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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 8698695" data-attributes="member: 2209">5th Edition – S5 Dwarven Glory5eFeliul Stone: Ages ago, the Jar’ed, a battle lord commanded a troop of a hundred shields (as the dwarves style their soldiers) and met his end fighting a great horde of goblins in the Stone Wars. His body was laid to rest upon a slab of granite overlooking a deep crevice through which an old dwarven road ran and before the mouth of a lavish, if long abandoned bath house. “Ish-eth e althip Onu” as the dwarves say. His body returned to stone. But his spirit, filled with rage and hatred for all things, remained and he became a feliul spirit. In time he shaped the stone slab into a great boulder, 25 feet in diameter with the likeness of his face upon the rock. There he lingered, brooding on the evil of the world and the wrongs done to him and his kin. The feliul stone did not only brood however, but haunted the road as well. He took great sport in rolling down on passing creatures big or small, man, monster or dwarf, and crushing them to a boney pulp. There he sits even to this day.Skeleton: ?Animate Bones: ?Bone Naga: ?Foul Creature of Great Evil: ?Bael, Ghost of a Fallen Dwarven Hero, Ghost of the Dwarf Lord: So it was that long ago a dwarf lord by the name of Bael came to the Smoking Giants. He brought with him a small troop of dwarves, heavily armed and armored. He sought to escape the intrigues of the Uthkin court and build for himself a home, far removed from the babble squalor that are the halls of government. He carried into those mountains a great axe, an heirloom of sorts, given to him during one of his many adventures, by one of the Val-Eahrakun, long ago. Crafted in the deeps of the Void the axe was possessed of an amazing power; when held by the righteous for the oppressed it could see into men’s souls and read their thoughts. Bael loved this axe and cherished it; but he feared it too, for he feared that if it fell into the wrong hands that some would bend its power and use it for ill intent. So Bael came to the mountains to build a fastness where he could live in peace and guard his axe from the prying eyes of those who did not deserve to wield it.Upon the slopes of a tall mountain he found a narrow cave that wound down into the earth. He hollowed the tunnel and made a passageway and stairs. These led to the natural caverns beyond below. These he turned into his quarters; built a feast hall and barracks; a room for his hounds, storage chambers and the like. In time he built a door that led to a stone wall. This door he ensorcelled so that when it opened it opened into the Void. His magic was subtle and used the runes that later men would call the Winter Runes; these were not uncommon in Bael’s long ago day. The door he opened and beyond it he built a stair that led high into the Great Empty.Where the stair ended he built a room and more chambers beside and in the final he built a platform. He he sought to hide the Axe.He built a pool of water and cast more spells of misdirection and protection upon the water. The axe, and his other treasures he laid beneath the water in the pool. Safe from prying eyes he settled into his life’s retirement.But the Void is a hollow place and his sorcery brought his tragedy. It came to pass that a creature from the Void, one of the Ordag, found his treasury and sought to make it her own. When he discovered her he called his men and they battled in the dark platform around the pool. He died there as did all his folk and the Ordag took possession of his halls. Though her power was limited for she could never match the sorcery of the inner door and she remained in the Void where the pool lay, dining on the eternity of her greed.The halls fell into disuse and in time they were forgotten as was Bael and his axe. But Bael’s soul lingered there in the world of the living tormented by the Ordag all these long years.</blockquote>

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