Preview - King of the Giants
Added 2020-02-28 03:36:30 +0000 UTCThe Sins of Whulmthar Preview:
There is seldom a faster road to damnation than hubris. Such was the case of the ancient frost giant king, Whulmthar the Ruthless. His rise to power was savage and bloody, his fall precipitous and agonizing. The giant council he slew to claim his throne cursed him in their undeath. The crown of never-melting ice he had crafted to designate his rule became his undoing — slowly digging itself into his cranial bone and degrading his mental faculties. Consumed by madness, he drove out his subjects and eventually died alone, slumped on the throne he so coveted in life. His skeletal remains still wear the cursed crown, its foul magic preventing his spirit from leaving the Material Plane. The crumbling throne room is filled with the whispers of those he had wronged: "May you never be separated from that which you paid for in blood." This encounter likely works best as part of a larger dungeon, but it doesn't have to be used that way. Perhaps the party stumbles upon an entirely ruined frost giant keep in the mountains, with the throne room being one of the only remaining areas where the walls still stand. Or perhaps it is a throne of ice on an isolated mountaintop, where Whulmthar was compelled to travel and die by the crown. The details are left to the DM. In this case, the encounter is written to assume the Whulmthar rests in his throne room.
