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Our gates are always open to those who seek knowledge.

Except ater sunset. Or before sun-up, or two hours hence. Or

festival days. Oh, we also close one day a month for major

cleaning. And whenever the city demands we make repairs...

• Merrox, Master of the Hall of Records •

inal legacy on to the Hall of Records, that he might be

remembered even in these dark last days. All is exactly

as it seems, and there are no twists or surprises, but travel in the

world can be diicult for the inexperienced.

Overdue Fee is intended for Novice characters and can serve as

an introduction to the Royal Library of hroal and the concept of

Group Adventuring Logs ( Pl aye r ’s G u id e , p. 245).

grown labored, his eyes water and he blinks too oten, never quite

focusing on anyone’s face. he dwarf isn’t much long for this world,

and he instructs Hetha to open a long cherry wood box, lovingly

crated, tooled, and polished, to show them the magniicent blade

inside. A dwarf sword, brilliantly wave-edged and simply adorned,

lies on velveteen cushions within the box, cradled by the indenta-

tion of an obviously specially commissioned and created pad, so

that no portion of the forged and reforged metal is unsupported.

he old Weaponsmith asks the group to take his precious legacy

to hroal, where his nephew will make certain that the heartblade

is cared for, and that the journal is handled correctly for entry into

the library. Within the week an old companion of his, Mirrin, will

be in town on her ship, Hidden Sunset , to make deliveries to this

remote hinterland village, and she should be willing to take on

passengers at that time.

If the players balk at having to take such a long journey, Ohin

could be willing to trade either a forged broadsword or a forged

suit of chainmail that Hetha can it to any Namegiver within the

day. If they’re still not biting, he has one last ditch atempt to trade

them a voucher, a inal favor to ask a Forge Master in Bartertown,

for up to three sets of blood pebble armor.

A more likely issue would be players deciding to abscond with

the magniicent sword. Hetha will spare no expense, and spend

every waking moment of the rest of her life atempting to encour-

age and hire adepts to track the thieves down and slay them, to

restore her master’s legacy to its rightful place. Plus Korrolis (see

below) will then be hunting for them.

a capable courier for his last great work, and the journal

of his life up until this point, to send to the Great Library

of hroal—so that he never be forgoten and that his name live on

though he should fade away and die. Ohin retired from adventuring

over a decade ago, and has given his life in service to the Weap-

onsmith’s art, forging his heartblade (see Player’s Companion , p.

92) and readying it for travel to his family ties in far away hroal.

Ohin has set up his own Forge in a hinterland village and acted

as the Forge keeper and source of charitable wisdom for quite some

time. Ohin’s apprentice seeks out the group to request their aten-

dance at their master’s side.

Event One:

The Old Master

H etha Saeda Krumm, Ohin’s apprentice, breathlessly seeks

out where the group stays in the hinterland village. She

approaches to plead with them, and bring them to her

master’s side, so he can make a request of them. It’s not wise to

refuse a boon to a Weaponsmith, since these are the adepts most

responsible for making adepts into the real unstoppable power-

houses they can become with time and efort. hey’re also some of

the most respected people in any community, once they set down

roots and open a Forge, as Ohin has. It shouldn’t be too hard to

convince the group to atend to the old dwarf.

Ohin greets them warmly, but doesn’t stand up from his chair.

It’s clear he’s taken a turn for the worse, and his breathing has

Event Two:

The Hidden Sunset

B y aternoon the next day, Ohin has passed quietly on. Only

two days later, Mirrin and the Hidden Sunset arrive, air-

boats conveying much needed trade goods and sailors

ready to stretch their legs down to the township. On news that

Ohin has died, Mirrin lies into a chest-beating fury. his is mostly

just seaman’s bluster, but she is deeply saddened by his passing and

ofers to take the characters free of charge to their destination in

Bartertown for love of the passed dwarf.

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A local adept asks to see the group, in order to pass his

Setup

T he old Weaponsmith adept Ohin Glonar Rurrun needs

captain Mirrin has a well-experienced crew of varying races,

including two k ’stulaami and a lowland troll cook. he Hidden

Sunset is sleek, fast, and well cared for, with brilliant white sails

and trimmings done in silver. She glints in the sun like a ish out

of water, and the whole crew seems quite happy to be on her.

