The Shadebarrow's iron gate standing open in a grassy hillside, pale fog spilling out of it and running downhill

A Dungeons & Dragons Campaign · Year 1836

TAL'DOREI NIGHTS

Six heroes racing a cult to an Orcus-sealed barrow, with a demon prince already loose beyond the broken divine gate. Everything we've dug up is here.

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Threat Level: Critical Graz'zt walks the Prime Material · the party is inside the Shadebarrow with no way back out · six of seven keys were spent before they arrived.
6Heroes
11Level
28Sessions
1836In-Game Year

Last time, under the barrow

Session 79 — Into the Shadebarrow

A gnarled tree of grey stone fused into the floor of the Shadebarrow's first chamber, a blood-filled crystal hanging from one branch🔍 The stone tree

The ring fits. The crypt is wrong.

Ki pressed Buddleia Austan's signet into the iron gate and it opened onto an unlit stair. What waits below is not the crypt Camellia remembers — no sarcophagi, no corridors, just a round chamber built around a tree carved from stone, and a scrawled tally of seven keys with six already struck through. A crystal on one branch turned a wall into a one-way portal. Through it: a room of blood-drinking vines held by wights and wraiths, and a fight that is not over.

The signet ring works A tree of stone, fused to the floor Six of seven keys already spent Three Glyph Keys taken
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The world of Tal'Dorei

Map of Tal'Dorei

From Emon in the west to Ebonroot in the east. Open the full map to measure travel distances by clicking.

Map of Tal'Dorei 📏 Open the map — click to measure distances

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Combat stats, ability scores, saves, and full skill lists for all six characters.

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Characters, 65 NPCs, 29 locations, factions, quests, the pantheon, and the timeline.

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Know your enemy

Active Threats

Demon Prince

Graz'zt, Demon Prince of Indulgence

Crossed the divine gate. The ancestors are waking at Ebonroot, and the Abyssal Anchors crisis deepens.

Sealed Vault

The Shadebarrow

An Orcus-sealed vault of "pure malice" in Ebonroot. Blaine Kraverrogg and the Cult of Vecna mean to weaponize it against the Republic.

Conspiracy

The Forged Signature

Someone inside the Clasp is forging Fetch's signature on Myriad letterhead. A rival wants his spot — or wants the party distracted.

The heroes

The Party

Portrait of Anastasia RavenswoodAnastasia Ravenswood Portrait of Bohdi ShadowtwistBohdi Shadowtwist Portrait of Finnick Marigold MossglowFinnick Marigold Mossglow Portrait of Grai MalinGrai Malin Portrait of Imdra d'VadalisImdra d'Vadalis Portrait of Ki NightwhisperKi Nightwhisper

Who travels with them

Companions

Portrait of Thrack Dwarf · Emberhold Thrack Turned up at the party's door in Session 54 and never quite left. Knows the Yug'Voril slaver operations from the inside. Debt paid as of Session 66 — he rides with them now. Portrait of Zelthrax the Folded Promise Velum Dragon · Knowledge Keeper Zelthrax the Folded Promise A tiny dragon folded out of vellum and parchment, made by the elven wizard Arandor. Sealed inside a book on the fragility of knowledge until the party broke the seal. Portrait of Camellia Springshower Firbolg Druid · Circle of the Blighted Camellia Springshower Self-appointed guardian of the Shadebarrow region. A specter touched her inside the barrow years ago and the change has never stopped — she is not undead, whatever her eyes suggest. Met at the Thistle Farmstead in Session 78. Walked into the barrow with the party in Session 79 and did not recognize it.