Roland's World - The Kingdom of Kern

Last updated: June 11, 2025

Magic Item Compendium II - New 3.5 D&D Magic Items ... Roland's World

Roland's World - PCs - Wanderers of the Wylds

Cherry
Blossum

  • Female Half-Elf
  • Warblade

    • Gorgonzola
    and Twitch

  • Male Halfling
  • Druid

    • Ash
    Thorn

  • Male Killoren
  • Scout/Cloistered Cleric

    • Dashiva
    the Jongleur

  • Male Lesser Aasimar
  • Sorcerer

    • Rako
    the Winged One

  • Male Kobold
  • Rogue/Fighter

    • Ellie
    Appletall

  • Female Strongheart Halfling
  • Dragonfire Adept

    • Vivian
    Cantor

  • Female Human
  • Cleric of Chauntea

    • Vanark
    Tork

  • Male Half-Orc
  • Ranger

    • Messi
    Zarod (dead)

  • Male Frostblood Half-Orc
  • Exoticist Fighter

    • Thak
    (dead)

  • Male Bugbear
  • Barbarian

    • Krak

  • Male Goblin
  • Warlock


    • Roland's World - Campaign Notes

  • Chapter One - Loot 1 - December 28, 2024 - CL = 1
  • Chapter Two - Loot 2 - January 25, 2025 - CL = 1
  • Chapter Three - Loot 3 - February 22, 2025 - CL = 2
  • Chapter Four - Loot 4 - March 15, 2025 - CL = 2,3,4 - WOG XI
  • Chapter Five - Loot 5 - April 12, 2025 - CL = 4
  • Chapter Six - Loot 6 - April 26, 2025 - CL = 4
  • Chapter Seven - Loot 7 - May 17, 2025 - CL = 5
  • Chapter Eight - Loot 8 - June 7, 2025 - CL = 5

  • Chapter Nine - Loot 9 - ????, 2025 - CL = 5

    Roland's World - Background

    The Kingdom of Kern and Kern known facts.

    Here is a map of Kern.

    X = Tomb of Tursk the One-Tusk (once a chosen of Gruumsh)

    Hamlet of Roccatorre

    Blacksmith

  • Zesk Trendor a half-orc blacksmith, likes to use a pike in combat
  • has agreed to let Dashiva the Jongleur billet in his house attached to the smithy while he is in Roccatorre
  • but Rako the Kobold and Thak the Bugbear have to sleep in the barn out back, "can't have folks like them staying with us decent folk" said the half-orc with a malicious smile...

  • "Honey the Cat" an extra-planar being and Guardian Defender of the Hamlet of Roccatorre
  • lives in the barn behind the smithy
  • killed a dire rat that had snuck into the barn and that was about to attack Rako and Thak, "Honey the Cat" winked at the pair after it easily dispatched the dire rat

    Kingsmen Quarters

  • Steve Whent an old male human warrior and King's man, official representative of the Kingdom of Kern
  • has agreed to let Ash Thorn billet at the Kingsmen Quarters while he is in Roccatorre

  • Jeff Tobed a young human human warrior and Steve Whent's deputy

  • Oscar the Rat an "awakened" rat wizard
  • awakened by a "cookoo" druid in the wildwood, kept as prisoner and experimented upon for a year
  • has asked Steve Whent to become one of his deputies

    Miller

  • Saltar Shields male human miller, has a heavy crossbow for combat

    Moonbluff General Store

  • Laura Moonbluff a female halfling and owner of the general store
  • sister of Emma Moonbluff and has a dire wolfhound named Tike
  • has agreed to let Ellie Appletall billet at the general store while she is in Roccatorre

  • Arthur Meadowgrass a male halfling rogue/swashbuckler
  • part of adventuring group that was ambushed, captured and killed by kobolds
  • he survived, since as a native halfling of the Kingdom of Kern, Yondalla granted his people the ability to shapechange into rat form to help them escape out of harm's way during the ancient Empire Wars.
  • Laura insists he stay and recoup with her in her quarters behind the store (he is a male halfling after all)

    Moonbluff Pub

  • Emma Moonbluff a female halfling and owner of the pub
  • sister of Laura Moonbluff and has a dire wolfhound named Spike
  • has agreed to let Gorgonzola and Twitch billet at the pub while he is in Roccatorre in exchange for certain favors (he is a male halfling after all).

