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<blockquote data-quote="paradox42" data-source="post: 3165250" data-attributes="member: 29746">And, for my contribution,Legacy of the Ice Elves: An archaeological expedition to the ancient ruin now known as the City of Death is slowly disrupted from within. One of its patrons, Frostfolk scion of a powerful merchant house, uses the trip to pursue an agenda of her own. She acquires an artifact called the Key of Ice, a tiny statue of one of the emperors of the hated, feared, and fortunately long-dead Ice Elves. The Key is supposed to unlock a vault in the City, holding the greatest treasure of the Ice Elves, which the merchant feels (since her people were once the slaves of the dead race) rightfully belongs to her people- which she can thus claim by extension when she finds it.Meanwhile, in the vault wait two more Keys of Ice, secretly sentient (and conspiring) components of the ritual which will free their true master, <a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/epic/monsters/abomination.htm#xixecal" target="_blank">Xixecal</a> III, last emperor of the Ice Elves, from his eternal prison of black ice far in the north... and through the Keys, the mind of Xixecal reaches out and begins to manipulate the members of the expedition towards his own ends.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="paradox42, post: 3165250, member: 29746"] And, for my contribution, [b]Legacy of the Ice Elves:[/b] An archaeological expedition to the ancient ruin now known as the City of Death is slowly disrupted from within. One of its patrons, Frostfolk scion of a powerful merchant house, uses the trip to pursue an agenda of her own. She acquires an artifact called the Key of Ice, a tiny statue of one of the emperors of the hated, feared, and fortunately long-dead Ice Elves. The Key is supposed to unlock a vault in the City, holding the greatest treasure of the Ice Elves, which the merchant feels (since her people were once the slaves of the dead race) rightfully belongs to her people- which she can thus claim by extension when she finds it. Meanwhile, in the vault wait two more Keys of Ice, secretly sentient (and conspiring) components of the ritual which will free their true master, [URL=http://www.d20srd.org/srd/epic/monsters/abomination.htm#xixecal]Xixecal[/URL] III, last emperor of the Ice Elves, from his eternal prison of black ice far in the north... and through the Keys, the mind of Xixecal reaches out and begins to manipulate the members of the expedition towards his own ends. [/QUOTE]

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