Chapter 1: Kelemvor's Cathedral - Chains of Asmodeus

Chapter 1: Kelemvor's Cathedral. The Nine Hells are no place for a paladin. Kelemvor is a god of the dead, and the cathedral dedicated to him reflects the somber nature of the god. The character's face their first challenge in this dimly-lit building. Running This Chapter Before running this chapter: Familiarize yourself with this chapter and Koh Tam, who plays an important role in the adventure. Each player must separately decide which soul they need to save from the Nine Hells. As a group, the players must decide which of the group patrons they wish to ally with. The Infernal Contracts The characters meet with their group patron. They learn about Asmodeus and how he has tricked the powerful into signing infernal contracts. They learn why their group patron is concerned about this. Read the following text to start things off. Then read the text that is specific to the group patron. You knew as much of Asmodeus as anyone in your line of work. He was a powerful deity, a conniving master of many schemes, and the Lord of the Nine Hells. You knew that he often plotted to corrupt and win the souls of the influential and the powerful through the use of infernal contracts, damning those unfortunates to the torments of his realm. You never thought that you would be one of his targets. Now, you live with the loss. A hollowness exists where your soul should be, or else the fierce grief-ache of a stolen friend or family member. If Asmodeus could not convince you yourself to sign a contract, he went after those closest to you. If you made a pact with the Lord of the Nine, you did it with the assumption that you would have enough time to fulfill your end of the bargain. Likely the others who fell prey to him thought the same. It was not to be. Asmodeus's hired murderers ensured it. Since then, you have been searching desperately for a way to recover what you lost, without success. Every lead has turned up nothing. Every promise of a gateway into the infernal realm has been fa...