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HORNSAW: FORESTOF BLOOD
Introduction Chapter One: History of the Hornsaw ChapterTwo: The
Land Chapter Three: The People
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Chapter Four: Secrets of the Forest Chapter Five: Adventures in
the Hornsaw Appendix: Monsters of the Forest
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Once, long ago, elves, humans, and dwarves lived side-by-side in
the idyllic paradise of the Broadreach Forest. As so often happens
in the sad world of Scarn, however, violence marred the forest’s
beauty and war disrupted its peace. Brought to bay and defeated,
the titaness Mormo was tom asunder; her flesh and blood rained down
upon the Broadreach, transforming it into the place of hor- ror
known today as the Hornsaw Forest.
Darkness fell upon this land as the titanspawn spread throughout
the wood, seeking the sundered pieces of the fallen Serpent Queen.
Hags, ratmen, asaatthi, gorgons, and other even more terrifying
creatures lurk in the Hornsaw’s shadows alongside beasts twisted
and transformed by Mormo’s touch such as the Hornsaw unicorns.
Above the forest, on a lone plateau, spreads Glivid-Autel, city of
wicked necromancers, and to the south looms the growing power of
Calastia.
Yet all is not lost in the Hornsaw, for a tiny flame of hope now
flickers. After over a century of dormancy, merged with their
beloved forest, the elves have returned, bringing with them the
possi- bility of restoration and redemption.
In this forest, where the forces of light and the darkness
struggle, the basic conflicts of the Scarred Lands are literally
embodied. The elves’ task ap- pears almost impossible, for Mormo’s
spawn are powerful and determined. Darkness, however, never
pervades completely, and evil never abides without flaw. The elves
and their wood dwarf allies fight on, knowing that if they fail,
the ancient Broadreach is lost forever.
This, then, comprises the world that your char- acters will
experience when they visit the Hornsaw. Bold adventurers can
influence this fearsome struggle for good or ill. Hornsaw: Forest
of Blood provides all you will need to visit this dangerous place,
as well as numerous opportunities to help your players create
Broadreach-based characters. The Broadreach elves, the wood
dwarves, the Hornsaw sentinels, and the Liliandeli archers all
receive full descriptions here, along with new magic and equipment
to make a Hornsaw-based campaign unique and exciting.
Joinour authors, Joseph and Rhiannon, and the rest of us at
Sword and Sorcery Studio, as we explore this legendary place, where
good and evil wage their eternal struggle and horror lurks in the
shadows.
Enter Hornsaw: Forest of Blood ... and beware the Blood
Crone.
Anthony Pryor, Developer Sword and Sorcery Studio
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CHAPTER ONE: HISTORY OF HORNSAW
4 As remembered by Sema, druid of Clan Oak. Much pain have I
seen in my life and much
sorrow. So many humans envy us elves for our long lives. They
fear death and the judgment of their gods. They itch for more time
to learn, accomplish, love, and experience. So many hu- mans feel
that one hundred years is far too little time to spend in
living.
I do not know what it is like to understand that one will live
only for one hundred years and then die; I cannot judge the envy
and fear that humans feel. I do know, however, that I myself have
lived too long. My first human lifespan was as perfect as anyone
could wish; I learned, accom- plished, loved, and experienced much,
and my heart was afire with hope and passion for the future. I miss
my youth. My connection to the earth grants that my body remains as
strong as ever it was, but my aging heart is weak and sad. I look
forward to death. Whatever it brings, at least it will only be my
own death and not the death of everyone and everything that I
love.
The Divjne War I think that I was 385 years old when the
Divine War broke out. I still have trouble reckon- ing the
change in the calendars. In any event, I was already an elder -
already a respected leader among the druids of the Broadreach
Forest. I do not look like an old man, but I have nevertheless
lived as an old man for the length of at least three human
lifetimes. How could any human envy this? How could any human envy
the centuries of despair that I have weathered?
My fellow druids and I protected the Broadreach as best we
could. We welcomed refu- gees from the carnage and horror of the
various battles. We surrounded our forest with protective magics
while our dwarven and human allies built fortifications and
destroyed the few titanspawn who breached our defenses. Throughout
the course of the war, the Broadreach Forest provided a haven for
all good and neutral beings loyal to Denev and the gods. Even evil
people were aided and succored so long as their loyalty remained
true to our cause.
Very few of our people ventured forth to battle for the gods.
Denev did not ask us to do so, and we saw ourselves as fulfilling
anequally worth- while purpose during the war. Orphans flocked to
our borders. Crippled and magically diseased sol- diers came here
for healing and then returned to the fray. The elderly and infirm
came to work in our cities to produce weapons and food for the
divine races, while those unable to fight but still able to run
transported these supplies to countless armies all throughout the
several decades spanned by the war.
The Broadreach was always a paradise, and in the years of horror
during the war it seemed doubly so; even with the crowding and the
hospi- tal stink of the sick and injured, at least we were Sa
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