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Reavers of the Vilayet

Credits Contents

Author

Gareth Hanrahan

Introduction 2

Editor

Nick Robinson

The Stinging Sands 5

The Bloody OCean 10

Cover Artist

Nathan Furman

The Isle of the mists 16

Interior Artist

Nathan Furman

War For the Isle 23

Cartography

Phil Renne

the horror reborn 27

NEW Monsters

Publications Manager

Ian Belcher

License

Production Director

Alexander Fennell

Proofreading

Ron Bedison

PlaytEsting

Mark Howe, Lane Shutt, Lucas Mackay, Brian Bertrand.

Special Thanks

Fredrik Malmberg & Thommy Wojciechowski at Conan

Properties. Also, Vincent Darlage & Eric Rodriguez.

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Introduction

The tongue was Nemedian, but the voice was not human.

There was a terrifying resonance about it, like a bell

tolling at midnight.

becoming nothing more than a demonic

spirit of hate.

One of the bloodlines sired by the horror

has survived down through the years. For

centuries, the bloodline endured among

the primitive folk of the Yuetshi in the

south, but when the Hyrkanians came

sweeping in from the east, one of their

nobles became entranced by the atavistic

beauty of one of the ﬁsherwomen, and

took her as his concubine. Thus, the

inhuman bloodline passed into the

Hykanian nobility as the Azar family.

‘There was no life in the Abyss, save that which was incorporated

in me,’ it tolled, ‘Nor was there light, nor motion, nor any sound.

Only the urge behind and beyond life guided and impelled me on my

upward journey, blind, insensate, inexorable. Though ages of ages,

and the changeless strata of darkness I climbed.’

Ensorcelled by that belling resonance, Conan crouched forgetful

of all else, until its hypnotic power caused a strange replacement

of faculties and perception, and sound created the illusion of sight.

Transported beyond his age and his own individuality, he was seeing

the transmutation of the being men called Khosatral Khel which

crawled up from Night and the Abyss ages ago to clothe itself in

the substance of the material universe.

- Robert E. Howard , The Devil in Iron

The three brothers Fuat, Gazi and Vahit

are the current heirs to the bloodline. All

three have a little magic in their blood, a

legacy of their divine heritage. Fuat, the

elder brother, is the lord of a province

in Turan. Gazi quarrelled with his kin,

and was exiled many years ago; his brothers presume him

dead. The last brother, Vahit, was more scholarly than his

elder siblings. Through long years of research in dusty scrolls,

and through questioning and torturing the wisewomen and

sages of the Yuetshi tribes, Vahit learned the nature of their

bloodline.

The inland sea of the Vilayet is controlled by the

navy of the mighty Hyrkanian navy. Armies march from the

cities of Agrapur and Khawarizm to pacify the surrounding

lands. Only the ragged kozak buccaneers and freebooters

dare defy the might of Turan and Hyrkania, and those bands

of wanderers and thieves are little more than an irritatant.

King Yezdigerd can conﬁdently call himself the master of the

Vilayet in addition to his thousand other noble titles.

The ancient inhuman sire of the bloodline slumbers on one

of the lost islands of the Vilayet sea, the Isle of the Mists.

Surely, reasoned Vahit, one of the bloodline could tap the

power of the demon and become something close to a god.

His brother Fuat discovered Vahit’s research, and attempted

to steal it. The race for the isle is on…

Preparing TO

Play

This scenario is heavily inﬂuenced by the stories The Devil

in Iron and Shadows in the Moonlight, both of which deal

with ancient horrors haunting islands in the Vilayet sea. Like

those tales, Reavers of the Vilayet brings the characters face to

face with a demon from the ancient world on a lost island.

Where it differs, though, is that their fate is bound to that of

the three brothers. In addition to using their own skills with

the blade and their own cunning, the players will have to play

the brothers off against each other, to ensure that none of the

three is able to fully grasp the power of the horror.

