2025 Jun 7: Horn of the Starfallen Beast

 This horn is made from an unknown keratinous substance, and its origin is said to be one of the horns of a strange creature that fell to the earth. It has a strange, purplish hue to it, and is decorated with elaborate carvings of the many otherworldly creatures the beast bore onto this world. It is currently in the possession of King Tarmakan, one of the preeminent leaders of the people of the bog, though he often loans it to his sons when they are sent on diplomatic missions to the surrounding lands.

 Whenever the Horn is blown, its sound can be heard in the entirety of the bog. It will also attract some of the stranger creatures dwelling there, which will arrive after a few moments if within the bog, or within minutes or hours, depending on the horn's distance to the body of the Starfallen Beast. Nobody currently knows how these creatures are able to traverse entire kingdoms in a matter of hours, but theories abound. Some suggest teleportation, others that they move through parallel realities, and the most boring scholars even suggested it to be due to some kind of summoning magic. None of these theories explain however, why the creatures never appear where anyone can see them, they always seem to physically enter the scene in a perfectly mundane (if slightly disturbing) manner. The only theory to explain this is that these creatures inhabit the underground spaces of the world in large numbers, and the ones called forth are always the local ones. This doesn't explain the lack of evidence to such large-scale inhabitation, but it is more often than not dismissed based on how terrifying the possibility is.

The creatures summoned by the Horn are friendly to the one who has blown it, and their companions, and are even willing to follow instructions within reason. They will try to protect the one who summoned them, and although some may not want to give their lives for this purpose, they will give a good try nonetheless. If they are too late, and the one who has blown the horn is already dead when they get there, they will try to retrieve the body and the Horn, and transport them back to the Bog.