Overview
A bald hill west of the vineyards, heaped over old graves, that the druids have made their holy place: a camp of painted wild men on its shoulder, wicker cages, a hidden gully up the west flank, and a path to the crown where the tree grows.
The hill rises out of the moor with almost nothing growing on it, as if the grass knew better. Low mounds ring its foot, old graves with no stones. Smoke rises from a camp on its shoulder, and from the crown comes a sound like many people humming one long note.
Resting: no Not on this hill. The ground hums under you, and something on the crown is listening for sleepers.
Getting here
Ways in
- The travel map: Yester Hill, in The Wizard of Wines and Yester Hill. It shows once yester hill known or tarokka.tome.region is yester hill or tarokka.symbol.region is yester hill or tarokka.sword.region is yester hill.
Ways out
| # | Exit | Leads to | Only when |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The barrow track, back toward the vineyards | the travel map | |
| 2 | Up to the crown of the hill |  The Crown of Yester Hill | |
| 3 | The head of the gully | The Crown of Yester Hill |
Map
Key: gold, people; red, containers; purple, hidden finds; teal, skill checks; white, exits; orange, traps. The numbers match the lists on this page.
Close up
the wardens' hoard
Old grave mounds, something in the barrow mound
the view east
People
Who turns up at points in the story (2)
What to find
| # | Where | What | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | the wardens' hoard | Berserker Greataxe, Handaxe ×2, Ration ×4, Hide Armor, 34 gp | open it |
| 10 | something under the bone cairn (hidden) | Bracers of Archery | Search: Perception DC 15 |
| 11 | a sword under the cage floor (hidden) | Longsword of Life Stealing | Search: Perception DC 15 |
| 12 | a druid's cache in the gully (hidden) | Wand of Paralysis | Search: Investigation DC 15 |
| 13 | something tucked into a bedroll (hidden) | Sickle | Search: Perception DC 13 |
| 14 | something in the barrow mound (hidden) | Amulet of the Devout, +2 | Search: Perception DC 14 |
The containers here also get random magic items and potions, rolled for a party of level 7 the first time you come (Random Treasure). Hidden finds need a Search (F) nearby; the party's best roll counts.
Skill checks
| # | Where | Check | Try | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | Old grave mounds | History 14 | Read the barrow stones | finds Amulet of the Devout, +2; lore: The barrows of Yester Hill |
| 8 | the view east | Perception 13 | Look east from the hilltop | reveals wizard_of_wines:vine_sickle |
| 9 | a cairn of bones | Medicine 14 | Examine the bones in the cairn | finds Bracers of Archery |
Fights
- The men round the fire are big, bearded and painted green to the eyebrows. They see you, grin, and reach for…, in Yester Hill: Berserker, Twig Blight. Scales with your level.
By party level (the first line your party fits is the fight you get)
- Yester Hill, when not wardens camp cleared and not yester hill resolved and level ≥ 7: 4 × Warden of the hill (Berserker), 4 × Twig Blight (1900 XP)
- Yester Hill, when not wardens camp cleared and not yester hill resolved and level ≥ 6: 3 × Warden of the hill (Berserker), 4 × Twig Blight (1450 XP)
- Yester Hill, when not wardens camp cleared and not yester hill resolved: 2 × Warden of the hill (Berserker), 4 × Twig Blight (1000 XP)
- The cairn comes apart, and up out of it and out of the mounds round it come the dead the druids bound to…, in Yester Hill: Wight, Ghoul. Scales with your level. Part of The Barrow on Yester Hill.
By party level (the first line your party fits is the fight you get)
- Yester Hill, when not barrow watch known: Silverjaw (Wight), 3 × A Barrow-Warden (Wight), 4 × The Hill's Watch (Ghoul) (3600 XP; surprise: party)
- Yester Hill: Silverjaw (Wight), 4 × A Barrow-Warden (Wight), 3 × The Hill's Watch (Ghoul) (4100 XP)
Quests and lore
- The Barrow on Yester Hill: The druids dug the mountain folk's dead out of the mounds at the foot of Yester Hill and stacked their skulls up the slope. Freydis has…
- The Mountain's Heart: The mountain folk say Grandfather Stone, asleep in Mount Ghakis, is walking, since the count's men cut a quarry in the mountain's south…
- The Son Who Didn't Fly: Davian Martikov has never forgiven his son Adrian for coming home alone from Yester Hill, where his youngest, Elvir, was taken.