It was not always so. In ages past, entities from the Outer

Darkness beyond the world ﬁltered down from the sky and

up from the abyss, ruling and ravaging the primitive folk who

dwelt on the shores of the sea. Mercifully, those horrors are

gone now. Some were slain, like Khosatral Khel on the isle of

Xapur. Others, like the strange divinity that made the Island

of Iron Statues, returned to the hellish and unfathomable

otherworlds from whence they came. Now, it is well known

that even the most inhuman horrors share some of the same

lusts and desires as mortal men, and that strange gods mated

with the daughters of the tribes; that children were born

who were part human, and part other.

One such entity was a nameless horror that dwelt on

the fabled Isle of the Mists. The horror ruled for

uncounted years, then the stars changed and it

slept once more. Its power did not ebb

away, but it lost the ability to attune

itself to the matter of this world,

A copy of Conan the Roleplaying Game , a notepad, pencils and

a full set of dice (at least one of each of the following: d20,

d12, d10, d8, d6 and d4) will be needed to play Reavers of the

Vilayet . Players and Games Masters may also ﬁnd a copy of

Conan: Road of Kings or The Pirate Isles and a few miniatures

of use, but these are not essential.

they will either face overwhelming odds or be able to pick

foes off in small groups, depending on how they handle the

interactions between the three brothers.

The scenario begins with the characters encountering Vahit

and Zuleyeh in a sandstorm in the deserts west of the

Vilayet sea. It is assumed that the characters are travellers

and wanderers – perhaps they were escorting a trade caravan

that was destroyed by kozak thieves. If your characters are

not the sort to be found wandering in the wilderness of the

east, then they could be contacted and hired by Vahit in any

of the civilised cities of the Dreaming West. Vahit has need

of both bodyguards and scholars to help him investigate his

heritage.

Reavers of the Vilayet combines situations and encounters that

will require a mix of skills to survive and overcome. Players

will ﬁnd that a party of adventurers from a wide variety of

character classes of particular use. Games Masters should

read, and become familiar with the entire adventure before

attempting to run it to fully understand how each encounter

ﬁts with those which surround it.

One Bride for

Three Brothers

Vahit is travelling with a beautiful slave-girl called Zuleyeh.

He believes that he stole the girl out of his brother’s seraglio,

and that by some incredibly good stroke of luck, her old folk

tales contained the missing pieces of the puzzle, allowing him

to ﬁnd the trail that leads to the Isle of the Mists. In truth,

Zuleyeh is not human at all – she is a psychic projection of

the horror that waits on the Isle of the Mists. Zuleyeh was

awoken by Vahit’s early researches; the ancestor horror wants

to be found, for it can use any of its descendants to reattune

itself to the material world. While Zuleyeh pretends to be an

ordinary mortal woman, she is nothing more than dust and

light, arranged and directed by an ancient and alien mind.

Eidolons of Zuleyeh are accompanying each of the three

brothers, whispering to them and guiding them towards the

Isle.

Vahit

Medium Human Turanian Noble 3/Scholar 3 ; HD:

3d8+3d6 (24 hp); Init: +4; Spd: 30 ft.; Dodge DV: 12;

Parry DV: 12; DR: 0; Atk: Scimitar +5 melee; Full Atk:

Scimitar +5 melee; Dmg: Scimitar 1d8, 19–20/x2, AP 2;

