Forest Mountaintop Throne 20x30 Battle Map | Variant | VTT

Lush green forest waits at the edge of this eroded throne. The poignant smell of earth and moss rises heavily from this ancient site, home to something no-one knows, or remembers—for, behind the stone throne, rises three walls of rock, engraved with ancient runes. Runes which, it is rumoured, change when no-one is watching... It has been said, too, that—sometimes—they glow on approach. 

Adventure Seeds 

•   You have been paid to kill a wyvern, which has been stealing local livestock. But when you track it back to its mountaintop home, you find it being petted by its master; a weathered giant, older than ages the mortal mind can comprehend. He claims that the is  waiting for his queen to return, and tames local animals to hunt for  him, for he requires it for his survival. Whenever they die, he trains a new one—but the wild animals have died off from  plague, and his wyvern has been forced to hunt further and further into  domesticated lands for their survival. 

• Sent to investigate the strange lights dancing at the top of the mountain, you discover glowing purple, blue and red runes. Before them, standing over the corpses of giant and a wyvern, is a dark wizard, chanting in an ancient language. Intent on his work, his followers deal with your party for him. 

• For a large sum, you have been sent from a nearby village to hunt down an unusually large griffon that was seen flying overhead, with some kind of dying, humanoid victim in its claws. The trail of blood and tracks has led you here. Only, when you find the griffon, it has the accoutrements of an elven rider, and you find his master at its side; unconscious, with an arrow in his belly, and a scroll-case by his thigh. But the griffon, enraged by pain, won’t let your party come near without a fight.