Pillars Built on Sand

A masked vigilante!

Mortals made monstrous by a sorcerer’s chains!

A wedding, to summon the goddess who soaks the sands with blood!

Plunge the heroes of your Swords of the Serpentine game into an epic campaign of mystery, intrigue, and swashbuckling action with Pillars Built on Sand. Designed with dark bravura by fantasy master Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, this thrilling cycle of five interconnected investigations features warring merchant houses, resourceful urchins, ancient curses, loot-hungry pirates, and marauding toad folk.

In the twisted streets of eternal Eversink, and on its winding canals, your player characters uncover the strange truths of:

• Forty Days and Nights: A trading vessel arrives flying the yellow flag of plague. By law and custom, she must remain anchored offshore for the forty days and nights of quarantine – but what if it’s not plague on board, but some other peril?
• The Beast of Sag Harbor: The slum district of Sag Harbor is under siege by a mysterious monster that strikes by night, then vanishes. Is it a spirit? A demon? A product of vile sorcery? And what’s the connection between its victims?
• Dead Men Sell No Sails: An arsenal blaze sends the heroes up the river and into the forested wilds to protect the city’s lumber supply from sabotage.
• The Stylite of Ironcross: Cultists uncover the identity of the costumed adventurer who knows too much about their plans. Can the heroes find her before corrupt magics shatter her mind?
• The Red Foreclosure: When it all comes together and nuptial bells ring, the city’s elite fills its basilica, and the red sails of pirates fill the horizon…

One day Eversink’s troubadours will sing of your heroes, and how they courageously raised their swords against this sorcery… but only if they survive the inevitable crumble of Pillars Built on Sand.