Module 1: The Shattering Night
Summary:
Your characters are present when the third moon, Ithralis, splinters in a midnight sky. Witness meteor storms, celestial energy, and the first appearance of gods falling to earth.
Scenes & Locations:
• The Festival of Three Lights: Begin during a citywide festival celebrating the three moons, interrupted by a rain of blazing shards.
• Celestial Impact Site: Witness a god—wounded, colossal, barely coherent—crash into a forest outside the city, altering the land itself.
Backstory:
The third moon was a prison, sealing away vengeance-driven gods exiled long ago. Now those gods are free.
Module 2: The Rain of Shards
Summary:
Hunt for a shard of the shattered moon—rumored to have potent magic—while contending with dangerous monsters drawn by its power.
Scenes & Locations:
• Fiery Crater: The land is warped, animals mutated, and madness possible if you linger near the shard.
• Cultists' Camp: Cultists seek the shard, believing it can grant them divinity.
Backstory:
Each shard binds a fraction of divine essence—whoever possesses one risks being possessed in turn.
Module 3: Divine Wounds
Summary:
Gods battle across the landscape, causing divine storms and reality to bend. Mortals caught nearby are forever changed.
Scenes & Locations:
• Battlefield of the Gods: The ground trembles as two gods, Ursath of Fury and Velina the First Light, wage war.
• Twisted Village: A whole settlement caught in a god's emanations suffers strange changes: time runs backwards, objects float, the dead walk.
Backstory:
The shattering was the act of a jealous deity, hoping to upset the celestial order and claim all realms for themselves.
Module 4: The Godsblood Plague
Summary:
Divine ichor poisons the land, birthing monstrous creatures and blighting crops. The party must find the source and end the corruption.
Scenes & Locations:
• Blighted Fields: See crops wither overnight, livestock grow scales, and rivers turn to quicksilver.
• Ruined Temple: A shrine to a lesser god now oozes godsblood and houses a new monster spawned from it.
Backstory:
A spiteful god's blood seeps through a shattered moon shard, warping all around it.
Module 5: The Avatars' Bargain
Summary:
You are approached by the weakened avatar of a benevolent god, who pleads for aid in regaining their full power—or risk being destroyed by their rivals.
Scenes & Locations:
• Sacred Grove: A hidden site of ancient power, now a battlefield as two factions vie for the favor of the fallen deity.
• Trials of Devotion: Complete a series of moral and physical challenges to empower the god.
Backstory:
The gods once ruled directly but were exiled. Some now seek alliances with mortals to survive.
Module 6: City Under Siege
Summary:
A city is besieged by the mortal followers of one fallen god. They use moon-shard artifacts to breach defenses.
Scenes & Locations:
• Moonlit Walls: Defend against attackers as the remnants of the third moon gleam eerily in the sky.
• Secret Tunnels: Civilians hide in underground passages, where dull moonlight still seeps through cracks.
Backstory:
The cult seeks to resurrect their god fully using a great shard recovered from the city's catacombs.
Module 7: The Hollow Sky
Summary:
Strange portals open where the pieces of the third moon once hung, drawing in creatures from beyond reality.
Scenes & Locations:
• Aberrant Wilderness: Mutant flora, flickering shadows, and voices not your own lead you on.
• Crater Gateway: Survive an assault from otherworldly beings while working to seal a dangerous rift.
Backstory:
The moon's breaking fractured barriers between worlds.
Module 8: Echoes of the Moon Thief
Summary:
Legend speaks of a "Moon Thief" who once tried to steal the third moon. His descendants know forbidden secrets.
Scenes & Locations:
• Thieves' Den: Find the Moon Thief's living descendants in the city's underbelly, pursued by divine assassins.
• Vault of Echoes: Enter a pocket dimension holding the Moon Thief's relics and lost memories.
Backstory:
The Moon Thief's failed attempt nearly caused a catastrophe centuries ago; his bloodline is now being hunted by vengeful gods.
Module 9: The Godslayers' Pact
Summary:
Epic quest: decide whether to help slay, imprison, or redeem one of the fallen gods whose rampage threatens to destroy a kingdom.
