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bronbog
rulers of the gorge. They are lead by a five hundred-year-
old druid named Burning Oak, and while his awesome
magic keeps the other tribes at bay, his frailty makes him
Village • Population: 740
vulnerable to attack—and the other tribes know it.
(64% Human, 18% Half-Elf, 9% Halfling, 9% Other)
tinySoot If there ever was a civilization that called the Dreamseep
home, Bronbog is all that remains of it. Its buildings are
Any kobold will tell you that their people are small,
made from planks of water-logged bogwood, the only
but fierce! Every ten years brings a new generation of
sign of its previous greatness being the ring of stone pil-
kobolds, and while the Tinysoot tribe’s warriors are not
lars that once supported the Temple of the Dawnfather.
the mightiest, their numbers have allowed them to over-
Even though the temple to their patron god has crumbled,
whelm even the greatest of the Flame Scions’ champions.
the people of Bronbog keep the faith; their belief in the
The Tinysoots’ leader, a zealous young warqueen named
sun god’s afterlife is their greatest comfort against their
Yabber Tinysoot XIV, wears around her neck the key to
meager lives. Yet for all the gloom that surrounds the
Everflame Crevasse, Thordak’s deepest treasure vault.
Dreamseep Marshlands, the Bronboggi keep a sunny dis-
position. There’s a saying in the village that goes: “If you
black Snow
don’t feel the storm, you can’t know there ain’t sun.”
When Thordak’s ally, Umbrasyl, was slain atop Gat-
The only reason anyone north of the Stormcrest Moun-
shadow, his caustic blood seeped into the corpses of a
tains knows of Bronbog is because of the queenscap, a
dozen goliath scouts from the Herd of Storms. The black
rare swamp fungus that serves as a reagent in creating
dragons’ magic, combined with the fell power of Gat-
potent potions of superior healing. It’s been harvested almost
shadow itself, transformed the goliaths into a squadron of to extinction in the more accessible K’Tawl Swamp, and
undead black dragonborn. Skeletal wings sprouted from Tal’Dorei’s alchemists pay good money for a shipment.
their backs, and the Black Snow tribe flew instinctively to
the Ashen Gorge, drawn to the Ruby of Oblivion, a pitch- bronbog adventures
black ruby of immense unholy power—now stored in the
morning glory
Obsidian Geode, a treasure vault guarded by a legion of
golems and elementals. This tribe of hateful revenants is For mid-level characters: On a queenscap-gathering expe-
small, but each of their kind wields the strength of twenty dition to Bronbog, the PCs find that the mushrooms have
lesser warriors. been crushed by an unusual plant. As they spend time
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