  • Katie Ching a mute orphan girl
  • helps around both the Moonbluff General Store and the Moonbluff Pub
  • is a blood relative of the Wizard Tsathzar

  • Mouse is a former rat familiar of the Wizard Tsathzar
  • shimmering forcefield prevents the dog from biting/grabbing rat
  • Mouse claims he will protect Katie like he did her ancestor
  • Katie seems to understand Mouse and translates using her sign language

    Temple of Chauntea

  • Vivian Cantor a female human cleric of Chauntea
  • junior priestess and daughter of Ingrid Cantor
  • has joined the Wanderers of the Wylds as a full member
  • learned that Ian and Edgar had been killed and turned into ghouls in the Kobold Caves
  • given the green ogre's great club as a souvenir of her first battle
  • has recieved 36 gp, Divine Scroll: remove paralysis (caster level 3), and a Wand of Cure Light Wounds (1 charge remaining)

  • Ingrid Cantor a female human cleric of Chauntea
  • senior priestess and mother of Vivian Cantor
  • has agreed to let Cherry Blossum billet at the temple while she is in Roccatorre

  • Joe a male human farmer and survivor of the Kobold Caves
  • went with Ian and Edgar to the kobold caves to stop the raids
  • only Joe came back, while his body has been healed, his mind is broken, repeating "the cold, the dark, the gate"

  • The Rat an extra-planar being possessing the rat and Guardian of the Forest
  • cured Rako of dire rat disease at the temple, and said Thak was not infected from the rat bites they got in the Kobold Caves.
  • the 'entity' that is possessing the rat is a force of nature and of high power. It originates from the ethereal plane. These 'spirits' embody the will of the land and all creatures in it. It is a benevolent protective of the region that spawned it and of the creatures therein. These entities are referred to as Spirits of the Woods.

    Unholy Trinity

  • The Unholy Trinity are the Elder Evils known as Azathoth, Nyarlatholep and Cthulhu.
  • Unholy symbol is a small gold pendant, non-magical (5 gp), crudely shaped into the form of a 3-fingered hand.
  • There is some sort of "gate" affecting beings and creatures in the surrounding area, making them tougher and meaner. Physical transformations seems to include red splotches, sharper teeth and claws, googly eyes, but also seems to take their souls "the cold, the dark, the gate, its my soul, don't take my soul"
  • The Wanderers of the Wyld found a pristine leather bound book whose pages were edged in golden foil, full of unreadable script and felt cold to the touch - read magic revealed it to contain ceremonies to invoke the unholy trinity - special black candles are used as part of this Unholy Trinity cerenomy
  • Cherry's dream implies the Wanderer's of the Wyld must destroy the abominations in the pods before they can be unleashed and allow the Unholy Trinity to enter this world and consume it.
  • chosen of the Unholy Trinity include a Super Kobold, Mother Spider, and the new improved Tsathzar?

    Kobold Caves

  • Kobold Magic User - dead
  • Short even by kobold standards, he was wearing a tattered bright yellow robe stained with dirt, blood, fleshy food bits and lots of dried and more fresh blood.
  • He was all red-scaled, instead of just blotches of red scales.
  • One eye had grown to be twice normal kobold size and was white with cataracts.
  • A small single horn was beginning to grow out of his forehead.

