1. The Order of Saint Leondra is dedicated to perserving the history and lore of the True Faith, for they believe faith in the True Faith comes from knowledge and the words of the Saviour. The monks were (are?) holy men, and now cadavers, they persisted in their tasks even though long dead. They had been the source for religious texts (which were then sent to the churches to be distributed). A thing has happened of late, though. The Archbishop of Albion, seeking to soldify support for the unpopular King, wished to amend some of the old text. This, the Order of Saint Leondra, opposed. The Archbishop has declared that those ‘undead monsters’ are to be wiped out and have been sending in adventurers in. Would the PCs be part of the cleansing, or help to preserve the order?
2. Those are not monks of a religious order, but actually the followers of an old god, a thing that walked between voids and blotted out the stars and sun when it did. The tomes which they are writing are actually teachings of a cult that worship the old god, and it was left to those undead monks because anyone who spent sufficient time writing those text would turn insane. Now they are writing it in quantities. Who is going to distribute them?
3. An important text which the adventurers need to further their goal was destroyed during a purging by witch-hunters. All copies of it were burned to ashes. But there is a rumor of a certain place where the library is stocked with all types of ancient tome, and its inhabitants work tirelessly to preserve all knowledge. Yet could the adventurers just marched into a monastery of undead monks and get away with it. What do dead people want from the adventurers in return?

No man, it is said, set foot within the garden and goes  into the depth and had emerged alive.

1. This is just a rumour spread by a secretive group of botanists who are experimenting with exotic flowers, weeds and grapes to devise potions of dubious purposes. Some gives its drinker moments of joy, but are higher addictive. Some are potent poison which are scentless and could easily pass for wine.  Needlessly to say, if the adventurers have any business there, it would be either for information, to acquire one of those mixture, or to destroy the garden. Though the adventurers should find out more about the nature of the operation. Are they impartial businessman? Do they have a bigger agenda in mind?
2. The garden is a living chessboard which 4 powerful wizards long ago used to sort out their differences (it was a much better alternative to seek out a desolate countryside and turn the whole place to cinder and ashes). Flowers, weeds and trees are aggressive, and they attack each other.  A simple gardener was brought in to design the landscape, ornaments and other decorations, to act as barriers, obstacles and basically, to make up the terrain of the game. Indeed, the ruins of those 4 wizards’ towers are found at the four corner of the gardens. However, the enchantment holding the ‘living’ pieces at bay is weakening. The ‘game’ is spreading out into the ruins, and soon out to engulf the entire city.
3. When the House of Alarius commissioned the garden, it was more than just to “give something to society”. In fact, it is a covert operation to build a series of tunnels to underground hideouts, exits outside the city and to important locations of the city (near the barracks, just outside of the castle and so on). The merchant house was dissolved after nearly a century of business, then the thieves took over. This is the place to go if you wish to get a shortcut to a place you don’t usually get to go. However, the different factions trying to gain control of the garden has set up all sort of devious means to protect their turf – traps, ambushes and even the occasional druidic magic to bring trees to life.

1. There are legends of a pool, located in a grove, bordered by forests of the faerie, where one could see visions and images of the times to come. A seeress once dwell there, and she was responsible for prophecies and advice that aid many in averting ruins to the kingdom. However, the seeress had died, and someone else has taken over her guise and now control the pool. She can command the pool to show whatever she wishes, and she is now using it to sow discord throughout the kingdom. Whatever her aims are, it is unknown, but strife and chaos is just one on her list.
2. The Tablets of Destiny, an ancient religious writing which was used by a group of priests to foretell the future, have disappeared from their temple. Badly copied versions of those writings have appeared, and someone is circulating them. Merchant houses, noblemen, bandit lords and group of adventurers have been getting fragments of ‘prophecies’ which when interpreted, points to them as Messiahs of the world, glorious emperor, the harbinger of a new age. Those who follow the advice and heed the portends of those fragments of prophecies will have great initial success – and soon the doubting ones follow too. But the catch is that they are just following the fragments of an entire prophecy. The true prophecy can only be known if the adventurers manage to recover the Tablets of Destiny, or piece all the fragments together, and they would realise just how many are contributing to the ruin of the world.
3. A seer has been visiting those factions, and force compelling visions onto the leader of each of them. To one, they would say another is an obstacle to their goal. Then to the other, they would say the former is an obstacle as well, sowing discord and chaos in this manner. Who is this seer, and what is his real motive? And why are those given a vision are so fanatical in pursuing them? The seer has given them more than just a vision; an astral parasite has leeched into their mind as well, compelling them to believe in the visions and subtly controlling them.

