Fields of Arlington Farm

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<div class='cover-footer'>Where would you place a Scarecrow other than a cornfield?</div>

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# Arlington Farms
*Domain of Illgotten Land*

**Darklord:** Henry Arlington

**Genres:** Body Horror & Folk Horror

**Hallmarks:** Stollen Land, Mazelike lands, and Hateful Scarecrows.

**Mist Talismans:** Corn husk Doll, Bloody Deed to land, Rusty daul Sickle.

Arlington farm is a small lonely place filled with fields of corn for as far as the eye can see, though in all stretching almost 35 miles in length from east to west and about the same from north to south. This makes it almost a complete circle if it were to be drawn on a map.

Most of the land is covered by crops of wheat and corn, the ears growing on these plants in several states of ripeness and decay as they continuously grow in a looping cycle as time passes. Though if picked whilst even at their ripest, these crops wither and rot in seconds. The weather is also of interest in this land as it always appears ideal for what is needed to keep the crops bountiful. Though this is an effect brought about by the control the domains lord has over all the local weather. Around these fields is an only broken wooden fence, many of its posts still stand. However, many of the crossbars have long since collapsed and now lay rotting in the rich soil.

Within the fields themselves, scarecrows stand tall upon the shafts that hold them erect, spaced roughly 100 yards apart. Forever staring across the landscape below the constant cawing of the crows and ravens that circle high above.

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### Arlington Farm Characters
 There aren't any peoples truly native to the farm but on some rare occasions a people be lucky or unlucky enough to birth a child, but more often than not the child will be adopted by the corn field and it's forgotten dieties, but even if a child remains with it's parents the harvest dieties influence effect the childs is apperant. this in turn makes all but a handful of people born in the farm exotic in form, When players create characters from Arlington Farm, ask them the following questions:

**What has Henry taken from you?:** Henry Arlington is always wanting more for the embetterment of his farm so purhaps he has stollen a parcel of land that you were due to inherit, or he sent a scarecrow to steal a family heirloom of yours thinking it would help his harvest.

**Which Scarecrows do you recognize?:** Have you lost a sibling to a rogue bull drawn plow, or maybe a friend wwas left to the gruesom fate of a scarecrow. how has their death affected you? Do you visit their scarecrow dureing the day?

**Which Harvest Diety do you owe your life to?:** Maybe Wendrake had hidden hidden from the scarecrows, as a baby deep under fallen corn, or Trelvis might have consistantly given generous gifts of bowls of rabbit stew throughout  your childhood. How do you look at these dieties? How do you repay them?
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### Noteworthy Features

Those familiar with Arlington Farm are familiar with the following facts:

* Henry Arlington is the Owner of the farm. He is willing to do anything to assure that his crops are supreem, and he has killed many a people to do so.

* Every night the hung up Scarecrows come to climbing down thier crosses and begin maintaining the large farm. if at any point a scarecrow sees a person they will go into a blind rage wildly swinging their tools at the person in attempt to kill them.

* The weather is always perfectly sunny during the day and heavy rythmic Rain during the night, although diffrent parts of the farm herald diffrent weather to best grow the crops in that area

* Every sunrise the scarecrows drag all the dead bodies within the farm to the forgotten Arlington farm house were Henry will gruesomly transform them into more Scarecrow Servants.

* Hidden in randomly assorted run down sheds there a chained up harvest dieties. whenever the crops aren't held to Henry's Standards he will personaly see to these being's torture until that standard is met.

### Settlements and Sites

There are no settlements within the Arlington Farm besides the farm itself due to surviveing people tend to not stay within one place for longer than two nights out of fear. but over the years within the mists Arlington has accumulated some interesting locations within the farm.

### The Old Farm House
Near the centre of the domain itself is the long abandoned Arlington farmhouse and storage barn, though no one lives here anymore except Henry Arlington. Most of the time however, the house stands empty as the lord travels its farm, keeping things just as they should be. To this house, no road exists though those who make it to the centre, where the house lays, they will easily be able to see and follow a road back to the cliff at the domain's edge.

### The Sparkling Pond
Curving through the middle parts of the farm and acting as boundries between the multitudes of stollen land are the sparkling ponds. although the water is pure and rich in minnerals few dare to interact with it for the ponds hold possibly more horrors and secrets then the farm itself.
### The Abandoned Curch
Later consumed as part of stollen land the old church is another semi safe place during the night. but during the day masked children gather in prayer and rest in front of the corn mother.
### The Great Crow Library
The Great Crow Library is a privately owned, but open to the public library, owned by Doctor Everlast. within the library holds a collection of fortunes, weather predictions, and books of the Occult. this library is commonly visited by Henry and was agreed a sanctuary from his wrath as his admittance fee. but in order to enter the guests most bring some item to trade for a nights rest.
### The Graveyard
Out in the farthest reaches of the farm, near the boarder of the domain lies a hill with a withered Oak tree with multiple nooses hanging from it's branches, here every full moon henry will come here and weep and moan inside a circle of 9 tombstones each belonging to his mother, father, wife, and six children respectivly.