Scenes & Locations:
• Forbidden Fortress: Infiltrate or fight your way into the stronghold where a god dwells in mortal flesh.
• Veil of Fate: Ancient druids conduct a ritual under the twin moons, requiring your party's participation and sacrifices.
Backstory:
A secret society formed for the sole purpose of defending mortals from gods—now in desperate need of champions.
Module 10: The New Dawn
Summary:
The outcome of the god-war nears: the surviving gods offer the party a chance to shape the future pantheon—or rule as demigods themselves.
Scenes & Locations:
• Celestial Court in Ruins: A broken palace caught between heaven and earth, filled with visions of past and possible futures.
• Rising Sun Plateau: Witness the birth of a new era, and decide the world's fate as the power vacuum is filled.
Backstory:
The world is irrevocably changed; new gods ascend, and the cycle begins anew… unless mortals decide otherwise.
NPCs
1. Selaine Hawktide (NPC: Moon Shard Huntress)
Appearance: A tall, athletic woman with silvery hair and a shard of moon rock embedded near her collarbone, glimmering faintly in the dark.
Dialogue:
"You're looking for the shards, are you? If you value your life, you'll need more than courage—you'll need allies. And I'm the best you'll find."
2. Abbot Garon d'Illumina (NPC: Cleric of the Fallen Star)
Appearance: Elderly, with flowing blue robes adorned in glowing constellations, his eyes shining with stardust patterns.
Dialogue:
"The world as we knew it is gone. Yet, in the darkness, the gods will show us their true faces. Will we stand in the light—or be consumed by the night?"
Player Characters
3. Xylar the Cognate (Player Character: Lunar Mage)
Appearance: Enigmatic figure in platinum and black robes, their irises reflect shifting phases of the moon.
Dialogue (for the player):
"I was there when Ithralis shattered. The call of magic is stronger now—and so is the lure of madness."
4. Brola Coalhammer (Player Character: Moonforged Fighter)
Appearance: Stocky dwarf with battle-worn armor, holding a shield carved from a meteorite. The armor subtly pulses with dim moonlight.
Dialogue (for the player):
"Ha! If I can't smash it, it's not worth worryin' about. Unless it falls out of the sky. Then, maybe I'll just smash that too."
Plot Hooks
5. The Whispering Shard (Plot Hook)
A moon shard grants visions to whoever holds it—whispering secrets about the gods' war and leading to a lost celestial armory.
6. The Gods' Challenge (Plot Hook)
A mortal city is chosen as the battlefield between two feuding gods, and your intervention could spare—or doom—thousands.
Monsters
7. Shardstorm Chimera (Monster)
Appearance: A hulking beast composed of fused animal parts, each limb slick with glassy moon fragments; pulses of lunar flame swirl in its chest.
Dialogue (howls upon spotting the group):
"AaAAOOoooOoH…" (the sound of wind through shattered glass, unsettling and unnatural)
8. Starblind Cultist (Monster)
Appearance: Featureless white mask, tattered robes, and skin marred by tiny, twinkling stone-like growths.
Dialogue (in a breathless rasp):
"They promised us the heavens; now the dreams never cease—nor the agony."
Items
9. Moonshard Amulet (Item)
Glowing pendant, fragment of the third moon. When worn, grants resistance to psychic damage and once per day allows visions of the near future.
10. Celestial Glaive (Equipment)
A silver polearm inscribed with shifting runes. Deals radiant and slashing damage; once per long rest, unleashes a crescent blade of moonlight (ranged attack).
Legendary Magic
11. Incantation of Lunar Reversal (Legendary Magic)
A ritual that can turn night into day for a whole region, rendering lunar magic unpredictable but weakening shadow creatures for 24 hours.
Locations
12. The Cratered Choir (Location)
Description for players:
You crest the rise and see a massive crater, its rim sparkling with embedded pale crystals. Ethereal, haunting songs rise from within, echoing through the air as if sung by invisible voices. At the bottom, figures clothed in moonlight dance in slow, deliberate spirals.
Secret: The crater is a meeting place for lost souls, some friendly, some hungry for living memories.
Gods
13. Rithanel, the Fallen Seer (God)
Appearance: Draped in robes stitched from starfields, their face always hidden beneath a silver mask. Where they walk, the ground flowers with blue-white lichen.