1. Dozens of years ago, an expedition from this very port set out to explore the far north. They were supposed to return in three years time, but they never did. This is the last surviving ship to return, but when the adventurers boarded it, it is devoid of people…living or otherwise. However in the cargo hold there is an ancient stone sarcophagus. Whatever that was on that ship, it is long gone now – perhpas out in the port. There were tales of a tryant who practised blood magic, and to be killed he had to be staked through the heart. That he may never arose again, he was interned with a coffin of stone, and sent north in a ship…perhaps the resting place was found by the expedition, and the old tryant is back.
2. The ship is of massive size, and when the adventurers wandered in, they will find the ship devoid of life, but filled with shelves after shelves of surprisingly well-preserved scrolls, tomes and parchments. This was a ‘floating library’, and an order of scholars and sages traveled all over the known world collecting and recording histories, folklores and tales. It was lost over fifty years ago, and its sudden reappearance is a mystery. And this is when descendants of the order turned up, and demanded that the ship belong to them. Unfortunately, two such groups claimed rights. What should the adventurers to?
3. Along with the ship came an icy cold mist and wind, even though it is summer. Within the massive ship, more of an ark, are a race of fish-men hybrid. Housed within the hold of the ship is a ritual of power magic that would turn the entire region into an icy cold landscape. The creatures had escaped from their original homelands, perhaps exiled or driven out, and are seeking new places. Within 2 days the waters would have frozen, and the people would be powerless against the merciless cold, unless the adventurers could stop those half-men, half-fishes. Those creatures may be open to diplomacy, but they are impatient, for they have been sailing for more than 25 years.

1. Road to Hidden Gates: When faeries walk the world openly and mankind was still young, lanterns were used to light the way between the doorsteps of different fay domains. Those lights still remain, showing the way to a dormant fay realm. Many reasons would led the adventurers to walk this path – a missing young lord, tracking a rogue sorcerer who is using the realm as his hide-out or even the allure of treasures. The lights are within sight of each other, showing the way to the gate, but the journery in middle is not without its share of perils.
2. Finding Rest: Long time ago, a murderer lurked within the region, killing young and old for his own depraved reasons. A paladin hunted him down and brought him to justice, but the bodies of the victims were never found. The paladin begged his patron deity for the means to find the bodies so that they may be put to rest, and there came the spirit lights. Each would guide an adventurer to a place where a victim of the loathed murderer. The paladin managed to retrieve two by following two of those lights, but he disappeared forever when attempting to find the third. Apparently, the victims were brought to a place of danger…
3. The Path for the Journery: The people of Sandhornvale are of an interesting mix. It used to be a small village, when gypsies cameto dwell within the village because of wars and a plague. The toils of those times killed most of the gypsies, including those who know where to go next – it seemed that they were following a path laid down by their ancestors. The youngsters, lost and frightened, stayed with the villagers of Sandhornvale. Ever since them the spirit lights have appeared – and they are actually the route which the gypsies. Now their descendants are feeling a strange urge to follow those lights, but times have changed. Why did their ancestors follow those path? Is it necessary? What lurks along the way? Maybe a group of descendants wish to undertake the journery, but fearing danger, asks the adventurers as an escort. The reasons could rangome from bringing offering to their ancient ancestors to having to recite a ritual which ensure that a powerful enemy remained imprisioned.

1. A Different Sort of Delivery: A rebellion is under way, and the various merchant houses are conspiring with the outlaws, giving them supplies and the weapons they would need. A fake raid is their mean of transferring supplies and intelligence. The experienced adventurers may have been attached to the convoy to give a veneer of credibility or they are given orders by rightful authority to guard the convoy. Needless to say, any actions the adventurers may take to interfere with the brigands would be met with a surprise.
2. The Bait: The foodstuff and grains carried by the convoy are poisoned. This is the new method which the various merchant houses have agreed on to deal with the brigands. That those brigands are intended on re-distributing those food to the nearby poverty stricken villages are none of their concern. Perhaps it would be of the adventurers.
3. A Lesson In Humility: The leader of the convoy is a brash, inexperienced scion of a powerful merchant house, and he thinks too much of himself and disregard the adventurers’ concerns. The brigands, however, are the men belonging to his father, and this raid is to teach the youngster a lesson. The adventurers are attached to ensure that the young man don’t do anything rash. Unfortunately, some enemies of his father have infiltrated the false raiding brigands, and what supposed to be a lesson about carelessness turned out be a real nightmare when the reinforcements the father has prepared never arrived.

1. Guests of a Different Sort: The lord has a knacks of picking up friends, and one group of them is faerie creatures who dwell there. How the lord struck up a friendship with the fay is a long story. None of the servants were involved in the preparation of the feast. They knew nothing about it but had some details. If the adventurers barge out into the exclusive feast, the faeries would be curious and welcoming, but the lord would be very nervous. The reason? Etiquette. The fay observed a large numbers of strange and obscure customs, and if the adventurers offend anyone of them, the result would be ugly…which may lead to the adventurers being embroiled into any number of adventures.
2. The Forever Feast: If the adventurers barge out, they would be shocked at the guests. They are cadavers, those who are dead but remained alive due to sheer force of will, a sense of mission and perhaps because of their deities’ blessings. Among the guests joining in the revel would be another fabled heroes and immortals. It seems that this minor lord has made quite a connection! The reason why the lord forbids other guests from joining because the experience usually left the guest shocked, horrified and enthralled, all at the same time. However, if the adventurers are worth their salt, they may be able to dine with a long dead champion of the Selentine Empire – and who knows what sort of troubles the adventurers would be getting themselves into!
3. Curious Cusine: The lord over the years have acquired a taste for exotic food, from wanderers in the regions and other visitors. The midnight feasts featured ways of cooking and preparing food that are distasteful to many, and may feature ingredients that would upset even the staunchest of stomach (the GM may decide to include human flesh). If the adventurers are found out sneaking about, they may be involved in the preparation of the next meal (“I have yet to try the taste of tiger meat being roasted with fires of wizardry!”)

