"Chaos Blood" is a Dragonlance: Fifth Age adventure for four to six heroes of Adventurer to Master Reputation. Sorcerers with a knowledge of the school of spectramancy, as well as mystics with access to the sphere of healing will be particularly beneficial to this adventure. The adventure takes place near Trollwood, a small forest in northern Abanasinia. Trollwood is relatively small and insignificant and can be easily relocated to any forest region of Krynn. The adventure takes place in 34 Saer Cataclius, but it can be easily altered to fit into any time period after the discovery of sorcery by Palin Majere in 25 SC.

"Chaos Blood" can also be tailored to other worlds and campaigns with relative ease. The daemon warrior can easily be described as a denizen from the Abyss and the Legion of Steel can be replaced with any knightly organization.

During the Chaos War, a powerful minion of chaos was charged by its master to awaken and corrupt a mighty creature from the very bowels of the earth. This daemon warrior traveled to the resting place of an earth giant, a.k.a. rumbler (described in Dragon Magazine #256), a small forest named Trollwood because of its troll population. In order to awaken and then corrupt the monster, the daemon warrior had to desecrate the earth with the blood of innocents. However, a red robed wizardess noticed the storms of chaos wracking Krynn and decided to fight wherever she was needed. With her husband, a ranger, and the other members of their old adventuring party, the mage confronted the daemon warrior and a massive battle ensued. In the end, the heroes managed to slay the creature, but at a terrible cost. The chaos minion's death created a massive vortex of chaotic energy. This chaotic explosion left only a smoking crater in the ground where the daemon warrior and two of the adventurers had been only moments before.

The three surviving adventurers were hailed as heroes by the locals. The red robed sorceress and her husband settled down in the area while their remaining companion left for further adventure. All believed that with Chaos banished from Krynn, there was no hope that the fallen daemon warrior could arise to threaten Trollwood again. They were wrong.

Festering in the crater within Trollwood, the daemon warrior's essence remained intact. Powerless and bereft of divine aid, the daemon warrior could not act. So instead, it waited dormant beneath the earth.

As the Age of Mortals progressed, magic became once more active on the surface of Ansalon. The Dragon Overlords began to twist and warp the land, and sorcery and mysticism flourished. The currents of magic swept through Ansalon and the dormant daemon warrior tapped into energy and began to awake. Slowly it sent out its corrupting influence throughout the forest and began to gather minions. The trolls who had lived peacefully with their human neighbors for so long were changed into servants of chaos.

In order to be resurrected, the daemon warrior needed the blood that was taken from it when it was slain thirty summers ago. To regain it power, it needed the five weapons that had been used to slay it. The chaos minion already had two such items: a broken crossbow bolt and a dagger, both of which had been left in its body. In the past few days, the daemon warrior's trollekai minions searched the farms and cabins in the vicinity for the other weapons. In addition, the daemon warrior also sent its trollekai minions to kidnap the locals. Although Chaos was gone, the daemon warrior still wanted to release and corrupt the creature beneath the earth.

Puzzled and shocked by the attacks, the locals immediately beseeched a Legionnaire cell in the nearby city of Hazuk. Although the cell had problems of their own, the Legion sent a small party of legionnaires to aid the locals against the threat. The legionnaires, however, were unable to cope with the srength and numbers of the chaos trolls, or trollekai. The party was taken, leaving only one man behind. When the party did not send in its regular reports, the legionnaire cell in Hazuk began to worry.

The cell was at a loss because they had no more men to spare. Finally, the legionnaires have resorted to enlisting aid. They have offered to pay 400 stl { a sack of steel with a treasure value of 10 according to A Saga Companion } to any heroes brave enough to accept the mission of ending the threat of the trollekai.