It will take three days to gather the necessary supplies and trans-

fer the cargo by airboat, since the hinterland village has no suitable

docking tower for the ship, and so the party has plenty of time to

meet the crew and burn of whatever extra short-term goals they

might have. hat time and the start of the journey will give them

plenty of time to meet...

• … Captain Mirrin , a striking woman with brassy copper hair

that falls in ringlets from beneath a kerchief and a tricorn. She

shows a lot of skin, with over-the-knee fold down leather boots

hugging red and white striped stockings, and garter straps stick-

ing out from under her leather shorts. She wears a lutery white

open-necked shirt over a leather halter, and ties it around her

midriff to expose a muscled abdomen. As a Fifth circle Air

Sailor, she keeps her blades on hand at all times, and promises

to keep her wits about her in even the iercest storm.

• … Kolokko Ayalapas Aylapu and D’zininasas Ayalapas Aylatu ,

the k ’stulaami. egg-brothers and both hird circle Air Sailors,

their wild antics are the most extreme of anyone on the crew.

• … Krahnah , also called ‘cookie’ by the crew, a massive and

pot-bellied lowland troll who serves as the ship’s cook. Good

natured and loud, the whole crew will likely caution the player

characters that taunting cookie is a good way to get tossed over-

board. He can do amazing things with turnips in all conditions.

• … Bok , Nuros , and Jetul are on-again-of-again orks, married so

oten that they’re virtually a three-sided couple, and the crew

has stopped celebrating their unions. Jetul has several pups from

both ‘her men’, but the litle ones are currently of-ship with one

of Bok ’s sisters. All three of them are Second circle Air Sailors.

• … Schaefer , the ship’s Fourth circle elementalist and First Mate,

a blustery, boisterous human, with a barrel-shaped body and

thick, ringlet beard as black as charcoal. He has a humorous

bandage over his let eyebrow. He wears sky-blue robes embroi-

dered with ‘gusts’ of white wind and a tricorn.

is up to the gamemaster, important is just that he believes it fair

recompense to destroy Ohin’s legacy and claim the Weaponsmith’s

valuable heartblade as his own. W hile he could have raided Ohin’s

hinterland village, he eschewed to kill an old man, instead waiting

for someone challenging enough to batle against for the Weap-

onsmith’s legacy—which is now the group. Korrolis’ rowers bring

the ships up alongside one another and he calls across to the ship

to demand its treasure for his own.

Mirrin seems inclined to set Korrolis’ ship on ire, but Schaef-

fer is dead set against it. He claims the last time they ‘won’ a ight

against a crystal raider drakkar it cost them ine sails and more

than a dozen sailors. Mirrin leaves the situation up to the group

to resolve then, as they were the ones charged with Ohin’s legacy.

Korrolis is a massive and imposing troll, and he’s very angry

about the sleight to his honor. He wears hardened leather armor,

with great plates of iron sewn in at the shoulders and belly, and a

shroud of chain over his neck and chest. He carries a massive crys-

tal troll sword that glints faintly blue in the evening air. If any trolls

are in the party, he’ll call out an imposing druv’a, or troll introduc-

tion boast. He begins with his clan, and then continues on with his

personal list of accomplishments if the troll responds. If the troll

character fails to respond, his Atitude (see Gamemaster’s Guide , p.

92) worsens one Step (from unfriendly to Hostile). A well-played

druv’a will raise his Atitude one Step (to Neutral) and put the

characters in a much beter place to bargain from.

His irst demands are to be given Ohin’s treasures, the heartblade

and book. W hat the players can talk him out of will depend on his

Atitude. Korrolis defaults to an unfriendly Atitude (see below).

• Enemy: If at any point Korrolis is ofended enough to reach

the enemy level, he will command his raiders to board. A ship

batle will be on. (See p.64 in the Gamemaster’s Companion for

ship combat rules.)

• Hostile:  W hile Hostile, Korrolis would quite like to desecrate

Ohin’s journal, and take the dwarf ’s heartblade for his prize. He

will not bend to a lesser prize, and a failed atempt to talk his

Atitude up one will cause him to declare an atack.

• Unfriendly: Korrolis wants the book and the heartblade for

his own, but he is willing to let the characters buy the book

from him for 1,000 silver pieces. It’s likely the group haven’t

got that much money, but that’s his ofer. unless they can con-

vince him to lighten up, Korrolis takes ofense at an atempt to

haggle, and becomes Hostile if anyone atempts to haggle or

fails to raise his Atitude.

