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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stoat" data-source="post: 5886599" data-attributes="member: 16786">Hundreds of feet below the surface world is a vast natural cavern, bordered by a subterranean ocean and ripe with giant mushrooms and phosphorescent growths.  Thousands upon thousands of years ago, this dark realm was home to a kingdom of reptilian humanoids, the precursors to today's lizardmen and troglodytes.  In life, their sorcerer-kings experimented with the weird energies of the underdark.  In death, they were entombed in glowing ziggurats that hovered above the cavern floor.  Centuries later, an apocalyptic cult of giants learned of the inexplicable floating stone mined by the reptile people N'Auth.  The giants bored a vast mine into the cavern and took what they found to make their floating castles.  When their civilization ended, it left behind an enormous delve.The giants were succeeded by their duergar vassals, who sealed off the lower deeps and mined gems and iron in the upper levels.  The duergar were eventually taken by an inexplicable plague, and for a time the place was ruled by an exiled Devil, an unnamed Prince of Hell who served Levistus or Moloch (the record is unclear).The Exiled Prince ruled for more than a century before he was slain, bound or driven away by a cabal of powerful clerics.  The clerics built three sprawling complexes on the surface atop the site: one devoted to the god of the sun, one to the god of war and one to the god of knowledge.  Over the decades, each complex developed its own cellars and dungeons.Twenty-five years ago, the clerics of the god of knowledge dismissed all of their lay worshipers and descended en mass into the deeps.  Their complex has been abandoned ever since.Ten years ago, most of the clerics of the god of war departed to fight in a distant crusade.   Only a handful remained behind.Five years ago, plague struck the site, followed by monsters who boiled out from the depths.  The clerics of the god of the sun and the remaining clerics of the god of war suffered grievous losses, but were able to retain control of their temple complexes.Today, the clerics still control the surface.  They claim a level or two below ground, but lack the manpower to truly enforce their claims.</blockquote>

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