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[Trinket+] Cradle of the Withered Saints (OSR and 5e Versions)
🕑 Added 2025-07-26 20:40:08 +0000 UTCOne hundred and fifty years ago, fifteen royal martyrs chose to bleed their necks to seal a slavering aberration in a tomb far beneath the earth. Fourteen of these saints succeeded. The fifteenth—a man named Halwen—was spared by a faulty blade and fled the tomb, declaring it a divine miracle.
He was wrong.
The creature, malformed and eternal, remains trapped—but only barely. Halwen’s bloodline carries the cost of his escape: a hereditary compulsion, the haunt of unfinished ritual passed from parent to child. His descendants have all died headless, one by one.
Now, a sleepwalking girl follows invisible footsteps to the site of her ancestor’s failure, drawn by something she does not understand. The tomb awaits. So does the blade.
The seal is weakening. The only way to finish the ritual is to decapitate the girl.
Or let the aberration free, and risk the deaths of thousands…
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Credits
Concept/Design: DMDave
Writing: John K Webb
Cartography: DMDave with Dungeonscrawl
Additional Assistance: Aubrey Moore
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Comments
Dale Chenault
Played as a one shot in person, fantastic. Would love to see more in this format. We did this using the 5e version.
Roosevelt Cooper
What level is this adventure for 5e? I don't see it in the 5e document.
