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Jungle Temple Entrance [33x46] (Collaboration with Borough Bound & Tom Cartos)

Added 2023-02-16 09:10:15 +0000 UTC

Hey everyone!

We've named this map 'Jungle Temple Entrance' to keep it generic and findable in future, we imagine it'll be useful in a lot of jungle and meso-american inspired camapaigns.

Buuuut it was actually designed as the entrance to Axziga’s Lair, a dragon in the awesome new Borough Bound setting, Zahuatil Ruins!

Scroll down for some previews of the accompanying Borough Bound and Tom Cartos maps and read the lore behind the Zahuatil Ruins. This is a really fun location and we think you'll have a lot of fun bamboozling and testing your players here.

For those that want to see more, we have two free zips of content that you can get here and here (or see the attachments below). They come with maps, music, lore, game hooks and more! Please check it out.

Here's some background about the map:

Travelers from across the realm flock to Zahuatil Ruins. This recently discovered temple complex in the heart of the Chorago rainforest is the ideal destination for aspiring archaeologists and gentleman adventurers alike. Somehow, these ancient ruins remained undiscovered for centuries, but now that word has spread, there’s a mad dash to uncover the temple’s secrets and plunder its treasures. There’s just one catch: the whole complex is a fake.

One particularly clever dragon, the ancient serpent Axziga, had grown tired of lording over her reptilian minions. For thousands of years, she ruled some two or three hundred kobolds in what she considered an irrelevant corner of the realm. She wanted more. She wanted to strike fear into the hearts of men. She wanted to become a legend—a creature known across the seas for her guile and strength. Axziga wanted a reputation.

She also didn’t particularly feel like exerting too much energy. And so she decided to team up with Triqe van Leery, a mimic shepherd. With Axziga’s ragtag crew of loyal kobolds and Triqe’s unusual legion of transforming biomatter, the duo was able to construct Zahuatil Ruins, an incredibly convincing facsimile of a crumbling jungle temple complex. It has everything an adventurer could hope for: the promise of untold secrets, traps and enemies that appear challenging but are, in fact, easily vanquished, and hundreds of ancient artifacts—most of which are mimics in disguise.

Once her scheme was discovered she retreated to her lair, a real ancient temple complete with traps and puzzles, and guarded by her Kobold followers. She feels safe within, knowing that if the temples deadly traps don’t finish off any intruders her army of devotees certainly will.

This is a preview of the interior of the Axziga's Lair, made by our good friend Tom Cartos! You can get the full map with all the variations from his patreon. And loads of other great maps too!