Dreams of Zharr-Naggrund and Erelhei Cinlu
Readying (II) 592 - Zharr-Naggrund & Erelhei Cinlu
Cruben Blackwolf has sold his new captives to the Chaos Dwarves at Zharr-Naggrund, city of Fire and Desolation, shaped with dark towers, massive gateways and a terrible obsidian ziggurat-tower temple dedicated to their evil bull God Hashut, the Father of Darkness. At the city Colosseum, they are joined by the Tiefling Yarvier, also prisoner. Together they face a host of challengers, which they defeat.
Anti-magic stones, creations of the Chaos Dwarves, negate a spell cloaking Elicia and reveal her to be a Drow in disguise called Sharyl Mel'ettana. This catches the attention of current guests of the Chaos Dwarves, the supposed sons of the Demonqueen of Spiders Lolth, Lord Celerion Tyamir, Knight of Cintagel, son of Duke Taliesen Gildaren of Celene, and the Barbarian Lord Torvald of the Wolf Clan, son of Laskrd the Ravager. Celerion requests Lady Mel'ettana be released from captivity. Sharyl claims the rest of the heroes are her retinue, thus sparing them also. Celerion, on a delicate mission for his mother, tells Sharyl she will be returned through a Demonweb Gate to the Drow Priestesses. The Gate is located dangerously close in the Rift Canyon.
Unwilling to face the justice of the Drow clergy, the Heroes accept a mysterious offer from a half-drow called Uthan in Celerion's retinue. Uthan, a sorcerer, tells Sharyl he can help her navigate the Demonweb's magic to arrive at another location. There they must seek a Titan named Rathkra who can help them get back to their lands. The Demonweb brings the heroes to the Vault of the Drow and their city of Erelhei Cinlu.
The wide tunnel is a well-traveled road. The glowing fungi draping the cavern walls seem deliberately tended, and nightmarish streaks of phosphorescent minerals add their pulsing pale light.
Those tunnel walls widen seem to quite suddenly simply disappear.
Standing in a great, gloomy silence, you gaze upon a vast empty space in which echoes simply die.
A cliff wall soars into the unknown distance above, dwarfing those on foot below. A roof arches upward, disappearing into the distance a thousand yards above, the ceiling’s arc shown by nebulous sprays and swirls of color stolen from a madman’s dreams.
The cavern stretches for untold miles. Overhead, a great bloated node of minerals steal a lurid glow across the scene. Light the color of blood seep across the rocks, making each formation shimmer with sickly colors all its own. They are pale blues, sickly greens and acid yellows.
Clouds of blue spores drift from titanic mushrooms that loom into the sky.
Half hidden in the eerie hush, noises drift in the gloom: distant night creatures give screams and cries or weep like children and sighed awful promises. There is no wind. The air never stirs, and the false stars upon the ceiling are dead and cold.
The light makes all shapes flat and lifeless and turn familiar colors into startling new hues. Bare skin tones in the hideous kingdom make flesh shine a cadaverous lavender-blue.
Sharyl allies herself with the merchant House Dryaalis and the heroes retrieve a Golden Icon of Lolth in their name to strengthen those new ties.
House Dryaalis gives in return a contact to help them in the dread city, the Tiefling prostitute Cherish. Barely surviving the dangers of the city, they make contact with local outlaws, the Rakes, who lead them to Rathkra, a Halfling. He tells them Uthan and his brother Aeltrax are also sons of Lolth by the wizard Glendower of the Valley of the Mage, but, unlike Celerion and Torvald, the wily mage has engineered events to make his sons free of the Demonqueen's influence. Glendower's scheming also sent the Valley Elf Kirendil "Kir" Méandere to the Shield Lands region. Rathkra then drugs the heroes by offering them Tea.
They wake up in the courtyard of Iniarv's Tower, exactly how they were after been defeated by Crubben. Was all this just some twisted nightmarish dream?
