Betrayal in the Bones
Beneath Unbroken Waves, a Pathfinder Society scenario written by Tom Phillips for tier 12–15, was released in July 2018. It is the final scenario of Season 9 of the PSRG, the Year of Factions' Favor.
“Using misdirection and misinformation, the Pathfinder Society has cornered a pair of its old enemies—a demoniac and an assassin—in the Five Kings Mountains. However, the two have taken refuge inside a sacred dwarven burial ground sacred to Magrim, and their desperate defenses have stymied the dwarves' initial assaults. It falls to a team of the Society's best agents to overcome these obstacles, avert impending blasphemies, and end these villains' treachery forever.
Contents in "Betrayal in the Bones" also contribute directly to the ongoing storyline of the Grand Lodge faction.
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Adventure overview
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Recurring characters, concepts, and locations
The following characters, concepts, or locations can be found in this scenario, but also significantly appear in the publications listed below:
- Aglorn Desimire (Assault on the Wound, Betrayal in the Bones, Day of the Demon, Serpent's Rise, The Slave Master's Mirror, Slave Ships of Absalom, Snakes in the Fold, Storming the Diamond Gate)
- Ambrus Valsin (Balancing the Scales, Bandits of Immenwood, Betrayal in the Bones, Call of the Copper Gate, The Consortium Compact, The Daughters' Due, Day of the Demon, Debt to the Quah, The Disappeared, Fragments of Antiquity, From the Tome of Righteous Repose, The Frostfur Captives, Fury of the Final Blade, The Glass River Rescue, The Golden Guardian, The Golden Serpent, Grand Convocation 4712, The Hellknight's Feast, In Service to Lore, In the Grandmaster's Name, The Paths We Choose, Poisonous Council, Ruins of Bonekeep Level 1: The Silent Grave, The Segang Expedition, Serpents Fall, The Shores of Heaven, Siege of Serpents, The Slave Master's Mirror, Slave Ships of Absalom, Trial by Machine, Trouble in Tamran, The Waking Rune, What Prestige is Worth, You Only Die Twice)
- Five Kings Mountains (Assault on the Wound, The Beggar's Pearl, Betrayal in the Bones, Captives of Toil, Delve the Pallid Depths, Enter the Pallid Peak, Expedition Into Pallid Peril, The Glass River Rescue, The Merchant's Wake)
- Grand Lodge (faction) (Among the Gods, Betrayal in the Bones, The Blakros Matrimony, Captive in Crystal, The Cultist's Kiss, The Cyphermage Dilemma, The Disappeared, Echoes of the Overwatched, The Edge of Heaven, The Fabric of Reality, Feast of Sigils (scenario), The Ghenett Manor Gauntlet, The Goblinblood Dead, The God's Market Gamble, The Golden Guardian, The Golden Serpent, The Golemworks Incident, The Green Market, Halls of Dwarven Lore, The Haunting of Hinojai, The Immortal Conundrum, In Wrath's Shadow, In the Grandmaster's Name, King of the Storval Stairs, Library of the Lion, The Night March of Kalkamedes, On Hostile Waters, Pagoda of the Rat (scenario), The Price of Friendship, Red Harvest, The Refuge of Time, Refugees of the Weary Sky, Rivalry's End, The Sanos Abduction, The Secrets Stones Keep, Severing Ties, Sewer Dragons of Absalom, Snakes in the Fold, Song of the Sea Witch, Storming the Diamond Gate, The Sundered Path, Tapestry's Toil, The Technic Siege, Tide of Twilight, Tower of the Ironwood Watch, The Veteran's Vault, Words of the Ancients)
- Grandmaster Torch (Assault on Absalom, Betrayal in the Bones, A Bitter Bargain, Delirium's Tangle (scenario), The Eternal Obelisk, Exiles of Winter, The Frostfur Captives, The God's Market Gamble, The Golemworks Incident, Grand Convocation 4712, Halls of Dwarven Lore, In the Grandmaster's Name, The Mantis's Prey, The Many Fortunes of Grandmaster Torch, Race to Seeker's Folly, The Refuge of Time, Rivalry's End, Salvation of the Sages, Sanctum of the Sages (scenario), Silent Tide (scenario), Snakes in the Fold, The Sundered Path, The Unseen Inclusion, Valley of Veiled Flame, A Vision of Betrayal, Way of the Kirin, Who Speaks for the Ten, Who Wears the Mask, Words of the Ancients)
- Ivory Labyrinth (Assault on Absalom, Betrayal in the Bones)
- Koth'Vaul (Assault on Absalom, Betrayal in the Bones, In the Grandmaster's Name, The Night March of Kalkamedes, The Rasping Rebirth, Vengeance at Sundered Crag, Who Speaks for the Ten)
- Larrad (Betrayal in the Bones)
- Muhlia Al-Jakri (Among the Dead, Assault on Absalom, Betrayal in the Bones, Black Waters, The Dalsine Affair, The Eternal Obelisk, Fingerprints of the Fiend, In the Grandmaster's Name, Keep of the Huscarl King, Mists of Mwangi, The Rasping Rebirth, The Rules of the Swift, The Slave Master's Mirror, Slave Ships of Absalom, The Trouble with Secrets, Who Speaks for the Ten)
- Thurl (Assault on Absalom, Assault on the Wound, Betrayal in the Bones, The Confirmation, In the Grandmaster's Name, Prisoners of the Electric Castle, The Rasping Rebirth, The Sarkorian Prophecy, The Shores of Heaven, Siege of the Diamond City, Thralls of the Shattered God, The Traitor's Lodge, Vengeance at Sundered Crag)
Map support
The following Pathfinder Flip-Mat products are used in this scenario along with one custom map:
- Real-world articles
- Works by Tom Phillips
- Artwork by Jesper Ejsing
- Artwork by Hannah Böving
- Artwork by Jason Engle
- Artwork by Sean Macdonald
- Artwork by Jon Neimeister
- 2018 adventures
- Adventures
- PFRPG adventures
- Pathfinder Society scenarios
- 12th level adventures
- 13th level adventures
- 14th level adventures
- 15th level adventures
- Tier 12-15 scenarios
- Adventures in Five Kings Mountains
- Pathfinder Society scenarios set in Five Kings Mountains
- Grand Lodge scenarios
- Koth'Vaul appearances
- Aglorn Desimire appearances
- Ambrus Valsin appearances
- Grandmaster Torch appearances
- Muhlia Al-Jakri appearances
- Thurl appearances