The Vault of Tiers
“After the great wyrm Egrementh was slain, the heroes took what they sought from her hoard but found something far more dangerous and powerful. No one knows what it was, but they had a special vault built to contain it, somewhere under the city. But that was centuries ago...
Brethen’s Sky Island Archipelago
High over the Hazel Hills are a set of floating islands that seem to be locked together as a set, drifting along the Kezren valley at the whims of the prevailing winds. The shallow valley walls appear to be enough to keep the archipelago centred within it, even...
Valgrena’s Vault
The remnants of the surface shrine indicate where the vault was built; they lie broken beneath a canopy of strangled vines and ash-colored moss. Cracked pillars lean like drunkards around a shattered altar, its obsidian face gouged by time and claw. Faint glyphs linger in the...
Heart of Darkling – Darklingtown – Vorpal District North
The Darkling River works its way through the underdark beneath the grey hills to depths unknown. Darklingtown is a trading community built into a series of claustrophobically low-ceilinged caverns on the banks of the Darkling and a number...
Scavengers’ Deep – Map 26
The Scavengers’ Deep is a reminder of the amount of work that went into underground structures during the great war. Generally, the elves only built underground when hiding their breeding and research facilities, whereas the forces of the kingdoms, assisted by the...
The Greystone Ruins
The Greystone Ruins stand on a weathered rise above a wide, rocky plain, several days travel from any settled road. Beyond the rise, the land rolls away in low, scrub-covered hills punctuated by pale boulders, with only scattered trees clinging to the more sheltered hollows...
The Muster Gatehouse
The Muster Gate, on the south side of the city, is where the troops of the Satrapy traditionally mustered when called upon to take action outside the city – such as for the assault on the Knave’s Spire in 1488 or the search for chancellor Kelem last year.
The gate is also...