Stonetop NPC's / Locations

Key

• M: motivation
• N: notes
• P (character): personality
• P (location): purpose
• PTS: Paint the scene question
• SD: sensory details
• Th: themes
• UT: Unique trait

Stonetop

AA-UNSPECIFIED

Konrad (he/him) — Berkhard’s crew / second

• M: Loyal to Berkhard. Protect Stonetop.
• SD: Larger, bald, lost a few fingers to crinwin.
• P: Proud. Shit-stirrer.
• UT: Always carries shield from old army days.
• N: Manmarcher

Linos (they/them)

• M: Dream
• SD: Forest folk eyes,
• P: Clever, Impatient, Whimsical
• UT:

Martin

• N: who the fuck is this?

Skalag — Singer

• N: sings of crinwin slaying song (mirrored in glass cross)
  • Hillfolk and other towns gather to drive them off

Steffen (he/him) — Berkhard’s crew

• M:
• SD: Sharp-eyed
• P: Hesitant, Moody, Responsible
• UT:
• N: Manmarcher, Berkhard’s cousin

Teagan

Willem (he/him) — Berkhard’s crew

• M: Idolizes Berkhard
• SD: Big guy,
• P:
• UT:
• N: Manmarcher

Berkhard’s House

Afon — Berkhard’s kid

• M:
• SD:
• P:
• UT:

Meredith (she/her) — Berkhard’s wife, farmer

• M:
• SD:
• P:
• UT:
• From Marshedge

Rhianna — Berkhard’s kid

• M:
• SD:
• P:
• UT:

Brangwen House

Brangwen (she/her) — midwife’s assistant, farmer

• M: Truth — Heal Arcane
• SD: Graying hair, warm eyes,
• P: Clever, compulsive, openhearted
• UT:
• N: Morgana thinks she is a witch

Cistern

Delwin’s House

Delwin (he/him) — smith, Moragana’s lover

• M: keep affair secret
• SD: thin, well kept hair, early 30’s,
• P: cowardly, indecisive, hedonistic
• UT:
• N: “why did I get into this mess?”
• M:

Cerys (she/her) — cobbler, Delwin’s wife

• M: wants: leverage over Delwin, better station in life, a loving relationship
• P: Fanciful, Intense, Repressed
• SD:
• UT: legendary haggler

Eurig House / Glassworks

Tesni Eurig (Hoid)

Fletcher House

Braith ??? (she/her) — farmer/barkeep, Efan’s daughter

• M:
• SD:
• P: Charismatic, Imaginative, Vain
• UT: incredible storyteller

Tomas ??? (he/him) — publican, Ifan’s son in law

• M:
• SD:
• P: complains too much
• UT:

Grandkids

Garet’s Household

Garet (he/him) — trapper, sorta Efan’s apprentice

• M: to keep on keeping on, stay in town as much as possible
• SD:
• P:
• UT:
• N:
  • the youngest child, mother died in childbirth,
  • treated as “runt of the litter”
  • the last one anyone thinks of

Aled (he/him) — Garet’s brother, trapper, Berkhard’s crew

• M: to keep on keeping on, stay in town as much as possible
• SD:
• P:
• UT:

Garet’s Father

Garet’s Mother (dead)

Haul’s House

• Sheep & Chickens

Julius “Haul” Sura (he/him) — Cleric of Tor

• M: Desires recognition, attention. Spread the faith as much as possible.
• SD: luxurious black hair (gray streaks), stunningly handsome, toned muscles, a charming laugh, perfect smile
• P: Forceful, stubborn, vivacious, suave
• UT: Some sorta lightning magic. Tingles when you shake hands, etc.
• N:
  • Always gossiping, never admits to it.
  • Keeps sheep & chickens.

House of Stories

Nia (she/her) — Chronicler, Storyteller, Cleric of Aeritus

• M: Keep the chronicles and oral history of Stonetop
• SD:
• P:
• UT:
• N: Blind, apprentice scribe notes the new stories

Siana (she/her) — Chronicler’s apprentice

• M:
• SD: cryptic, stonewall
• P: Overprotective, tender-hearted
• UT:
• N: tends to god Pavillion

Maddox House / Tannery

Guto Maddox (he/him) — tanner, Morgana’s father

• M:
• SD:
• P: overbearing, closed-minded
• UT:

Madli Maddox (she/her) — tanner, Morgana’s mother

• M:
• SD:
• P: overbearing, closed-minded
• UT:

Meriom’s Household

Meriom (she/her, midwife)

• SD: Looks like: Molly Weasly
• P: No nonsense under pressure, snarky, gossip
• N:
  • Husband: Culhwich