• Neutral: Possibly the best you might hope for, Korrolis will let

the book go for 100 silver pieces, but he must have the heart-

blade. Here he’s willing to haggle on the price of the book. If the

characters atempt to haggle on the price of the heartblade, or

fail an Interaction test of any sort, he will lower to unfriendly

once again. He is willing to meet any one of the players in single

combat aboard his own vessel though, if anyone volunteers.

• Friendly: If by some imagining the players get Korrolis to

Friendly, they can atempt a Favor test to get him to give them

the book, or he will let them keep it for 100 silver. He’s also will-

ing to haggle on it, but a failed Haggle test will not result in

his Atitude reducing back to Neutral. He also wants the sword,

but will let them keep it for 1,000 silver pieces, and refuses to

haggle on it. If the characters outright refuse to hand over the

sword ater reaching this point of negotiation, he will order his

men to atack, but will loudly order the player characters to be

captured, not killed.

• Loyal: Raising Korrolis’ Atitude to Loyal is a heroic feat, and

deserves heroic rewards. He will pause silently to think about

things, and the players may make a Favor test to get him to

he crew spends a lot of time entertaining itself on stories and

callback songs, and no one complains if you can’t carry a tune, even

with a bucket. here are also several sets of dice on board, as well

as a dartboard, though Schaefer was hit over the eye with a dart

in the hallway during the last leg of the voyage, so the captain has

banned it. he crew has simply moved the board down into the

storage hold, and has more quiet games down there. he most pop-

ular contest on board, however, is an insult game. two contestants

square of and rag each other down until one of them is too splut-

tering to continue. he current titleholder is Aylapu, who’s held it

for over a month now. he player characters can join in on the fun

for any of these games, and the crew encourages them to do so!

Event Three:

Korrolis Winds

T hree days ater seting out, with sunset only a short time

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away, the lookout reports a drakkar approaching fast from

whichever direction the nearest mountains lie.

W hile Ohin never thought it possible, word has goten out to

some of his enemies that he passed on. Korrolis, who commands

the drakkar, is a Sky Raider one circle above the highest circle

adept in the group. he reason for Korrolis’ falling-out with Ohin

back down from his claim. he crew of his drakkar will grum-

ble and complain, but he can silence them with a snarl before

giving his verdict.

• Awestruck:  It shouldn’t even be possible, but if the player char-

acters somehow manage to get Korrolis Awestruck, he will laugh,

invite them to join him at his trollmoot some time, and turn his

ship away, convinced that somehow, he must have been wrong.

Total Failure:  he group probably has much more diicult issues

to deal with. Kept captive by trolls, or angry dwarf relatives who

desire the relics of the great Weaponsmith returned to a place of

honor, or shipwrecked in the wilderness, if they survive on one of

the airboats from the destruction of the Hidden Sunset .

Sequels

F ollowing up on the crystal raider crew, or going ater lost

If combat breaks out with the drakkar, the crystal raiders ight

until their ship has received two critical Hits, then they’ll retreat

in a hurry. he menacing raiders will be looking for the book and

the heartblade, demanding it of passengers and crew alike.

relics of the dwarf ’s legacy are both possibilities, but the

main objective of this adventure is to get the group intro-

duced to the Great Library and the option to turn in their own

adventure journals!

the book and the heartblade, Ohin’s nephew is ecstatic

to see them, and showers them with praise and adula-

tion, and takes them to his inn, where they’ll stay free of charge

for a month. He’ll also ask them to join him in taking the journal

to the Great Library.

Just the Heartblade: Ohin’s nephew will be equally heartbroken.

he group is put up for the next night free of charge. he Weapon-

smith’s kin will likely come and beg the adepts to put right what

they let go wrong.

Just the Legend:  Ohin’s nephew consoles them with gentle

words. He’s at least able to read his uncle’s exploits, and is happy

to put them up for the night, and introduces them to the librarians

the next morning when the Great Library opens.

Credits

Writing:  Jacob Helmer

Editing: Steven J. Black, eike-christian Bertram,

carsten damm, Benjamin Plaga

Artwork: Kathy Schad

Earthdawn Line Developer: carsten damm

Earthdawn® is a Registered Trademark of FASA Corporation. Barsaive™ is a Trade-

and all associated Trademarks used under license rom FASA Corporation. Artwork

used under license rom Kathy Schad. Published by RedBrick LLC.

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Climax

T otal victory:  If the group enters Bartertown with both

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