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austere towers of Yug’Voril. The clean lines and beautiful
when the moon is high, and the ruins of ancient Drassig facade of the city belies its current, abominable denizens.
war camps seem to still draw shadow demons to patrol Thousands of years old, the builders and previous den-
these lands, still bound by the contract between Trist izens have long vanished, leaving the unspoiled ruins to
Drassig and the Demon Prince of Indulgence. become home to a host of psychic, mind-eating creatures
from beyond the stars. The tyrannical society of the
umbra hills adventures Flayers flourishes here, far from their cosmic pursuers
and giving them the freedom to build a legion of thralls,
ShadowS of the paSt
mind-slaves whose delicious brains the Flayers allow to
For low-level characters: A famous gnome archaeologist remain in their bodies… until those bodies fall apart
named Wilmet Wizcrack, who was staying in the same inn from toil.
as the PCs, died last night. Everyone is buzzing with rumors Yug’Voril and its inhabitants fell recently under the
by breakfastime. Wizcrack’s body shows no signs of physical control of the extraplanar aberration called K’Varn, before
attack, but his skin is drawn tight to his bones and his mus- he was slain by Vox Machina. Now that the Flayers have
cles are atrophied. Investigating his room reveals no sign of been freed from K’Varn’s tyranny, they have reclaimed
any assailant, but it does turn up many relics, including a Yug’Voril as their own and have continued work on their
very shiny +1 longsword with the inscription “Trist Drassig” strange and terrible plots.
on the blade. One day after his death, Wizcrack turns into
yug’voril adventures
a shadow. One week after carrying the blade, its wielder is
attacked by 1d4 shadows every midnight.
a mind iS a terrible thing to waSte
yug’voril For high-level characters: Four of the foremost minds at
Emon’s Alabaster Lyceum have disappeared without a
trace. All vanished on the same night, and there have been
Where the dwarves of Kraghammer whisper fearful words no confirmed sightings since. Investigations have been
of the duergar, so too do the duergar whisper of Yug’Voril. underway for several months, and some dwarves of Kra-
ghammer have recently reported seeing four figures that
Beyond the ash-dwarves’ fiery kingdom, ever deeper into
the heart of Exandria, there is a miles-wide grotto coated could be the missing scholars entering the lower passages
of the Keenstone Mine under cover of night. Something
in glowing crystal. A lake fills the grotto, its surface so
smooth and placid it seems like a jade mirror, perfectly has mentally dominated these scholars, and the Flayers of
Yug’Voril hunger for a specific morsel of powerful knowl-
reflecting the light of the crystals around it. In the middle
of the lake is an island, atop which looms the grand, edge within their brilliant minds.

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