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War of the Burning Sky

The Indomitable Fire Forest of Innenotdar

An Adventure for 3rd-Level Characters

By Jacob Driscoll

Editing and

Additional

Material by Ryan Nock

Cover Art by John McSweeney

Interior Art by Rick Hershey

J. L. Jones

Leo Lingas

Juan Navarro

Claudio Pozas

Todd Schumacher

Joseph Mallord

William Turner

Cartography by Sean Macdonald

Layout by Eric Life-Putnam

Playtested by Ted Brzinski

Austin Cooper III

Neil D’Cruze

Michael Gallogly

Tom Jones

Rob Parks

Judson Stowe

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Indomitability – Illustration by John McSweeney

Table of Contents

Introduction ...............................................................

When We Last Left Our Heroes… .......................................

Adapting the Adventure ....................................

e History of the Fire Forest .................................................

Adventure Overview................................................................

Designer Notes: Effects of Indomitability

Replacing Characters...............................................................

Interparty Dynamics ...............................................................

Crystin’s Premonitions........................................

Act One: The Elfroad.................................................

Out of the Frying Pan..............................................................

Ending Suﬀ ering (EL ½) ................................................

An Unnatural Hunt (EL or ) ....................................

Premonition .............................................................

Indomitable Fire Dire Bat ..............................................

Dangerous Crossing (EL )............................................

Devil Looking Over Your Shoulder (EL ) ................

The Burning Sky ...................................................

Infernal Harrier (EL ) .................................................

Kazyk, Bearded Devil ...................................................

Trial by Fire (EL )........................................................

Shatterspell ..........................................................

Premonition ...........................................................

Indomitability’s Oﬀ er .............................................................

Adventure Shuffle ..............................................

Act Two: Rivers Flow to the Deep .......................

Defeated In No Battles ..........................................................

Fort Entrance (EL ).....................................................

e Dream Seeds (EL ") ..............................................

Premonition ...........................................................

Medium Dream Elemental...........................................

Exploring the Village .............................................................

Searching the Ruins (EL +) .......................................

e Shrine of Anyariel (EL )......................................

Under the Shrine (EL ) ............................................

Staying at the Village.............................................................

Beyond the Village (EL ) ..........................................

Exploring the White River....................................................

Going Against the Flow (EL )....................................

Premonition ...........................................................

Fiery Rapids (EL )......................................................."

e Mouth of the White River (EL )........................"

What if They Escape?..........................................."

Getting the Hell Out of Here (EL )..........................

Premonition ...........................................................

Kazyk’s Oﬀ er (EL ) .....................................................

e Trouble with Tiljann (EL ) .................................

Tiljann, Bearer of the Song...........................................

Seela Rebels....................................................................

Act Three: Out of the Fire.....................................

Seela Village ...........................................................................

Papuvin, Songleader ......................................................

Two Paths ...............................................................................

Gathering Information.................................................."

The Seela Villagers............................................."

Deceptive Alliance (Vuhl’s Path) .................................

Premonition ...........................................................

e Legend of Anyariel (Tiljann’s Path) .....................

Shrine of Love (Both Paths) (EL ") ............................

Dryad Burning Bright (Both Paths) (EL " or ) .......

Saving the First Tree ........................................."

Silencing the Song (Vuhl’s Path) (EL varies) ............."

Consequences (Vuhl’s Path) (EL ) ............................"

Tragedy ..........................................................................."

Lake Diving (Tiljann’s Path) (EL ) ............................"

How Trillith Work............................................."

Rampage (Tiljann’s Path) (EL ).................................""

Indomitability ................................................................""

Vuhl, Deception’s Guise ................................................"

Indomitability’s Boon........................................."

Deceptions’s Boon................................................"

Conclusion .................................................................

Premonition ..........................................................."

Appendix One – The Fire Forest............................

Forest Fire Conditions ...........................................................

Terrain Hazards ....................................................................

Weakly Enhanced Fire Magic ........................."

Indomitable Fire Template ....................................................

Appendix Two – Seela and the Song of Forms ...

Seela ........................................................................................

