Cemetery The Known World & Raging Swan Press The current year for our homebrewed campaign setting is set during 672 CY (Common Year). Inspired By Gary Gygax

The cemetery of Dulwich serves as the town’s burial ground, connecting its present inhabitants with generations of those who came before them. It is a place where mourning families, visitors tending graves, and those paying their respects might cross paths.

For a town built upon the remains of older settlements, the cemetery also reinforces how much of Dulwich’s history lies beneath the ground. The cemetery’s caretaker is Jaakkima Aikio, whose work brings him into regular contact with the burial ground and those who visit it.

His position makes him a useful person for adventurers investigating graves, recent burials, or unusual activity in the area. Questions about disturbances among the dead would naturally bring the characters to him, although they would need to determine what he has actually witnessed.

The cemetery’s most dangerous secret involves Orkus Drakar, an evil dwarven priest of Braal who animates the dead. Driven mad by his experiences in Gloamhold, Orkus brings a threat into Dulwich that its inhabitants might more readily associate with distant ruins and dangerous wilderness. His activities turn the town’s dead into a danger to the living and make the cemetery a potential focus for investigation.

For adventurers, the cemetery offers a connection between trouble within Dulwich and the greater dangers elsewhere in Ashlar. Discovering Orkus’s activities could require them to investigate disturbed burials, confront animated corpses, and learn more about the priest responsible.

His connection to Gloamhold also provides a reason to ask what happened to him there—and whether anything he encountered could threaten others.