Bastion of the Barren Five

Bastion of the Barren Five

An OSE Brochure Adventure for Levels 3-5

The great wizard Lanikor was tired of his feuding apprentices. He’d given them their own towers around his idyllic orchard, and still, they’d endlessly squabbled and fought over who would be his heir. Sick of their feuding, Lanikor completed a powerful ritual, ripping the entirety of his orchard through a rift and plunging it into a raging sea on another plane of existence. This newly-formed isle held a quartz orb at its center, sending them back only when all living apprentices grasped it and agreed on his heir. Soon after, each apprentice realized the loophole—if their rivals were all dead, they would be the chosen heir by default. In the week since the banishment, two apprentices have been slain, one transformed into a mindless lizard beast, and the remaining two are locked in a grueling stalemate as one’s plant minions warring with the other’s bug minions. This cannot go on forever.

Credits

• Writing by Joel Hines
• Editing by Christian Sorrell
• Graphic Design by Meredith Silver