Seela Paragon Racial Class ...................................................

New Bardic Music – Song of Forms ....................................

Appendix Three – New Magic .................................

New Lesser Artifact...............................................................

New Spell................................................................................

Appendix Four – Character Stats ........................

Allies & Potential Allies ........................................................

Act One Enemies & Antagonists..........................................

Act Two Enemies & Antagonists..........................................

Act ree Enemies & Antagonists .......................................

Open Game License Version .a ...........................

e Indomitable Fire Forest of Innenotdar

I NTRODUCTION

is is the second adventure in the War of the

Burning Sky campaign saga. e heroes have already

faced a military assault, treacherous bounty hunters,

enemy spies who hide in the light, and the ﬁ erce claws

of the Ragesian inquisitors. In this next part of their

adventure they will confront various inhabitants of

a cursed ﬁ re forest, including the fey creatures tied

to its fate and the dreamborn monster that causes it

to endlessly burn.

In later adventures the heroes will have a chance

to make alliances and deceive enemies, dealing with

complex political and diplomatic situations that will

aﬀ ect the fate of the world. is adventure gives

them a taste of that in microcosm. If they do not

carefully consider their actions, they might survive,

but could still spell an early doom for their cause. Yet,

if they do well they can gain information that will

prove invaluable when a hitherto unknown enemy

rises up from the darkness of the great below.

A DAPTING THE A DVENTURE

If you’re not using The Indomitable Fire

Forest of Innenotdar as part of the campaign

saga, you can still use it as a stand-alone

adventure, simply transplanting the ﬁ re forest

wherever you want.

The PCs could be ﬂ eeing through the forest

to shake pursuit or simply trying to reach

something on the other side. Alternately, they

might seek the treasure of the Innenotdar

elves, have been hired to retrieve a particular

item from the blaze, or be pursuing a villain.

The party will need to have access to stand

the heat (detailed in Appendix Three, as well

as the Player’s Guide ), without which the heat

of the ﬁ res make an adventure nearly, if not

altogether, impossible. You might have the

party come across a cache of potions of stand

the heat , lost by other travelers who were cut

down before they could enter the forest, or the

party’s employer might provide the necessary

magic. Higher level parties could simply cast

stand the heat themselves.

If you change the history of how Innenotdar

caught ﬁ re, you may need to revise the Song

of Forms. If you don’t plan on using the trillith

much beyond this adventure, you may want

to make Vuhl a normal seela, rather than a

deceptive trillith. Kazyk, the bearded devil who

pursues the party, could have been summoned

by any of the party’s enemies with access to

lesser planar ally or lesser planar binding , or

could have even followed them from previous

scufﬂ es with other devils. In absence of this,

Kazyk could simply be in the forest, looking for

a way to destroy it and the fey in it when he

comes across the party.

When We Last Left Our Heroes…

e following information details only the

background of this adventure. If you are running

it as part of the campaign saga, you will ﬁ nd more

information in the Campaign Guide .

e heroes have escaped from the city of Gate

Pass with vital military intelligence as the Ragesian

army’s assault came down upon it, and have set oﬀ

toward the town of Seaquen and the mage school of

Lyceum. e party and any NPCs they are escorting

(most likely the sea-cleric Torrent, the elderly wizard

Haddin Ja-Laﬀ a, and his seer daughter Crystin – all

of whose stats are presented in Appendix Four) have

come to the edge of the Fire Forest of Innenotdar.

Forty years ago, Innenotdar was home to an

elvish people who wanted to remain neutral in the

conﬂ ict between Ragesia and Shahalesti. One day

refugees began to ﬂ ee from the forest, claiming it had

been put to the torch, though no one could agree on

who had been responsible or why. While the refugees

settled into a walled ghetto in Gate Pass, they were

shocked to learn that the ﬁ res that had driven them

from their homeland were not dying. For forty years,

Innenotdar has burned relentlessly.

e heroes have chosen to brave this dangerous

pass because it is too hazardous for Ragesians to

pursue them, and because, whereas it would take

weeks to travel through the snowed-in mountain

passes, with the proper magic (potions of stand the

heat , of which they possess many), they should be

e Indomitable Fire Forest of Innenotdar Introduction

able to cross the ﬁ re forest in less than two days,

taking the old Elfroad from the Otdar mountains to

the northern border of Dassen, beyond the reach of

the Ragesian army.

