In the interplay between nations, espionage has always been a tool of statecraft. Those realms with magic have opened to them many more tools for application to spycraft.

The villagers paid dearly after they slew the stuttering old crone!

I tell you, I get this itch on my lip when I think about Sgriob and the waters of the casks…

Captain Wandren, Ship’s logs

A tree, a length of rope, and a (maybe not so) innocent victim.
Wotcha gonna do?

A masterpiece of religious architecture and a major center of learning in the last era, The Monastery is still considered a place of reverence, especially for those who love the written word.

A man of extremes

Extras and alternate 'headliners' for The Carnival of Forgotten Souls and other traveling shows

Everyone who's young, beautiful and wealthy in the kingdom, owns a few pieces of master-work by this almost legendary craftsman. If you're a young woman that wants to dazzle everyone at the banquet, you'd better not be seen without your Rustof jewelry.

Here, have a sup, just two piece of silver.

The heroes encounter prisoner-slaves and their masters

Wherever the PCs have gone recently, they have heard the talk. The Doomsday Machine of Toothless Amalgam has stopped spitting out birdseed. The End is nigh.

The bard tuned his lyre for the 5th time. He looked at his reflection in the mirror. Ancient eyes greeted him. This would be his last performance, it had to be perfect.

Once opened, a Door of Entrance can only be shut by closing it
- Dum the Obvious, Things I've Read About

The blade of the adamant blossom...

Sound the call of alarm and light the fires in the trenches, the time for war is upon you!

It is a small, peaceful village like so many others. Do you wonder who lives inside?

Queens of the forest, the Loru Valsharris are respected by elf, dryad, and ent alike.

The grim and often belligerent denizens of the Grand Duchy of Nyir

A rod... that can control other rods? Sounds great... if it works. And if you can find it.

Tales are leaking from below the Iron Hills, that an unnamed winged terror can be seen on the sky on the darkest of nights. What creature it is, nobody knows, but some of the disappearances in the harsh place are said to be its work. If the moon is hidden, nightly travellers are warned to stay from roads and open places.