Post by DM Leverage on Mar 22, 2012 7:17:36 GMT -5
Baraskur
Named for a great orc hero of the tribe's past, this mountainside stronghold of caves strung along a winding cliffside road is the main settlement of the Ripped Gut orcs. It's located on the south side of Orcsblood Peak, between Deadsnows and Sundabar. Raiding parties from Baraskur plague Moon Pass to the west, Turnstone Pass to the south, and the Fork Road to the north.
A very unusual guardian watches over the Ripped Gut orcs. Centuries ago, an outcast human sorcerer named Aumathra sought refuge with the tribe. Aumathra died centuries ago, but her spirit occasionally becomes restless. The Ripped Gut orcs have found that they can placate Aumathra (CE female human ghost Sor14) by providing a tall, slender human woman with dark hair and skill at magic - someone resembling Aumathra's own long-dead body - for the ghost to possess. When the ghost grows restless, the orcs search for a woman of the right appearance and go to great lengths to capture her alive, in order to bring her before Aumathra's ghost in a dark ceremony.
Aumathra may possess her unfortunate victim for a few days, before abandoning her amusements and lying quiet again, or she may hold her host for months. The orcs refer to the host as the Mouth of Aumauthra, and they carefully guard her during those times when the ghost is unable or unwilling to assert control. During the time when Aumathra possesses a body, she spends much time ransacking nearby ruins and tombs, searching for something she cannot find when she doesn't have a body, while commanding the Ripped Gut orcs as if they were her abject slaves.
Source ; Forgotten Realms - The Silver Marches 3.5; pg 12
Named for a great orc hero of the tribe's past, this mountainside stronghold of caves strung along a winding cliffside road is the main settlement of the Ripped Gut orcs. It's located on the south side of Orcsblood Peak, between Deadsnows and Sundabar. Raiding parties from Baraskur plague Moon Pass to the west, Turnstone Pass to the south, and the Fork Road to the north.
A very unusual guardian watches over the Ripped Gut orcs. Centuries ago, an outcast human sorcerer named Aumathra sought refuge with the tribe. Aumathra died centuries ago, but her spirit occasionally becomes restless. The Ripped Gut orcs have found that they can placate Aumathra (CE female human ghost Sor14) by providing a tall, slender human woman with dark hair and skill at magic - someone resembling Aumathra's own long-dead body - for the ghost to possess. When the ghost grows restless, the orcs search for a woman of the right appearance and go to great lengths to capture her alive, in order to bring her before Aumathra's ghost in a dark ceremony.
Aumathra may possess her unfortunate victim for a few days, before abandoning her amusements and lying quiet again, or she may hold her host for months. The orcs refer to the host as the Mouth of Aumauthra, and they carefully guard her during those times when the ghost is unable or unwilling to assert control. During the time when Aumathra possesses a body, she spends much time ransacking nearby ruins and tombs, searching for something she cannot find when she doesn't have a body, while commanding the Ripped Gut orcs as if they were her abject slaves.
Source ; Forgotten Realms - The Silver Marches 3.5; pg 12