Bastion

"A bit of a sausage-fest, you ask me" - Charnago on the unorthodox curse that plagued Bastion in the Age of Adventure.

At a Glance


A refuge for fey-kin and tieflings, the village of Bastion was one of the oldest settlements in The Known Realm. A "sister city" of Neverwinter, Bastion's beautiful halls and world-famous hot springs were ocassionally plagued by raiding parties of Orcs from the White Wastes to the north. Over time, the town's increasing population of magic users afforded it a fighting chance and it soon became an impenetrable walled city.

Age of Adventure
During the Age of Adventure Bastion was beset by a curse on the city's peoples', one that would seem harmless at first but soon turn into a crisis of cataclysmic proportions. The curse, referred to as "The Red Taint" caused the newborns of Bastion to grow animalistic deformities. Suspecting the cause to be tainted water in the city's hot-springs, people abandoned the tourist attractions (and soon after all water in the town was deemed toxic).

Drawn to the powerful curse magics, Charnago Sarnazerrus travelled to Bastion with the mission of undoing the black magic and seeing a future restored to its citizens. Discovering the cause to be tainted blood spilled into the water by the hengeyokai Onca, Charnago deduced the corruption as being a plot by the blood-deity Asmodeus.