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  1 Arongai’s Sun Temple
  2 Captain’s Dockyard
  3 Dakovak Tavern 
  4 Lilypad Clinic
  5 Madman’s Mansion
  6 Marlino & Son 
  7 Nectars of Prios
  8 New Town Park
  9   Nightbane Cemetery
  10   The Ambrian  
    Conservatory 
  11   The Camp Caverns
  12   The Cistern
  13   The Goodwill Society 
  14   The Keep 
  15   The Oracles 
  16   The Three  
     Auctioneers 
  17   The Unseen Bank
  18   The Velvet Lodge  
  19   Twilight Retreat
  20   Wide-Eye  
    Investigations
  
  The Secrets
  of Yndaros
  Text: Niklas Lundmark Icons: Lars Strömquist Map: Tobias Tranell
  “The Silver Tree is not just ornamental. 
  There’s a vast tomb beneath!” 
  “By Prios, some statues appear to be weeping. 
  Every moon or so.”
  the ambrian conservatory
  “The music masters are too harsh on their 
  students. Brutal. Cruel. But no one will 
  expose them.”
  “Old Master Vigaro is the finest composer 
  alive. Some would even call his talents… 
  unnatural…” 
  “The Conservatory was approached by the 
  Queen’s Rangers. There’s some kind of collab-
  oration going on.”
  “A student said something about a great ar-
  chive of barbarian chants, elven harmonies, 
  even troll songs. Lies, I’m sure…”
  the camp caverns
  ”The refugees have excavated a huge under-
  ground area beneath the camp site, where 
  they can do whatever they want without 
  being detected by the Watch.”
  “A distant relative of the Queen rules the 
  Caverns, living like a King down there, the 
  Cavern King they call him. Rich as a troll, 
  but disgraced. That’s why he is hiding.
  “I am pretty sure those caverns are nothing 
  but a garrison, with provisions, weapons, ar-
  mor and other things Captain Kathia needs 
  for the rebellion. It will be a slaughter…”
  “Believe you me, when the refugees speak of the 
  ‘Black Market’, they are referring to the Cav-
  erns. You can find ANYTHING down there!”
  the cistern
  “Someone has poisoned the water supply, I’m 
  sure of it! It’s even changed color!”
  “The guards have stopped going down to the 
  cistern itself. They seem scared…”
  “The place is infested with tiny lizard crea-
  tures. Tiny but numerous beyond count.”
  “You didn’t hear it from me, but there’s a 
  secret passageway leading all the way to the 
  palace.”
  the Goodwill society
  “The place may not look like much, but they 
  have stupendous resources, especially for 
  being a charity…”
  “Such kind souls! They’ve helped lots of refu-
  gees and beggars off the street, for good.”
  “The government is trying to shut them down. 
  Why? To keep us in the gutter, of course!”
  ”Goodwill, my foot! It’s all a scam by Captain 
  Kathia and her rabble!”
  ”My cousin started donating, just a little. 
  Then more. Then everything. Bastards drove 
  him mad.”
  the Keep
  “The door never opens. Ever. Yet the City 
  Watch keeps it guarded at all times.”
  “There the Watch keeps prisoners, and weap-
  ons, they don’t want us to know about.”
  “Not long ago, a prisoner escaped the Keep. 
  But the authorities covered it up.”
  “The place is a hellhole of torture and death. 
  Haunted, by the souls of the murdered…”
  the oracles
  “The Oracles know everything. Your past, 
  present, and future. Even your dreams.”
  “One of the Oracles went missing a while 
  back. Kidnapped by Odbolg, they say…”
  “Don’t buy their crystal orbs! They work 
  alright, but at a terrible, terrible cost…” 
  “Those hags are no soothsayers, but puppets 
  of a dark spirit. Yet the church does nothing!”
  “The real secret is the well in their backyard. 
  That’s where they go each night.”
  the three auctioneers
  ”They are even auctioning slaves, late at 
  night. But only the richest are invited.”
  “Their antiques have not been examined by 
  Ordo Magica! Some are fake, others down-
  right dangerous.”
  ”The three brothers are not really the owners, 
  you know. Just employed, by some dwarf.”
  “Their guard, Morgo, is as huge and ugly as a 
  troll. In fact, he is a troll!”
  the unseen banK
  “There’s no safer place to store money and 
  items, as the vaults are only visible to the 
  Bankers.”
  “A man-eating monster is locked inside one of 
  the vaults… Or was it a monstrous man?”
  “The actual vaults are not in the building, 
  but in an underground maze.”
  “Something is shielding the bank from mysti-
  cal influence. Magic is useless in there.”
  “The guard force can’t be human. They’re too 
  skilled. And they never say a word.”
  the velvet lodGe
  “During the day it’s a respectable club for 
  nobles and fat cats; at night, a place of un-
  speakable depravity.”
  “Membership requires an invitation. And 
  that you pass the Ordeal, of course. Unless 
  you are royalty…”
  “It’s like a sect! Members who talk about 
  what happens there are severely punished.”
  “The founding members bribe the Watch to 
  stay away. The Lodge makes its own laws.”
  twiliGht retreat
  “They’re taking great care of the old, but don’t 
  allow visitors for more than an hour a week.”
