Mooren Lake

North of the Summit Peaks is a shimmering lake fed by the snowmelt from the Alabaster Sierras by the Mooren River Run. Mooren Lake is surrounded both by bountiful wildlife and the frightful creatures attracted to such a thriving ecosystem, including roving lizardfolk, flocks of harpies, and several hydras that lurk in the lake’s depths. Centuries of whitestone runoff from the Alabaster Sierras have allowed deposits of residuum (see page 75) to collect at the bottom of the lake—and the residuum has formed into a thrumming organ of raw magical energy, beginning to gain sentience. The twin islands in the center of the lake are blanketed by an ever-present mist, and folk tales tell of a beautiful, ageless woman, known only as the Moon Mistress, who watches over the island shores. It’s said that any mortal who seeks an audience is judged by her, and is either granted a favor, a boon of unveiled knowledge, or a swift and terrible end.

Mooren Lake Adventures

Renew the Mists (mid-level). The Moon Mistress, a night hag who takes the guise of a water nymph, uses the fading mists to shroud her location from a blood hunter named Perron Brill, a woman dedicated to hunting the Mistress down out of vengeance. The mists require a blasphemous mortal sacrifice to renew, and the Mistress is willing to reward those who would aid her in retrieving a victim—willing or otherwise. Perron Brill resides in nearby Drynna, and though she is no saint herself, more honorable characters may think it best to help the hunter find her prey in Rootgarden Marsh.