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I wonder if this is connected to Pathfinder Module: Curse of the Riven Sky?
It is not. They're both about giants, and both have a flying cloud castle, but the similarities end there. The biggest difference, of course, is that Shadow of the Storm Tyrant is the capstone to and entire Adventure Path focused on giants, and is therefore designed for PCs of significantly higher levels.

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Marco Massoudi wrote:I wonder if this is connected to Pathfinder Module: Curse of the Riven Sky?It is not. They're both about giants, and both have a flying cloud castle, but the similarities end there. The biggest difference, of course, is that Shadow of the Storm Tyrant is the capstone to and entire Adventure Path focused on giants, and is therefore designed for PCs of significantly higher levels.
Thank you for clarifying that Rob.
There seem to be at least 2 cloud castles in the skies over Avistan... ;-)

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Marco Massoudi wrote:There seem to be at least 2 cloud castles in the skies over Avistan... ;-)There are likely many more than that. Just as we don't map every goblin settlement or lizardfolk village or ogre enclave, we just haven't defined where all the cloud giants in the Inner Sea region live.
I don´t want to be a jackass but i doubt it very much that are that many more.
These are legendary artifacts and the entry for cloud giants says:
"Good cloud giants build roads from their settlements to connect with other humanoid roads in order to foster trade. It's not uncommon to see a good cloud giant walking among humans, for example, in a human city near a tall mountain range. Evil cloud giants tend not to bother with permanent settlements and instead live on high peaks in crude shelters, only coming down to raid villages for whatever they might need."
"Legends abound of magical cloud giant cities nestled in the very clouds themselves that float with the winds and circumnavigate the world. While most cloud giants recognize this as a fantasy, there are some who not only claim to have seen them but have dedicated the entirety of their long lives to finding them again."
Also i wonder if "Skyborne Keep: A floating cloud castle ruled by a malevolent storm giant, who uses it as a vessel to plunder various merchant ships and trade caravans." from Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Castles of the Inner Sea is the same as the one in this adventure... ;-)

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Also i wonder if "Skyborne Keep: A floating cloud castle ruled by a malevolent storm giant, who uses it as a vessel to plunder various merchant ships and trade caravans." from Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Castles of the Inner Sea is the same as the one in this adventure... ;-)
From the Office of Expectation Management: It's not Skyborne Keep.

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Marco Massoudi wrote:Also i wonder if "Skyborne Keep: A floating cloud castle ruled by a malevolent storm giant, who uses it as a vessel to plunder various merchant ships and trade caravans." from Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Castles of the Inner Sea is the same as the one in this adventure... ;-)From the Office of Expectation Management: It's not Skyborne Keep.
Thanx again Andy!
Wow you guys have an office for everything. ;-)

Liz Courts Webstore Gninja Minion |

What's next for the Adventure Path Line? Are we going to see Arcadia, more of Casmaron, Vudra, Sarusan in furture APs? Perhaps a AP set in Azlant's zenith or during the time of the Jistka Imperium(with time travel possiblies)?
Hell's Rebels. We'll have a product page up here in the next few weeks, I suspect. :)

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Is that character level 17 for active adventuring in the final part of the this AP installment, or just a case of: "your L 16 characters beat the BBEG and his pals, won/stopped the disaster, and can now retire as L 17"?
For The Divnity Drive, it was both: "The PCs should be 17th level before (starting the last part of the adventure)" followed by "The PCs should be 17th level by the end of the adventure."

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Bellona wrote:Is that character level 17 for active adventuring in the final part of the this AP installment, or just a case of: "your L 16 characters beat the BBEG and his pals, won/stopped the disaster, and can now retire as L 17"?For The Divnity Drive, it was both: "The PCs should be 17th level before (starting the last part of the adventure)" followed by "The PCs should be 17th level by the end of the adventure."
This is more or less what we try to strive for in our APs, but the variations on how many words it takes to hand out XP and the like means that in some cases we might fall short, and in others you might actually hit 18th level (as was, I believe, the case for Shattered Star).

Generic Villain |
I would one day like to see an AP that doesn't feature the Runelords themselves, but rather a Rune Giant overlord building a massive force, dominating giants, etc.
It's not an AP, but a rune giant fighter by the name of Graithzog Ebonrunes is doing just that in the Xin-Shalast chapter of Lost Cities of Golarion. He's essentially picking up the pieces after

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I love that cover art. This AP has some of the best cover pieces of all the APs in my opinion, the giant looks great. I think he looks correctly proportioned and I like the idea of the falcatta, and what I assume is the orb of dragon kind. I assume he's flying, hovering in readiness to use his hopefully awesome Magus powers! Kind of makes me wish they make miniatures of the cover Giants, I know I'd but them if only for the foremost giant death knight, fire giant and this one.

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I assume he's flying, hovering in readiness to use his hopefully awesome Magus powers!
What makes you think magus? Was that mentioned somewhere? If you're just guessing, then I could definitely see you being right - I could also see him being a sorcerer/eldritch knight, or even a non-spellcasting class like fighter. His floating stance could be thanks to a magic item or custom ability.

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Here's a fun Thassilon spoiler unrelated to the adventure itself:
If you know your Thassilon lore, each Runelord had a champion who wielded one of the Seven Swords of Sin. Runelord Zutha's champion, first mentioned in Artifacts and Legends, was called Ungarato. He now officially has stats (though is not statted):
CE male human graveknight barbarian 12/fighter 7/marshal 4.
That means he is at least challenge rating 22 (and likely 23, if his equipment is PC-quality) - making him quite a bit stronger than Zutha!

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Cat-thulhu wrote:I assume he's flying, hovering in readiness to use his hopefully awesome Magus powers!What makes you think magus? Was that mentioned somewhere? If you're just guessing, then I could definitely see you being right - I could also see him being a sorcerer/eldritch knight, or even a non-spellcasting class like fighter. His floating stance could be thanks to a magic item or custom ability.
Wishful thinking. I'm just hoping that's what he is.

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Generic Villain wrote:Wishful thinking. I'm just hoping that's what he is.Cat-thulhu wrote:I assume he's flying, hovering in readiness to use his hopefully awesome Magus powers!What makes you think magus? Was that mentioned somewhere? If you're just guessing, then I could definitely see you being right - I could also see him being a sorcerer/eldritch knight, or even a non-spellcasting class like fighter. His floating stance could be thanks to a magic item or custom ability.
While magus would be cool (and thematically fitting), eldritch knight might be easier as storm giants have the martial prerequisites down racially, and might get more mileage out of spellcasting that way.

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Ungarato being mythic rank 4 essentially makes me wonder if he's really dead and his essence is trapped within the sword of sin. Now I'm thinking that maybe it's not his essence within the blade at all. That would be interesting, he's still around and kicking 10 millennia later, guarding his third of the gluttonous tome and wielding the sleeping blade.

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Ungarato being mythic rank 4 essentially makes me wonder if he's really dead and his essence is trapped within the sword of sin. Now I'm thinking that maybe it's not his essence within the blade at all. That would be interesting, he's still around and kicking 10 millennia later, guarding his third of the gluttonous tome and wielding the sleeping blade.
The article is intentionally vague on Ungarato's current condition, noting only that he might have been defeated or even destroyed in the past. He also might still be "alive" and kicking, holding both his Sword of Sin and one-third of Zutha's booklactery.
This possibility would contradict the Seven Swords of Sin entry in Artifacts and Legends, which is much more firm about Ungarato (the person) falling and being absorbed by Ungarato (the sword).