The Village of Hommlet has grown up around a crossroads in a woodland. Once far from any important activity, it became embroiled in the struggle between gods and demons when the Temple of Elemental Evil arose but a few leagues away. Luckily for its inhabitants, the Temple and its evil hordes were destroyed a decade ago, but the sinister force thought long destroyed, stirs from the black hole that spawn it. Like an ebony darkness, it prowls the lands and safety is but an illusion, for it watches from a shadow, and ponders the possibilities.