Fallen Angel

1 FALLEN ANGEL A Short Adventure for Four 5th-Level Player Characters CREDITS Design: Ramon Arjona Editing: Penny Williams Typesetting: Nancy Walker Cartography: Rob Lazzaretti Web Production: Julia Martin Web Development: Mark A. Jindra Graphic Design: Sean Glenn, Cynthia Fliege Based on the original DUNGEONS & DRAGONS® game by E. Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson and on the new edition of the DUNGEONS & DRAGONS game designed by Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook, Skip Williams, Rich Baker, and Peter Adkison. D&D, DUNGEONS & DRAGONS, and DUNGEON MASTER are registered trademarks owned by Wizards of the Coast, Inc. The d20 logo is a trademark owned by Wizards of the Coast, Inc. All Wizards characters, character names, and the distinctive likenesses thereof are trademarks owned by Wizards of the Coast, Inc. This material is protected under the copyright laws of the United States of America. Any reproduction or unauthorized use of the material or artwork contained herein is prohibited without the express written permission of Wizards of the Coast, Inc. ©2003 Wizards of the Coast, Inc. All rights reserved. Made in the U. S. A. This product is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual people, organizations, places, or events is purely coincidental. This Wizards of the Coast game product contains no Open Game Content. No portion of this work may be reproduced in any form without written permission. To learn more about the Open Gaming License and the d20 System License, please visit www. wizards. com/d20. Fallen Angel is a short D&D adventure for four 5th-level player characters (PCs). Consult the Scaling the Adventure sidebar for ways to modify the scenario for higher or lower levels of play. This scenario can be incorporated into any style of campaign. It is set in Elton, an isolated hamlet that can easily be placed in a remote, hilly area of any campaign world. PREPARATION You (the DM) need the D&D core rulebooks, including the Player’s Handbook, the DUNGEON MASTER’s Guide, and the Monster Manual. This adventure also uses creatures from Savage Species, but all information from that book needed to run the adventure has been provided here. You can place this adventure in any section of your campaign world that features a hilly area in which an isolated village might exist. Adapt the material given here as you see fit to make it work with your campaign. To get started, print out this module (including the map). Familiarize yourself with the statistics for the insectile ogre and for the immature ogre mage and trumpet archon. ADVENTURE BACKGROUND Several weeks ago, a strange planar anomaly occurred, resulting in a rift that breached the very structure of the multiverse for a short time. This tear in the fabric of reality had numerous effects, one of which was the creation of a short-term connection between the Seven Mounting Heavens of Celestia and the Material Plane. On the night this anomaly occurred, a bright light appeared in the night sky above the small hamlet of Elton. The brilliant celestial event awakened the residents of the village, who emerged from their dwellings to marvel at the new “star” in the sky—a star whose light seemed to bring feelings of peace and well-being to all who gazed upon it. Upon reaching the village common, the villagers found a young man, barely more than a boy, lying naked and shivering on the ground. Though he resembled an elf, there was an almost unearthly beauty about him. They asked him who he was, but his reply came in a musical tongue they had never heard before. This stranger was in fact an immature trumpet archon, barely an infant by the standards of his kind. The planar anomaly had ripped him from his home in