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The Courts of Chaos - Lords of Madness Part IV (Patreon)

Published:

2021-02-23 06:53:44

Imported:

2023-11

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The final chapter of the LORDS OF MADNESS series is finally here!

THE COURTS OF CHAOS

The Courts of Chaos is a Fifth Edition adventure intended for three to five characters of 6th to 8th level and is optimized for four characters with an average party level (APL) of 7. Characters who complete this adventure should earn enough experience to reach one-third of the way to level 8. A powerful mage has entered the plane of chaos and absorbed the raw energy into himself. He has crowned himself a Prince of Chaos and plans to invade the material realm with an army of aberrations. This adventure takes place in the Freelands campaign setting but fits into any existing campaign that allows access to the elemental plane of chaos with only a few modifications. This adventure ends with a challenging boss fight that may result in total party kills.

BACKGROUND

A group of mages calling themselves the Circle of Five have ripped a tear in the very fabric of reality and into the plane of elemental chaos. While his four companions stayed behind to fall into madness, one of the mages entered the plane directly to better feast from the chaotic energy. There he has grown engorged with chaos and become a monstrosity — any shred of any humanity he had left has been obliterated.

The denizens of chaos have started to ally themselves with this new Chaos Mage who entered their realm. With the rift to the material plane still open, they call out across chaos to draw an army strong enough to flood through and cover the Freelands in madness.

ABOUT THE COURTS OF CHAOS

Thoveus is the last of the Circle of Five mages still alive — the others all victims of their greed and avarice. Once the pupils of the Master Elemental Mage Drazor, Thoveus and his band of apprentices opened the chaos rift and tainted the lands around them, resulting in their former master’s descent into madness and subsequent death.

Now deformed beyond recognition from the chaos energy pulsing through his body, the pupil has surpassed the master in pure power. Thoveus has crowned himself a Prince of Chaos and used the power at his command to construct an umbral fortress around the rift he helped create. Chaos creatures flock to his banner, and the area around the fort is becoming filled with a nightmare army.