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# Henry Arlingtons
Henry Arlington is a bitter and callous creature as his heart turned black long ago. He still tends to his farm and wanders it often, tending to all that needs doing with old tools that are now rusted and encrusted with the blood of long forgotten intruders. However, some force unknown to him undoes whatever work he achieves. When he is not tending the crops, he is most likely found within the old farmhouse, staring blankly into space as time passes slowly around him. He always listens though, to the crows and ravens above the fields, the wild winds blowing the crops, the rats and mice under the floorboards and within the walls.
  
Henry Arlington was born and raised within the same farm he now inhabits. Bequeathed to him by his late parents that died in a tragic house fire, after he turned of age his elder brothers demanded their right to the ownership themselves. Neither of them being worthy in Henry's eyes, he challenged them to a duel. Their half-dead bodies left for the rats to gnaw upon in the ruins of the old farmhouse that marked their parent's resting-place.
  
When his brother's screams ended, the crops almost seemed to be listening and grew quickly and strong that season.
The New Year became with a late frost, severely damaging many crops and destroying some completely. Henry was mortified by the loss, though his fortune would save him easily, his land that he loved so much was failing him, or rather he felt that he had failed it. He flew into a wild temper and stormed through the fields, picking a fight with the first farm hand he met. Henry attacked suddenly and with no mercy, impaling the young lad on his own pitchfork. As the boy's blood ran into the ground, Henry cursed himself and the others that worked for him, the land and all else he could see and think of. Then, as the last drops of crimson liquid sank into the earth, a small shoot of a plant could be seen. When he became calm, he was in fear of his rage being discovered, at first he hid the body but soon he realised another way to conceal it. He cut the corpse up and grafted a piece onto different scarecrows along the farm, the rest he burned.
That year, Henry's farm once again produced a bountiful crop of com

The next year, his crops failed to grow once more early in the season and again he killed. This time it was a stray dog that had been lurking the land. Again, blood fell into the ground and the crops grew. Henry did not understand what was happening completely, but he knew what he must do to keep the crops bountiful. So he killed each year to get his crops and each time he did so, he would sew the corpses into the scarecrows and burn the remainder.

As this practice continued, it preyed on Henry's mind as something he once knew and lost, but eventually he remembered. As a child, his father and others had told him many tales that the scarecrows were the blood of the farm and that each year, some would go out into the field in early spring and place a piece of fresh raw flesh into their still forms. That night, the scarecrows would awaken and tend the fields and would do so until dawn, cach night of the season until the crop was ripe for harvest. As a child, the story had captivated him and filled him with many nightmares. Now, a man with the proof he thought meaning the old tales to be true, he continued his murderous work.

After almost a decade of giving sacrifices to the land, Henry became ill and nothing grew that year. Through his greed and the medicines needed to cure the sickness, Henry almost fell bankrupt. This was the final proof he needed though, the blood and flesh was needed for the land to serve him.

More years passed and the land came to require more sacrifices, soon many of the scarecrows in the fields were more flesh than cloth and straw, crows pecked at them and the fields came to stink with the wretched stench of death. Still though, the crops would grow. However, Arlington Farm had gained a name as a dark place and none would come to work there.

Soon, all that was left was Henry, now a man in his late forties, his wife and six children. When nothing would grow, henry knew what he must do. One night, he crept through the house, axe in hand, desperate for the crop he needed. He coldly butchered his family and fed their flesh to the scarecrows and their blood to the land. That season, the crops grew steadily until they were ready for harvest once more.

One evening, he stood outside his cottage and planned to begin the harvest in the morning. Not known to him that the scarecrows in the fields had other plans for the harvest that very night. So, when he rose the next day, he stepped out into the wondrous august sun and looked out in horror. For all he could see was burnt black and was only ashes on the ground, all that remained of Arlington farm were the house, scarecrows and him self.

That night, Henry lay in bed a broken man weeping into his pillow. He had sacrificed his entire work force and family, all he had went into the crop and it had come to nought. Through his sorrow, he failed to hear the muffled breaking of the window downstairs, the footfalls on the stairs and the door opening. He heard nothing until the hands were upon him.

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### Henry's Powers
Henry is a burdend man Turned **Scarecrow** who tirelessly works his farm day and night, but his actions of needless violence and sacrifice has given him some unnatral abilties by the mist.

**Fear the Farmer** Henry is obsessed with the growth of his crops and seeks the murder of all who destroy his produce before it's harvest. If a creature that has eaten or destroyed produce of the Farm  that wasn't during the Harvest Purge, starts its turn within 30 ft. of the Henry and the two of them can see each other, the creature has to make a DC 12 Sanity saving throw if Henry isn’t incapacitated. On a failed save, the creature drops to 0 hit points, unless it is immune to the frightened condition. On a success, the creature takes 22 (4d10) psychic damage. A creature that isn’t surprised can avert its eyes to avoid the saving throw at the start of its turn. If it does so, it can’t see the bodak until the start of its next turn, when it can avert its eyes again. If it looks at the bodak in the meantime, it must immediately make the save.

