid and not gas. These Sky Islands are almost a world onto their own with their own ecosystems and societies. They interact rarely with White Willows.

Sky Guardians

Large stone like creatures that fly under their own power. Sort of like shadows of the colossus. Grown over with vine and moss. Their insides are a dungeon. Many have artifacts inside.