Les cendres de l'Écorcheur Céleste

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Front cover

Translated Title: The ashes of the Celestial Flayer

Pages: 35

Author: Samuel Tarapacki

Artist: Vintage photographs, Loïc Muzy

Editor(s): Christophe Ployon, Isabelle Donné

Setting: September 1931, Manchuria, China & the Ranksacaan, Mongolia

Appears in: Les 5 supplices, Livret 5

Campaign: Les 5 supplices

Summary

When sorcerer Sayk Fong Lee heads inland to Mongolia, the investigators must follow to stop him from gaining access to the ashes of the Celestial Flayer.

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The investigators depart the Marchu palace to follow the trial of some Orthodox Christian monks. The rescue a young marshal named Zhang Xueliang from the Opium Dream, and he puts them on Sayk Fong Lee's path to Ranksacaan, Mongolia, where the sorcerer seeks the Jade Urn containing the ashes of the Celestial Flayer. Once they reach Mongolia, they locate the Jade Urn, but a Tcho-Tcho shaman lures them to be captured by his tribe to sacrifice them to a dark god. Meanwhile, Says Fong Lee's minions arrive and steal away the Jade Urn, leaving the investigators for dead.

Player Handouts

• Les messages des oiseaux noirs divinatoires (messages of the black divination birds) (1)
• Les messages des oiseaux noirs divinatoires (messages of the black divination birds) (2)
• Sauf-conduit en Mandchourie (safe passage in Manchuria)
• Document historique de l'Illustration (historical document of illustration)
• La carte vers la Mongolie (map to Mongolia)

Locations:

• Manchuria, China
• Mongolia

Creatures & Entities:

• l'Écorcheur Céleste (Celestial Flayer)
• star spawn of Cthulhu (La larve stellaire de Cthulhu)
• Tcho-Tchos

Organizations:

Tomes & Artifacts:

• l'Urne de Jade (Jade Urn)

Campaigns / Scenarios: Les 5 supplices