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People

Acquaintances

Alendru Ghoroven - living - Proprietor of the Unfurling Scroll magic school and shop in Ravengro.

First Appearance The Haunting of Harrowstone

Benjan Caeller - living - Sheriff of Ravengro.

First Appearance The Haunting of Harrowstone

Councilman Gharen Muricar - living - Councilman in Ravengro who ran the party out of the town hall.

First Appearance The Haunting of Harrowstone

Councilman Vashian Hearthmount - living - Councilman in Ravengro who read the last will and testament of Professor Petros Lorrimor.

First Appearance The Haunting of Harrowstone

Councilwoman Shanda Faravan - living - Councilwoman in Ravengro.

First Appearance The Haunting of Harrowstone

Father Vauran Grimburrow - living - High priest of Pharasma in Ravengro.

First Appearance The Haunting of Harrowstone

Gibs Hephenus - living - Curmudgeonly old codger in Ravengro who led the thugs who tried to interrupt Professor Lorrimor's funeral. Lives in the old shack near the statue of Warden Hawkran.

First Appearance The Haunting of Harrowstone

Jominda Fallenbridge - living - Apothecary and alchemist in Ravengro. Rescued from zombies by Gnok Thatek and Irnadette Steelsoul.

First Appearance The Haunting of Harrowstone

Leromar - living - Ravengro deputy.

First Appearance The Haunting of Harrowstone

Marta Avanaki - living - Proprietor of the general store in Ravengro.

First Appearance The Haunting of Harrowstone

Mel the Minstrel - living - Traveling minstrel who stopped in Ravengro on his way to Lepidstadt.

First Appearance The Haunting of Harrowstone

Pevrin Elkarid - living - The post boy in Ravengro and son of Zokar Elkarid.

First Appearance The Haunting of Harrowstone

Riff - living - Ravengro deputy.

First Appearance The Haunting of Harrowstone

Trestleblade - living - Ravengro deputy.

First Appearance The Haunting of Harrowstone

Vrodish - living - Ravengro deputy.

First Appearance The Haunting of Harrowstone

Zokar Elkarid - living - Proprietor of the Laughing Demon tavern in Ravengro and father of Pevrin Elkarid.

First Appearance The Haunting of Harrowstone

Allies

Kendra Lorrimor - living - The 25-year-old diviner daughter of Professor Petros Lorrimor. She resides in Ravengro and is originally from Lepidstadt.

First Appearance The Haunting of Harrowstone

Professor Petros Lorrimor - deceased - An old friend and contact to each member of the original party and father to Kendra Lorrimor. His murder led to the funeral which brought the party together in Ravengro.
Vesorianna Hawkran - deceased - Ghostly wife of Warden Hawkran of Harrowstone Prison. She claims to have some ability to curtail the power of the Five Prisoners but needs the PCs to put the spirits to their final rests.

First Appearance The Haunting of Harrowstone

Enemies

Hean Feramin, The Splatter Man - deceased - Professor Feramin was a celebrated scholar of Anthroponomastics (the study of personal names and their origins) at the Quartrefaux Archives in Caliphas. Yet an accidental association with a succubus twisted and warped his study, turning it into an obsession. Feramin became obsessed with the power of a name and how he could use it to terrify and control. Soon enough, his reputation was ruined, he'd lost his tenure, and he'd developed an uncontrollable obsession with an imaginary link between a person's name and what happens to that name when the person dies. Every few days, he would secretly arrange for his victim to find a letter from her name written in blood, perhaps smeared on a wall or spelled out with carefully arranged entrails. Once he had spelled his victim's name, he would at last come for her, killing her in a gory mess using a complex trap or series of rigged events meant to look like an accident.

