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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shroomy" data-source="post: 5323499" data-attributes="member: 32739">I too have hidden an ancient Turathi artifact under Fallcrest, but mine was a large obelisk that is part of a massive, pentagram-shaped gate to Avernus that was built in the final days of the war with Arkhosia (Fallcrest would be the northernmost point of the pentagram).  The last pretender to the throne of Bael Turath, an extremely powerful tiefling lich, is trying to restore Bael Turath and is having his minions attempt to re-activate the gate; to that end, they've slowly taken control of Fallcrest's government, temples, and thieve's guilds.  The PCs inadvertedly found the obelisk under the Market Green, kicking off the campaign, causing the villains to accelerate their plans (the main BBEG for the heroic tier is a corrupted gold dragon named Auralius; she worked with a group of Turathi warlocks called the Architects of Victory to create draconian minions from an Arkoshian egg caches kept in magical stasis, and her sub-bosses are a kapak assassin named Ter'kik and a half-dragon aurak named Ker'iss).  Soon, their going to stage a fake coup which will allow them to crush any opposition and seize complete control of the town.I've made things very dark in the Nentir Vale.  An orc horde, the largest since the Bloodspear War, has invaded the western vale, putting Winterhaven under siege and an army of mercenary hobgoblins called the Black Talon Legion is marshalling forces to the north (its all part of the master plan, though the PCs don't know it yet).  I've also made extensive use of the Hammerfast supplement (a great resource BTW), as my players have had a two week sojourn there with Serim Selduzar (a tiefling NPC described in the DMG; in my campaign, he's secretly an agent of the Knights of Baathion and a servant of He Who Was).</blockquote>

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