D20 SYSTEM✦ Normal

The Rootbound March

# Wilderness# Intrigue# Fey

The ancient treant migration of the White Ash Woods, a sacred cycle that has occurred for millennia, has ground to a halt. The colossal, ancient treants have formed a living blockade, their roots choking the vital trade road to the town of Hearthstone. Worse, the sacred Marching Horn, a relic used by the local druids to guide and calm the treants, has vanished. Two desperate factions now seek your help: the Loggers' Guild, facing economic ruin and starvation, who see the treants as obstacles to be felled; and the Circle of the Ash, the local druids, who believe the treants are reacting to a deep sickness in the land and must be protected at all costs. The truth lies buried in the heart of the woods, where an ancient pact is breaking down.

Chronicle Prelude

You arrive at the besieged town of Hearthstone, its granaries low and its people anxious. The main road east is choked by a wall of animate, groaning treants. Smoke rises from the Loggers' Guild camp to the west, and the forest path to the druid grove is unnervingly silent.

Environmental Traits

The White Ash Woods are dying from within. A blight born of a forgotten betrayal is spreading from the Hollow Heart, causing the ancient treants to march not toward a new home, but into a desperate, protective formation to shield the last pure grove. The players' ultimate goal is to determine the source of the blight and decide the fate of the forest: purge it with fire and steel, heal it with sacrifice, or broker a fragile, costly peace.

Legendary Archetypes

Rayan

HP:45

STR:16

WIS: 12

CHA:11

Key Factions & Autonomous Nodes (8)

Guild Master Orek
A broad-shouldered human man in worn leather work clothes, his face lined with stress and sleepless nights. He carries a woodsman's axe at his hip and bears the Loggers' Guild insignia—a crossed axe and saw—on his sleeve.
Druid Matriarch Lyra
An elven woman of serene bearing, adorned with robes of woven leaves and living vines. Her eyes hold a deep, weary sadness, and she often rests a hand on the bark of the hearth-tree in the town square as if listening.
Blind Druid Eirik
An ancient human druid, his eyes covered by a moss-stained cloth. His skin is marked with faded, ritualistic tattoos of intertwining roots. He moves with a slow, deliberate grace, his gnarled staff tapping the ground to sense his surroundings.
Logger Pietra
A sturdy human woman in practical woolen clothes, with calloused hands and a worried expression. She fidgets with a small wooden charm around her neck, a keepsake from her family.
Ghost Logger Cael
A translucent, spectral figure in tattered logger's gear. His form flickers with an angry green energy, and his expression is one of eternal resentment. He haunts a moonlit glade, forever raking at the soil with insubstantial hands.
Blighted Treant Elder Ashheart
A massive treant whose bark is cracked and seeps a viscous, green sap. Its eyes burn with a hateful, sickly light, and its branches are twisted into jagged, weapon-like shapes. The air around it smells of rot and ozone.
Poacher Rikke
A lean, hard-eyed human woman in mottled green and brown leather, perfect for stalking game. She crouches near a hidden camp, a longbow resting across her knees, and a distinctive ivory horn hangs from her belt.
Blight Spirit
A swirling vortex of corrupted sap, thorny vines, and glowing green spores, coalescing into a vaguely humanoid form. It emits a constant, low hum of malice and decay, and the ground withers beneath it.

Chronicle Prelude

Environmental Traits

Legendary Archetypes

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