  “The patients seem to grow notably stronger, 
  even younger… Much younger.”
  “Some say the place was built on a Lindarian 
  burial ground. Can’t be good.”
  “One night, a friend saw corpses being hauled 
  from there. But no patients ever seem to die.”
  “Matron Solana is really a master alchemist. 
  Maybe a witch. She just pretends not to be.”
  wide-eye investiGations
  “Orlinda Wide-Eye is a terrible investigator. 
  But now she’s stumbled upon something she 
  shouldn’t have.”
  “She’s just pretending to be inept, when real-
  ly she’s spying for the Realm of the Order!”
  “Believe me, she’s not working alone. Her office 
  building is the base of an entire organization.”
  “The door to the office is protected by power-
  ful magic. Talk about paranoia!”
  aronGai’s sun temple
   “Father Arongai owes everyone money. He 
  says he’s being blackmailed, but he’s just a 
  degenerate gambler.”
  “One of the initiates is plotting to replace the 
  good father. She’s aiming for the very top.”
  “Their famous relic is a fake. The real one 
  was lost, though the church won’t admit it.”
  “That pig-eyed drunk Arongai harbors apos-
  tates and heretics! If only I could prove it…”
  captain’s docKyard
  “The Captain presents himself as a war hero, 
  but he’s nothing but a looting deserter…”
  “An armada of freight ships has been coming 
  in lately, flying unknown flags.”
  “A ‘special vessel’ is under constant construc-
  tion, ‘cause someone keeps burning it down.”
  “Some boys at the shipyard are in league 
  with pirates… Maybe the Captain is too.”
  daKovaK tavern
  “There was this guy who ate there all the time. 
  He was never sick, tired or even in a bad mood. 
  Until he snapped! Good thing the watchmen 
  got to him quickly, or more would have died…”
  “Yes, it is named after a legendary site in 
  Dark Davokar. You know why? Because it is 
  owned by the elves, and it is full of spies!”
  “You think the staff is human, but that’s just 
  what those changelings want you to believe. 
  Changelings, all of them!”
  “I’ve heard that the food really tastes horri-
  bly; that the delicious taste is nothing but an 
  illusion. True perfection is never that cheap!”
  lilypad clinic
  “The chief medicus is a great surgeon, but he’s 
  too obsessed with making people beautiful…”
  “There’s a laboratory where beggars are used 
  as guinea pigs!” 
  “The exotic herbs being grown in the green-
  house are quite rare, if not unique.”
  “If you look closely, you’ll see that the goblin 
  helpers all have the same scar on their fore-
  heads…”
  “There’s a foul stench coming from the back-
  room. Like nothing I’ve ever smelt.”
  madman’s mansion
  “The owner lost his family long ago – murdered 
  them, according to some. Hence the nickname.”
   “I heard he’s one of the richest people in the 
  city. Imagine the treasures he left behind!”
  “The Madman is still alive! He never comes 
  out, but I saw someone in an upstairs window.”
  “Apparently there’s a secret entrance some-
  where. A woman I heard of found it, but 
  never returned.”
  “The house is cursed. The Madman wasn’t its 
  first victim, and he won’t be its last.”
  marlino & son
  “Marlino’s trading house is almost bankrupt, 
  because of his son’s drug abuse!”
  “There’s talk of an illegitimate daughter 
  laying claim to the company.”
  “Marlino’s wife had another kid, but you 
  never see it. I heard there’s something wrong 
  with it…”
  “Someone keeps painting strange symbols on 
  their front door and walls.”
  “From what I’ve heard, they’re peddling 
  contraband on the side.”
  nectars of prios
  “Their wine, the White Nectar, is amazing. But 
  the best stuff is kept secret… The Black Nectar.”
  “You’re not allowed to leave the mansion with 
  a bottle. You gotta drink it then and there.” 
  “It doesn’t taste like you’d expect. It barely 
  tastes like wine. I’m not even sure it is!”
  “The grapes are grown deep underground, 
  among the ruins of Lindaros, or deeper…”
  new town parK
  “Several youngsters have died in the park 
  in just a few days. No bruises, no blood, no 
  nothing.”
  “I swear, there was this strange light at the 
  bottom of the pond…”
  “The squirrels in the park have gone m-mur-
  derous! The birds too! I’m not crazy!”
  “More and more trees appear to be dying, 
  fast. Ordo Magica can’t explain it.”
  niGhtbane cemetery
  “It’s true, there are ghosts hiding in the mist 
  of the cemetery. But they mean us no harm.”
  “Some nights, a strange group gathers 
  around the statue of Ofelya Attio. And they 
  sure aren’t priests.”
  “Listen, don’t talk to the Undertaker. And 
  don’t look him in the eye. He’ll bury you!”
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  locations is entirely up to you – you decide 
  which rumors are true and which are not. 
  Our suggestion would be that you vary: 
  arriving in the site, the characters will so-
  metimes find that all the rumors they have 
  heard are true, sometimes that only one 
  or two of them are, and sometimes that 
  everything they have been told is comple-
  tely misleading.
  
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