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Heavenly Pool & Background Tables

April 2023·pp. 66–67

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Wreckage from the Eye of Chotec empowers a healing pool that improves heroic renown and provides opportunities to search the forest. Lesser rewards include restorative grubs, stunning bolas, venomous creatures and celestial brands, linking practical game effects to the Gnarlwood’s ecology. Spawn names, Terrawing names and background tables give the guardians identities as watchers, feral survivors or followers of their dead slann.

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CampaignWD 487 · pp. 52–53

Stealth and Stone

The Gnarlwood’s invaders and guardians receive parallel narrative expansions: the icon-breaking Jade Obelisk and Talaxis’s Hunters of Huanchi. Each gains three quests, themed relics, heroic traits, a special encampment and background tables. The contrast sets up campaigns of sacrificial desecration on one side and ambushes against trespassers on the other.

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LoreWD 487 · p. 54

The Jade Obelisk

The besieged stoneworkers of Nephricar accept the Speaker in the Stone’s promise of protection and become powerful enough to repel daemons. Its reward proves a curse: flesh hardens and faces crumble unless sacrifices sustain the pact. Now they carve weapons and armour from petrified victims, destroy rival religious monuments and seek to overthrow the Ravening Ruin itself.

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RulesWD 487 · p. 55

The Path of Splintered Limbs & Marvels of Jade

A Jade Obelisk warband earns a chosen relic by breaching the Gnarlwood through victories, destructive abilities and risky scouting. The six rewards alter reactions, resilience, reach or offensive power, often at a cost: near-total petrification prevents movement, while the Burrowing Mask grants speed and attacks but bars abilities and worsens injury risks. Relics reflect the same dangerous bargain as the faction’s background.

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