First Appearance The Haunting of Harrowstone
Affiliations The Five Prisoners

Ispin Onyxcudgel, The Mosswater Marauder - deceased - Only 5 years before his hometown of Mosswater was destined to be overrun and ruined by monsters from the nearby river, Ispin Onyxcudgel was a well-liked artisan and a doting husband. When he discovered his wife's infidelity, he flew into a jealous rage and struck her dead with his hammer, shattering her skull and his sanity with one murderous blow. Wracked with shame and guilt, Ispin became convinced that if he could rebuild his wife's skull she would come back to life—but unfortunately, he could not find the last blade-shaped fragment from the murder site. So instead, Ispin became the Mosswater Marauder. Over the course of several weeks, the cunning dwarf stalked and murdered nearly 20 people while searching for just the right skull fragment. He was captured just before murdering the daughter of a visiting nobleman from Varno, and was carted off to Harrowstone that same night.

First Appearance The Haunting of Harrowstone
Affiliations The Five Prisoners

The Piper of Illmarsh - deceased - Before he snatched his victims, the Piper taunted his targets with a mournful dirge on his flute. He preferred to paralyze lone victims by dosing their meals with lich dust and then allowed his pet stirges to drink the victims dry of blood.

First Appearance The Haunting of Harrowstone
Affiliations The Five Prisoners

Sefick Corvin, Father Charlatan - deceased - Of the five notorious prisoners, only Father Charlatan was not technically a murderer, yet his crimes were so blasphemous that several churches demanded he be punished to the full extent of Ustalavic law. Although he claimed to be an ordained priest of any number of faiths, Father Corvin was in fact a traveling con artist who used faith as a mask and a means to bilk the faithful out of money in payment for false miracles or cures. He became known as Father Charlatan after his scheme was exposed and his Sczarni accomplices murdered a half-dozen city guards in an attempt to make good the group's escape.

First Appearance The Haunting of Harrowstone
Affiliations The Five Prisoners

Tar-Baphon, The Whispering Tyrant - deceased - Tar-Baphon was a mortal slain by Aroden in 896 AR. Tar-Baphon returned to life as a lich and became known as the Whispering Tyrant in 3203 AR. In a battle against Tar-Baphon the Knights of Ozem summoned Arazni to assist. Tar-Baphon captured, tortured, and then found a way to kill her (3823 AR). The Knights of Ozem, led by General Arnisant, defeated Tar-Baphon in battle and imprisoned him beneath his fortress Gallowspire in west Ustalav (3827 AR).

Affiliations The Whispering Way

Vance Saetressle, The Lopper - deceased - When the Lopper stalked prey, he would hide in the most unlikely of places, sometimes for days upon end with only a few supplies to keep him going while he waited for the exact right moment to strike. Once his target was alone, the Lopper would emerge to savagely behead his victim with a handaxe.

First Appearance The Haunting of Harrowstone
Affiliations The Five Prisoners

Groups

The Five Prisoners - Originally, Harrowstone housed only local criminals, but as the prison's fame spread, other counties and distant lands began paying to have more dangerous criminals housed within this prison's walls. At the time of the great Harrowstone Fire, the number of particularly violent or dangerous criminals imprisoned within the dungeons below was at an all-time high. The five most notorious prisoners in Harrowstone at the time of the great fire were Father Charlatan, the Lopper, the Mosswater Marauder, the Piper of Illmarsh, and the Splatter Man.
Put her body on the bed.
Take a knife and lop her head.

Watch the blood come out the pipe.
Feeds the stirge, so nice and ripe.

Drops of red so sparkly bright.
Splatters spell her name just right.

With a hammer killed his wife.
Now he wants to claim your life.

Tricksy father tells a lie.
Listen close or you will die.

The Whispering Way - The Whispering Way is a sinister organization of necromancers that has been active in the Inner Sea region for thousands of years. Agents of the Whispering Way often seek alliances with undead creatures, or are themselves undead. The Whispering Way's most notorious member was Tar-Baphon, the Whispering Tyrant, although the society itself has existed much longer than even that mighty necromancer. The Whispering Way itself is a series of philosophies that can only be transferred via whispers—the philosophies are never written or spoken of loudly, making the exact goals and nature of the secretive philosophy difficult for outsiders to learn much about. Exact details on the society are difficult to discern, but chief among the Whispering Way's goals are discovering formulae for creating liches and engineering the release of the Whispering Tyrant. Agents often travel to remote sites or areas plagued by notorious haunts or undead menaces to perform field research or even to capture unique monsters. Their symbol is a gagged skull, and those who learn too many of the Way's secrets are often murdered, and their mouths mutilated to prevent their bodies from divulging secrets via speak with dead.

