Fane of the Heresiarch (SND-02) (d20)
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A fourthcore dungeon adventure for four to six 6th-level characters.
None know from where the Heresiarch first came¸ but all remember the night that it did.
It rode down from the bleeding stars on a great serpent¸ hurling bolts of obsidian lightning that shattered the monuments and capitols of every nation. Its infernal army swept aside the defenses of the mortal empires in a single hour¸ decimating legions once thought to be the invincible fist of humanity's god-kings.
Faceless priests - each bearing the symbol of the trident - drifted through the fallen cities and scorched villages on a frigid wind¸ and when they rose to greet the huddled men and women ringed by their festering¸ bloated dead¸ they spoke a single¸ simple offer: worship the Heresiarch or die.
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Thousands of crusaders fell tonight so that you might be given this chance.
In a last stand that¸ for the first time¸ united all of the empires of humanity as brothers and sisters¸ a way was cleared into an infernal stronghold said to contain a gate to the Heresiarch's fane.
All is silent save for the clangor of distant battle. Surrounded by grim-faced knights and teary-eyed peasants - their hands clasped in desperate hope - you step through the glowing¸ churning doorway¸ knowing there will be no help and likely no return.