Chekitewan

Greyhawk Location

Chekitewan
General information
Type:	Ruins
Geopolitical
Region:	Amedio Jungle
Demographics
Inhabitants:	Undead
Miscellaneous
Events:	Lunar elcipses

Chekitewan is a ruined, ancient Olman stepped pyramid in the jungle, about 30 miles south-southeast of Sasserine which is inhabited by undead in crypts within the tomb. During rare lunar eclipses at night, those undead exit their burial places and terrorize the surrounding countryside.

"Ancient and terrifying to behold, no vegetation encroaches on the midnight-black rock of this immense, steeped pyramid. Formed of six great tiers, hundreds of shallow, man-sized alcoves riddle the structure—a shriveled humanoid corpse propped within each. For the majority of the year, Chekitewan is merely a mysterious, shunned place, where no beast, jungle native, or explorer dares venture. On the nights of lunar eclipses, when the Olman god Tezcatlipoca turns his ever-watchful eye away from the world, these corpses stalk from their open-air tomb. Throughout these accursed nights, the undead search for victims to drag back to their black ruin, their corpselight torches sometimes seen as far north as Sasserine’s plantation holdings. While many whisper that those kidnapped become sacrifices to forgotten heathen gods, the descendants of the Olman—after making signs to ward off evil—claim that these walking dead are ancient heroes. And the blood they spill temporarily sates the undying hunger of some eternal evil long imprisoned within the dreaded ziggurat."

References

Bibliography

• Schneider, F. Wesley and James L. Sutter, "Savage Tidings: Beyond Sasserine" Dragon #349, Bellevue, WA: Paizo Publishing, November 2006.

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