Friends & Foes: The Stargazer

The man known as Corlan Stargazer always tends to stick out in a crowd. In the dead of summer when the temperatures have everyone else stripped down to their skivvies he can be found wearing a thick parka. More strangely, everywhere he goes, he carries a lit lantern, day or night.
Years ago, while traveling through [...]

Love at First Sight

While cleaning out his attic, a clerk named Arnett Quimby finds a large mirror. He decides to donate it to the city hall, placing it in the reception area. What he doesn’t know is that the mirror is home to a fae trickster which feeds on jealousy and love. It randomly chooses people who look [...]

Friends & Foes: Muses

Muses are unusual creatures, spirits which live symbiotically with others. Everyone is born with many muses, perhaps an unlimited number of muses, but as you age and grow and your tastes and skills develop, most of them disappear. The ones which are left, however, only become stronger and finer. Most people, in their adult lives, [...]

After all, it’s a small world…

Eventually, the PCs are likely to run into someone who recognizes the woman they rescued as Merribeth Golde, daughter of a local baron named Friedie Golde. Alternatively, they might run into her double in town.
Merribeth has become the victim of a particularly malevolent fae called a “toar kil’narrin,” or a duplicant. The toar kil’narrins feed [...]

Races with Flavor: The Draead

The Draead (singular draea, pronounced DRAY-add and DRAY-uh) are a race of half-fae treefolk. Draead are uniquely long-lived, making even the elves seem young in comparison; in fact, it is not entirely certain whether a draea actually can die of old age. Some scholars believe that the eldest draead were around at the beginning of [...]

Races with Flavor: The Twice-Born

There is a strange affliction in some cities… Adolescent boys, right around the age of puberty, suddenly and without warning simply run away. No explanation, no rhyme nor reason. One night they just leave their house and are never seen again. Rich children and poor children alike seem equally, and randomly, afflicted. Only a few [...]

Races with Flavor: The Lieperkin

The Lieperkin (singular and plural) are a very short race of humanoid fae which typically dwell in complicated tunnel structures located underground, but near the surface. They are paranoid and obsessed with wealth, always carrying around pots filled with gold coins to show off how much money they have.
Although they usually need not fear theft [...]

Peculiar Places: The Greenmarket

It is found where it is needed and disappears with the breeze. -Anbar Ibn Jamal Ibn Hatim
The Greenmarket is a place of succor and wonders, appearing to weary travelers to give them much-needed respite and offer them fantastic goods. Those wandering in the wilderness first hear the sounds of music and merrymaking, and following them [...]