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 Table of Contents
The Night Messengers................................................................... 4

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An Adventure for 4–5 Characters of 1st Level
By Victoria Jaczko

Hunters of the Tenebrous Plain................................................ 15

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An Adventure for 4–5 Characters of 2nd Level
By Mike Welham

The Weeper in Shadow................................................................ 26

An Adventure for 4–5 Characters of 3rd Level
By Richard Pett

A Death Among the Pale Roses...................................................39

By Jeff Lee
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An Adventure for 4–5 Characters of 3rd–4th Level

Reflections and Remembrance...................................................52

An Adventure for 4–5 Characters of 4th Level
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By Kelly Pawlik

Big Briar’s Blessings................................................................... 64

An Adventure for 4–5 Characters of 4th–5th Level
By Richard Pett

The Lost Treasure of Paletree Rise........................................... 75

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An Adventure for 4–5 Characters of 5th Level

By Jon Sawatsky

The Horn of Revels.......................................................................85

An Adventure for 4–5 Characters of 5th–6th Level
By Jeff Lee
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The Sodality of Silent Rites...................................................... 96

An Adventure for 4–5 Characters of 6th Level
By Carlos Ovalle & Holly Ovalle

The House of Reciprocities.......................................................109

An Adventure for 4–5 Characters of 6th–7th Level
By Tim Hitchcock

Among the Shades and Shadows...............................................124

An Adventure for 4–5 Characters of 7th Level
By Sarah Madsen

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The Time-Twister’sDaughter....................................................134
An Adventure for 4–5 Characters of 7th Level
By Kelly Pawlik
Radiance Lost.............................................................................147
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An Adventure for 4–5 Characters of 7th–8th Level

By Celeste Conowitch

Shadows of the Dusk Queen......................................................162

An Adventure for 4–5 Characters of 8th Level
By Marc Radle
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Appendix...................................................................................... 175

Creature Names in Tales from the Shadows

Creatures whose names appear in bold without a Creatures listed as “shadow-touched” are typical of that
book reference can be found in the System Reference species but with the Shadow-Touched trait from Book of
Document 5.1 or the core rule books. Similarly, spell and Ebon Tides applied. Numerous creatures included in these
magic item names that appear in italics without a page or adventures can be found in Creature Codex, Tome of Beasts,
book reference can be found in those sources. or Tome of Beasts 2. There is a table in the appendix that
lists appropriate substitutions from the core rules.

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ADVENTURE BACKGROUND During her investigation, Erestee learned that
In the Shadow Realm, the roads and the politics are Lyrio believed the Shadow Grimoire was an intelligent
equally treacherous. Navigating the gray areas of tome driven to push its owner to become a master of
shadow magic. Realizing the extent of Lyrio’s work,
both are The Night Messengers, a loose organization
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of daring couriers. Comprised of all manner of
backgrounds and alignments, the Messengers take
one cause as sacred: When they have a contract to
deliver a message or package somewhere in the
Realms, they fulfill it. Identifiable by their distinctive
as a shadow enforcer, Erestee had discovered recently
that she had a talent for magic and wished to gain
greater mastery of it herself. So, instead of reporting
back to the Court or taking Lyrio with her, she
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decided to kill him and follow the trail of his research
coats—from which they can summon shadowy
herself. Only she waited one day too long; after she
mounts that let them traverse the trails left by the
murdered him, she couldn’t find any notes about the
mysterious witchlights—Messengers live a life of
Shadow Grimoire anywhere, just an urgent note he’d
danger, but it’s one that affords them a certain amount
written to himself to summon a Night Messenger.
of prestige and neutrality even in the coldest of courts.
Erestee inquired around Wormwood and learned
The cadre of Night Messengers led by the bearfolk that a group of Night Messengers had left town
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ranger Bhorhan Svorsson took a contract to deliver a heading south, into the Sable Forest. She followed
package from Wormwood to Corremel. The client, a but found little evidence of their passing on the main
frazzled scholar named Lyrio Felanthos, emphasized road. By luck, however, Erestee did find a raiding
repeatedly that the package must only reach his party of ghouls of the Twilight Empire (Book of Ebon
trusted colleague, a scholar of the shadow fey named Tides) returning (largely empty-handed) from an
Alluna. He has already sent ahead word to her about unsuccessful city raid. Erestee leveraged her Court
its impending arrival, as he fears this culmination
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connections with the company’s darakhul captains to

of his life’s research has drawn attention from persuade them to hunt down The Night Messengers
something in the shadows. on her behalf, convincing them that The Night
Lyrio wasn’t wrong. Within a day of giving the Messengers were smuggling a number of refugees
parcel to The Night Messengers, he was found dead— that the Court wanted captured or terminated. In
poisoned—his study ransacked, and the killer left no return, the ghouls would be allowed to take these
trace behind. “refugees” back to the Twilight Empire as plunder.
His killer was Erestee Loff, a shadow goblin With the help of the ghoul raiders, Erestee found
assassin in the employ of the Court of Night and the Messengers’ trail, and she and a contingent
Magic. The Court had sent her to Wormwood to of ghouls caught up with their quarry in the Sable
monitor Lyrio, discover the extent of his research Forest. Upon seeing the raiders approach, the four
into the legendary, long-vanished artifact known as Messengers scattered to try and split the enemy’s
the Shadow Grimoire, and bring back his findings. forces in an effort to give Bhorhan, who carried

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