The Magma Borer is a large creature native to the extreme world of Crematoria. Scientists and planetologists have yet to be able to explain so many things about the planet and the unknown lifeform that made it possible.

Mind the nettles son, it's wet out.

Nothing but snow, nothing but ice and snow. I fear we will all loose our minds out here. Even the caves have frozen into ice...

from the collected notes of an unknown explorer.

The worst sort of scoundrels and hoodlums. Let down your guard for a even a second and they are on you like Klavadogs.

Merchant Karsh

The bell calls from its lonely tower, ringing across the valley. For whom does the bell toll, it tolls for thee...

In these halls men come to worship their one true god...

Gold

Hammered from Stygian steel and inlaid with demonbone and bejeweled with demon jade and black diamonds, the blackest of blackguards are filled with lust and envy to possess this armor

...and a star to steer her by.

In the vein of the other Random Encounter threads, now comes the thread for Oceanic encounters

The Karkos represent an attempt to create a bad guy race with almost no redeeming features, a true villainous species without resorting to established tropes or handwaving.

Pnathic sorcery has existed for ages, crudely used by magi who no idea the true forces they were fumbling with.

That there is a big gun, partner...
Sure is. Feeling lucky?
Uh...no

Creator of the Black Book, the primogen tome of necromancy, few names are as feared or reviled as that of Mastere.

Manufacted during the heyday of the Old World, these rods contain the elemental power of flame.

Ever collecting books, knick-knacks, gewgaws and endless heaps of strange oddments and tidbits

A list of 30 more wines, none of which are vinted by humans, elves, or dwarves.

Gauranteed to protect you from nightmares, hexes, and the diseases of the loins

The art of putting spells within spells.

The township of Ormiros, nestled on a river and in a valley of the same name, is home to an Adventurer-upon-return guildhouse, and more importantly, an academy. Trouble comes when a charming rake defiles the school, defies the guild, and seems poised to take the entire valley as his own. 

A semi mobile fortress placed in the mouths of rivers, bays, and other bodies of water up to several miles off shore

A voice as supple as silk, a face hidden in the shadows of a hood, yet the words she speaks are colder than the grave and burn more furiously than any inferno.