The Serpent Lands – Hex Map 1

The Serpent Lands are immediately south of the Autumn Lands. There’s no set scale for these maps, and the items on the maps are not to scale with each other so we can see points of interest like towers, cities, and caves. If you really need a scale for this and don’t want to pick one yourself, go with six miles to the hex.

As hinted at in the Autumn Lands, this region was once the heart of a lizard-folk empire lost to antiquity. Many strange ruins can be found around these regions, some long abandoned, others taken over by new residents. Modern cities can be found in the shells of ancient structures, while others are built around huge monoliths left behind by the fallen empire.

The first map of the Serpent Lands set is the most northeastern edge of these lands – a set of islands along the coast. These islands are known as “the Dragons” to local marine traffic.

The main habitation in this region is the small city of High Plateau on the northwestern island. The city itself isn’t on the plateau, but is nestled against the base of the arid plateau at the head of a small bay. The plateau itself bears the ruins of an ancient city that has been looted repeatedly over the years, and has very little left to offer scavengers and explorers.

The largest of the Dragon islands is an uninhabited forested island with an imposing ring of mountains along the shore. Tales of hidden pirate treasures bring adventurers here to discover that much of the island is fought over by packs of ferocious and carnivorous rock baboons (5d6 per group) who live nomadic lives, occasionally setting up a short-term stronghold in small Serpent Empire ruins.

To the southeast, we have the only other inhabited island in the group – massive mountain structures loom over the ocean here, and the one on the southern end of the island has been converted into a stronghold for the Red Autarch, a sorcerous warlord. Here they hold court and coordinate the movements of their agents through a series of Serpent Empire teleportation portals.

The remaining islands bear a number of strange monoliths of various sizes, and one distinctly appears to be a mouth – a ring of mountains that look very much like teeth. The origin of these teeth is unknown, but they are almost certainly not a natural formation.

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