Dark Sun - Quick Plot Hooks: Renegade Halfling vs. Kaisharga

Once, long ago, Dokala was a young Halfling girl living in a village in the Ringing Mountains.  When she came of age, she decided to set out and see more of the world.  No more than a few days travel from the tree line, she was captured by slavers and was eventually sold to a noble in Ur Draxa.  There, it was discovered that she was very gifted in the Will (psionics) and received training.  In time, she was a respected (though still owned) adviser to the nobleman (now a Templar of Borys - The Dragon).  He owner decided that she was indispensable and that the only to assure retention of her services was to have her raised as a Kaisharga.

After several centuries, Ur Draxa was destroyed and her creator/owner was killed, freeing Dokala at last.  She returned to the Forest Ridge to see how her tribe had fared, but found that they had been deemed Renegades and driven out of the Forest Ridge and were now barely surviving in the foothills of the Ringing Mountains.

Dokala has setup in a nearby ruin and uses her psionics and ability to create/control undead to keep the stronger predators away from her people without tipping them off to her presence.  

For their part, the Halfling tribe knows that there is a ruin nearby and that it is haunted by undead, but they have been lucky in that the undead seem to keep the fierce predators away from the tribe but never hassle them.  They would be horrified to know that an undead former member of their tribe had been protecting them for so long.

Dark Sun - Quick Plot Hooks: Cilops vs. B'rohg

A Cilops tracks a B'rohg through a region of Rocky Badlands. 

Perhaps the Cilops is simply hungry, but perhaps slavers travel alongside it, intent on capturing the B'rohg for the arenas of the City States.

Dark Sun - Quick Plot Hooks: Cha’thrang vs. Athasian Wraith

A shambling Elven corpse drives/leads a trine of especially large Cha’thrangs through the hunting grounds of tribes of Aarakocra.  The Cha’thrangs have now begun to associate the corpse with finding good prey.

The Elven corpse is animated by an Athasian Wraith, Chikelu Saro-Wiwa.  Chikelu served in the armies of Lalali-Puy (then known as Inenek, Aarakocra Scourge) durring the Cleansing Wars.  He is sickened by her disregard for the infestation of Aarakocra in the Tablelands and has continued to purge them on his own.  This scheme of using Cha’thrangs to do his dirty work is simply the latest in a long list of plots to slaughter Aarakocras.


 

Dark Sun - Quick Plot Hooks: Sun Paraelemental vs. Dust Glider

A small ecosystem has developed on a tiny rocky crag in the Sea of Silt.  A slain Beasthead Giant lies slumped over the rocks, slowly decomposing.  Dust Gliders swoop and snatch at the Dust Gulls picking over the Giant corpse.  Overhead, a Sun Paraelemental blazes away, happy that the Giant it killed has become a trap for more of these disgusting “fleshy beings”.

Dark Sun - Quick Plot Hooks: Air Elemental Beast vs. Crystal Spider

An Air Elemental Beast has been using the crystalline webs of a Crystal spider to strain out some of its offending bits of dirt and sand (like a bear rubbing up against a tree to scratch itself).  This has enraged the Crystal Spider(s), as the Air Elemental Beast kicks up windstorms.

Dark Sun - Quick Plot Hooks: Wood Golem vs. Tul’k

A newly-arrived band of Tul’ks have been sighted near Tyr in the foothills of the Ringing Mountains.  They are suspected of being responsible for a rash of attacks near-by, as the victims have all been bludgeoned/crushed to death by something large, solid and heavy.  A rampaging Wood Golem that has wandered over the mountains from the Forest Ridge is in fact to blame.

Dark Sun - Quick Plot Hooks: Sun Drake vs. Tohr-Kreen

You come across a Mantis Noble picking around the foothills of the Ringing Mountains.  When approached, he claims to have located the lair of a Sun Drake and is looking for a reasonable approach up the mountain.  The Tohr-Kreen is willing to split any treasure recovered, as it only really wants any art objects.