Fountainhead

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This is the first story arc in the Legacy of Marak campaign.

• Campaign: Legacy of Marak

  • Previous Story: None
  • Next Story: Unknown
• Real Time: 2018 -
• Game Timeline: Summer 464 AH

1. The Slumber Years
2. The Hand of Days Gone
3. The Spirits of Yesteryear
4. The Enemy of my Enemy
5. To Forgive is Divine
6. The Past is never Dead
7. History is a Cyclic Poem
8. To Live Alone
9. Between Freedom and Happiness
10. A Thing Called Change
11. A Trusty Companion
12. Bound to War and Hate
13. A Great Man's Madness

Listed in order using the Spark of Fate. The Issues are listed in order (Legacy, Current, Impending). Higly Unstable Magic and Huge Influx of new arrivals were completely dealt with this book, while Lilliana runs a protection racket will start Book 2 as the Legacy Issue.

• Aspect: Wild Magic Surges
• Faces:

  • Pro: Circle of Marak Liches ancient conjurers seeking to control the portals
  • Con: Aegrin sacrificed much of his power to stabilize the power
• Track: Legacy → Removed

• Aspect: Clashing culture
• Faces:

  • Pro: Janos isolationist and separatist who runs a building crew
  • Con: Father Karl is a Fiery public socialist speaker - power to the masses
• Track: Current → Legacy → Removed

• Aspect: A piece of the Action
• Faces:

  • Pro: Fiella de Maria enjoys cowboy capitalism running rampant - dealmaker
  • Con: Seirian is a Charismatic fae female leader - community supporter
• Track: Impending → Current → Legacy

• Aspect: Dead Walk Among Us
• Faces:

  • Pro:
  • Con:
• Track: Future → Impending → Current

• Aspect:
• Faces:

  • Pro:
  • Con:
• Track: Future → Future → Impending

• Lady Anne Mowbry
• Hafwyn
• Keribrar
• Quilate
• Thorne

• Ollonni; steward of the Watchers' House
• Mr Canders; a dionysiac (Elf/Tiger) who seeks knowledge of Fountainhead
• Janos; runs the construction crews in Fountainhead
• Aegrin; elven hero who sacrificed his mind to stop
• Ragash; orc ale wife who brews the best red ale in Fountainhead
• X'toltn; Last of the Marak Lich Sorcerers. Fought against Aegrin and Techiuan
• Vitorii; proprietor of the Pestilence Pustule a House of Strange Repute
• Thaogut; a fae gnome and “owner” of The Chest. What you need - not what you want
• Father Karl; a socialist follower of Techiuan - Power to the People
• Duerte; High Priest of X'toltn; calls himself the Lord of Shadows

Listed in order of Appearance

• Holwen is the leader of Holwen's Boys, a gang in Fountainhead
• Pollet elder leader of the famers in Yellohood Forest
• Gabor leader of a carpenter crew who reports to Janos
• Rorrick; commands the defense of the bridge for Holwen's Boys
• Mardac fae lord of the Dark Elves
• Warden an Ash Hunter trapped in the Blackhouse
• Gorrick; deformed and injured goblin who runs the Rover Gang - a gang of kids
• Mardac; Fae King of the Dark Elves
• Vitorii; necromancer who runs the Pestilence Pustule - known body snatcher
• Karrin; undead spirit who leads them to the River of Souls
• X'letta; oldest spirit on the river who lives in a pond fed water by a mill
• Benevenuta; assistant to Father Karl with true lineage of The People

• Fountainhead; Ruined temple-city surrounded by strange portals
• Mockers' Grove; a forgotten grove of dionysiac creatures
• Watchers' House; a “moving” house that shields magicians from the Shadow Realms
• Yellohood Forest; once a dense forest now clear cut for farming
• The Sister’s Roses; brothel located in Fountainhead
• Geval ca; a deep cavern under which a frog-monster guards a sleeping jade warrior
• Caves of Chaos; Demiplane between the mortal plane and the fae lands
• Pestilence Pustule; a inn in the Temple District of Fountainhead catering to undead companionship
• Flumen Dei Animas; called the River of Souls where the dead spirits transition into the afterlife
• Blackhouse; a haunted house that is the base for an Ash Hunter
• Sword and Bones; a rough tavern with surprising good ale
• Ragash's Brewery; a brewhouse owned by Ragash and run by orcs - Finest Red Ale in the city
• Pestilence Pustule; a strange brothel catering to the undead needs of their patrons
• Veridian Vault; Crafting house owned by Keribrar in the Blackhouse District
• Red Temple of Techiuan; brown-red stone temple in Fountainhead
• Shadowdark; lair of Duerte where the presence of X'toltn can be felt