Kill Murfala the Grasping Shadow
Kill Murfala the Grasping Shadow
“Hunt the shadow before it drinks a hundred thousand souls and crowns itself in the dead.”
— Hook · kill
“The dead of the Skate Plains are vanishing, and every missing spirit makes the shadows deeper. Murfala the Grasping Shadow is gathering 100,000 Souls to become a god, and if it rises, the Plains will never know rest again. Track it, reach its hollow shrine, and kill it before the last tally is taken.”
— Hook · kill
High Cantor Elsen Vale spreads a handful of ash over a map of the Skate Plains and the grains twitch toward a marked crater. 'Three caravans have vanished, twenty-seven names have gone silent, and the shadows in the south are starting to answer back,' they say. 'Go now, find Murfala in the Glass Flats, and kill it before it finishes eating the dead.'
High Cantor Elsen Vale
Urgent, fearful, and practical. Elsen Vale offers limited guidance, a rough map, and a promise of reward if the party leaves immediately.
Rumours
d4 · table- 01Old graves in the Skate Plains have started whispering before midnight.
- 02A guide found footprints in fresh ash that ended in the middle of an empty plain.
- 03One caravan survivor claims Murfala does not cast a shadow, but is made of them.
- 04A broken saint statue was seen standing upright after a storm with its face turned toward the crater.
If Murfala is not stopped, the Skate Plains will become a permanent harvesting ground where the dead cannot pass on and the living cannot travel safely.
Background Lore
The Skate Plains are a wide wind-scoured badland of black glass, frozen silt, and bone-white drift ridges left behind by an ancient celestial impact. In the centuries since, the dead here have never rested easily, and old superstitions say that every name spoken in the Plains can be heard by the dark beneath the crust. Murfala the Grasping Shadow has learned to feed on those lost names, and its hunger is now great enough to threaten the region.
A predatory shadow called Murfala is hunting the Skate Plains and feeding on the dead. The party must track it to its lair and destroy it before its hunger becomes unstoppable.