Gods

Arazni - living (no longer a god) - The Harlot Queen - A deity named Arazni the Red Crusader served as the herald of Aroden until slain by Tar-Baphon. Her body was entombed but later stolen by the wizard-king Geb who turned her into an undead monster as his bride (3890 AR). She became known as the Harlot Queen and still exists to this day.

Affiliations Aroden

Aroden - deceased - The Last Azlanti - One of the greatest and most prominent deities of Golarion, he apparently died approximately 100 years ago and was replaced by Iomedae. Aroden, mighty deity of good, mortally wounded Tar-Baphon on the Isle of Terror in the center of Lake Encarthan (896 AR). Ustalav is one of several nations bordering this enormous lake.

Affiliations Arazni, Iomedae

Gozreh - living - The Wind and the Waves - Neutral - Gozreh is a fickle nature and weather deity with multiple aspects. At sea, she is venerated as a woman with flowing hair merging with the ocean. On land, he is venerated as an aging man emerging from the storm clouds.

Iomedae - living - The Inheritor - Lawful Good - A mortal who completed the Test of the Starstone and promoted to Aroden's herald in 3832 AR. She took Aroden's place following his apparent death. Iomedae was a Knight of Ozem and a key figure in many battles against the evil Whispering Tyrant.

Affiliations Aroden

Irori - living - Master of Masters - Lawful Neutral - Irori is said to once have been a mortal who attained divinity by achieving absolute physical and mental perfection. Thus, many followers are monks. Minor rivalry with deities Cayden Cailean, Iomedae, and Norgorber, because unlike them he achieved divinity wihtout the aid of a magical artifact.

Nethys - living - The All-Seeing Eye - Neutral - Nethys, the god of magic, is said to once have been a mighty sorcerer who gained vast knowledge through his magic and achieved divinity; however, his knowledge split his psyche into two minds. One seeks to destroy the world and the other to protect it. Some worshipers and churches adopt a balance while others are more dedicated to one aspect or the other.

Pharasma - living - Lady of Graves - Neutral - Pharasma judges all who die and sends their souls to the appropriate fate. Those unworthy of an afterlife are cast upon Pharasma's Boneyard.

Shelyn - living - The Eternal Rose - Neutral Good - Sheyln is the goddess of love, beauty, art, and music who encourages her faithful to create something of beauty every day. Red accented with silver is her preferred color, and her followers view songbirds as sacred.

