*Inspiration: **Secret Santicore 2011* (the plant article); Daztur’s students
In these lands it rains but once a year but the plants do not go without water. Here in the Burning Lands, great icicles known as the spears of the dawn often fall, generally in the early morning. The gnolls that live here know the warning signs and are careful to avoid the spears, but many unwary travelers have been impaled by them.
The spears also play an important role in the life cycle of the moon nut, bursting open its seedpods and watering its young shoots. These shoots can be boiled down and used as the base for surprisingly effective perfumes but actually eating the flesh of the moon nuts is exceptionally foolish as the scent of those who eat it is subtly changed so that they come to smell incredibly delicious to all lycanthropes.
Connection:
- One of the factions in Ettin Castle (13.06) has gotten their hands on a tub of moon nut perfume, thinking that with the ettins having so many noses they would be especially vulnerable to the effectiveness of the perfume. But which faction? And just what is being plotted?
Hooks:
- -What other strange forms of precipitation are there in these lands?
- -What’s so effective about the perfume?
- -What lycanthrope are about to attack those who eat the moon nuts? Just the were-jackals?