Cruben Blackwolf has sold his new captives to the Chaos Dwarves at Zharr-Naggrund, city of Fire and Desolation, shaped with dark towers, massive gateways and a terrible obsidian ziggurat-tower temple dedicated to their evil bull God Hashut, the Father of Darkness. At the city Colosseum, they are joined by the Tiefling Yarvier, also prisoner. Together they face a host of challengers, which they defeat.
Arena Battle
Anti-magic stones, creations of the Chaos Dwarves, negate a spell cloaking Elicia and reveal her to be a Drow in disguise called Sharyl Mel'ettana. This catches the attention of current guests of the Chaos Dwarves, the supposed sons of the Demonqueen of Spiders Lolth, Lord Celerion Tyamir, Knight of Cintagel, son of Duke Taliesen Gildaren of Celene, and the Barbarian Lord Torvald of the Wolf Clan, son of Laskrd the Ravager. Celerion requests Lady Mel'ettana be released from captivity. Sharyl claims the rest of the heroes are her retinue, thus sparing them also. Celerion, on a delicate mission for his mother, tells Sharyl she will be returned through a Demonweb Gate to the Drow Priestesses. The Gate is located dangerously close in the Rift Canyon.
Unwilling to face the justice of the Drow clergy, the Heroes accept a mysterious offer from a half-drow called Uthan in Celerion's retinue. Uthan, a sorcerer, tells Sharyl he can help her navigate the Demonweb's magic to arrive at another location. There they must seek a Titan named Rathkra who can help them get back to their lands. The Demonweb brings the heroes to the Vault of the Drow and their city of Erelhei Cinlu.
The wide tunnel is a well-traveled road. The glowing fungi draping the cavern walls seem deliberately tended, and nightmarish streaks of phosphorescent minerals add their pulsing pale light.
Those tunnel walls widen seem to quite suddenly simply disappear.
Standing in a great, gloomy silence, you gaze upon a vast empty space in which echoes simply die.
A cliff wall soars into the unknown distance above, dwarfing those on foot below. A roof arches upward, disappearing into the distance a thousand yards above, the ceiling’s arc shown by nebulous sprays and swirls of color stolen from a madman’s dreams.
The cavern stretches for untold miles. Overhead, a great bloated node of minerals steal a lurid glow across the scene. Light the color of blood seep across the rocks, making each formation shimmer with sickly colors all its own. They are pale blues, sickly greens and acid yellows.
Clouds of blue spores drift from titanic mushrooms that loom into the sky.
Half hidden in the eerie hush, noises drift in the gloom: distant night creatures give screams and cries or weep like children and sighed awful promises. There is no wind. The air never stirs, and the false stars upon the ceiling are dead and cold.
The light makes all shapes flat and lifeless and turn familiar colors into startling new hues. Bare skin tones in the hideous kingdom make flesh shine a cadaverous lavender-blue.
Erelhei Cinlu
Sharyl allies herself with the merchant House Dryaalis and the heroes retrieve a Golden Icon of Lolth in their name to strengthen those new ties.
Drider defender of the Golden Icon
Drider Battle
House Dryaalis gives in return a contact to help them in the dread city, the Tiefling prostitute Cherish. Barely surviving the dangers of the city, they make contact with local outlaws, the Rakes, who lead them to Rathkra, a Halfling. He tells them Uthan and his brother Aeltrax are also sons of Lolth by the wizard Glendower of the Valley of the Mage, but, unlike Celerion and Torvald, the wily mage has engineered events to make his sons free of the Demonqueen's influence. Glendower's scheming also sent the Valley Elf Kirendil "Kir" Méandere to the Shield Lands region. Rathkra then drugs the heroes by offering them Tea.
Cherish
Rakes of Erelhei Cinlu
Rathkra
They wake up in the courtyard of Iniarv's Tower, exactly how they were after been defeated by Crubben. Was all this just some twisted nightmarish dream?
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