![[Volo and Trollskull Manor.png]] # Trollskull Manor *Chronicles of the Realms* --- > [!quote] Volothamp Geddarm — Scholar, Traveller, Architect of Legends > In all my years traversing the Forgotten Realms — and they have been *many* — no single address has proven more consequential to the fate of the world than the establishment above whose threshold you now stand. Trollskull Manor. > > I discovered it, naturally. It was I, Volothamp Geddarm — author, adventurer, and the Realms' most celebrated chronicler — who first set eyes on those crumbling parapets and saw not a ruin, but a *destiny*. I introduced certain heroes to it. They bled for it. They named it. They made it their headquarters for saving the world, repeatedly, across multiple campaigns, three planes of existence, and one particularly memorable flying saucer. > > What began as a deed to a tavern in Waterdeep's North Ward has since grown into something rather larger than anyone anticipated — even yours truly. Giants, dragons, archdevils, archfey, demon lords. These heroes have descended into the Nine Hells, danced in the courts of the Feywild, plunged into the depths of Undermountain, and faced every apocalypse the Realms could conjure. I have chronicled all of it. > > You'll find their stories here. Pull up a chair. The fire doesn't go out. > > — *Volothamp Geddarm, Author of Volo's Guide to Everything That Will Kill You* --- ## ⚔️ Active Campaigns > [!campaign-active] Descent into Avernus > > > The holy city of Elturel has been ripped from the Forgotten Realms and dragged screaming into the Nine Hells. A band of unlikely heroes — soldiers, cupbearers, clergy, and wanderers — are all that stands between a city with thousands of souls and permanent damnation. The plains of Avernus do not forgive mistakes. > > [[Avernus 1 - The Last Light of Elturel|Start Reading →]] · [[Cassian]] · [[Rowan]] · [[Mon]] · [[Docktor]] · [[Kial]] > [!campaign-active] Rage of Dragons > > > Six Harpers went north chasing a dragon cult and found older things underneath. A prophecy of dragon-rage. A fey court dreaming inside a dead god. A ritual to raise a city built on harvested souls. The threats are converging, the past is catching up, and the people the party used to be may have started all of this. The rage is coming whether they're ready or not. > > [[Rage 1 - The Dragon's Rest|Start Reading →]] · [[Norren]] · [[Kan'Rahd]] · [[Astra]] · [[Valkalyn]] · [[Barlen]] · [[Ophelia]] > [!campaign-active] Storm King's Thunder > *82 Sessions · Giants Awaken* > > The [[Ordning]] is broken, and what spills out of the cracks isn't chaos — it's grief. [[Storvald]] burns the North for a daughter he couldn't save and a goddess he believes is waiting. The ancient blue dragon [[Iymrith]] schemes from the shadows, hunting a prize older than the kingdoms she means to topple. And in the dark beneath all of it, [[Acererak]] is finishing a war the [[Heroes of Waterdeep]] thought they won — through their children, their lovers, the people they left behind. > > What begins as a single town's cry for help becomes something harder: a generation of new heroes discovering that the world they inherited was already on fire, and that the cost of fighting for it may be everything their parents fought to protect. > > [[SKT 1 - Goblin Arrows|Start Reading →]] · [[Wade]] · [[Reese]] · [[Petra]] · [[Lynne]] · [[Gumdrop]] · [[Eldraki]] · [[Viro]] --- ## 📖 Chained Oblivion — A Chronicle in Six Parts *161 Sessions · Six Arcs · One Unbroken Story* What began with a deed to a rundown tavern in Waterdeep's North Ward became the longest and most consequential adventure in the history of these chronicles. Six chapters. One party. 161 sessions of triumph, catastrophe, betrayal, and — occasionally — a flying saucer. This is where Trollskull Manor got its name. | Arc | Sessions | The Story | |-----|:--------:|-----------| | **[[DH 1 - Trolls, Thugs, and Tavern Brawls\|Dragon Heist]]** | 29 | A job in Waterdeep. A stolen cache of gold. The city's criminal underworld, its noble houses, and a beholder crime lord all want the same prize. The heroes claim a tavern and learn that every city has deeper layers. | | **[[PotA 1 - Dreams, Cults, and a Deadly Assassin\|Princes of the Apocalypse]]** | 21 | Four elemental cults awaken ancient destruction in the Dessarin Valley. Earth, water, fire, and air — and the Elder Elemental Eye behind them all. The heroes of Trollskull Manor stand between the Realms and annihilation for the first time. Not the last. | | **[[Fey 1 - The Princess and the Slipper\|Shadows of the Feywild]]** | 50 | Pulled into the eternal courts of the Feywild, the party navigates the politics of archfey — summer and winter, light and dark, love and obsession. Some wars have been waiting centuries for the right heroes to end them. | | **[[Sword 1 - The Devil's Fin and the Siege of Leilon\|Adventures on the Sword Coast]]** | 15 | Between worlds and between wars, old enemies resurface and new conspiracies take shape along the shores of the Sword Coast. A chapter of reunions, revelations, and the long shadow of everything that came before. | | **[[Mad 1 - The Fall of Mirt\|Undermountain: The Mad Mage]]** | 26 | Into Halaster Blackcloak's dungeon beneath Waterdeep. Level after level of madness, forgotten empires, traps without reason, and things that should not exist. Even the heroes of Trollskull Manor find their limits here. | | **[[Oblivion 1 - Crowns and Reunions\|The Oblivion War]]** | 20 | Everything converges. The chains of oblivion tighten around the Realms and only the heroes of Trollskull Manor — with all their history, all their scars, all their debts — have any chance of breaking them. | --- ## 🏛️ The Archive > [!campaign-done] Curse of Strahd > *The mists of Barovia do not let go easily. A different band of heroes found their way in — and, eventually, found their way out. Their story belongs to the Realms.* > > [[Curse of Strahd|Read the Chronicle →]] --- ## 🗺️ The Realms Everything that lives, breathes, schemes, and dies in the world behind these chronicles. [[04 Characters of the Realms|Characters of the Realms]] · [[05 Gods of the Realms|Gods]] · [[06 Archdevils|Archdevils]] · [[07 Archfey|Archfey]] · [[08 Demon Lords|Demon Lords]] · [[09 Dragons of the Realms|Dragons]] · [[10 Elementals and Primordials|Elementals & Primordials]] · [[11 Giants of the Realms|Giants]]