Culhwich (he/him) — Berkhard’s crew, Meriom’s husband

• M:
• SD:
• P: Cynical, pedantic, dutiful
• UT:
• N: Stonetopper

Pavilion of the Gods

• Shrines to four gods

Preddy House

Luc Preddy (he/him) — farmer, friend of Maddox’s

• P: needy
• SD: middle aged,
• N: widowed, likes Morgana but knows she is a spitfire

BOB THE HORSE

Public House & Stables

Smithy

The Granary

The Stone

Watchtowers

Barrier Pass

Barrier Pass is blocked by a massive wall and gate, held by stoic, unfriendly folk who want little to do with strangers. They live on mountain goats and sheep and gods know what else, and brook no trespass. The town elders tell of their kind coming down every generation or two to trade some ancient wonder for crops or goats, but none alive remember such a visit.

Whitefang Mountains

To the north run the Whitefang Mountains, said to be peopled by savage giants. Little is known about what lies beyond. Throughout the long summers, thunderstorms roll up from the southeast and crash against the mountains. When they do, green and purple lights can be seen dancing around the crown of the peak known as Tor’s Fist.

The Great Woods

Cave Bear’s Den

Dryad’s Joy

Epyllion’s Warning

• SD:
  • Dense thicket
• Th:
  • ugliness, horror, disgust
  • illusion, glamour, pretense

Fungal Tunnels

Lost Wind Outpost

A Leashed Prayer: A rude kite of bound twigs and sackcloth, bearing the sigil of a half-forgotten deity, levitates in a steady breath of air, secured to the ground by a braided twine and peg. The ease and strain on the twisted string creates a curious plucked melody, but also seems to stress the steadfastness of the pin.

Star Stone

The Dead Bridge

A Macabre Bridge: A narrow bridge traverses the expanse of a fast-flowing stream. Instead of plain blocks, countless moss-riddled wooden gravestones make up the entirety of the dismal span. All but a few of the markers bear a name and a date— some are peculiarly new, while others have only partial inscriptions, as if charting the passage of hours and days.

The Heart Tree

• P:
  • Place of borrowing / lost / found items
  • A fae demesne / waystone
• SD:
  • Covered in thorns
  • Giant Hawthorn tree, four stories tall.
• N:
  • Flowers blooms in early summer
• Th:
  • illusion, glamour, pretense
  • beauty, wonder, awe

The Maw

The Red Grove

The Stream

• Th: water, crossing
• SD:
• UT: ghostly twins haunting it
• PTS:

Gordin’s Delve

Gordin’s Delve is a mining town in the Huffel Peaks. Folk make their way here when they’re on the run or when there’s nothing left back home. The Delve is named for the Maker-made passages that plunge under the mountains. There lies the Labyrinth, haunted by beastmen and worse. But mask-wearing Ustrina sometimes come from the depths to trade finely worked goods and the rare bit of orichalcum.

The Flats

Ancient Cisterns

The Roost

Crystal Springs

Drake Mounds

Pale Tunnels

Glass Caves

• N: Ancient magic testing facility. Filled with “glass”.
• Conn: Underground Lake

Gorfan Watchtower

• P:
• SD: wildflowers, towering, old wood, tattered flags, overgrown grasses
• UT: The legend of Gorfan, inscribed on metal plates. An ancient tale. They say he was a giant, and had over 500 children.

Ruined Tower

Titan Bones

About two days’ hike from Stonetop is Titan Bones, a lone hill amidst the Flats. A huge fossilized skeleton is visible on one side of the hill. When Stonetop or the Hillfolk need to signal each other, they light a huge bonfire atop the hill.

Tor’s Way

• SD: Four metal rods impaling a giant Valko skeleton, shooting into the ground, 30ft tall, 1ft wide. They attract the lightning that is common in the area.

Weeping Grasses

• N:
  • Forlorn tribute to a doomed plant

The Steplands

TABLES

Discoveries

1. A change of terrain
2. Insight into a danger/threat (numbers, location, behaviors, strengths, weaknesses, etc)
3. Useful or valuable flora.
4. POI
5. Encounter - Hillfolk
6. Encounter - Other

Encounters (Hillfolk)

1. Pair of trio of riders. Not immediately hostile.
2. Herd of goats or sheet, tended by teen(s) and hound(s)
3. Signs of their passing / encampment / borders
4. Foragers, not far from camp
5. A whole band, on the move
6. A meeting between two or more bands

Encounters (Other)

1. Deadly beast, not actively hostile, but easily provoked.
   1. Brawbedr (p.145)
   2. Cave bears (p.65)
   3. Thunder Drake (p.31)
2. Potential game. Big and dangerous if provoked.
   1. Boars (p.64)
   2. Aurochs (p.27)
3. —
4. Game. Mostly harmless, but prone to bolt.
   1. Deer
   2. Fowl
   3. Rabbits
5. —
6. Spirit of the wild. Curious or indifferent. (p.75,126)

Hazards

POI

1. Corrupted by the Things Below.
2. Haunted by death and the undying.
3. Site or artifact or the barrow-builders.
4. Hillfolk encampment or sacred place, occupied or not.
5. Place sacred to spirits of the wild.
6. Ruin or artifact of the Stone Lords.