1. Immunity: The plague is deliberately released by a former cultist who worshipped a depraved demon of diseases and illness. The reason? Powerful though the demon might be, his unnatural plague has one ‘escape clause’ – a victim can only be suffering from one of his plagues at a time. The ‘minor plague’ released by the former cultist is actually preventing the cult from unleashing a stronger one that could actually kill millions. The cult must be taken down, perhaps with the help for the former cultist, before the current one could be cured.
2. Cure in Progress: The land was blighted, long ago, by depraved cultists (perhaps from the ones in Immunity) and for a long time those who lived and were born there were sickly and crippled. A group of druids have studied and located the vile source of the disease and is attempting to remove it. The cure however, provokes a series of fever, rashes and coughing among those already afflicted. Only when the cure is gone through, then the people would recover. However, would the adventurers believe the druid that matters must take a turn for the worse before it would get better?
3. Unmasking the Hidden: Over time, shapeshifters and other loathsome demons have assumed the forms of mortals and lived within the communities, perhaps just randomly preying on innocent passer-bys or harbouring some master-plan. The plague is the means to detect those who have hidden within society. Anyone who is not down with the symptoms of the plague is very likely to be a magical or demonical creature. The GM can feel free to decide how accurate this method is.

1. The young lady is a shapeshifter who has assumed the form of the real young healer but have forgotten about it and thought that she is the real, original personage. To take on the form of another, the shapeshifter must consume the corpse of its victim, and it would gain all of his or her memories and knowledge. But how the shapeshifter forgot that she is a shapeshifter in the first place is a mystery. What if the victim was willing to be killed in the first place?
2. There is a shapeshifter in town all right, but he’s not a werewolf or a weretiger. Rather, he belongs to a tribe of nomads which wandering about in the region. The hunters have came not specifically for them and has wrongly accused the young lady (their methods are very far from perfect). She happens to have a friend within the nomads and at the time of her peril, he casts a spell on her to help her to escape. Of course, this seals her fate, for the hunters are even more more than convinced that she is a shapeshifter. The adventurers could try to persuade them to think otherwise, or help the young lovers (isn’t that obvious?) to escape. Or they could rig one of the hunters’ method of proving that one’s a shapeshifter so that the young lady would come up as clean…but how would the adventurers know what sort of cockeyed trials the hunters are going to use?
3. The group of hunters are the shapeshifters. Some of their members would create incidents to convince the townfolks that werewolves and the sort are in the region to seek their coperation. Then one by one they will consume the likeness of important people in the town to get valuable information, access to resources, to sign false letters and so on. The young lady? A plant sent by the ‘hunters’ to convince the townsfolk The adventurers must be cunning enough to unmask their deception!

1. Paradise on High? Settlements being to spring up about the foot of the volcano, where verdant fields and forests have grown because of the fertile volcanic ashes. Some has risked the climb to the top of the mountains, and returned with exciting finds – gigantic fishes, crabs and fruits larger than those found on the ground. There begins an eager expedition to the top, but at least one person is more cautious than most.  He wishes the adventurers to investigate the crater and see if it is indeed aparadise at the top of the volcano. If there are such good hunting there, who (or what) else may be a predator up there?
2. What Dwells in the Deep on High: Settlers on the foot of the volcano and nearby islands have reported sightings of a strange group of creatures. They look serpentine, but humanoid, and are as adept in land and water. Trackers have located webbed footprints leading up to the volcano, and some suspect those new creatures came from the peak. The volcano has cause the ancient tunnels of a serpent-like people to connect to the natural underground caverns in the region, and they have found a way to the peaks of the volcano, where game and food is plentiful. But are they necessary hostile? Can the human settlers and the serpentine race shares the volcano in peace?
3. A Metal of Fire and Ice: An alchemist has predicted that due the extraordinary means which the icy cold lake is formed at the peak of the volcano, there would exist a type of metal alloy which would be stronger than steel and far more flexible at the same time. He managed to convince a rich patron to sponsor an expedition and he was proven right. From the metal found within the lake, he managed to produce weapons of excellent quality. Now the crater at the top has became a slave labor forge and mine, where the rich patron and the alchemist produce weapons, armor and other impediments of war and selling them. A competitor, or someone who stand to gain from their loss, has decided on an extreme way to end this whole affair – to make the volcano erupts again.