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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5887027" data-attributes="member: 82106">I like the "the dungeon was built here because the location is special" concept. Back during the Dawn War the great primordial Tumultuous was brought to bay on this plain. As he was defeated the pieces of his body fell here and there about the plain, creating a range of low but steep and rocky hills and valleys. Once he was defeated the gods buried his heart, dropping a small mountain atop the spot in order to insure that it would stay safely buried.Knowing that this location would retain dangerous energies and that the Tumultuous' servants would seek to tap into his remaining power here they built a small fortress on a flat spot near the peak of the mountain. They created a race of Nagas to guard the location. The Nagas built a temple to the gods and for many ages things were quiet.Eventually, still many ages ago, the Nagas slowly became corrupted. Abandoning their original task and forsaking the gods they took up the worship of strange chaos beings, building a great ziggurat temple in the original fortress. At this time they began to delve, seeking access to the ancient power they had once guarded. For many centuries these creatures carried out terrible experiments and remade themselves into a race of snake-men, the Yuan-Ti. Their power spread and they created the most ancient empire known.After many centuries the Yuan-Ti began to degenerate and were overthrown by an ancient alliance of dwarves and elves. The dwarves found the Yuan-Ti delves strangely attractive and began to dig and expand the original delves. Eventually they too were corrupted and fought a war with their former allies, the elves. The elves eventually defeated the dwarves and the whole area became a vast forest realm. When humans first made their way into this area they carved out a few small towns and villages at the edges of the forest and traded with the elves. Meanwhile the Necromancer Ugar found the ancient dwarven delves and reoccupied and cleared them. He rebuilt the ancient fortress and built a dark tower on the remains the Yuan-Ti ziggurat. From here he built an army of undead and conquered the forest, turning it into a vast dark shadow wood. Ugar was eventually overthrown by a human hero and his evil faded, but the central part of the forest around the haunted peak remains an area of wilderness, dotted with the ruins of several ages and overlooked by the mountain itself. Several different adventurers, wizards, greedy dwarves, etc have tried to explore or occupy Haunted Peak Dungeon in the last century or so. While some of them have found fantastic treasures they have all eventually met bad ends. The local lord, Sir Rastamus built his castle near the head of the valley leading to the mountain, partly to guard against some tribes of goblins which make their lairs in the surrounding hills and forest. Now and then adventurers still set out from this castle, bound for Haunted Peak to seek their fortunes, or maybe for other darker purposes.</blockquote>

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