Black Obelisks of the Chenogg Rainforest

[Christopher Barley]

So my players want to investigate these, and, honestly, I am freaking LOST for what these things might be.

The hint that "The Ghol-Gan didn't build on Motaku because of these" has me scratching my head. That kinda suggests that they're NOT Lovecraftian, because the Ghol-Gan would have been ALL for that towards the end of the empire.

And the fact that there's 7 might suggest a link with the Runelorda, but the Ghol-Gan predate the Runelorda, so... I HAVE NO FREAKING IDEA!

Can anyone point me in any sort of direction, or at least provide a neat idea for what they might be believably connected to? Thanks

[DM_aka_Dudemeister]

From the wiki: "Some scholars say that these monuments may be the reason why not a single Ghol-Gan ruin has been found on Motaku. Some say that these obelisks are somehow gateways to subterranean vaults and that untold riches await whoever unlocks their secrets"

Potentially an ancient treasure from The Makers, the mysterious and ill-understood humanoid refugees from the Age of Creation that created the Gloomspires.

Heck you might even be able to just move the Gloomspires entirely and insert the trilogy for Sevenfingers Treasure:
Hall of Flesh
Labyrinth of Hungry Ghosts
and Hrethnar's Throne