The Hexen Temple, the second adventure in the Amberblight Quintet, is now live on Amazon – for those of you who prefer paper over pixels (like myself). If you are just getting caught up, here is where we sit at the beginning of The Hexen Temple:
An ancient Elven artifact has been discovered beneath the long deserted Dwarven outpost known as Rockshield. The artifact, once buried at the base of a great magical tree, unleashed a horrific blight upon the region when activated, and it was only the actions of a brave adventuring company that stopped the blight from spreading across the realm.
Now, the artifact is seemingly deactivated, but it has a strange habit of drawing in anyone near it with whispered promises of power, wealth, and potential.
The Elves are coming to reclaim the artifact for themselves, while the local dwarves have other ideas. On the eve of the arrival of two elven envoys, a group of Rockshield dwarves steal the artifact, determined not to let it fall into elven hands.
Enspelled by its power, they attack and kidnap the residents of a hunting village before retreating into a Dwarven crypt nearby, determined to reactivate the artifact and gain the wealth, and power the artifact has promised.
The elves are determined not to let this happen. They alone know what the artifact is, and what it is capable of, but they are not telling anyone.
All that is known is the artifact is important enough for the elves to be willing to die in service of retrieving it. And they are also willing to kill…
So that is the story. But you may be asking yourself, what do you actually do?
In The Hexen Temple, your players will be part of the discussions between the envoys and get a chance to decide for themselves which of the two competing groups of elves they join to reclaim the object. They will race into the mountains, trying to beat the competing elves to the site of the Hexen Temple, and then face off against dwarves, Skarnid mutations, and the competing elves who are now determined to claim the artifact at any cost. The adventure culminates in a battle between the horrific secret at the heart of the Hexen Temple, the dwarves, the Skarnid mutations, the competing elves, and the players themselves.
And you know, since this is book 2 of 5, you know it’s only going to get more dangerous from here on out…
Check out The Hexen Temple in print on Amazon.ca:
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0FH3Y57JC
or on Amazon.com:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FH3Y57JC
And for those of you who prefer pixels, it’s been available on the Dungeon Master’s Guild site for a few months now:
https://www.dmsguild.com/product/519379/The-Hexen-Temple–Book-II-of-the-Amberblight-Quintet
Hope you enjoy it! And watch out for “The Hymn of the Hollow God” – Book III of the Amberblight Quintet – coming out on digital at the Dungeon Master’s Guild later this month!
J.W. Schnarr 