People
Acquaintances Alendru Ghoroven - living - Proprietor of the Unfurling Scroll magic school and shop in Ravengro. First Appearance The Haunting of Harrowstone Benjan Caeller - living - Sheriff of Ravengro. First Appearance The Haunting of Harrowstone Councilman Gharen Muricar - living - Councilman in Ravengro who ran the party out of the town hall. First Appearance The Haunting of Harrowstone Councilman Vashian Hearthmount - living - Councilman in Ravengro who read the last will and testament of Professor Petros Lorrimor. First Appearance The Haunting of Harrowstone Councilwoman Shanda Faravan - living - Councilwoman in Ravengro. First Appearance The Haunting of Harrowstone Father Vauran Grimburrow - living - High priest of Pharasma in Ravengro. First Appearance The Haunting of Harrowstone Gibs Hephenus - living - Curmudgeonly old codger in Ravengro who led the thugs who tried to interrupt Professor Lorrimor's funeral. Lives in the old shack near the statue of Warden Hawkran. First Appearance The Haunting of Harrowstone Jominda Fallenbridge - living - Apothecary and alchemist in Ravengro. Rescued from zombies by Gnok Thatek and Irnadette Steelsoul. First Appearance The Haunting of Harrowstone Leromar - living - Ravengro deputy. First Appearance The Haunting of Harrowstone Marta Avanaki - living - Proprietor of the general store in Ravengro. First Appearance The Haunting of Harrowstone Mel the Minstrel - living - Traveling minstrel who stopped in Ravengro on his way to Lepidstadt. First Appearance The Haunting of Harrowstone Pevrin Elkarid - living - The post boy in Ravengro and son of Zokar Elkarid. First Appearance The Haunting of Harrowstone Riff - living - Ravengro deputy. First Appearance The Haunting of Harrowstone Trestleblade - living - Ravengro deputy. First Appearance The Haunting of Harrowstone Vrodish - living - Ravengro deputy. First Appearance The Haunting of Harrowstone Zokar Elkarid - living - Proprietor of the Laughing Demon tavern in Ravengro and father of Pevrin Elkarid. First Appearance The Haunting of Harrowstone Allies Kendra Lorrimor - living - The 25-year-old diviner daughter of Professor Petros Lorrimor. She resides in Ravengro and is originally from Lepidstadt. First Appearance The Haunting of Harrowstone Professor Petros Lorrimor - deceased - An old friend and contact to each member of the original party and father to Kendra Lorrimor. His murder led to the funeral which brought the party together in Ravengro. Vesorianna Hawkran - deceased - Ghostly wife of Warden Hawkran of Harrowstone Prison. She claims to have some ability to curtail the power of the Five Prisoners but needs the PCs to put the spirits to their final rests. First Appearance The Haunting of Harrowstone Enemies Hean Feramin, The Splatter Man - deceased - Professor Feramin was a celebrated scholar of Anthroponomastics (the study of personal names and their origins) at the Quartrefaux Archives in Caliphas. Yet an accidental association with a succubus twisted and warped his study, turning it into an obsession. Feramin became obsessed with the power of a name and how he could use it to terrify and control. Soon enough, his reputation was ruined, he'd lost his tenure, and he'd developed an uncontrollable obsession with an imaginary link between a person's name and what happens to that name when the person dies. Every few days, he would secretly arrange for his victim to find a letter from her name written in blood, perhaps smeared on a wall or spelled out with carefully arranged entrails. Once he had spelled his victim's name, he would at last come for her, killing her in a gory mess using a complex trap or series of rigged events meant to look like an accident. First Appearance The Haunting of Harrowstone Affiliations The Five Prisoners Ispin Onyxcudgel, The Mosswater Marauder - deceased - Only 5 years before his hometown of Mosswater was destined to be overrun and ruined by monsters from the nearby river, Ispin Onyxcudgel was a well-liked artisan and a doting husband. When he discovered his wife's infidelity, he flew into a jealous rage and struck her dead with his hammer, shattering her skull and his sanity with one murderous blow. Wracked with shame and guilt, Ispin became convinced that if he could rebuild his wife's skull she would come back to life—but unfortunately, he could not find the last blade-shaped fragment from the murder site. So instead, Ispin became the Mosswater Marauder. Over the course of several weeks, the cunning dwarf stalked and murdered nearly 20 people while searching for just the right skull fragment. He was captured just before murdering the daughter of a visiting nobleman from Varno, and was carted off to Harrowstone that same night. First Appearance The Haunting of Harrowstone Affiliations The Five Prisoners The Piper of Illmarsh - deceased - Before he snatched his victims, the Piper taunted his targets with a mournful dirge on his flute. He preferred to paralyze lone victims by dosing their meals with lich dust and then allowed his pet stirges to drink the victims dry of blood. First Appearance The Haunting of Harrowstone Affiliations The Five Prisoners Sefick Corvin, Father Charlatan - deceased - Of the five notorious prisoners, only Father Charlatan was not technically a murderer, yet his crimes were so blasphemous that several churches demanded he be punished to the full extent of Ustalavic law. Although he claimed to be an ordained priest of any number of faiths, Father Corvin was in fact a traveling con artist who used faith as a mask and a means to bilk the faithful out of money in payment for false miracles or cures. He became known as Father Charlatan after his scheme was exposed and his Sczarni accomplices murdered a