campaigns:latitude_history:adventures:the-barrow-under-hjaltland [Ron Helwig's Viking World for D&D]

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====== The Barrow Under Hjaltland ======

===== Party =====

  * [[campaigns:latitude_history:characters:caleb-gandalfson|Caleb Gandalfson]]
  * [[campaigns:latitude_history:characters:mechakirby|MechaKirby]]
  * [[campaigns:latitude_history:characters:amelia-frodedottir|Amelia Frodedottir]]
  * [[campaigns:latitude_history:characters:skrappe-frappe|Skrappe Frappe]]
  * [[campaigns:latitude_history:characters:bitey-boy-brock|Bitey Boy Brock]]

The [[campaigns:latitude_history:places:hjaltland|Hjaltland]] settlers found open grazing land and wide possibility before the events later remembered as [[campaigns:latitude_history:adventures:fires-at-the-fjordgate|Fires at the Fjordgate]], but the islands were not empty of old danger. Undead rose from a barrow on the main island, goblins threatened a family of [[creatures:badgers|badgers]], and adventurers came to help the settlement survive long enough to become a home.

[[campaigns:latitude_history:characters:caleb-gandalfson|Caleb Gandalfson]] traveled from [[campaigns:latitude_history:places:nidaross|Niðaróss]] to [[campaigns:latitude_history:places:hjaltland|Hjaltland]], and [[campaigns:latitude_history:characters:mechakirby|MechaKirby]], [[campaigns:latitude_history:characters:amelia-frodedottir|Amelia Frodedottir]], and [[campaigns:latitude_history:characters:skrappe-frappe|Skrappe Frappe]] were also part of the fighting remembered from this arc. The undead threat included zombies and an ogre zombie, with a [[campaigns:latitude_history:lore:draugr-stone|Draugr Stone]] tied to the danger rising from the barrow. Clearing the dead protected the settlers, but it also opened a deeper road into the campaign's older mysteries.

During the Hjaltland adventure, the party rescued a family of [[creatures:badgers|badgers]] that goblins were attacking. While helping the badgers, Caleb used his [[campaigns:latitude_history:lore:wand-of-wonder|Wand of Wonder]], and it cast a permanent Enlarge effect on one badger. That enlarged badger became [[campaigns:latitude_history:characters:bitey-boy-brock|Bitey Boy Brock]], and this is how Brock met Skrappe Frappe.

Beneath the barrow, the party found a tunnel leading toward Atlantean ruins. Caleb discovered a brass brazier that helped him summon his owl familiar, and he later found the Atlantean Arcanist's Guide to Wandcraft. What began as a settler defense against undead and a badger rescue became another sign that Atlantean traces lay under more than one edge of the world.

[[campaigns:latitude_history:places:hjaltland|Hjaltland]] also gave the campaign gentler wonders. The parties befriended tiny flame-breathing [[campaigns:latitude_history:lore:terrible-terror|Terrible Terrors]], Brock became Skrappe's giant badger companion, and the islands remained a place of grass, settlement, and strange old passages rather than only a battlefield. By the end, [[campaigns:latitude_history:places:hjaltland|Hjaltland]] stood as a viable frontier and a separate lead into Atlantean history.