Dialogue (to adventurers):
"You who walk in shadow's wake, will you aid me in righting the heavens, or will you too fall prey to fate's broken wheel?"
Dragons
14. Viraxar, Wyrm of the Shattered Moon (Dragon)
Appearance: Long, sinuous body plated with silver-and-blue scales, jagged crystal formations erupting along his spine. His left eye is a swirling moonstone, ever-shifting.
Dialogue (voice like thunder in a cathedral):
"Mortal insects. My kind soared before your gods dared to dream. Show me why I should not reduce you to dust and memory."
• Plot Point:
A fragment of the third moon crashes through a village, leaving a glowing crater filled with unearthly, gravity-defying flowers.
Sensory: The air hums with a silvery resonance. The petals float in midair, their scent instantly nostalgic for a place you've never been.
• Hook:
A young child begins speaking in tongues, reciting prophecies in a voice not their own after touching a moon shard.
Dialogue:
"Beware the river that flows backwards—the first god lost awaits you there."
• Scene:
At dusk, the twin remaining moons hang low. Suddenly, a third, broken arc glimmers faintly overhead, casting strange triple shadows.
Sensory: Shadows writhe and crawl, twisting away from torches, as if alive.
• Plot Point:
A peaceful lake becomes a portal, silver water swirling. From within, celestial beings swim toward the surface, beckoning for help.
Dialogue (echoing, watery voice):
"The heavens fall apart—help us mend the breach, or drown with us in time's undertow."
• Hook:
An outlaw band has begun raiding towns, each member displaying a crescent-shaped scar and uncanny resilience to mortal wounds.
• Scene:
You approach a city at night. The walls ripple softly, as if breathing in the moonlight. At the highest tower, a god and a mortal negotiate a truce.
Dialogue:
"Our power is weakened, mortal. But with you, perhaps we can make the world anew."
• Sensory Description:
A thunderstorm of falling moon shards roars overhead. The sky tingles with magic, the rain sizzling and glowing as it hits your skin.
• Plot Point:
An ancient school of magi offers sanctuary for those afflicted by moon-madness—but the school is now haunted by whispering spirits.
• Hook:
An ageless sword is found stuck in the stone face of a moon-shard meteor. Rumor says only one chosen by fate can draw it out.
• Scene:
A wounded god limps through a burning village, her blood illuminating the streets with molten blue light. Her tears turn into tiny, wriggling silver snakes.
Dialogue (labored, desperate):
"Protect them. It is all I ever asked of you…"
• Sensory Description:
The forest trembles underfoot. Insects chirp the melody of the moon's lost song, leaves shimmering with ghostly phosphorescence.
• Dialogue (from a prophecy-inscribed statue):
"They fall, like rain, the children of eternity. Choose wisely which you dare to shelter—some bring hope, others ruin."
• Plot Point:
A god's dying curse causes every reflection—water, glass, polished steel—to flicker with scenes of alternate realities and choices unmade.
• Scene:
Atop a jagged moon-shard mountain, a dragon circles, each beat of its wings sending shimmering dust raining down over a ruined chapel.
Sensory: You taste iron and ozone as the dust settles, and every heartbeat echoes twice in your chest.
• Hook:
A festival turns chaotic as the sky fills with auroras, and anyone born under the third moon is compelled to dance in a trance, revealing hidden messages.
• Visual:
You stand in a field at midnight; ghostly armies march in silence across the horizon, visible only under the blended moonlight.
• Scene:
A merchant peddles "godsblood tonics"— glowing blue potions that grant power, but slowly drain one's humanity.
Dialogue:
"Miracles ain't free, friend. The gods learned that the hard way."
• Plot Point:
A scholar believes the moon's prison can be rebuilt. She calls for heroes willing to undertake a journey through war-torn realms controlled by warring gods and dragons.
• Sensory Description:
You wake to the smell of sulfur and burned feathers, the distant sound of celestial trumpets, and the cold realization that the sun has not risen for days.
• Dialogue (from a fallen god whispering in your dreams):
"Lift the shackles of fate—forged on my broken moon—and I shall raise you above all mortals. Refuse, and the endless night will claim you."