Cairn of Shadows
Cairn of Shadows, a Pathfinder Society scenario by Dennis Baker, was released in July 2014.
“The innumerable cairns and burial mounds of Barrowmoor in northern Nidal contain untold treasures and terrors, and the local taboos and Nidalese theocracy are typically enough to keep any but the boldest from exploring the site; however, when the Blakros family informs the Pathfinder Society that their shared enemy is in pursuit of a dangerous artifact, the PCs must brave the shadow-stricken region to keep this object from falling into the wrong hands.
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Scenario overview
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This is the ninth Pathfinder Society scenario involving the Blakros family or their museum. Other scenarios that contain this storyline include:
- #0-05 Mists of Mwangi
- #35 Voice in the Void
- #2-11 The Penumbral Accords
- #3-07 Echoes of the Overwatched
- Grand Convocation 4712
- #4-09 The Blakros Matrimony
- #5-03 The Hellknight's Feast
- #5-14 Day of the Demon (tangential)
- #5-23 Cairn of Shadows
- #6-02 The Silver Mount Collection
- #7-09 The Blakros Connection
- #8-99 The Solstice Scar
- #9-05 Call of the Copper Gate
- #9-17 Oath of the Overwatched
- #10-18 The Daughters' Due
- #2-07 The Blakros Deception
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:
- Albatross (Cairn of Shadows, The Lost Legend, Port Peril Pub Crawl)
- Barrowmoor (Cairn of Shadows)
- Blakros Museum (The Absalom Initiation, Balancing the Scales, The Blakros Connection, The Blakros Matrimony, Cairn of Shadows, Call of the Copper Gate, The Daughters' Due, Echoes of the Overwatched, The Hellknight's Feast, Mists of Mwangi, Oath of the Overwatched, The Penumbral Accords, The Silver Mount Collection, Voice in the Void)
- Blakros family (The Blakros Deception, The Blakros Matrimony, Cairn of Shadows, Call of the Copper Gate, The Daughters' Due, Day of the Demon, Grand Convocation 4712, The Hellknight's Feast, Mists of Mwangi, The Penumbral Accords, The Silver Mount Collection, Voice in the Void)
- Canayven Heidmarch (Cairn of Shadows, Fortress of the Nail, The Price of Friendship, Race for the Runecarved Key, The Secrets Stones Keep, Testament of Souls, The Veteran's Vault)
- Grand Convocation (The Blakros Matrimony, The Bronze House Reprisal, Cairn of Shadows, Grand Convocation 4712, The Hellknight's Feast, The Overflow Archives, Serpent's Rise, Siege of Serpents)
- Netherworld (All the Gods Beyond, The Blakros Deception, The Blakros Matrimony, Cairn of Shadows, Call of the Copper Gate, The Darkest Abduction, The Daughters' Due, Dreams of a Dustbound Isle, Fragments of Antiquity, Mean Streets of Shadow Absalom, A Most Wondrous Exchange!, The Penumbral Accords, Prisoners of the Electric Castle, Shadows at Sundown, Signal from the Electric Laboratory, Struck by Shadows, To Seal the Shadow, The Tomb Between Worlds, True Dragons of Absalom)
- Nidal (All the Gods Beyond, Below the Silver Tarn, Cairn of Shadows, The Chasm of Screams, The Prisoner of Skull Hill, Shadows and Scarecrows)
- Nisroch (Cairn of Shadows, Treasure off the Coast)
- Onyx Alliance (The Blakros Deception, The Blakros Matrimony, Cairn of Shadows, The Daughters' Due, Dreams of a Dustbound Isle, Grand Convocation 4712, Mean Streets of Shadow Absalom, A Most Wondrous Exchange!, The Penumbral Accords, Struck by Shadows, The Tomb Between Worlds, True Dragons of Absalom, Year of Boundless Wonder (scenario), Year of Shattered Sanctuaries (scenario))
- Shadow obelisk (Cairn of Shadows)
- Silent Shroud (Cairn of Shadows)
- Umbral Court (Cairn of Shadows, Shadows and Scarecrows)
- Zon-Kuthon (Cairn of Shadows, Lyrics of Extinction, Serpents' Ire, The Veteran's Vault)
Map support
The following Pathfinder Flip-Mat or Pathfinder Map Pack products are used in this scenario along with two custom maps:
- Real-world articles
- Works by Dennis Baker
- Artwork by Kuba Witowski
- Artwork by Jason Engle
- Artwork by Sean Macdonald
- 2014 adventures
- Adventures
- PFRPG adventures
- Pathfinder Society scenarios
- 5th level adventures
- 6th level adventures
- 7th level adventures
- 8th level adventures
- 9th level adventures
- Tier 5-9 scenarios
- Adventures in Nidal
- Pathfinder Society scenarios set in Nidal
- Adventures in Nisroch
- Pathfinder Society scenarios set in Nisroch
- Andoran scenarios
- Cheliax scenarios
- Canayven Heidmarch appearances