The Temple of the Frog Priests

An ancient city full of barely understood wonders is in under threat from raiders and failing prophecy

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Choose for the following:

• Our chief is powerful but aged and close to death or our chief is strong and powerful but foolhardy.
• The Frogmen Priests are a feeble remnant of what they once were and it is the Lizardmen who run things now or we are small in numbers but loyal to the old traditions
• We have access to powerful magic and ancient technology or we have alchemically enslaved the young races to serve us as soliders.

Threats

• Strange bands and tribes of the young races have spotted on our lands in increasing numbers
• Some of our most sacred structures are crumbling before our eyes
• Our former servants the Amazons have betrayed us and stolen artefacts vital to the defence of the city
• Our ancient technology is malfunctioning and we don’t know how to repair it
• Some of the priesthood are despairing and in their despair allow heretical thoughts to flourish in dark places

Locations

• The great temple where the sacred bronze plates contain prophecies of all that is to come
• The Stygian black of the slave pits
• Our floating pyramid that allows us to surprise our enemies and move our army
• The beautiful gardens that contain examples of all the world’s plants
• The sacred spawning pools where we look for the new generation of priests

Character seeds

• A ferocious and scarred lizardman warrior of huge size
• A high priest, outwardly arrogant and proud but secretly wracked by doubt
• A quick-thinking short-lived lizardman who wishes to advance themselves
• A scheming pygmy slave who wishes to become a priest
• An ancient priest who knows much of the ancient ways but whose memory is fading and vague
• The noble frogman warrior who worries about how few of his clan remain

Names

Sski, Gogolo, Krus, Koko, Amentia, P’pthela, A’Afentru

Crossroads

• Should we accept emissaries from the other jungle tribes?
• How do we recover our lost technology from the Amazons?
• Should we destroy the nearest young race settlement to discourage them?
• Should we open the Vaults of the End Times?