🏰 ILLMARROW
Roiling Maw, The Hatchery & Lurer’s Bell
We descend deeper into Illmarrow Castle.
Beneath the stone halls and beneath the guarded gates lies something far worse than undead servitude. Here, the Queen’s dominion becomes experimental. Industrial. Wrong.
This pack expands the ecosystem of Illmarrow with three interconnected locations that reveal the Castle’s most disturbing secret.
🧪 The Hatchery [32x32]
Just below Illmarrow Castle lies a forsaken laboratory where foul experiments are conducted in secret.
The Hatchery is a full-blown magitek abomination lab — part arcane workshop, part surgical theatre, part industrial processing plant.
Green vats bubble with unstable life.
Specimens hang suspended in containment rigs.
Strange pipes and discard systems connect the facility to the depths below.
Inspired by a blend of:
Mad scientist laboratories
Magitek industry
Eberron-style House Vadalis experimentation
A dark Resident Evil atmosphere — but in a high fantasy setting
Includes:
Main laboratory chamber
Containment room
Discard pipe system
Neutral-background variants (perfect as a Vadalis facility or arcane research center)
🕳 Roiling Maw [45x45]
Below the Hatchery lies the Roiling Maw — the place where the failed creations are thrown away.
The map is split in two distinct sections:
Guarded Discard Zone
The pipe descending from the Hatchery above
Castle Guards maintaining control
Industrial platforms and processing machinery
The Old Catacombs
Ancient crypt tunnels reclaimed by corruption
Toxic runoff and unstable growths
Failed specimens that survived… and adapted
Some of the sentient “Botched Ones” crawl upward toward the Hanging Bowels.
Others remain below, stalking the catacombs — feral, hungry, resentful.
The ecosystem of Illmarrow continues to emerge:
Bloodsails Pirates in Port Cairn
Pilgrims ascending Grim Ascent
Undead servitude in the Hanging Bowels
And now… the discarded creations of the Queen herself
Remember the massive shell-creatures in the Abyssal Approach?
Would it surprise you to learn where they were born?
🔔 Lurer’s Bell [30x30]
At last, we step inside Illmarrow Castle proper.
Overlooking the raging and frigid sea below hangs an unsettling bell suspended from an abnormally large spine.
The sound of the Bell carries across the waves like a siren song.
Ships that stray too close:
Lose their way
Dash upon the jagged rocks below
Feed the Queen’s undead ranks
This is also the domain of the Castle’s undertaker — perhaps a twisted, hunched undead custodian who tends to the remains of those lured by the Bell.
A sinister location perfect for:
Climactic confrontations
Nautical horror
Dark ritual encounters
Atmospheric boss fights
What This Pack Expands
Illmarrow is no longer just a haunted castle.
It is becoming a living, decaying ecosystem:
Pirates in service of the Queen
Pilgrims seeking Grim Ascent
Undead servitude in the Bowels
Experimental horrors beneath the stone
And something industrially wrong at its core
The Castle is not merely ruled.
It is fed.
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