The Tabernacle at the Crossroads

There's a tabernacle a days travel on foot from the crossroads intersecting the great cities of Madonis, Babilan, and Sowden. The huge rectangular tent, large enough to house a hundred people, can be seen from the road. In front is an altar, set above a roasting fire, for the animal sacrifices. Between the altar and the tent is a horse-sized vase full of water. The tent, altar, and vase are gated and surrounded by hundreds of pilgrimaging believers.

The tabernacle at the crossroads

This is the house of Adom, the god of storms, justice, pillaging, and last resorts.

Adom's twelve disciples live inside the gated tabernacle. The disciples have stats as assassins, being envoys from the Assassin's Guild on Gallows Isle. They guide pilgrims, one at a time, inside the gated area to talk to Adom. 

"Adom"

No one (except the disciples) has seen Adom. He's depicted as an elderly man in red robes with a long, gray beard, a fiery sun glowing behind his head, and spitting lightning at the enemies of his followers. 

When pilgrims enter the gated area they must present an animal sacrifice. The disciples place the animal on the altar. Adom's mighty voice booms from within the tent, inviting the pilgrim to take water from the vase. The vase is the magical container for a greater water elemental that Adom and his disciples abuse. 

The disciples bring the sacrifice inside the tent after the animal cooks and the pilgrim fills their waterskins.

Adom asks the pilgrim what they desire. It usually revolves around revenge, predicting or changing the weather, or enacting general destruction. Then the disciples usher the pilgrim out and invite another inside the gates. The line to speak with Adom is unspeakably long. There's a reason pilgrims camp outside the tabernacle for days, or sometimes weeks. 

Adom is a blue desert dragon. He doesn't think he's tricking the pilgrims: Adom wholeheartedly believes he's divine. His true name is IVNW, which only his disciples know. The name is unpronounceable unless spoken in Celestial. The animal sacrifices are his food, and their carcasses are his hoard. Adom is a spell caster, and can cast Invisibility, Sending, and Scrying as though he were a wizard and a priest. 

At night he flies invisibly out the back of his tent, spreading "justice" and starting storms across Boar Valley. Adom's disciples put up with his delusions, hoping to secure a powerful political ally for the Assassin's Guild. 

Listened to "Dreamboat Annie" by Heart.


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