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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HalfOrc HalfBiscuit" data-source="post: 3229063" data-attributes="member: 27710">Seems there are two fairly obvious basic choices:1. The piece was owned by something that was (still is?) lairing down there. Could be, say, an earth elemental that killed its previous owner, took it because something about it appealed and was lairing in a giant geode at the bottom of the mine. Or perhaps the lair wasn't actually part of the mine proper, but the mining works have at some point broken through into it - that would probably give you a wider choice of potential possessors - wouldn't have to be something that would choose a crystal mine to lair in, just something that likes deep dark places, and there's plenty of them in D&D  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> .2. The piece was owned by someone that went into the mine looking for something and died down there. So, maybe some rare type of crystal was rumoured to be found at the bottom of the mine - and was guarded by earth elementals (or whatever). That branch of the mine has been ignored for years (maybe closed off). Whoever owned that piece of the rod went down there after this rare crystal and got killed. The PCs can claim it if they succeed where he couldn't, and kill off the guardians of the rare crystal. The advantage of going this route is that - if you want the PCs to figure out that the pieces belong to the rod - the dead guy could have some notes about his person giving his own suspicions.</blockquote>

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