Jeseph’s Lament (Patreon)

[Patrons: please note that the gridless map is different than the one that was in the backstage pass as that one had some residual grid lines left behind]

Cold winds howl through the crumbling bones of the ruins on Jeseph’s Hill. Only the buttresses remain, like broken stone ribs or fingers reaching up desperately from the hilltop to the heavens above in supplication or lament. On the side of the hill a small stream descends into a low-ceilinged cave that in turn enters into the ruins under the hill. Alternately, a wooden door in the ruins, sealed shut by swelling and water damage, still leads to the stairs down into the small complex of chambers below, although clearly no one has been down these stairs in ages.

Away from the stream, the complex is in good shape with no collapsed areas – a testament to the engineering and construction of this stone redoubt in the hill. Originally, the underground portion of the complex was dug out to be used as a tomb for Jeseph’s two daughters, but when they were killed, the assassin also destroyed their bodies to prevent resurrection. But with the war underway, the complex was instead used for the storage of both their own and captured materiel.

But in the final year of the war, a pair of sorcerers breached the lament using allied river and hill elementals – sundering the hill and running a quick flowing stream through it. The current residents of the ruins travel in and out along this stream through the low-ceilinged cave it follows into the hill. They try to travel at least a hundred yards upstream before moving to dry land to avoid leaving footprints at the cave entrance.

The 1200 dpi versions of the map were drawn at a scale of 300 pixels per square and are 9,600 x 9,600 pixels (32 x 32 squares). To use this with a VTT you would need to resize the squares to either 70 pixels (for 5′ squares) or 140 pixels (for the recommended 10′ squares that fit the furnishings shown) – so resizing it to either 2,240 x 2,240 or 4,480 x 4,480, respectively.

https://dysonlogos.blog/2026/02/25/jesephs-lament/