An entity that calls itself Indomitability, the

ﬁ rst of several dream monsters known as the trillith

which the party will encounter throughout the

campaign saga, is the reason Innenotdar has burned

for forty years. It is trapped in the center of the forest

by a magical song, the Song of Forms, sung by a clan

of fey who cling to life as the dying forest they are

bonded to burns around them.

As long as Indomitability remains in Innenot-

dar, the forest cannot die, but once it leaves, the fey,

who call themselves seela, believe they will perish

with the forest to which they are bonded. For their

part, the seela are divided: some see it as their duty

to keep trapped the creature that has caused their

suﬀ ering, in hope that some day they might ﬁ nd a

way out safely, while the others just want to stop

the Song of Forms, let the creature free, and end

their suﬀ ering.

Indomitability wishes for the heroes, the ﬁ rst

travelers who have managed to survive the heat of

the forest’s ﬂ ame, to free it, and it will oﬀ er them safe

passage if they slay the fey and release it from the

binding song. Meanwhile, another trillith, Deception,

has inﬁ ltrated the fey, and is looking for a way to free

its brother Indomitability. Finally, a bearded devil

named Kazyk has been sent by the Ragesians to try

to stop the party from getting away with the stolen

military intelligence, but when Kazyk learns of the

reason for the forest’s burning it becomes in his best

interest to free Indomitability, since doing so will

put out the ﬂ ames, giving the Ragesian military an

easy route south through the mountains.

had just conquered Gate Pass, securing a supply line

into Shahalesti, and Lord Shaaladel of Shahalesti

was nervous of an impending attack. e elves of

Innenotdar, their forest’s proximity to Gate Pass

making it strategically important, were unwilling to

ally with Shaaladel, and their leaders had begun to

express opposition to the Shahalesti. In truth, the

Innenotdar elves were simply attempting to appear

strong, since their position in a three-way juncture

between Shahalesti, Ragesia, and Dassen made

them a tempting target. However, Shaaladel did

not want to risk that Innenotdar would become an

ally with Ragesia, so he had agents set ﬁ re to the

forest and plant rumors that the Ragesians had been

responsible, a believable claim given Coaltongue’s

fondness for ﬁ re.

e reason the ﬁ res have refused to die is because

of a trillith called Indomitability. e trillith are

dream-spawned creatures, born in the great below

of the underdark, and until recently very few had

come to the surface. Gate Pass has many legends

of dreams becoming reality, and indeed there are

numerous caverns under and around the city, from

which ﬂ edgling trillith sometimes emerge.

Indomitability had arrived in Innenotdar forest

several years before the ﬂ ame. e seela, the fey who

would sing news from one end of the forest to the

other through the rustling of leaves in the wind, ﬁ rst

noticed the trillith’s presence. Indomitability, only

vaguely conscious of what it was, had endowed its

power upon several dying animals, who struggled to

stay alive. Seeing the strange entity as a disturbance

in nature, the seela called upon the elf-hero Anyariel

to conquer the monster.

e seela sang the Song of Forms, an old hymn

of history and events in the forest, woven in their very

bodies, and the song’s power trapped the trillith in

the body of a stag. Anyariel pursued it to the center

of Lake Seela, where she trapped it before dying.

Indomitability did not die, but it cannot be released

from a bodied form until the seela stop singing, and

so it has lain trapped, pinned to the bottom of the

lake by a sword driven through its body.

at sword, carved of living wood cut from

one of Innenotdar’s oldest trees, remained tied

The History of the Fire Forest

e Fire Forest of Innenotdar has been aﬂ ame

for the last forty years, and the events surrounding

its ignition are a mystery to this day. Over the course

of the adventure the heroes may discover the truth,

which they can use as leverage against the Shahalesti

in later adventures to gain their assistance.

Forty years ago, Emperor Coaltongue of Ragesia

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