Connects to: 14.02, 26.16.02, 29.14.28, 29.14.29 and 40.06.
Far to the west of Thring, in a cold and haunted forest, there lies an evil temple which is the last great bastion of the Cult of Dead Tiamat (40.06). It is presided over by the witch-priestess Kolfrosta. The other inhabitants include a vulture with poisonous talons, a male slave who serves Kolfrosta, and a demonic bull shackled behind the temple’s altar. When a pure-white heifer from the Lands of the Night Cattle is mounted by the demon bull, the heifer’s flesh becomes corrupted. Thereafter, any who eat it will become corrupted and transform into ogrish monstrosities. Kolfrosta and all her predecessors began their service to the temple by eating this evil flesh.
Recently, Kolfrosta has seen in her scrying of the future that her life will not last another month. In order to continue the succession of the witch-priestesses, she flew out on a storm-cloud and kidnapped the maiden Hleid, sister of the lord who rules the Castle of Dances. It is her plan to feed the corrupting beef to poor Hleid, who will then become the new witch-priestess of the temple. However, it will take the slave a long time to bring the night heifer all the way from the Kingswood to the temple in the west.
The treasures of the Tiamat cult are stored in this temple, some ancient artifacts, some merely stolen by Kolfrosta from the surrounding regions. One of the most famous is a vulture’s egg covered in gold script, which is rumoured to be kept in the nest of the poison vulture.
One of the greatest treasures of the Temple of the Dead God is 
a pile of bone shards.
- Erebus the Fiendslayer is trying to put together an expedition to sack this temple.
Hooks
- Where is the Castle of Dances? Is it in Thring, or somewhere else?
- Why is Hleid the chosen victim? Why not kidnap a local peasant girl instead?
- Who was Kolfrosta before she ate the evil flesh? Did she eat willingly or not?
- Where is Kolfrosta’s slave right now?
- What is written on the vulture’s egg? What will it hatch into?
