I made a short document for my party summarising some key features of Hyperborea, its people and religions - as well as providing some clear adventuring opportunities. The original document is in Hungarian, but I thought the adventure hook part might interest others. Note that the party is currently located around the Zangerios Islands.
* Alus Mercury: Once this island housed a fantastic city of the Hyperboreans. When the locals abandoned Xathoqque in favour of Hermes and built a grand temple dedicated to the foreign god, the vulcan erupted, covering the city in hot ash and burning lava. According to legend, great treasures lie among the ruins - and deadly dangers.
* Dagon Bay: The area is mostly populated by Yakuts and Lapps who have strange deformities. Some say that beneath the small fishing villages that dot the coast, the settlements of the fish-men lie, and even the legendary R'lyeh, where Kthulhu sleeps.
* Barrowmaze: On one of the islands in the Dagon Bay there is a strange swamp, in which dozens of burial mounds stand firmly and silently. People claim that some of them are connected underground and that their tunnels form a larger complex where treasures are as abundant as the dead.
* Larchmere Yys: Pilgrims devoted to Apollo live here, only wishing peace and freedom. Unfortunately, their Dagonite neighbours are becoming fiercer and fiercer by the day.
* The sick noble: Kentar Ogborn, a member of a powerful noble family in Port Zangerios, is said to be very ill; he hasn't left his mansion for weeks.
* Service for the Alchemist: Vulnar Medosaccos, an alchemist in Port Zangerios, is reported to be interested in (which means willing to pay for) exotic materials.
* The kidnapped girl: The large village Raymill stands on one of the many islands in Zangerios. Many villagers are reported to be missing; the locals were able to track the kidnappers to a cave entrance leading to the depths below - but were too afraid to go further.
* The Amazon princess: They say that one of the new girls in the harem of Arkadios Glaukos, a nobleman in Port Zangerios, is in fact an Amazon princess.
* Temple of the Iron God: Two months ago strange lightnings were observed on a small island in the area. The locals claim the Iron God punished his own monks for their greed - which means there must be treasure around there somewhere.
* Temple of the Sun and the Moon: On a small island not far from Alus Mercury there is a temple, housing a powerful oracle, who is capable of answering any question - for the right price.
* House of a Thousand Pleasures: A successful brothel in Port Zangerios - but their success bothers many in the local underworld who do not directly benefit - people who are more than willing to act.
* Pirate treasure: Captain Redbeard Borvik's treasure is still out there to be found, they say. Rumour says that a coded map has surfaced recently, and that some people have already been looking for it: a group of Viking raiders, an Ixian and his henchmen, and Gorozal Druun, an excentric Hyperborean noble.
Last edited by Ynas Midgard (9/28/2014 6:12 pm)
