The Mote of Sycorax
Hidden behind the perpetual cloud cover surrounding one of the Karthax Mountains’ highest peaks floats the Mote of Sycorax, an artificial island held aloft by eldritch machinery.
• The Mote of Sycorax was created by the aberrations who once kept the inhuman Vlaak as slaves.
• Sycorax was created as a monitoring station meant to analyze the Vlaak Empire’s rise and eventual fall.
• The Mote of Sycorax contains magical and technological marvels unseen in this or any age.
The Needle of Golgotha
The Needle of Golgotha is a magical obelisk erected by the Vlaak.
• The Needle of Golgotha is a narrow, towering pillar of unnatural black stone; embedded within its surface are a multitude of yellowed Vlaakish skulls.
• Cultists of the otherworldly abominations of the Outer Dark believe that the Needle allows direct communion with the eldritch monstrosities they serve.
• If the Needle of Golgotha truly allows for contact between the “eldritch gods” and their cultists, it is theorized that the use of certain obscure rituals performed at the base of the obelisk may enable travel from the mortal plane to the nearest reaches of the Outer Dark.
