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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GlassEye" data-source="post: 6126899" data-attributes="member: 40413">Aquos rubs his hands together eagerly warming up for the rambling lecture to follow."Yes!  Yes, legend does frequently outstrip fact.  A fascinating topic of research I would imagine though difficult to study...  But set that aside for the moment.  After the last time you were here I took it upon myself to study more about this Khuldun.  The written record is notoriously thin, like all things dwarven from ages long past.  Recent history, not a problem, but ancient history and their origins... next to impossible.  But I persevered!  And the clues you have provided me draw the pieces together like iron filings to a magnet.That armor you wear, Master Hawkins, the purest dwarven style I have yet seen which leads me to believe that Khuldun is old.  Very old.  But it was incomplete, never finished.  Barely started even, when its residents were destroyed though in trying to find out who those destroyers were I failed miserably.  That dwarves still remained there, twisted and mad?  The implication is that they were refugees from one of the ancient lost holds of the dwarves.  The dark creatures you described lend credence to that thesis and could have been remnants of the dark powers that cast the dwarves from their ancestral fastnesses!I'm sure you have made the same conclusion that I have by now: that gate could very well travel beyond this mortal plane to the lost Paths where sit the lost fortresses of the ancient dwarves!  The foes beyond could be very dangerous indeed.  Legend is extremely varied on the subject and it would be impossible for me to give you any fact on what you might find.  If you risk it, you should expect the worst."Aquos sighs deeply seemingly worn by his excited monologue.  He holds up one finger in warning."Presuming, of course, that you are correct and can indeed activate the gate.  The metal disc does seem like a key and if you carry it with you you should theoretically be able to use it to return.  The detail surrounding the gate is most intriguing and would require further study before I could say with any certainty whether it affects the gate operation.  I have never heard of any of the ancient gates that could tune to different locations but I won't rule out the possibility."The tiefling stops his discourse and stands blinking as if he has lost his train of thought or been derailed onto other possibilities."Ah, yes, so..."</blockquote>

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