half-dozen city guards in an attempt to make good the group's escape. First Appearance The Haunting of Harrowstone Affiliations The Five Prisoners Tar-Baphon, The Whispering Tyrant - deceased - Tar-Baphon was a mortal slain by Aroden in 896 AR. Tar-Baphon returned to life as a lich and became known as the Whispering Tyrant in 3203 AR. In a battle against Tar-Baphon the Knights of Ozem summoned Arazni to assist. Tar-Baphon captured, tortured, and then found a way to kill her (3823 AR). The Knights of Ozem, led by General Arnisant, defeated Tar-Baphon in battle and imprisoned him beneath his fortress Gallowspire in west Ustalav (3827 AR). Affiliations The Whispering Way Vance Saetressle, The Lopper - deceased - When the Lopper stalked prey, he would hide in the most unlikely of places, sometimes for days upon end with only a few supplies to keep him going while he waited for the exact right moment to strike. Once his target was alone, the Lopper would emerge to savagely behead his victim with a handaxe. First Appearance The Haunting of Harrowstone Affiliations The Five Prisoners Groups The Five Prisoners - Originally, Harrowstone housed only local criminals, but as the prison's fame spread, other counties and distant lands began paying to have more dangerous criminals housed within this prison's walls. At the time of the great Harrowstone Fire, the number of particularly violent or dangerous criminals imprisoned within the dungeons below was at an all-time high. The five most notorious prisoners in Harrowstone at the time of the great fire were Father Charlatan, the Lopper, the Mosswater Marauder, the Piper of Illmarsh, and the Splatter Man. Put her body on the bed. Take a knife and lop her head. Watch the blood come out the pipe. Feeds the stirge, so nice and ripe. Drops of red so sparkly bright. Splatters spell her name just right. With a hammer killed his wife. Now he wants to claim your life. Tricksy father tells a lie. Listen close or you will die. The Whispering Way - The Whispering Way is a sinister organization of necromancers that has been active in the Inner Sea region for thousands of years. Agents of the Whispering Way often seek alliances with undead creatures, or are themselves undead. The Whispering Way's most notorious member was Tar-Baphon, the Whispering Tyrant, although the society itself has existed much longer than even that mighty necromancer. The Whispering Way itself is a series of philosophies that can only be transferred via whispers—the philosophies are never written or spoken of loudly, making the exact goals and nature of the secretive philosophy difficult for outsiders to learn much about. Exact details on the society are difficult to discern, but chief among the Whispering Way's goals are discovering formulae for creating liches and engineering the release of the Whispering Tyrant. Agents often travel to remote sites or areas plagued by notorious haunts or undead menaces to perform field research or even to capture unique monsters. Their symbol is a gagged skull, and those who learn too many of the Way's secrets are often murdered, and their mouths mutilated to prevent their bodies from divulging secrets via speak with dead. Gods Arazni - living (no longer a god) - The Harlot Queen - A deity named Arazni the Red Crusader served as the herald of Aroden until slain by Tar-Baphon. Her body was entombed but later stolen by the wizard-king Geb who turned her into an undead monster as his bride (3890 AR). She became known as the Harlot Queen and still exists to this day. Affiliations Aroden Aroden - deceased - The Last Azlanti - One of the greatest and most prominent deities of Golarion, he apparently died approximately 100 years ago and was replaced by Iomedae. Aroden, mighty deity of good, mortally wounded Tar-Baphon on the Isle of Terror in the center of Lake Encarthan (896 AR). Ustalav is one of several nations bordering this enormous lake. Affiliations Arazni, Iomedae Gozreh - living - The Wind and the Waves - Neutral - Gozreh is a fickle nature and weather deity with multiple aspects. At sea, she is venerated as a woman with flowing hair merging with the ocean. On land, he is venerated as an aging man emerging from the storm clouds. Iomedae - living - The Inheritor - Lawful Good - A mortal who completed the Test of the Starstone and promoted to Aroden's herald in 3832 AR. She took Aroden's place following his apparent death. Iomedae was a Knight of Ozem and a key figure in many battles against the evil Whispering Tyrant. Affiliations Aroden Irori - living - Master of Masters - Lawful Neutral - Irori is said to once have been a mortal who attained divinity by achieving absolute physical and mental perfection. Thus, many followers are monks. Minor rivalry with deities Cayden Cailean, Iomedae, and Norgorber, because unlike them he achieved divinity wihtout the aid of a magical artifact. Nethys - living - The All-Seeing Eye - Neutral - Nethys, the god of magic, is said to once have been a mighty sorcerer who gained vast knowledge through his magic and achieved divinity; however, his knowledge split his psyche into two minds. One seeks to destroy the world and the other to protect it. Some worshipers and churches adopt a balance while others are more dedicated to one aspect or the other. Pharasma - living - Lady of Graves - Neutral - Pharasma judges all who die and sends their souls to the appropriate fate. Those unworthy of an afterlife are cast upon Pharasma's Boneyard. Shelyn - living - The Eternal Rose - Neutral Good - Sheyln is the goddess of love, beauty, art, and music who encourages her faithful to create something of beauty every day. Red accented with silver is her preferred color, and her followers view songbirds as sacred.

