The Nameless Temple

WHAT IS THIS? WHERE IS IT?
The Nameless Temple is three locations in one, Place this temple wherever you need it. It could be a
each with a different history and purpose. The random jungle encounter, or on a different island. With a
entire temple is buried under years of sediment few modifications you can split it into 3 separate locations.
and jungle vegetation.
D6 PLOT HOOKS
HISTORY
1. Catherwood (see opposite) visits the Green Kraken
This history can used as backstory, rumors, library tavern nightly. His wife left a journal that points to a
discoveries, explorer's journal entries, and as the temple she believed was somewhere on this island.
subject of glyphs, murals, and pictograms carved in the He has been searching for it for the past 3 weeks, and
temple's walls.
shares discoveries with anyone who helps him find the
• Centuries ago, an ancient group of Mesoan
location. He has clues where to start looking, but can't
settlers discovered an underground lake with
make much sense of the strange glyphs in the journal.
unexplainable healing powers.
2. One of the PCs has a dream or vision of the Omega
• Upon it they built a sanctum, carved from the rock,
Stone. It calls to them every time they sleep, and each
to honor the site's divinity. Tribes from all around
day they awake knowing what direction to head to find
would bring their weak & wounded to visit the
the entrance to the temple.
healing waters of the cave.
• The temple's renown grew. It was conquered by one 3. Father Wallace (pg. 133) has seen a large group
tribe after another, until a shaman summoned a (20-30) of hooded figures that arrive late at night in
nameless creature from the depths of the sea to a small fishing boat and head into the jungle. They
help protect the temple. All rejoiced. return each morning with less people than they arrived
• The monster's hunger swelled. The tribe paid
with and depart before sunrise. Following them leads
tribute in riches and human blood, but it was not to the entrance on the top level, but the cultists
enough. It consumed all. disappear into a green portal.
• They lured it to the lake, and for a time, they
4. Tela Fafane (pg. 133) knows about Xoth via
satiated it with human sacrifice. Eventually, they
divination magic. She pays 1,000s to anyone who can
sealed it into the cave behind a large stone slab
capture it for her studies.
called The Omega Stone.
• A shrine was constructed above the sanctum as a 5. Pirates trade stories about ancient temples found all
reminder to the dangers they had unleashed, and to over the Dark Caribbean. One man even claims there is
keep intruders out. one on this island, and that it's "full of treasure like the
• Mysteriously, the Mesoans vanished from the Dark rest of them." The last group that went looking for it a
Caribbean all together, and the Nameless One was few weeks ago never came back.
forgotten as it slumbered deep in the cave.
6. Parties looking for the governor's daughter or exploring
• Centuries later, scribes from the cult known as The
the jungle might stumble across the entrance, fall into
Wretched discovered the temple. Now they study
the opening under the tree, or swim deep enough into
its lore and make sacrifices in hopes of waking, and
the cenote found at Carcass Beach (pg. 142).
commanding, the Nameless One below.