City of the Caldera · Hellfurnaces Range
CAULDRON
A city of 7,500 souls set within the perfect circle of an ancient volcano's caldera — ringed by a 50-foot wall of black malachite, its cobbled avenues curving around the cold depths of Crater Lake. Where the fog gathers every evening, and the streets smell of jungle rain and volcanic stone.
The Lightbringers
Assigned on the last days of Suns Ebb, the Lords Patrol venture forth at the first light of Skyfest — a commission of adventurers charged with safeguarding Cauldron and its surrounding lands. They are known as The Lightbringers.
Fighter View Character ☀ Eos Human
Priestess of Pelor Character Sheet ♪ Kanji Half-Elf
Bard View Character 🪓 Rocky Mountain Dwarf
Barbarian View Character 🔥 Skase Elf
Wizard View Character 🗡 Terri Human
Rogue View Character ⚔ Welby Stout Halfling
Eldritch Knight Character Sheet ⛈ Zrahk Half-Orc
Storm Priest of Kord View Character
Commission begins: last days of Suns Ebb · Departs: first day of Skyfest · Rendezvous: Lucky Monkey at Sunfest · Concludes: Richfest
Cauldron Locations
- Cathedral of Wee Jas Obsidian
- Church of St Cuthbert Obsidian Ave
- Temple of Lordly Might Obsidian
- Church of Pelor Inner City
- Shrine of Boccob Academy Wall
- Chapel of Fharlanghn Lucky Monkey
- The Cusp of Sunrise Members Only
- The Coy Nixie High Class
- Tipped Tankard Tavern Common Folk
- The Drunken Morkoth Inn Popular Inn
- The Slippery Eel Tavern Working Class
- Minuta's Board Flophouse
- The Brass Trumpet Abandoned
- Tygot's Old Things Antiquities
- Garthun's Imports Exotic Goods
- Skie's Treasury Magic Items
- Surefoot Livery Livestock
- Gurnezarn's Smithy Master Smith
- Weer's Elixirs Alchemy
- Westkey's Map Emporium Maps
- Zanathor's Provisions Provisions
- Bluecrater Academy Learning
- Lantern Street Orphanage Lava Ave
- Town Hall Archives
- Town Guard Barracks 250 Guard
- Lakeside Pavilion Crater Lake
- Obsidian District Nobility & elite merchants — highest at the wall
- Magma District Prosperous merchants and guildfolk
- Lava District Tradespeople and common workers
- Ash District Poorest, nearest the lake
- The Docks / Lake District Below Ash Avenue — the waterfront
Environs of Cauldron
A port city slightly larger than Cauldron, founded centuries ago by a priestess of Wee Jas. Long dominated by Sea Prince pirates, it has spent the last decade reclaiming its independence and strengthening its walls.
Founded as a pirate base, Port Shaw blossomed when Sasserine fell to the Sea Princes. A city of rough justice and hard profit — the strong rule, and slavery is legal. Still, fortunes are made here for those who know its ways.
A walled fort at the jungle's edge. Explorers, hunters and expedition companies use it as a staging ground for ventures into the deep jungle and the savannah beyond.
A town half Cauldron's size on the edge of a freshwater lake, surrounded by the vast plantations of the Aslaxian and Taskerhill families. The Kingfisher River runs east to a coastal swamp.
Founded by Surubar Spellmason himself as his first camp against the demons of the jungle. The great Basalt Bastions still stand. Iron quarried here has built much of what Cauldron is today.
A small Knowlern-owned town of fewer than 2,000 souls. Sugar plantations, rum production, and weary travellers define its character. A convenient waypoint on the long road south.
A large roadhouse inn on the Sasserine road, ringed by loggers' huts and home to shrines for travelling deities. The Lightbringers are known to rendezvous here at Sunfest.
A terrible crater said to have opened a path to the Abyss thousands of years ago. Gnoll tribes worship Yeenoghu here. Surubar Spellmason defeated the demon lord Nabthataron on this ground — yet the scar remains. Only the powerful or foolhardy approach.
A structure known only to the dead. No living explorer has ever seen it, yet undead speak of it. Haunted explorers find nothing in the jungle but an unnatural density of undead — and a growing dread. It waits, they say, for the time of worms.
An extensive ruined yuan-ti complex destroyed four centuries ago under mysterious circumstances. Whether struck down by a hero or a god's wrath, it remains haunted and vast — and largely unexplored.