Terrain

1. Creek, gulley, stream, river
2. Stream disappearing into cave, sinkhole, or fractured bedrock
3. Sinkhole, crevasse, gorge
4. Barren patch — sand, scree, rocks
5. Copse of pines, gnarled shrubs
6. Gentle slope, meadow
7. —
8. Steep slope, treacherous, unstable
9. —
10. Sheer rock face, bluff, rocky outcrop
11. Cave (p.148)
12. —

Weather

Locations

Blackwater Lake

• P: The remains of the Stone Lord city Dulenn.
• SD: A sinkhole, filled in by pitch black water. Ruins along the outskirts.
• N: Infested with manifestations of the Things Below

Neossji Passage

• P: {stone lords, authority/order/hierarchy/tradition}
• SD:
  • Winding road coming down from hills. Lots of switchbacks.
  • Hills full of caves.
  • Evenly spaced cairns formed from perfectly spherical stones. Leading to…
  • A stretch of shining black flagstones, showing reflections of people long ago. Those who open their minds see a parade of memories, clear as day.
• N:
  • Nobody travels between the memorial road
  • Images show up if you go close
    • Closer: hear voices
    • Closest: images of your past
    • Touch: ???

The Burning Temple

• O: constructed temple, vile estate
• SD: white stone temple, symbols of helior
• N:
• Encounter: Spirit of the Wild
  • Fire Spirits
    • Group, spirit, needy, intense, aggressive
    • HP: 19
    • Armor: 2 (0 vs water), immune to fire
    • Damage: flames (d10+1, close, area, 2 piercing, messy)
    • Instinct: to consume
    • Notes: Cackles gleefully; fears water, smothering; always hungry.

The Fae House — Gniewomir (knee-vo-rim)

• N: like house in Spinning Silver

The Glass Cross

• P: ???
• SD:
  • Cross-shaped ravine, 250ft deep through hills, 30ft wide. Maker-glass walls layered over red rock.
  • Oriented true to the compass. Perfectly orthogonal. Glass ceilings.
  • Wind whips through perforations in the glass, causing them to sing melodies.
  • Echoing / reverb / from everywhere.
• N:

The Ribbon Colossus

• P:
• SD:
  • Approaching: down into the desert valley. Spires of rock. Cacti, scrub, and sand. Echoes of celebration & drums.
  • Colossus of black stone, like wildflower station. Draped in a hundred thousand ribbons of all colors. Changing to a mix of warm tones in the sunset, then cool tones after the sun falls.
  • Hillfolk below the colossus celebrating.
• N:
  • The central ring: Dancers, drum players,
  • The big yurt: filled with merriment,
  • The outlying tents and lean to’s: small groups
  • Very little metal (taboo to mine ore)
  • ASK WHAT IS THERE
  • Names: Jenfir, Henri, Merrn, Sabi, Gwilm
  • Herd of animals
  • Bands attending: Moon Tree Watchers, Red Crows, Leaf & Shield

The Tree of Woe

• P: Possessed by the amalgamation of spirits who died there, impaled on the thorns. It desires more blood and life force. Being impaled injects you with a drug (ecstasic feeling).
• SD: A gnarled tree in the middle of a waste with spikes driven into it. Nothing grows around it. Skeletons scattered around.

Wildflower Station / Bleuujenndor

• P: An ancient waystation for travelers. An occasional meeting point for Hillfolk.
• SD:
  • Gentle slope upward (n->s).
  • Thin scrub trees. Covered in yellow & violet wildflowers.
  • A mostly-buried complex. Huge immovable blocks.
  • Two massive statues (tourmaline, black stone, glassy, polished) facing each other, clasping hands in a ritual stance. 10 stories high.
• N:
  • A whole band of Hillfolk, leaving soon.

