The Long Caverns: Haikiutl Shrine (7)

A rock slab, covered in dully-painted hides and curious skulls, juts out of the cavern wall in a thin alcove at the other end of this cave.

A creature with a feathery tail whirls around, and you see a human face wrapped in a bird’s plume, its front covered in a bony, slatted carapace, painted in strange colors and designs.

The “creature” is Tenon in full battle dresss. Tenon is a Haikiutl warrior. He wears the ring of the unveiled world (see appendix), which makes him blind but very difficult to surprise. Because he is blind but wears the ring, his combat penalty due to lack of vision is only one.

Tenon is Ordered Evil, and a worshiper of the untold story. He was thrown into these caves by his tribe, but has made a world for himself here. He interacts with the Orcs and the Xolome most, but with everyone as necessary. He sometimes pretends to madness when it benefits him.

In a fight, Tenon will first want to extinguish any light sources that he knows about (remember that he can’t see them). He is most likely to use the ring’s once-a-day power of dead night.

Once there’s darkness, he will wade into battle using his enhanced senses, ready to run under cover of darkness if he decides it necessary.

Tenon carries two obsidian daggers, which he can throw, and one spear (he can also throw the spear but is unlikely to, since it is his best weapon).

Tenon can also command the Haikiutl masks from area 6, if they have not already been defeated. They will arrive at the beginning of the round after he calls for them.

On the rock altar are two obsidian cups (worth 60 shillings each), and a jade globe, cracked in nine places and held together by a reddish-brown amber-like substance. The globe is six inches in diameter, has a bulk of 10, and is worth 250 shillings.

Tenon: (Warrior 5; Survival: 40; Move: 11; Attack: daggers or spear; Damage: d4+1 or d6+1; Defense: 5)

Tenon wears the equivalent of studded leather; rows and rows of wooden and bone rods that make up his “bony, slatted carapace”.