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Credits

Contents

Author

Gareth Hanrahan

Interior Illustrations

German Ponce, Jesse Mohn,

Leonardo Borazio, Nathan

Furman, Philip Renne, Robin

Bowles

Credits & Contents 1

Introduction 2

Dramatic Personae 4

The Honour of Count Tierkreis 9

The Lady in the Chapel 16

The Demon in the Crystal 32

The Moon Bog 48

The Divine Mother of Jaguars 63

The Guardian Machine

Of Soryandum 77

The Betrayal 95

The Crown of Chaos 98

The Time of Fire and Darkness 118

To Serve the Balance 132

Appendix 1 - Friends and Foes 135

Appendix 2 - New Monsters

Editor

Charlotte Law

Cover Art

Pascal Quidault

Print Manager

Ed Russell

Cover Design

Iordanis Lazaridis

Playtesters

Brian Bertrand, Sean Brown,

Tina Cook, Matt Dunn, Craig

Freeman, Cindy Freeman, Bryon

Gelineault, Paul Palmer, Robert

Poulin

Proofreading

Chris Longhurst and Ted Chang

RuneQuest Logo

Anne Stokes

Special Thanks

Michael Moorcock

150

Index

157

Map

160

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Introduction

INTRODUCTION

‘What is it?’ Hawkmoon asked the Warrior in Jet and

Gold. ‘Surely no natural thing?’

describe. Second is a baron of the Germanian court,

Count Tierkreis , the albino scholor, who has thrown his

vast inherited wealth into acquiring relics and tomes.

‘An ancient artefact,’ said the warrior, wrought by a

forgotten science and a forgotten race who sprang up

sometime between the fall of the Death Rain and the rise

of the Princedoms. Who they were and how they were

brought into being and died, we do not know.’

In the Secrets of Tragic Europe campaign, the characters

are hired by the eccentric Count to recover the secrets and

relics of the past. Guided by the journals of Joyeuse, the

baron sends the characters in search of several treasures:

D In the haunted mountains of Carpathia, the characters

face the peril of The Lady in the Chapel.

D In the crystal city of Parye, a jouster conceals the

secret of the Demon in the Crystal.

D In Eire, there is a village that appears only once a

century, where the ancients yet live. The characters

will ﬁ nd it in the Moonbog.

D In Ukrania, the Mad God's crumbling kingdom

yet holds a deadly secret - the Divine Mother

of Jaguars .

D In Arabia, the ghost city of Soryandum left behind a

cache of wondrous treasures. Brave characters may

be able to ﬁ nd a way past the Guardian Machines

of Araby.

D On returning to Count Tierkreis, the characters are

attacked and betrayed by the Dark Empire. Through

a series of unlikely events, they ﬁ nd themselves

transported to the land of Garathorm, where they

endure the trial of the Crown of Chaos.

D Transported to the ancient days of the Tragic

Millennium, the characters battle in the war-

torn streets of old Londra in the Time of Fire

and Darkness .

D Finally returning to Tragic Europe, the characters

struggle for balance and justice as they learn To

Serve The Balance.

- The Mad God’s Amulet.

The Secrets of Tragic Europe campaign sends your

Hawkmoon characters delving into the hidden history of

the world. The ancients possessed science and sorcery

far beyond even the greatest dreams of the Serpents of

Granbretan and there are still places – haunted, secret,

terrible places where the relics of the ancients can be

found. To command these lost magics is to command the

same spells that brought the Tragic Millennium down on

suffering humanity.

Right-thinking men fear these relics. Sorcery – or dread

science – almost destroyed the world centuries ago.

In Tragic Europe, learning is distrusted and scholars

are feared. A good man is virtuous in his ignorance.

There are a few who have dared learn something of the

ancient’s ways. Count Brass of the Kamarg, for instance,

has invented all manner of weapons and cannons based

on rediscovered principles of science, while his friend

Bowgentle knows occult philosophies lost to lesser

scholars. In Espanya, the scholars of Al-Andalus preserve

some scraps of lost science and of course, Granbretan’s

might is founded on its scientiﬁ c sorcery, its mass-

produced magic. The Serpents and the Ferrets seek out

artefacts and lore from the past, to put them in the service

of King-Emperor Huon and his dreams of conquest.

