The Cindersworn Pact
The Cindersworn Pact, a Pathfinder Society scenario written by Alex Riggs for tier 5–9, was released on November 30, 2016.
“When an impossibly vile fiend proves too powerful to destroy, the forces of good often resort to banishing or sealing the villain away to be remembered only in fearsome legends. Less common are the instances in which wrongdoers bound benevolent titans and demigods, yet Society agents recently uncovered just such a prison. Few know how to unlock such a jail, much less locate the key. The Society has identified just such a sage: a disgraced efreeti who has sworn to share her priceless knowledge in exchange for the PCs' assistance. The Pathfinders travel to the cosmopolitan melting pot of Zjarra on the Plane of Fire, where they must fulfill the cruel genie's schemes—or find some other way to fulfill the deal.
Content in The Cindersworn Pact also contributes directly to the ongoing storyline of the Exchange faction.
The Cindersworn Pact is the first scenario in the two-part "Forged in Flame" campaign arc. It is followed by Pathfinder Society Scenario #8-11: Cleansed With Fire. Both chapters are intended to be played in order.
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Scenario 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:
- Aaqir al'Hakam (The Absalom Initiation, Assault on Absalom, Bid for Alabastrine, A Bitter Bargain, The Blakros Matrimony, The Cindersworn Pact, The Fabric of Reality, The Ghol-Gan Heresy, The Goblinblood Dead, Grand Convocation 4712, The Immortal Conundrum, The Merchant's Wake, On Hostile Waters, The Paths We Choose, Port Godless, Signs in Senghor, The Stranger Within, The Sundered Path, To Delve the Dungeon Deep, The Veteran's Vault)
- Esmayl ibn Qaradi (The Cindersworn Pact, Cleansed with Fire, The Cost of Enlightenment, The Eternal Obelisk, Freedom for Wishes, Fury's Toll, The Merchant's Wake, A Parchment Tree, Shattering Golden Chains, Valley of Veiled Flame)
- The Exchange (faction) (Bid for Alabastrine, The Bloodcove Blockade, By Way of Bloodcove, The Cindersworn Pact, Cleansed with Fire, The Ghol-Gan Heresy, On Sharrowsmith's Trail, Returned to Sky, Signs in Senghor, The Technic Siege)
- Plane of Fire (Caught in the Eclipse, The Cindersworn Pact, The Citadel of Flame, Cleansed with Fire, Fires of Karamoss, Freedom for Wishes, Graves of Crystalmaw Pass, Unleashing the Untouchable, Valley of Veiled Flame, What Sleeps in Stone)
- Fossilblight (The Cindersworn Pact, Cleansed with Fire, Unleashing the Untouchable, What Sleeps in Stone)
- Guaril Karela (A Bitter Bargain, The Bloodcove Blockade, The Burden of Envy, The Cindersworn Pact, Cleansed with Fire, The Goblinblood Dead, The Golden Serpent, The Golemworks Incident, Grand Convocation 4712, Halls of Dwarven Lore, In Service to Lore, King of the Storval Stairs, Pagoda of the Rat (scenario), The Paths We Choose, Rivalry's End, Severing Ties, Storming the Diamond Gate, The Stranger Within, Trouble in Tamran, The Wardstone Patrol, Way of the Kirin (scenario), You Have What You Hold)
- Katheer (The Cindersworn Pact, Cleansed with Fire, The Cost of Enlightenment, The Eternal Obelisk, The First Heresy, The Forbidden Furnace of Forgotten Koor, Freedom for Wishes, The Merchant's Wake, Murder on the Silken Caravan, Our Lady of Silver, A Parchment Tree, Slaver's End, Valley of Veiled Flame)
- Kelesh (The Cindersworn Pact, The Hydra's Fang Incident, In Wrath's Shadow, Murder on the Silken Caravan, Our Lady of Silver, A Parchment Tree, Shattering Golden Chains, Silent Tide (scenario), The Third Riddle)
- Medina Mudii'a (The Cindersworn Pact, Cleansed with Fire, Fires of Karamoss, Graves of Crystalmaw Pass, What Sleeps in Stone)
- Qalkami Mishalq (The Cindersworn Pact, Cleansed with Fire, What Sleeps in Stone)
- Ranginori (Caught in the Eclipse, The Cindersworn Pact, Graves of Crystalmaw Pass, Raid on the Cloudborne Keep, Secrets of the Endless Sky, Through Maelstrom Rift, Unleashing the Untouchable, What Sleeps in Stone)
- Untouchable Opal (Caught in the Eclipse, The Cindersworn Pact, Cleansed with Fire, Graves of Crystalmaw Pass, Secrets of the Endless Sky, Through Maelstrom Rift, Unleashing the Untouchable, What Sleeps in Stone)
- Zjarra (The Cindersworn Pact, Cleansed with Fire)
Map support
The following Pathfinder Map Pack products are used in this scenario along with two custom maps:
- Real-world articles
- Works by Alex Riggs
- Artwork by Tyler Walpole
- Artwork by Corey Macourek
- Artwork by Giorgio Baroni
- Artwork by Nicholas Cloister
- Artwork by Sean Macdonald
- 2016 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 Plane of Fire
- Pathfinder Society scenarios set in Plane of Fire
- Adventures in Zjarra
- Pathfinder Society scenarios set in Zjarra
- The Exchange scenarios
- Esmayl ibn Qaradi appearances
- Aaqir al'Hakam appearances
- Guaril Karela appearances