    The Wizard Tsathzar

  • mountain with plateau had an old ruined wizard tower on top from time of the last empire war (not sure which side)
  • Wizard Tsathzar made the plateau to put his tower on it
  • He was a powerful wizard who kept changing sides
  • At end of the war with giant and demons, Tsathzar found a book with ritual for bringing unholy trinity to this world
  • He and his tower disappeared at the end of the war into dark beyond the stars
  • When Tsathzr was transformed by the Elder Evils it broke the bond with his rat familiar "Mouse"
  • "Mouse" was able to inturrupt the ritual just enough to delay it
  • The tower has now come back but is now inside the mountain
  • "Mouse" who now protects his descendent Katie Ching
  • The kobolds in the Kobold Caves wanted to worship the dead gods, but had to wait for Tsath

    The Grey Citidel

  • grumsh has entered into the unholy trinity
  • need to stop in 9 days, go to grey citadel
  • stronghold of the orc faction, overun and destroyed, tribes scattered
  • stop orc warlord, ritual to proclaim at grey citadel
  • Krull - orc warlord, chosen of Grumush, not from the surface orcs
  • orcs of skull crusher tribe and blood-eye tribe orcs
  • band of travellers from nearby town of Ovesta have been captured
  • defeated a camp filled with 23 orc of the boarsnaut tribe camp, including a fiendish orc with huge tusks sticking out of his mouth, and a pink coloured orc riding a beserk boar.
  • caught up to the 6 orcs who escaped the camp, killed 5, captured 1 to be interrogated
  • said the captured humans were prisoners to be used for sacrifice and that the ceremony was to start
  • grey tusk tribe had the prisoners
  • said the citidel is 1 day away
  • said there is the main entrance, but some walls of citidel have fallen down
  • said chiefs of all tribes have sent representatives
  • said 2 humans were in attendance, a Cleric of Bane and Zhentarim bodyguard
  • said that Razor, Chieftan of the Grey Tusks tribe, rebuilt the citidel, shaman said Gruumsh will unite tribe, that Razor is in charge of citidel, but not ceremony, shaman will annoint the chosen
  • said Razor has a wyvern beast as pet
  • said not enough space in citidel, so some orc camps are outside, but camped on other side from the approach party took
  • in a big epic battle, the Wanderers of the Wyld defeated Razor, his Wyvern, and orc warriors, and the Banites/Zhentarim
  • no prisoners or shamans were found, so the party seeks to find a way down further into the citidel.
  • Items in the throne room seem to be powered by dark necromantic energy (red garnet in statue and black liquid in fonts)
  • Found the tribute from the other orc tribes and the banite cleric and Zhents
  • the three lower levels of the citidel so far seem to be illuminated with a grey witchlight that makes the orcs stronger
  • while the orcs have not shown any of the corruption associated with the unholy trinity, a blob in a tomb was covered in red splotches, as was a worg (that also sprouted a tentacle) with a horde of orc barbarians.
  • rescued, Krak, the goblin warlock. He had been strapped to a Flesh Golem, that had red splotches marking it as part of the unholy trinity.
  • Krak was able to tell them what he overheard while a prisoner for several days at the citadel
  • the new prisoners are being kept alive (barely) as sacrifices for a ritual that will ascertain whether warlord Krull will be chosen by Gruumsh to unite the orc tribes of Kern
  • Krull will then lead them on a quest of conquest and to find the artifact known as the 'Binder'
  • Gruumsh has allied himself with the Unholy Trinity and their worshipers
  • Over 3 thousand orcs now prowl the Rotun Mountains
  • Emissaries from nearly all the tribes have come to witness the ritual and judge for themselves whether Krull will be chosen and worthy to follow.
  • The tribal chieftains have declared a 'pax orcana' until the ritual is resolved. Orcs will not fight orcs.

    The Mad Druid of the Wyld Wood

  • The mad druid had been hunting and slaughtering fey for some nefarious purpose.
  • The druid had been corrupted to insanity by some other power and was performing all types of vile experiments.
  • Oscar the Rat, an "awakened" rat wizard, awakened by a "cookoo" druid in the wildwood, kept as prisoner and experimented upon for a year.
  • Krak the Goblin Warlock had been captured by the renegade goblins and gnolls working for the Mad Druid. He was able to escape by pretending to be dead when his cell was emptied of all the other fey corpses.
  • Recently he had sent a corrupted treant west, towards Ovesta, a place called Red Fork, to test out a new black moss.

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