1011 Brydging Ring
HexDolmenwood Campaign Book · p.306
Open source p.306Wild, pathless woods choked with brambles and knee-height, blue-flowered thistles.
Referenced in Winter's Daughter
Wild, pathless woods choked with brambles and knee-height, blue-flowered thistles.
- Terrain: Tangled forest (3), High Wold
- Lost/encounters: 2-in
- Foraging: Successful foraging yields portions of Hogscap (DPB) or Prancing Mandrake (p430), in addition to the normal results.
Standing Stones
300 yards from the southern edge of this hex, through an area overgrown with brambles, stands a ring of tall stones, clad with white-leafed ivy.
Human remains: At the centre of the ring is a mound of human remains—primarily bones, but possibly a fresher corpse as well, rended limb from limb. No clothing or equipment is to be found.
Examining the stones: Reveals weatherworn runes beneath the ivy. They are in a language lost to the utmost antiquity. If deciphered, the runes reveal litanies of praise to nameless entities, detailing awful, gruesome rituals.
Cursed place: Locals know this place as Brydging Ring and speak of it as a place accursed and bewitched.
Antler wraiths: The remains are those of captives regularly sacrificed here by a group of 7 antler wraiths (DMB).
The Wraiths’ Hoard
Some way to the east of the standing stones, in a shadowed glade, is an ominous boulder, under which lie buried the clothing and possessions of the victims of the 7 antler wraiths that haunt the stones. Digging under the boulder summons the wraiths within 1 Turn.
Coins: 4,980cp, 1,023sp, 993gp.
Jewellery: A silver ring engraved with a wyrm (30gp); a silver pendant shaped like a mermaid, with pearls for breasts (1,400gp); a platinum locket with a portrait of Lord Malbleat (400gp).
A belt of shining fish skin: A Belt of Blending (p406).
The Nymph Pool (Hidden)
A small pool of placid, pink-tinged water, hidden in a bramble-choked dell.
In spring and summer: Twelve nymph statues stand in the water at the pool’s edge, depicted joyously splashing on another. Bathing in the pool cures a magical affliction (e.g. a curse, Ability Score loss, energy drain).
In autumn and winter: Twelve nymph statues stand in the trees around the pool, depicted gazing mournfully at the ground, their eyes pointedly averted from the pool. Bathing in the pool permanently halves a random Ability Score.
Limit of effects: Each character can only be affected by the pool’s magic once per season.