Longboat Mountain – Figurehead House

At the top of the trail leading up Longboat Mountain to the valley travellers get their first view of the longboat itself – an impossibly big wooden boat made from trees that must have been 100 feet across and miles high. Perched over the head of the trail is the rotted prow of the boat, and at the very end of the prow a small house has been built, over a hundred feet above the trail proper.

To get to the house proper, one must walk past it to the ruins of the boat and then climb the prow and then the bowsprit up to the house. Stairs have been painstakingly cut into the steeply angled ancient wood that leads up to the house. The house itself is an amalgam of modern wood and bits of the ancient wood of the boat – some parts festooned with petrified barnacles, others with moss and alpine flowers.

The house is home to an eccentric gnome hermit, who goes only by the name of “Driftwood” – a crooked figure wrapped in layers of patchwork robes, worn thin by decades of mountain winds. The hermit’s gnarled hands are as weathered as the ancient wood of the ship, but at the opposite end of the size spectrum.

The hermit’s long, silver-white beard cascades down to their chest, often tangled with bits of feather, twigs, and a whole collection of mysterious trinkets. The hermit moves with a peculiar gait, as though each step is part of a ritual. Their piercing gray eyes gleam with the wisdom of countless years—or perhaps it’s a spark of madness. They speak in cryptic riddles, their voice carrying the rich, husky timbre of someone who’s spent more time conversing with the wind and stars than with people.

The 1200 dpi versions of the map were drawn at a scale of 300 pixels per square and are 10,200 x 6,600 pixels in size (34 x 22 squares). To use this with a VTT you would need to resize the squares to either 70 pixels (for the recommended 5′ squares) or 140 pixels (for 10′ squares) – so resizing it to either 2,380 x 1,540 or 4,760 x 3,080 pixels, respectively.

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