Phineas’s Dungeon Maps o’ the Week: Underdark Edition

Phineas’s Dungeon Maps o’ the Week: Underdark Edition

Welcome to the second season of Phineas’s Dungeon Maps o’ the Week.

This set focuses entirely on the dark and foreboding world of the underdark. All the maps in this set will link together, creating a massive maze of labyrinthine tunnels and strange structures. However, each map can be used separately as a stand alone dungeon.

The maps will be divided into clusters, with the maps in a cluster having some common connection between. Each map will include an overview which will briefly describe the map and the history of the locale.


Links to other Phineas maps:

Phineas's Dungeon Maps o' the Week: Set 1 Thread

Silverthorne Game’s Free Adventure Maps by Phineas Crow

Map Cluster 1: Beneath the Gloomfrost

Spread out under the baleful shadow of treacherous snow covered mountains is the woodland wilderness known as the Gloomfrost forest. It is named after the unnaturally cold mist that permanently clings to the woods.

Deep within these mist-bound woods is an entrance to the underdark and since the fall of Gloomfrost Castle strange, dark forms that have been glimpsed lurking in the swirling mist of the icy woods.


Map #101: The Cellars of Gloomfrost Castle

Once a mighty stronghold that stood at the heart of the Gloomfrost forest, all that now remains of Gloomfrost Castle is the decaying underground network of cellars and storage vaults that once contained the castle’s stockpile of food and supplies. Time has erased all trace of the above ground structure, leaving only a gaping pit and its crumbling, moss-covered stairs that lead down into cold darkness of the old cellars as the only remaining sign of where the castle once stood.

The story of Gloomfrost Castle is a tragic one. Once a great symbol of military strength, the castle served a vital role in protecting the land from the dangers that lurked within the icy tendrils of the Gloomfrost mist.

The commander of the castle had ordered the underground storage cellars to be expanded and the diggers sent down to tunnel into the cold earth soon uncovered a network of natural caverns the honeycombed the ground beneath the castle.

As the construction crew expanded into the caverns they unknowingly awoke a great evil from its long slumber. It is still unknown what transpired, as all those that were present during the attack perished.

It was a caravan, laden with building materials, that first witnessed the aftermath. The castle was torn apart, its walls and towers blasted as if some supernatural force had ripped through them, scattering the massive stone blocks like leaves in a breeze. After making a half hearted attempt to search for survivors, the caravan hastened back to report its finding.

Since the castle’s fall few have dared to enter the ruins, and those that do are rarely heard from again. No effort was made to reclaim the castle and the forest once again became a perilous wildlands.

Yay! It's back!

Thanks so much for sharing more of your creations with the rest of us.

Phineas Crow rocks the house!

Thanks, man.

You are the man.
Thanks for sharing.

I just discovered this (and the other thread). You rock! Thanks for sharing these wonderful maps!

Map #102: The Lair of Ibraxan Froreheorte

The air is even colder here below the old cellars and a thin layer of glistening frost covers the cave walls. This series of immense caverns were once the home of the ancient white dragon Ibraxan who was the great evil that laid waste to Gloomfrost Castle, killing those that dared to disturbed his rest.

The great dragon, however, was killed shortly afterwards when a group of heroes delved into the dark depths beneath the Gloomfrost, searching for the cause of the castle’s destruction. Neither dragon nor hero survived the ensuing battle and their frozen corpses still remain buried under tons of rock in the now collapsed tunnel that once served as the dragon’s way to the surface.

While Ibraxan is dead, his minions still inhabit the caves. Generations removed from those that served the dragon they now worship him as their god, believing that one day he will return to rule over them again.

Aw man. I found this thread too early. :\ I found the other thread when you were on late 80s or something like that. I got to look at 80 different maps. Now I have to wait for each installment. Hehe. Well, glad I saw this thread. Looking forward for the maps. With this and those posted on Silverthorne games, I guess we'll have twice the amount of goodness.

Just another person saying 'Keep up the good work.' It's too late to think of anything more clever.

Map #103: The Banks of the Battlerun River

From distant, snow-capped mountains the Battlerun river is born. Streams of melted snow and ice make their way down from the ridges, finding their way underground through fissures in the rocky surface to the dark caverns below the Gloomfrost Forest. Here the icy streams converge into a swift river that flows into the unknowing depths of the deep underdark.

Built on the bank of the Battlerun is an ancient stronghold. Hewn from the solid cavern rock it sits in crumbling ruin, long abandoned by those that built it. Rickety wooden bridges that look as old, if not more so, than the stronghold span the cold waters, providing the only reasonably safe way to cross the river.


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