The Hunger

Here are the six things that make this campaign unique among campaigns. These are "truths" of the world to build your characters around.

• A blood moon rises in the sky each night and has for a full month with no sign of stopping.
• Signs of a twisted new cult have begun to appear. Some whisper of cannibalism.
• Trade between smaller villages and towns have begun to cease. Some say entire villages have been found slaughtered and devoured.
• Hobgoblins from a warband known as the Black Fist have sprung up in greater numbers.
• Cities of the lands have begun to close their borders and seal their walls. Even they do not know exactly why.
• A great black and green storm swirls over the mountains of Shattered Teeth. Sages say the very atmosphere over the mountains has changed.

This is going to be a campaign of overland exploration and dungeon delving and will have all three pillars of play. Try to build your characters with the following goal:
"My character wants to work with their fellow adventurers to find the source of the bloody hunger that grips the land and end it."

Relations

Neutrals/Bystanders

• Front: The Black Fist hobgoblin mercenary army
• Goal: Let the Gnoll horde weaken the defenses of the cities and then sweep in and take over.
• First Grim Portent: The Black Fist Hobgoblin army takes over a ruined castle within striking distance of two major settlements.
• Second Grim Portent: Black Fist scouts track Yeenoghu's trail of destruction.
• Third Grim Portent: The Black Fist stands outside of a major city, waiting until both sides are weakened before sweeping in and taking it over.

Competitors

• Front: The Cult of the Hunger
• Goal: Pave the way for Yeenoghu's cleansing.
• First Grim Portent: The cult grows larger as it recruits from disenfranchised towns on the outskirts of major cities.
• Second Grim Portent: The cult steals the powerful Tome of Savagery from the greatest library of the land and uses it to open a second portal to Yeenoghu's realm, the Death Dells.
• Third Grim Portent: The Cult of Hunger assassinates the leaders of a major city and sends its armies into chaos.

Adversaries

• Front: Yeenoghu and the Gnoll hordes.
• Goal: Devour all humanity in the world.
• First Grim Portent: Packs of Gnolls in great number stop trade between the major cities of Exandria
• Second Grim Portent: Yeenoghu and his Gnoll hordes attack a smaller settlement.
• Third Grim Portent: Yeenoghu and his greater horde attack one of the larger cities.

Subplots

• Level 1: The Dying Hyena
• Level 10: Dragonspear Castle
• Level 11: The Temple of the Hunger
• Level 12: The Demon Rift
• Level 13: The Hunters at the Twisted Shrine
• Level 14: The Assault on Baldur's Gate
• Level 15: The Prince of Savagery
• Level 16: The Gateway
• Level 17: The Death Dells
• Level 18: The Maw
• Level 19: The Hunting Grounds
• Level 2: Slaughter at the Village of Nix.
• Level 20: Yeenoghu
• Level 3: The Charnal Pit
• Level 5: The Dead Gate
• Level 6: Citadel Gallax
• Level 7: The Tower of Fangs
• Level 8: Mountain of Broken Teeth
• Level 9: The First Portal