Space/Reach: 5 ft. (1)/5 ft. (1); SA: Sorcery; SQ: Hyrkanian

qualities,

Rank Hath Its Priviledges, Special Regional Feature,

Independent Sorcerer; SV: Fort +2, Ref +4, Will +6; Str 10,

Dex 11, Con 11, Int 15, Wis 10, Cha 14

Skills & Feats: Bluff +10, Concentration +6, Decipher Script

+8, Diplomacy +10, Intimidate +13, Knowledge (arcane)+6,

Knowledge (history) +6, Knowledge (religion) +6, Ride +7,

Search +8, Spot +6; Mounted Combat, Lightning Reﬂexes,

Persuasive

Possessions: Scimitar, Scrollcase with ancient scroll

Power Points: 5

Magic Attack: +4

Spells: Lesser Ill-Fortune, Ill-Fortune, Warding, Incantation of

Amlaric’s Witchman

While Zuleyeh may be more dreams and dust than ﬂesh and

blood, she appears perfectly real even to the touch. However,

as much of her solidity is mere illusion, brought on by the

psychic pressure of the horror, she can only appear to a limited

number of people at once, and having physical contact with

more than one or two is extremely difﬁcult. The players

should not immediately suspect Zuleyeh’s inhuman nature –

she initially appears to be nothing more than a slave girl with

some mystic ability, who defers in all things to her lover Vahit

– but as the scenario continues and the interaction between

the three brothers, each of whom has their own version of the

girl, then it should not take the players long to realise what

is going on.

INVOLVING the

Characters

Reavers of the Vilayet is designed for a group of four 7th to 8th

level characters. If you have more players, you will need increase

the number and strength of the opponents to compensate;

fewer players or lower levels means a proportional reduction

in the challenge. Regardless of the characters’ levels, though,

Zuleyeh

Medium Outsider

Hit Dice: 4d8 (18 hp)

Initiative: +7

Speed: 30 ft.

DV: 17 (Base +3, Dex +3, Dodge +1)

DR: 0

Base Attack/Grapple: +4/+2

Attack: Dagger +2 melee (1d4-2)

Full Attack: Dagger +2 melee (1d4-2)

Space/Reach: 5 ft. x 5 ft./5 ft.

Special Attacks: None.

Special Qualities: See Below.

Saves: Fort +4, Ref +7, Will +6

Abilities: Str 6, Dex 16, Con 10, Int 12, Wis 14,

Cha 18

Skills: Bluff +13, Climb +5, Diplomacy +13,

Disguise +11, Escape Artist +10, Listen

+9, Move Silently +10, Spot +9.

Feats: Dodge, Persuasive

The Nature of

Zuleyeh

The woman is not a creature of ﬂesh and blood, but is in

essence a dream spawned by the unconscious mind of the

horror that sleeps on the Isle of the Mists. Without mortal

ﬂesh to serve as a frame and a conduit to the material world,

the horror can only dream – but its alien mind creates dreams

with a measure of ‘realness’ to them. Physically, Zuleyeh

is made up of scraps of meats, a few ﬁsh bones, dust and

insect husks, all comprising no more than a pound or two

of matter.

before Vahit discovered the existence of the Isle of the Mists

and so attracted the attention of the sleeping Elder (she is the

attention of the sleeping Elder!), but because Vahit believes

her to be a slave captured from the border tribes west of

Turan, then she acts and has some of the memories of a slave-

girl from the western deserts. Her overriding motivation,

though, is to get one of the brothers, any one, to the Isle

of the Mists. She cannot fully understand this compulsion,

but it is as irresistible as the desire of the salmon to swim

upriver.

In game terms, Zuleyeh’s strange nature has the following

effects:

All those who look at her see the illusion of the dream, of

course – she appears to be a beautiful woman of Hyrkanian

blood. The illusion and her demeanour are unconsciously

shaped by whichever one of the three brothers she is attuned

to. When she is accompanying Vahit, for example, she is

much more independent and somewhat more modest than

the wanton slave-girl of Fuat’s dreams, or the assassin and spy

that she is when serving the middle brother, Gazi.

 She takes no damage from most attacks – they simply

pass right through her. Magical attacks or massive

physical damage (being thrown into a bonﬁre, crushed

in a landslide) destroy her, but she reforms 4d6 hours

later near one of the three brothers.

 She has a Strength score of only 6, but can use her

Wisdom score as Strength if she is willing to sacriﬁce

the integrity of the illusion – anyone looking at her

sees that her bones are just garbage caught up in a

whirlwind and that her ﬂesh is illusory.

Her mind, too, is a strange mix of memories of the horror

and what the brothers believe her to be. Zuleyeh never existed

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