The Golden Guardian

Pathfinder Society Scenario #6-16: Scions of the Sky Key, Part 3: The Golden Guardian
PZOPSS0616
(Adventure)
Author(s)	Mikko Kallio
Publisher	Paizo Inc.
Price	PDF: $3.99
Released	March 25, 2015
Type	Pathfinder Society scenario
Binding	PDF
Rules set	PFRPG
Series	Pathfinder Society Season 6 scenarios Scions of the Sky Key 3 of 3
Follows	The Overflow Archives
Precedes	Fires of Karamoss
Artwork from The Golden Guardian

The Golden Guardian, a Pathfinder Society scenario written by RPG Superstar 2014 finalist Mikko Kallio for tier 1-5, was released on March 25, 2015.

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Having bested the Aspis Consortium and recovered a powerful weapon, the PCs return to the Bandu Hills to delve into its ruins, confront the ancient guardian within, and find their missing venture-captain. Even greater secrets lie below, and the Pathfinders soon find that there is more to the so-called Golden Guardian than legends suggest. Are the PCs resourceful enough to survive the mounting danger and find Nieford Sharrowsmith?

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Scenario overview

Level	1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th
Type	RPG Superstar
Location(s)	Bandu Hills Mwangi Expanse
Faction(s)	Grand Lodge

This is the third scenario in the Scions of the Sky Key campaign arc:

1. On Sharrowsmith's Trail
2. Kaava Quarry
3. The Golden Guardian

Recurring characters, concepts, & locations

The following characters, concepts, or locations can be found in this scenario, but also significantly appear in the publications listed below:

