Sansoon Village

**Sansoon Village** is a small, farming village on the island of Sansoon situated on the east side of the island, and is surrounded by the Yama Valley to the west.

The village is home to the majority of the island's residents, including Mateo and Darlene West, who run the village's only tavern, The Bloody Tulip, and also the former mayor of the island, Braenez.

In recent history, Braenez's scheme to control the island through the use of a Kot Bayur was foiled by the Three Thumb Pirates who slew the creature, deafened him, and exposed his schemes to the rest of the town.

## Locations

### The Bloody Tulip

The local tavern ran by the father/daughter duo, Mateo and Darlene West. The sign for the tavern displays a white tulip covered in blood, dripping onto its leaves below.

Due to the sparse population, business is slow at the tavern and many locals cannot afford to use their little gold on amenities such as ale and hot food. Rather, the tavern relied on sailors on passing ships for a small income to continue to operate. In recent events, Darlene took up to being the village's sole defender from the creature that was preying on townsfolk, but has been relieved of the position since the creature was slain by the Three Thumb Pirates.

### Silverchin Farm

The largest farm in the village ran by Halgreck Silverchin, a gruff but amicable dwarf. His crops have been destroyed as of late due an unknown reason unrelated to the creature stalking the village. Upon inspection by the party, they found small bug's eggs and spiders left in, and around, the wilting crops.

The party suspect these ruined crops are the result of a visit to the island by Mira Wyrmwood.

## History

### Past

Sometime in the past, at least 15 years ago, Mateo left the Dread Lord's crew as a shiphand and settled down on the island having his daughter, Darlene, with an unknown partner.

Prior to the arrival of the party, a Kot Bayur found its way to the island and began to stalk the village, picking off inhabitants at night. Through the actions of Mayor Braenez, the village was able to reach an agreement with the creature that they would be left alone should the village sacrifice a single member every New, and Full, Moon. This, along with the previous killings, caused many people to flee the island in terror of the creature and fearing their lives, though the elderly and infirm were left behind.

### Early Jade Sea Arc

Upon their arrival on the island and finding of the village, the party were initally accosted by a suspicious Darlene from a faux guard tower as she questioned their intentions. After relieving her suspicions, the party was warned to leave the village before nightfall as there was to be another drawing of sacrifices. Curious, the party resolved to stay in the village and learn more about what was going on.

Now in the village, the party visited The Bloody Tulip and learned more about the island's history from Mateo, who's reference to the Kot Bayur as 'the beast' caught Hangwit's interest specifically. Mateo explained that all attempted hunts of the creature had failed, and that the hunters would find themselves back in the village after attempting to track it. While Arminius went to visit the Mayor to learn more, Hangwit and Marlowe attempted to test this theory out for themselves by venturing into the forest leading to Yama Valley, only to hear a soft song, before finding themselves waking back in the village once more.

After deciding themselves to be the village's next sacrifices, the party set off towards the Yama Valley once more, this time making it to the mountains. Here, they scaled the cliffsides and found a small cave inlet filled with strange trinkets and paintings covering the walls. Heading inside, the party found themselves face-to-face with the Kot Bayur itself, who attempted to reason with the party that it had become tired of being fed sacrifices by Braenez and desired a proper hunt thus would allow the party to live if they became stronger by killing the members of the village before returning to challenge the creature. Unsatisfied with this proposition, the party engaged in combat with the wily creature, using fog and trickery to eventually slay the thing.

Returning to the village, the party questioned Braenez who admitted that he was rigging the sacrifical election and was working together with the creature out of fear for his own life. During this time, the party also deafened Braenez in one ear as retribution for his actions, and took 3,000 gold from him, officially making their foray into piracy.

Soon after this, the party met with Mateo and Darlene one last time to bid farewell, and set off toward Daitoshi to acquire themselves a new ship.