Shades of Blood
Shades of Blood is the forty-third Pathfinder Adventure Path and is expected to run from April to June 2025. It is a three-part Adventure Path about vampires and vampirism set in Azlant.1
“Recruited as research assistants in anticipation of a rare celestial event, the PCs arrive on a remote island in the remnants of Azlant. While there, a column of shadow erupts from the sea and washes across the sky dimming the sun and unleashing shadowy monsters. Investigating the dangerous anomaly, the PCs discover a ruined Azlanti prison inhabited by vampires and learn that the column of shadow was only a test run for an ancient vampire planning to use Azlanti magical technology to blot out the sky, shielding the dangers of the sun so they can escape their island prison and reunite with their lover from the times before Earthfall.
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This Adventure Path has been announced but has not yet been released. |
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Thirst for Blood | Written by Luis Loza with Jim Groves | Released April 2, 2025 | |
| For level 1. The remote island settlement of Talmandor's Bounty is thrown into chaos as a strange magical effect plunges the region into shadow. Urged to investigate the event, the PCs travel to a nearby island and discover an ancient Azlanti prison that was buried during Earthfall. Inside, a cult of the blood god Camazotz thrives, and in dealing with them the PCs learn that greater threats lay deeper inside the ancient complex. Can the PCs discover who’s behind the supernatural shadow and stop them before it’s too late? | ||||
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The Broken Palace | Written by James Jacobs | Expected May 7, 2025 | |
| For level 4. Delving deeper into the ruined prison, the PCs make their way through cell blocks now inhabited by subterranean monsters and undead echoes of the past, before finding themselves in what appears to be an idyllic village where the sun crosses the clouded sky each day. The clueless villagers are being preyed upon by their vampire masters and the PCs must break the spell and ascend into the Broken Palace to remove the threat of Lady Nalushae once and for all. | ||||
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To Blot Out the Sun | Written by Jessica Catalan | Expected June 4, 2025 | |
| For level 7. On the trail of Nizca, the vampire who orchestrated the plan to shroud the sun in shadow, the PCs discover the basement of the central command tower of the former prison. They must ascend the tower from within, fighting past deadly guardians and strange Azlanti magic and machinery, to reach the tower's top where Nizca races to repair their device and successfully blot out the sun so they can reunite with their lover to the east. Can the PCs stop night from falling over Golarion? | ||||
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Shades of Blood Player's Guide | Written by Adam Daigle | Released March 27, 2025 | |
| The quiet daily life of Talmandor's Bounty, a settlement on a remote island in what remains of Azlant, is thrown into turmoil as a column of shadow erupts from the sea in the distance. The column then strikes a point in the atmosphere and begins spreading out like ink poured into an inverted bowl. The shadows rush across the surface of the sea, bringing to Talmandor's Bounty dangerous shadow creatures.
You were hired as a research assistant to an astronomer who was hoping to study a stellar eclipse, a rare astronomical phenomenon. You arrive at Talmandor's Bounty and take part in the preparations for an excursion into the jungle to study the event at an ancient Azlanti observatory—and then things go poorly. Can you help figure out what caused the column of shadow and put a stop to it? If you think you can, get your characters ready for the Shades of Blood Adventure Path. | ||||
References
- ↑ James Jacobs. (August 1, 2024). Gen Con 2024 Keynote Address, YouTube.