Aihrde Horror - The Slavers & The Remains of Empire - Castles & Crusades Greyhawk

 So we spoke at length about the Dwarves and thier placement within a Mythic Earth and Castles & Crusades Greyhawk.. And how this all relates back into the Slavers series of modules. And how does any of this affect Castles & Crusades world of Aihrde?! It has everything to do with the C&C official setting believe me. Amd all of this relates back into A1 Slave Pits of the Undercity. The Slavers are are raiding on Greyhawk for slaves and pillaging what as well as whatever they can. This makes Aihrde ripe for the raiding;"Aihrde is large world, nearly 24,000 miles in circumference. The world possesses vast oceans and seas, one primary continent and five smaller continents. Her south and north poles are covered in thick sheets of ice year-round. It is a land of wild adventure, peopled by the fierce Aenochians and their mortal enemies the Ehtrum, Elves of the Lands of Seven Rivers, Halfings, and the Earagoth, the First Born, the Dwarves." And here's the Dwarves right in the center of the creation myth,again. 

 

If the Slavers organization and network are using the Dwarven writing as the source of thier knowlege for thier raids across worlds. Then it stands to reason that Aihrde would be a perfect target. We've got lightning fast raids, quick hits on coast line villages, and pillaging of villagers wherever they can be found. But are these the same Slavers that we've seen in the past. And the answer to this lays in the Advanced Dungeons & Dragon's first Edition Rogues Gallery. We pick a few high level evil NPC's and these become the Slavers for Aihrde. 

 So why not use the Castles & Crusades NPC Almanac Sketches? Because of the fact that we're looking for NPC's that modern C&C players won't be familar with. And then there the fact that the the Castles & Crusades NPC Almanac Sketches NPC's are actually going to be our Slaver's resistence fighters network against the Slavers. And this is especially true with our focus on Aihrde. Even if Greyhawk is saved from the Slavers Aihrde isn't. 

 Remember we're dealing with an organization or network of slavers who are operating across the planes. So we've got Mythic Earth, Greyhawk, and now Aihrde.
Is there really anyone at the center of the web?! At this point the slavers network may have been going on for eons. They may be tied into the Thieves guilds across the planes. They smuggle items of rare power and danger to the campaign world in exchange for certain criteria of slaves. Favor and corruption go hand in hand so there may be deeper ties into  Aihrde's rulers and rogues with the local Thieves guilds getting kickbacks and slaves on the side.Finally after centuries of scandal & corruption. Local lords, finally tired of the situation, hire a band of adventurers to attack the slavers in their home.