Characters

Cirl (she/her) the baker:

• Sells Tesni’s almond pastries

Gwenl (she/her) - Crone, Southsayer

Merrn (she/they) — Leader, Moon Tree Watchers

• M:
• SD: sketchy as fuck
• UT:

Stren (he/him) - Hunter

Marshedge (p.104)

Tables

Locations

Dropoff

Edgemarket

High Town

• Ferrier Manor

• Hawtrey Manor

• Tricklebank Manor

• Eldershaw Manor

Low Town

Miller’s Hill

• N:

• Nerys (she/her) — Marshedge Sorceress

  

  • M: Cultivate magical artifacts and power, so she can ward off the Willow Witches
  • P: Clever, Melancholy, Obnoxious
  • SD: Ostentatious
  • UT:

• Heddwyn (they/them) — Nerys’s Apprentice

  

  • M: Learn Nerys’ secrets so they can spark a rebellion of farmers (see farmer’s guild)
  • P: Deceitful, Friendly, Respectful
  • SD: Intrusive,
  • UT:

The Bridge

The Fields

The Mire

The Palisade

Characters

Brennan (he/him) — Marshal, Ex-bandit

The Guard

Factions

Council (4 + 1)

• One rep from each old house
• Brennan has no vote, but pressures

Farmers / Laborers (500)

Harvest Cult

Witch Hunters

Fen-walkers (20)

Guilds (125)

• Weavers

• Potters

• Glassblowers

• Herbalists

Lesser Trades (40)

• Smiths

• Cobblers

• Bakers

• Carpenters

• Thatchers

• Miller

Merchants (40)

Old Families (30 + 40 servants)

• Ferrier

• Hawtrey

• Tricklebank

• Eldershaw

The Guard (40)

Thieves Guild (20-40)

• Hang out near Edgemarket

Labyrinth of Stone

Locations

Overall

• Themes:
  • giant sized
  • Songs/resonance/vibrations/echoes: to empower, shape, transform, or destroy
• Structure: Grandiose buildings of impossible construction
• Purpose: Esoteric (laboratory, experiment, power source, etc)
• Architectural Elements: Crystals/makerglass catching light/wind, humming/glowing, chiming/gonging
• Condition: Buried, overgrown, or hidden, but mostly intact

Labyrinth

• P: [servant dwellings]
• SD: winding
• UT:
• Exits:
  1. Up, to high town basements (town hall, four families)
  2. Up, to The Wise Leaf tavern
  3. Up, to the Low Town well
  4. Down, to the facility entrance

The Bridge / Hungry Gate

• P: [infrastructure, core facility entrance]
• SD:
  • huge open ravine, vast pit below
  • crystal grown around a stone lattice forming the bridge
• UT:

Golem Test Area

• P:
• SD:
• UT:

The Crystal Arboretum

• P:
• SD:
• UT:

Maker Seed Library

• P:
• SD:
• UT:

Characters

Harvest Cultists

Witch Hunters / Fen Walkers

Saennaen — Stone Lord Spirit (p.150)

• Instincts
  • Retreat to the golem
• Info
  • Theme: Water/streams/ponds/lakes CORRUPTED by Things Below

Stone Lord Construct

• Stats
  • HP: 9/28 — Armor: 3 (stone)
  • Damage:
    • Scythe claws / fists d10+3 (hand, close, grabby, messy, forceful, 3prc)
    • Bite: d10+3 (close, grabby, messy, forceful, 3prc)
    • Tail: d10+3 (reach, messy, forceful, 2prc)
    • Body slam: 2d6+3 (close, telegraph, charge-up, messy, forceful, ignores armor)
  • Instinct
    • Emit an ominous hum, a warning as it powers up
    • Serve the operator
    • Move with shocking, unexpected speed (but lose 1d4 HP)
    • Heat up and emit a scalding fog too dense to see though (but lose 1d4 HP)
    • Attack threats that it hears.
  • Summary:
    • Humanoid. Head with crack in it. No eyes.
• Info
  • Purpose
    • Harvesting/farming
    • Experimentation/curiosity/practice
  • Ability
    • Energy/elemental manipulation
    • Prowess/mobility/speed
  • Size: huge (20ft tall)
  • Power: Self-powered / indefinite charge
    • Biofuel ungulate-bacterial mech
    • Alternative chemical metabolism
  • Sapience: Puppet — requires active control by outside intellect
  • Condition:
    • Trapped/pinned/buried
    • Power source failing
  • Form:
    • Beast + mineral
    • Humanoid, Tuataran features, crystals
    • Blind / no eyes / echolocation

Wanderers

The Fat Cats

Totally not Yennefer / Dandelion / Geralt

Felix Lindberg (xe/xir) — Trader

• M:
• SD:
• P: Determined, Logical, Provocative
• UT:

Torger Nykvist (he/him) — Bodyguard, Monster slayer

• M:
• SD:
• P: Flexible, Loyal, Methodical
• UT:

Vivian Eliassen (they/them) — Bodyguard, Magician

• M:
• SD:
• P: Cantankerous, Superstitious, Daring
• UT: