Overview
Hollow Flesh Market is a river trading post that shifts the campaign from local thornhearth fallout into wider intelligence, commerce, and disappearance patterns. It functions as a regional node where faction logistics, witness leads, and subterranean combat routes converge.
Role in Story
- Acts as the primary information hub after Thornhearth.
- Connects Taviah pursuit, market actors, faction logistics, and Undermarket descent paths.
Timeline Highlights
- Introduced as Taviah’s reported southbound destination.
- Expands into a social-intelligence phase with merchants, scavengers, and missing-memory reports.
- Evolves into active below-market combat and inscription-driven destination clues.
Session Evidence
- In Session 46, party notes said Iron Taviah had headed south into the forest toward Hollow Flesh Market.
- In Session 47, party notes described Hollow Flesh Market as a trading post along a river.
- In Session 47, notes said Hollow Flesh Market was historically founded by followers of Osiris, described at the time as heretical in Geb.
- In Session 47, party notes said both Carters Consortium and Export Guild were active in market shipping/stalls.
- In Session 48, party notes linked Taviah movement to vines near Market’s Edge/Undermarket and recorded combat with vine creatures and zombies while descending.
- In Session 49, party notes say zombies were defeated, a hidden-door stone tablet was recovered, and corridor combat continued deeper below market level.
- In Session 50, party notes say corridor vampires were defeated and inscriptions there were interpreted as pointing toward Field of Maidens.