#mountain villages

[melodramaticwanderlust]

📍Innsbruck Tyrol, Austria

from corner_austria on tiktok

[onarangel]

Coffee in Greek mountain villages...

By Tetyana Lyapi

[ecoharbor]

📍Lofoten, Norway 🇳🇴

[hungrytravellers]

Into The Pyrenees: Mountain Hikes And Marvellous Trains

[aestum]

(by Christopher Politano)

[wiirocku]

Lofoten, Norway

[ktadge]

Shirakawa, Japan with my Mamiya C330 on Kodak Portra 160

@kevintadge

[pellinni-photo]

rural mountain landscape in winter at sunrise. alpine scenery. snow covered hills in morning light. beautiful view

[vintageeurope]

Valle, Norway 1880/90

[gemsofgreece]

Kalarrytes of Ioánnina, Greece by apostolosm on Instagram.

[some-places]

mountain village

[dailyadventureprompts]

Dungeon: The Spine of Ol'Syd

Artsource

Laid low by the sacrifice of a great hero of the past age, the bones of the dragon Sydragul have become a monument to the vibrancy and prosperity that can follow after hopeless and calamity.

Such is the case for the nearby village of Flamesfallow, which presides over a stretch of territory that was turned to an ashbarren by the dragon's breath and has since become very fertile farmland. There's a small cottage industry of Flamesfallow of recounting of the hero's deeds and death, to say nothing of guiding tourists to see the fearsome landmark and offering polished rocks "shards of dragonbone" at a fair price.

Adventure Hooks:

Selvic, the lord of Flamesfallow is the very model of an envious second son. While his older brother Selvin got to leverage the family's wealth to marry the local Marquess, Selvic is stuck managing the land that provides that wealth for the rest of his life. With nearly everything passing to the eldest upon their parents death, Selvic has become obsessed in outstaging his brother by finding the hero's sword, said to have been lost after he allowed himself to be swallowed so he could stab at its heart. He's willing to pay the party a handsome finder's fee... with the understanding that he'll brand them outlaws in breach of contract if they manage to claim the blade and fail to return it to him.

Any alchemist could tell you that the flesh and blood of a dragon have some odd alchemical properties, and after Sydragul began to rot an uptick in dire mutations began to appear in the local wildlife. Even generations on from the scavengers' feeding frenzy these variants persist, with raven-drakes haunting the peaks and firebreathing cinderwolves among the most notable of the hazards haunting the local roads.

Strange rumours begin to circulate around Flamesfallow that the dragon might not be dead after all. How else to explain the embers that folk say you can see in the beast's eyesockets at night, or the smoke that rises from between its ribs on days when the wind is still? In actuality, a group of outcasts have taken up residence in the great skeleton, and have been mining a seam of precious gemstones that opened up in the mountainside when the dragon impacted it. Knowing that the seam technically belongs to the local lord by feudal right, they're willing to kill if the party stumbles across their operation in order to keep it a secret.

[ecoharbor]

📍Hallstatt, Austria 🇦🇹

[illustratus]

Winter Scene with Skaters by Jan Griffier

[lionfloss]

Viking Village, Norway by mattberthou

[aestum]

(by Willian Justen de Vasconcellos)