The Temple of Elemental Evil – The First Step

They handed me a black robe and a silver mask. They wanted us to pretend. We walked through the temple doors, each choosing our allegiance. I picked Ice. It felt right. Inside, I found a brazier burning with a strange, unnatural flame. A woman knelt...

A dragon. A wyrmling, but still—a dragon. I was not there when they fought it. This gnaws at me more than I expected. Tycho brought back the skull. Held it like a trophy, like a thing heavier than bone. He spoke of fire, of standing against it, of...

I have fought men, beasts, spirits. Never a rock that falls from the ceiling to stab me in the back. The mine was dark, full of echoes that did not belong to us. Things lurked—piercers, rust monsters, a gas spore pretending to be a beholder (it foole...

The river turned against itself. That is how it started. A thing like this is unnatural. Water should not bring death—at least, not by drinking. Drowning, yes, that is expected. But to turn mad? To writhe, to vomit? No. We found a treant, old and ...