The following is an entry
in my series on Ultimate Greyhawk. Much like how comics and
movies will reboot a franchise with a new take on an old concept,
this is my personal re-imagining of the Greyhawk Campaign Setting
beginning with the venerable town of Hommlet.
Key to the Village
The following locations are
numbered based on how they appear on the map of the village of
Hommlet as found in the module T1-4 The Temple of Elemental Evil.
10. Weaver
Veshin and his wife Azina
are weavers. They live with their daughter and her husband as well as four young apprentices, and are followers of St. Cuthbert. The family produces cloth and other typical items one would
expect from a company of weavers but they also guard a powerful secret. Veshin and his wife given enough time and the proper ritual componets can craft and enchant garments, carpets, and tapestries. Some of the treasures they currently possess include a magic flying carpet, tapestries depicting landscapes that act as doorways to distant lands on
Oerth and across the planes. But one tapestry in particular is of great importance. Hidden in the same secret room used to enchant their works is a a massive tapestry depicting the ruins of a ruins located in the Elemental Chaos dedicate to the
Elder Elemental Eye. Followers of the Eye have been searching for this ruin because trapped within its murky depths a powerful ally of the Elder Elemental God slumbers. This
creature and it's entire lair was trapped within the weave because it was too powerful to
defeat. Handed down for generations the weavers are the sole guardians of the tapestry.
“Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any story springs. The threads can always be traced back to some earlier tale, and the tales that preceded that; though as the narrator's voice recedes the connections will seem to grow more tenuous, for each age will want the tale told as if it were of its own making.” -Clive Barker, Weaveworld
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