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The March of Stone and Star

Climb a living mountain to save a kingdom, or destroy a god to stop it.

Open-Ended
4 heroes

About this adventure

The Spine of the World has awakened. For three thousand years, the Titan's Rest mountains stood as the unmovable northern boundary of civilization—until three weeks ago, when the peaks began to shudder, to rise, to WALK. Now a colossus of stone and ancient malice strides southward, its every step erasing centuries of history. Kingdoms burn beneath its tread. Refugees choke the roads. And at its heart, the Heart of the Fallen Star pulses with light not seen since the Age of Chains, when gods were weapons and mountains were their armor. You are among the desperate few who have chosen to climb INTO the monster rather than flee before it. The Titan's surface shifts and reconfigures constantly—valleys become walls, passes seal themselves, new peaks erupt from its shoulders overnight. Inside, legend speaks of the Hollow Throne, where the chained god Vorthan the Sky-Breaker dreams in amber and bitterness. Some say he can be reasoned with. Others say the Heart must be shattered, even if it costs the life of whatever divine prisoner still beats within it. The capital of Valdren lies three weeks south. The Titan will reach it in two.

Prologue

You stand where the world used to be. Three days ago, this was farmland—wheat fields, a village, a mill by the river. Now there is only shadow. The sky has been eaten by stone. You tilt your head back and the mountain keeps going, keeps going, until you lose it in clouds that move wrong, that swirl around peaks that breathe. The ground trembles. Not an earthquake. A footstep, somewhere miles ahead. The sound reaches you delayed, a low thunder that settles in your teeth. Others fled south. You are walking north. Toward the shifting cliffs, the grinding valleys, the hollow places where light sometimes bleeds through the rock like a wound that won't close. They say something inside is waking up. They say it can be spoken to, or killed, or freed. They say a lot of things, now that the world is ending.