I'm not really sure how to organize this, so I'll just throw stuff on the wall. Feel free to edit it.
Goals[]
Current Goals[]
Short Term[]
- Resolve Miyaro's situation in the Forest of Spirits
- Travel to Miyaro's base in the Forest of Spirits
Possibly Abandoned[]
- Recover the body of the Cowardly White Dragon and kill its draco-lich pal.
Long Term[]
- Install Ameiko as Empress of Tian.
- Travel to Minkai from Ordu-Agenhai.
- Deal with whomever doesn't recognize who claim to the throne.
Former Goals[]
- Deal with the goblins in the marsh.
- Deal with the skeletons that killed all the goblins.
- Find out what belongs to Ameiko in Brinewall castle.
- Recover Suisheni
- Kill Kimandatsu
- Kill the Cowardly White Dragon.
- Clear the weird morrzkos magical storm-monsters from the North Pole.
- Navigate the catacombs under the mountains and get the caravan to Tian.
Clues[]
House of Bitter Flowers[]
- Haunted Forest between Ordu-Agenhai and Minkai
- Home/prison of the Oni of Five Storms
- Probably not current holding the Oni of 5 Storms.
Forest of Spirits[]
- Haunted Forest between Ordu-Agenhai and Minkai
- Patrolled by brigands under the control of the Jade Regent.
- The birthplace and retirement homes of the kami.
- Centered around the House of Bitter Flowers.
- Dying here tends to produce ghosts
Miyaro[]
- Stranger who has allies in the Haunted Forest
- Kami guardian of the House of BItter Flowers
- Can help us get through the Haunted Forest if we resolve her problem.
Oni of the Five Storms[]
- These guys are looking for the Royal Seal of Minkai and can be presumed to be bad people.
- Kimandatsu is a female oni with a club covered in Tian runes for the Thousand Words of Pain and a bad attitude. Allied with kenku ninjas, zombies, werecreatures, and so forth.
- Currently dead and likely no longer a threat.
- Katiyana is probably a female oni with wings, carrying a wand that may produce storm-monsters. Hanging out near the Nameless Spires at the North Pole or the nearby Creepy Tower at Black Lake.
- Currently dead and likely no longer a threat.
Royal Seal of Minkai[]
- Magical doo-dad in an anti-scrying box (Warded Box). The Seal identifies/chooses the Royal family of Minkai.
- Apparently being hunted by the Oni of the 5 Storms.
- The Warded Box was opened by Ameiko's father about 25 years ago. Her grandfather then took the box to Brinewell castle for further safe-keeping. Grandfather then died, killed by 5 Storm Oni forces looking for the Box.
Visions[]
- The stone dragon statue (aka Royal Seal of Minkai) in the warding box in Brinewall Castle provided the following visions:
- Demonic fiends overran Minkai in the past.
- Emperor Shigure was betrayed by his friend (who became a giant demon in jade armor).
- Imperial heir Rokuro Kaijitsu fled to Golarion with his family and sold Suisheni to Fynn Snaevald to finance travel to Sandpoint.
- We also known that the Oni of the Five Storms can track the Royal Seal if the warding box is opened.
Hopefully Resolved Clues[]
Jarl Asvig Longthews[]
- A former raider, now a minor lord in Karlsbad. His estate is out of town to the south, 2 hours march.
- His symbol is a lion head. His men wear it on a gold plated torc.
- Has about 200 armed retainers, less 40 or so.
- Sent 40 retainers to kill the caravan.
- About 7' tall.
- Creepy as hell.
- His retainers drop out of Karlbad society.
- His retainers appear to have a lethal curse on them to stop them from saying Jarl Longthews sent them.
- Stole Suisheni from Fynn Snaevald and killed some of his retainers doing it.
- Verification: Dying retainer noted "thieves led by a really tall man"
- Verification: Divination
- Attacked the trade caravan (and PCs) - probably knew we were coming
- Attackers had gold torcs, rented longboat.
- Attack was preceeded by many ravens, including a bloodraven
- Targeted the caravan, not the PCs by name/description
- Based on the smell of cats around him, may be some kind of cat-shifter, possibly a jaguar.
- Has magical jaguar totems circling his house, with summoning and detection magic on them.
- Is involved with Helva, a lithe woman of uncertain abilities.
Ninjas[]
- Showed up on Snorri Stone-eyes boat and started silently stabbing people.
- Not well armored.
- More ninjas in RavensCraeg - kenku mountain-demon ninjas. Dislike being exploded by demon-destroying arrows.
Suisheni[]
- Rokuro Kaijitsu, formerly Amatatsu Tsutoku (exiled Emperor of Tian and Ameiko's grandfather) sold this intelligent sword to Fynn Snaevald of Karlsbad.
- Fynn Snaevald kept it for 50 years, couldn't use it.
- "It never felt right."
- Stolen 3 weeks before the PCs got to Karlsbad, presumably by Longthews.
- PCs have been named agents to collect blood-debt for the theft of Suisheni and murder of retainers.
- May have been dumped in Snorri One-Eye's funeral boat
- May be in the process of being stolen by something under the boat.
- Found in castle RavensCraeg in the basement, thrown down a cistern.
- Currently being carried by Thumvar.
Cowardly White Dragon[]
- Terrorizing a north pole village.
- Got Killed
- Got carried off toward the Nameless Spires by its dracolich pal.
- Can burrow through ice and snow like no one's business.
Creepy Tower[]
- A weird tower near the Alabastrine Peaks near the North Pole.
- Possible hiding place of Katiyana.
Nameless Spires[]
- A bunch of weird magical spires on the North Pole.
- No one has ever come back from them.
- Somehow related to Katiyana (see Oni of the Five Storms).
- Possible destination of the dracolich pal of the Cowardly White Dragon.