**Farmers Memory** Henry remembers every inch of his farm and has no problem locating any location or landmark that has been on the farm for more than a year.
  
  **Land Taker** Whenever Henry personaly kills an intruder of the farm who isn't blessed by a harvest diety, if they owned some form of land, a copy of that land is absorbed into the mists and made apart of Arlington farm.

**Farming Hands** Every night that isn't the harvest moon Henry can control all liveing scarecrows on the farm, he normally forces them to work as farm hands and footsoldiers to slay vermin on the farm. but he can also task a single scarecrow a night to seek out a specific item he believs can help his harvest

**Closeing the mists** Henry can close the boarders of his domain at will. in addition to the other affects of closeing the boarders *(see Van Richtens Guide to Ravenloft)* a Swarm of crows and other vermin fly the perimiter of the farm forming an impentatrable wall.
  
### Henry's Torment
Henry is a obsessive tortured indavidual who lost everything and the mists will never let him forget his actions:

* Once a year on the harvest moon when the scarecrows come to life Henry can't control them and he reverts back into a human. the night is Known as the Harvest Purge as the scarecrows revolt against Henry for his sins. the night is filled with terror as the scarecrows burn all the crops and defile the soil makeing it unplantable. and worst of all they hunt down Henry repeating the process of transforming him into a Scarecrow.
* Every day Henry is tormented by all the vermin within the farm for if he isn't consentrateing on said creatures they will attack him eating what remains of his rotting corpse.
* During the night he fails to rest as he is plagued to forever see and hear the screams of his murderd family whenever he closes his eyes

### Rolepalying Henry
Henry rarely shows any signs of a person just mindlessly working on his farm whenever possible and stareing mindlessly at a wall to avoid the beatly vermin in his spare time

**Personality trait:** "I can't stand when my wheat isn't golden and my corn isn't green"

**Ideal:** "I can't let all i have sacrificed be in vain"

**Bond:** "My crops will be the greatest in the world, than i can finaly rest"

**Flaw** "I must do whatever my crops need"

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# Adventures on The Arlington Farm
Arlington farm is simple in design with the enitre domain being fields of corn rows, but for an adventure you should focus on the the specific locations to search for a distraction of Henry to assure an escape from this domain or focus on the trapped Harvest deities with either freeing them from Henry's Grasp, or maybe the party may try to free the children from the cult of Mother Corn. or you could use the table below for some quick inspiration
| d8  | Adventure |
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|  1  | Floating across the Sparkling Pond is a large black oily raft that consumes any liveing creature that touches it in gruesome gurgles. |
|  2  | wandering the northenr feilds of the farm is a savage dog attacking scarecrows and travelers alike, despite it normally friendly nature after an attack from an odd rodent it has gone on a rageing attack.  |
|  3  | hidden by a circle of rotting crops the players find a large fleshy sac with something growing inside. this wierd egg is absorbing nutrieants from the soil and nearby crops and the scarecrows can't seem to notice it. |
|  4  | Deep Within the hills of the newest parcel of land to join the farm there is a run down settlement. rumors of other travelers all state that theirs a mutated family of some kind that are attacking and eating people |
|  5  | floating above the southern half of the farm is a stagnent cload that none of the hravest deities seem to be able to control. but every night a horse or plow cattle seem to disappear under the cloud |
|  6  | A large flock of murderous sheep have invaded the entire farm assaulting and killing everyone in their path, all under the order of a powerful Were-Sheep. |

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### Gods on the farm
Henry never had time to pray to any gods nore did he believe in their existance so no real god's influence were brought into the domain. but throughout the years of stealing and absorbing land the farm also brought in minor demons and fey who paint themselves as harvest dieties. these false gods have in turned been imprisoned within small sheds and forced to make the perfect weather for henry, bineded by a magic not even Henry understands. if you have a cleric or charectors from the Arlington farm consult the table below.
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##### Harvest Dieties
| Name | Domain | Symbol | Alighnment |
|:---:|:---:|:---|:---:|
| The Corn Mother | War/Twilight | Crying Child | CE |
| Amarant | Death/grave | Wilting Tree | LE |
| Prysm | Forge | Chipped Scyth | NN |
| Kroix | Knowledge | Star | NE |
| Caligari | Arcana | windchime | LN |
| Trelvis | Life | cornucopia | LG |
| Lestat | Light | Rooster | CN |
| Wendrake | Nature | Honey Bee | NG |
| Fane | Order | Barn | LN |
| Ymo | Peace | Turkey | LG |
| Maggark | Tempest | Stormcloud | CN |
| Tenebris | Trickery | Grining Fish | CG |
| Vonner | Twilight | Jackolantern | NG |
| Drach | War | Speared Fish | CE |
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## Artist Credit
* Cover ____ https://stockcake.com/i/gloomy-rural-scene_395054_120364
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* Page 2 _____ Arthur Yuan
* Page 4 _____ https://pixy.org/1317576/
* Page 5 _____ Julie Dillon

## Original Creator
The Undead Sea Scrolls - 2001 Eddy Brennan