The Lost Colonies: Tris Korinthos

[Shall Teclex]

I really need to post this map before I start tweaking it again...

A long, long time ago, Diamond faced us with the February 2018 Challenge: Elevator Pitch Prophecies. The goddess of randomness, appearing in the form of donjon random generator, presented this cryptic prophecy to me:

"The Crimson Queen cannot be slain until the Black Serpent is chained and death becomes life."

Based on this words, I created Tris Korinthos - a city scattered across the Black Serpent Archipelago on a distant moon faced with a catastrophic eruption of the Crimson Queen volcano. However, the Crimson Prophecy is more a SciFi riddle than a religious miracle: this long forgotten human colony is in fact equipped with an ancient terraforming machinery capable of affecting the environmental conditions by releasing several chemical compounds into the atmosphere - some of them can cool down the volcano and preserve life on the moon; others will cause the certain death of all living creatures. Now is up to Mercury to seek the lost lore of the founders that could help her interpret the mysterious Prophecy and thus save inhabitants of this small world from extinction...

(What can I say? GM in me loves epic quests...)

Tris Korinthos CG.jpg

Being unable to finish my original Challenge map in time, I never got to properly thank nopkin and arsheesh for last minute advice on this map - so, thank you, guys!

...and thanks to MapMappingMapped for additional push to finally post this map today