Temple of the Malevolent Five – Surface Level

The court of the greater demon of hate, Imperator Belraesap, was said to be in the heart of the forbidden city. What remains there now is an ancient temple structure, half taken over by the trees and swamps that have taken over the northeast side of the ancient ruined city.

The great walls around the temple structure remain even after all these ages, with four gates – three gates leading to the lower courtyard, and one leading up over the wall between the statues of the members of the court of Imperator Belraesap (Colonel Ammioth, demon of Contempt; President Leathmael, demon of Resentment; Strategist Hagalel, demon of Vindictive Calculation; and Chancellor Macraxgita, demon of Spiteful Corruption) and then between the four legs of the massive statue of Imperator Belraesap proper.

This path leads to a causeway fifteen feet above the outer courtyard, and almost ten feet above the inner courtyard before leading up further to a doorway high in the wall of the inner structure.

Pools of red-tainted water are before all of the statues of the court, each of these four pools is cursed and anyone drinking from them or submerged into them will acquire this foul curse.

The various dwellers of the forbidden city generally avoid this temple, but occasionally small parties of them can be found in the lower and upper courtyards, but never on the southern causeway as they fear the cursed pools after one of the local warlords was cursed by the waters and died miserably over the next two weeks.

This is one of a set of seven maps that were drawn for a set of upcoming adventures called “Ebonoc-Infinity’s End“. They will be released here over the next few months. I will also announce when the adventures are released and how to get them. The description above is not from the adventure, but is my own interpretation of how to use the map in question.

*The 1200 dpi versions of the map were drawn at a scale of 300 pixels per square and are 12,000 x 15,600 pixels (40 x 52 squares). To use this with most VTTs you would need to resize the squares to either 100 pixels (for 5′ squares) or 200 pixels (for the 10‘ foot squares that this map was designed with) – so resizing the image to 4,000 x 5,200 or 8,000 x 10,400 pixels, respectively.*

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