Underworld Activities
Trafficking venom, forged relics, memory-casks, and intel about the other realms.
Assassinations happen with swamp gas and staged drownings; bribery keeps patrols at bay.
The Rotroot Syndicate
A cabal of smugglers, poison-crafters, and slave-raiders that coordinate shipments through the marsh.
They enforce a brutal tax system and handle poisoning contracts for nobles too clean to touch the mire.
Underworld Locations
The Croaking Pit pulses under moonlight, the Drip Market is a floating bazaar linked to Social Hubs, and the Sunken Ledger is the Syndicate’s vault.
Morality
Obligation is determined by bonds, not law. Betrayal earns the stink-blood of the swamp.
Charity is a currency used to win favors and to cover traces of worse crimes.
Figures of the Underworld
Prime among them is Rot-Lord Harshmaw, a ghastly goblin who feeds syndicate favors to those who keep him close.
Hooks from the Rot
- A smugglers’ ledger names the PCs as creditors of the Rotroot.
- The Rotroot wants someone to poison a rival without trace.
- A missing poison formula lurks beneath the Drip Market.