Adventure (Seed) - The Abbey of Grobund - Perrenland

Adventure (Seed) - The Abbey of Grobund - Perrenland

(This idea is a conversion work based on 'The Evil Abbey' from module X4 Master of the Desert Nomads.)

The  Abbey of Grobund is a half-ruined ancient abbey devoted to Pelor in his aspect as the Sun and as a healer. Anyone with sickness or injury is welcome and many who come to the abbey choose to remain or at least are never heard from again.

The abbey is located in the Yatil Mountains west of the Mounds of Dawn along the narrow and dangerous pathway that links the Backlunish west with Perrinland and the Flanaess.

What is unknown to travellers is that the abbey and the monks have become corrupted by a terrible disease spread to them by the Wives of Incabulous (a powerful cult most prominent in the Gnatmarsh). Why one of the Wives was travelling through the pass is unknown but she left her mark upon the once good and peaceful monks.

During the day the monks are normal with no memory of their transformation which occurs with the setting of the sun and the strength which Pelor's light gives them. Once it is fully dark they transform into semi-vampiric monstrosities with a bestial thick hide, clawed hands and the fangs of a viper.

The Abbess Somaruga is only herself for two hours at mid-day when the sun is at its height otherwise she has been completely subsumed by the evil of Incabulous and bears a tattoo marking her as a Sub-Wife of the cult. Like the others she has no memory of her evil transformation during this time and if she is made aware of the tattoo (which is on her rear hip out of her sight) she will immediatly transform to her monstrous self. During the other hours of daylight she is in her human form but her consciousness is pure evil. 

Somaruga is careful to allow prominent vistors to pass unmolested as well as all guard patrols and merchant caravan which might be noted or missed, but the cult feeds upon the sick and injured which come to them for healing. Most are consumed though their bodies are turned to undead.  A few are converted and join as monks and monstrosities while a rare one or two are given hidden diseases and acts as carriers to spread the touch of Incabulous wherever they go.