The Font of Violet Flames

In the twilight of the Third Age, when the small gods walked the Prime and the blood of mortals could stain the weave of fate itself, there stood the Church of Veyl-Karash.

Its curtain wall, now crumbled and moss-choked, once bore the sigils of the Fourfold Concord: a cabal of warlocks who bartered with the small gods for dominion over flame and soul. Within the temple’s shattered nave lies the Font Eternal, a basin hewn from obsidian and veined with veins of amethyst, perpetually burning with a purple fire that neither consumes nor warms.

The flame is no mere enchantment. It is the last breath of the god Yzhal-Thur, bound by the Concord. They lured him from the Violet Hells with promises of worship, then chained his essence to the font, siphoning his power to fuel their rites.

Several ages have passed, and while the temple proper seems impervious to the ages, the curtain wall later added around the courtyard is not handling the weight of ages nearly as well. Various peoples have claimed the church over the ages, but the breath of Yzhal-Thur cursed them all. One congregation of the fifth age attempted to tame the curse of Yzhal-Thur with ritual and song – it didn’t work, but the choir that sang here remains in a ghostly purple form, perpetually singing in silence in the cloister attached to the south side of the church.

In the modern age, the most recent congregation that claimed this space was slain by dark goblins drawn here by the font. Now the structure is claimed by a small group of bandits who have found a dark faith encouraged by the font, and they look to the ghosts of the silent choir as guides, attempting to translate their silent songs back to music in the hope of gaining the favour of Yzhal-Thur.

The 1200 dpi versions of the map were drawn at a scale of 300 pixels per square and are 13,200 x 10,200 pixels (44 x 34 squares). To use this with a VTT you would need to resize the squares to either 70 pixels (for 5′ squares) or 140 pixels (for the recommended 10′ squares) – so resizing it to either 3,080 x 2,380 or 6,160 x 4,760, respectively.

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