Places

Adventure Sites

Harrowstone Prison - Harrowstone is a ruined prison—partially destroyed by a fire in 4661, the building has stood vacant ever since. The locals suspect that it's haunted, and don't enjoy speaking of the place. Harrowstone was built in 4594. Ravengro was founded at the same time as a place where guards and their families could live and that would produce food and other supplies used by the prison. The fire that killed all of the prisoners and most of the guards destroyed a large portion of the prison's underground eastern wing, but left most of the stone structure above relatively intact. The prison's warden perished in the fire, along with his wife, although no one knows why she was in the prison when the fire occurred. A statue commemorating the warden and the guards who lost their lives was built in the months after the tragedy—that statue still stands on the riverbank just outside of town. At the time Harrowstone burned, five particularly notorious criminals had recently arrived at the prison. While the commonly held belief is that the tragic fire began accidentally after the riot began, in fact the prisoners had already seized control of the dungeon and had been in command of the lower level for several hours before the fire. Warden Hawkran triggered a deadfall to seal the rioting prisoners in the lower level, but in so doing trapped himself and nearly two dozen guards. The prisoners were in the process of escaping when the panicked guards accidentally started the fire in a desperate attempt to end the riot.

Cities

Lepidstadt - One of the larger cities in Ustalav and home of the famed Lepidstadt University.

Ravengro - This small town was built in 4594 AR to support Harrowstone Prison. Even though the prison burned, the town continues on.

Places
Adventure Sites Harrowstone Prison - Harrowstone is a ruined prison—partially destroyed by a fire in 4661, the building has stood vacant ever since. The locals suspect that it's haunted, and don't enjoy speaking of the place. Harrowstone was built in 4594. Ravengro was founded at the same time as a place where guards and their families could live and that would produce food and other supplies used by the prison. The fire that killed all of the prisoners and most of the guards destroyed a large portion of the prison's underground eastern wing, but left most of the stone structure above relatively intact. The prison's warden perished in the fire, along with his wife, although no one knows why she was in the prison when the fire occurred. A statue commemorating the warden and the guards who lost their lives was built in the months after the tragedy—that statue still stands on the riverbank just outside of town. At the time Harrowstone burned, five particularly notorious criminals had recently arrived at the prison. While the commonly held belief is that the tragic fire began accidentally after the riot began, in fact the prisoners had already seized control of the dungeon and had been in command of the lower level for several hours before the fire. Warden Hawkran triggered a deadfall to seal the rioting prisoners in the lower level, but in so doing trapped himself and nearly two dozen guards. The prisoners were in the process of escaping when the panicked guards accidentally started the fire in a desperate attempt to end the riot. Cities Lepidstadt - One of the larger cities in Ustalav and home of the famed Lepidstadt University. Ravengro - This small town was built in 4594 AR to support Harrowstone Prison. Even though the prison burned, the town continues on.

Things

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