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<blockquote data-quote="Sernett" data-source="post: 2666803" data-attributes="member: 7670"><p>The original Undermountain boxed set has an encounter revolving around the idea of the "temple," but it's not very detailed. Mainly, there's a fight with orcs working for High Whipmaster Hlethvagi Anteos who uses some parts of Undermountain to have meetings and to hide contraband. There's also an encounter with a hobgoblin that works for him. By his description in that product, Hlethvagi seems more interested in illegal trade than being the leader of a cult of Loviatar. There isn't really a temple per se.</p><p></p><p>City of Splendors: Waterdeep picks things up in 1372, the Year of Wild Magic. That's some 10 years later, making Hlethvagi quite old. City of Splendors: Waterdeep says that during the last four years, Hlethvagi has used some of his fortunes to establish the House of Pain, an actual temple to Loviatar on level one. Given the aforementioned article and the info from the book, it's safe to assume the temple is in the northern part of the 1st level and rather large. Unfortunately, there's little detail beyond that.</p><p></p><p>In the Undermountain column I write for the Wizards of the Coast website, I've avoided detailing areas in the northern section of the dungeon to leave room for a big temple. I've also avoided detailing the temple because the format of the column doesn't allow for the right kind of article. The column presents rooms as individual encounters, and dealing with the temple seems to me like it could be a whole adventure.</p><p></p><p>If you don't have the original boxed set, you can get a map of the first level from the Wizards of the Coast website. There is an area of what could be jail cells just south of a stairway down into Undermountain in the northern part of the dungeon (the Long Dark Stair that leads up to an alley behind the Blushing Nymph festhall in Waterdeep), and I suggest using those areas and the surrounding rooms as the temple complex. The jail cell area seems a cool place to store the House of Pain's victims.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sernett, post: 2666803, member: 7670"] The original Undermountain boxed set has an encounter revolving around the idea of the "temple," but it's not very detailed. Mainly, there's a fight with orcs working for High Whipmaster Hlethvagi Anteos who uses some parts of Undermountain to have meetings and to hide contraband. There's also an encounter with a hobgoblin that works for him. By his description in that product, Hlethvagi seems more interested in illegal trade than being the leader of a cult of Loviatar. There isn't really a temple per se. City of Splendors: Waterdeep picks things up in 1372, the Year of Wild Magic. That's some 10 years later, making Hlethvagi quite old. City of Splendors: Waterdeep says that during the last four years, Hlethvagi has used some of his fortunes to establish the House of Pain, an actual temple to Loviatar on level one. Given the aforementioned article and the info from the book, it's safe to assume the temple is in the northern part of the 1st level and rather large. Unfortunately, there's little detail beyond that. In the Undermountain column I write for the Wizards of the Coast website, I've avoided detailing areas in the northern section of the dungeon to leave room for a big temple. I've also avoided detailing the temple because the format of the column doesn't allow for the right kind of article. The column presents rooms as individual encounters, and dealing with the temple seems to me like it could be a whole adventure. If you don't have the original boxed set, you can get a map of the first level from the Wizards of the Coast website. There is an area of what could be jail cells just south of a stairway down into Undermountain in the northern part of the dungeon (the Long Dark Stair that leads up to an alley behind the Blushing Nymph festhall in Waterdeep), and I suggest using those areas and the surrounding rooms as the temple complex. The jail cell area seems a cool place to store the House of Pain's victims. [/QUOTE]
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