Adventure (Seed) - The Pool of the Beregyna

The Pool of the Beregyna

Since the Battle of the Opicum the Rovers of the Barrens have retreated to their most secure fields and distant hunting grounds. Some places are long disused and have not seen a Rover in generations. It was with some surprise that they rediscovered the Beregyna inhabiting the streams and pools of their old abandoned lands.

The Beregyna, water spirits always in the form of beautiful women, are more wild and dangerous than Rover legends speak of. No longer do the simple ceremonies and symbolic sacrifices taught from shaman to shaman down the years appease the Beregyna; they demand lives not reeds shaped as men and women. Their pools and homes along riverbanks have become deadly places where Rovers are lured to their deaths in a watery embrace.

The Vodianoi, the male appearing water spirits are rarely seen and never at the river's edge, but they too take the lives of any who come near to their lairs found only in deep waters of pools and lakes.

Of old the Rover shamans used to worship Beregyna and Vodianoi, but the ancient rites are forgotten and the Rovers now hate and fear these ancient spirits, so much so that they would welcome and reward any who could rid the waters of them.