• Ambrus Valsin(Bandits of Immenwood, Betrayal in the Bones, Call of the Copper Gate, The Consortium Compact, The Daughters' Due, Day of the Demon, Debt to the Quah, The Disappeared, Fragments of Antiquity, From the Tome of Righteous Repose, The Frostfur Captives, Fury of the Final Blade, The Glass River Rescue, The Golden Guardian, The Golden Serpent, Grand Convocation 4712, The Hellknight's Feast, In Service to Lore, In the Grandmaster's Name, The Paths We Choose, Ruins of Bonekeep Level 1: The Silent Grave, The Segang Expedition, Serpents Fall, The Shores of Heaven, Siege of Serpents, The Slave Master's Mirror, Slave Ships of Absalom, Trial by Machine, Trouble in Tamran, The Waking Rune, What Prestige is Worth, You Only Die Twice)
• Ashkurhall(The Golden Guardian, Kaava Quarry, On Sharrowsmith's Trail)
• Aspis Consortium(Abducted in Aether, Ageless Ambitions, All the Gods Beyond, Assault on the Kingdom of the Impossible, Assault on the Wound, Bid for Alabastrine, The Blakros Connection, Blood Under Absalom, The Bloodcove Blockade, The Bloodcove Disguise, The Bronze House Reprisal, By Way of Bloodcove, The Consortium Compact, Day of the Demon, Dead Man's Debt, The Deepmarket Deception, The Dog Pharaoh's Tomb, Encounter at the Drowning Stones, The Fabric of Reality, Fingerprints of the Fiend, First Taste of Eternity, Fury of the Fiend, The Ghenett Manor Gauntlet, The Ghol-Gan Heresy, The Golden Guardian, The Golemworks Incident, Grand Convocation 4712, The Green Market, The Icebound Outpost, The Infernal Inheritance, Kaava Quarry, King of the Storval Stairs, Lost Colony of Taldor, On Sharrowsmith's Trail, Pagoda of the Rat (scenario), Portal of the Sacred Rune, Race for the Runecarved Key, Race to Seeker's Folly, Rescue at Azlant Ridge, Rivalry's End, The Rules of the Swift, Sanctum of the Sages (scenario), Serpent's Rise, Serpents Fall, Serpents' Ire, Severing Ties, Shipyard Rats, Siege of Serpents, Signs in Senghor, Skeleton Moon... further results)
• Aya Allahe(Beyond Azlant Ridge, By Way of Bloodcove, Dead Man's Debt, The Golden Guardian, Kaava Quarry, On Sharrowsmith's Trail, The Technic Siege)
• Bloodcove(Beyond Azlant Ridge, The Bloodcove Blockade, The Bloodcove Disguise, By Way of Bloodcove, The Ghol-Gan Heresy, The Golden Guardian, Inheritor's Rite, Kaava Quarry, Rescue at Azlant Ridge, Signs in Senghor, The Sun Orchid Scheme, The Technic Siege)
• Fort Bandu(The Golden Guardian, Kaava Quarry, On Sharrowsmith's Trail)
• Golden Guardian(The Golden Guardian, Kaava Quarry, On Sharrowsmith's Trail)
• Grand Lodge (faction)(Among the Gods, Betrayal in the Bones, The Blakros Matrimony, Captive in Crystal, The Cultist's Kiss, The Cyphermage Dilemma, The Disappeared, Echoes of the Overwatched, The Edge of Heaven, The Fabric of Reality, Feast of Sigils (scenario), The Ghenett Manor Gauntlet, The Goblinblood Dead, The God's Market Gamble, The Golden Guardian, The Golden Serpent, The Golemworks Incident, The Green Market, Halls of Dwarven Lore, The Haunting of Hinojai, The Immortal Conundrum, In Wrath's Shadow, In the Grandmaster's Name, King of the Storval Stairs, Library of the Lion, The Night March of Kalkamedes, On Hostile Waters, Pagoda of the Rat (scenario), The Price of Friendship, Red Harvest, The Refuge of Time, Refugees of the Weary Sky, Rivalry's End, The Sanos Abduction, The Secrets Stones Keep, Severing Ties, Sewer Dragons of Absalom, Snakes in the Fold, Song of the Sea Witch, Storming the Diamond Gate, The Sundered Path, Tapestry's Toil, The Technic Siege, Tide of Twilight, Tower of the Ironwood Watch, The Veteran's Vault, Words of the Ancients)
• Jormurdun(Assault on the Wound, Captives of Toil, The Elven Entanglement, From Under Ice, The Golden Guardian, The Horn of Aroden, Kaava Quarry, Legacy of the Stonelords, Port Godless, Returned to Sky, The Sealed Gate, The Secrets Stones Keep, Siege of Serpents, The Sky Key Solution, Tapestry's Toil, Test of Tar Kuata, The Traitor's Lodge, Vengeance at Sundered Crag, Where Mammoths Dare Not Tread)
• Kaava(Agents of the Eye, The Bloodcove Blockade, The Ghol-Gan Heresy, The Golden Guardian, Kaava Quarry, On Sharrowsmith's Trail, Signs in Senghor)
• Kibwe(The Golden Guardian, Lyrics of Extinction)
• Krihirik tribe(The Golden Guardian, Kaava Quarry, On Sharrowsmith's Trail)
• Nantambu(Beyond Azlant Ridge, By Way of Bloodcove, Dead Man's Debt, The Golden Guardian, Kaava Quarry, On Sharrowsmith's Trail, The Technic Siege)
• Nieford Sharrowsmith(By Way of Bloodcove, Dead Man's Debt, The Golden Guardian, Kaava Quarry, On Sharrowsmith's Trail, The Technic Siege)
• Numeria(Beacon Below, Fires of Karamoss, The Golden Guardian, Hall of the Flesh Eaters, Lightning Strikes, Stars Fall, Perils of the Pirate Pact, Returned to Sky, The Sarkorian Prophecy, The Silver Mount Collection, The Technic Siege, Valley of Veiled Flame, Wardens of Sulfur Gulch)
• Sargava(Agents of the Eye, Blazing Dangerous Trails, Bones of Biting Ants, The Golden Guardian, Kaava Quarry, Mists of Mwangi, On Sharrowsmith's Trail, Star-Crossed Court, Star-Crossed Voyages)
• Sky Key(From Under Ice, The Golden Guardian, Kaava Quarry, Legacy of the Stonelords, On Sharrowsmith's Trail, Returned to Sky, Serpent's Rise, Siege of Serpents, Six Seconds to Midnight, The Sky Key Solution, Tapestry's Toil, Test of Tar Kuata)
• Taralu(The Golden Guardian, Kaava Quarry, On Sharrowsmith's Trail)

Map support

The Golden Guardian uses one custom map.