The Secrets of Tragic

Europe Campaign

In this campaign, the characters are assumed to be

adventurers or wandering sellswords, who are drawn into

the service of Count Tierkreis and sent off in search of

the various artefacts and treasures described by Joyeuse.

As they travel the length of Europe, facing all manner

of dangers, they uncover both the secret history of the

Tragic Millennium and their mysterious employer.

Of all those who seek the secrets of the past, there are

two whose names are repeated again and again in the

courts of Tragic Europe. The ﬁ rst is that of Joyeuse , the

mysterious sorcerer and tomb robber of the early years of

the Tragic Millennium whose cryptic diaries and scrolls

are now considered almost as valuable as the relics they

Introduction

The campaign begins in Berlin (see the Hawkmoon

rulebook, page 33), where the characters are hired by

Count Tierkreis’ aide, Jarek , to ﬁ ght a duel on the Count’s

behalf. If they acquit themselves well, then Tierkreis

hires them for several dangerous missions in pursuit of

artefacts described in the notes left by Joyeuse.

to come. It is possible to run Secrets of Tragic Europe

during or even after the war – sidebars will describe the

necessary changes.

You can also run the individual quests as stand-alone

adventures, instead of as part of this campaign. Again, a

sidebar in each adventure gives plot hooks to draw your

characters into the quest for that particular relic.

The default time period for this adventure is before the

invasion of Europe by Granbretan, before the Hawkmoon

novels begin. The Dark Empire is a rising threat and

has already captured Scandia and parts of France but

they have not yet begun to march on Parye or the Belgic

States. It is the brief summer before the bitter wolf years

Each adventure lists suggested numbers of advancement

rolls and Fate Points. Characters should be approximately

Seasoned (150 skill points) at the start.

Dramatic Personae

DRAMATIC

PERSONAE

There are six individuals, other than the player characters,

who will play key roles in the Secrets of Tragic Europe

campaigns. In many cases in the scenario, dialogue is

suggested for these characters and other NPCs – try to

avoid just reading this dialogue out verbatim from the

book but use it as a guide for how and what the NPCs tell

the characters.

calculating machines. The lights in the windows have

an eerie, pale-green glow and only one woman dances

solemnly in the ballrooms.

The albino desires above all to bring back the wonders of

the past, to raise Europe out of the ashes by the force of

his intellect alone. He also dotes on Lady Phora, who is

a guest in his house.

Count Tierkreis

The Albino Count of Berlin

Tierkreis comes from an ancient and wealthy Germanian

family and is the heir to an incalculably vast fortune. He

should be the most eligible bachelor in Berlin and one of

Prince Lobowitz’s closest allies. However, the Count is an

albino – pale, crimson-eyed, and sickly. He is too weak

to lift a sword or to ride a charger in battle and suffers

from wracking coughs and ﬁ erce seizures. His doting

parents sheltered him all his life; he grew up surrounded

by books and scrolls and tutors and has little in the way

of social graces.

Playing Count Tierkreis: Tierkreis is, to put it simply,

socially inept, shy and rather ignorant to life outside

himself. He has trouble reading the emotions of other

people and can unintentionally insult people. If possible,

get the players to underestimate him.

Tierkreis left his family home in Nürnberg and came to

Berlin to pursue his research into history and sorcery. He

visited court once or twice but was roundly mocked by

the cruel Prince Lobowitz’s coterie of hangers-on and

sycophants. Tierkreis’ poor standing at court is the hook

that draws the player characters to him (see page 11) but

he pretends not to care about how others see him; his

obsession is the past, not the present. The albino count

is never without a book in his hand. However not a dusty

book; he has his servants carefully clean every tome,

because dust affects his delicate lungs and he begrudges

every hour spent away from his workshops and libraries.

He is prideful and quick to anger but also eager to

forgive and to show his friends the wonders of the past.

Emotionally, he is very similar to a clever child.

In Berlin, he has taken the fabulous Lietzenburg Palace

as his home and ﬁ lled it with all manners of treasures and

strange machines. In the winter, other palaces in Berlin

glow with warm ﬁ res, bright gas-jet lights and the sounds

of music and dance. Now that Tierkreis is in town, the

Lietzenburg is quiet save for the endless clattering of

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