Amavin – Knows the sly nature of Parsis the Unseen.
Gaudenzia – has a connection to Fames Wyrmwatcher and his toady Byruz Silverbound.
Kal – Hates Fames and Byruz for taking her vineyard.
Matteo – Recognizes the puzzlebox as a multi-purpose artifact able to activate Red Portals and bind creatures from the Other Side.
Rowan – Knows about the great expense of the wars with the Seven Cities.
Tolstoy – can hear the calling of Katel.
Strong Start
The Battle of the Puzzle Box.
Scenes
Battle for the puzzle box.
Combining the puzzle box.
Go back to the Hune enclave for a rest.
Travel and crawl the ziggurat of Thoth-Hermes
Secrets and Clues
The Lord of Unending Thirst was worshipped by Khandirians who sought the lord's connection to blood and hunger as a source of magical power. A purple worm with tentacle tongues of skulls.
The Khandirians bound a devil of Mot named Kaitele into the puzzle box hoping to use it and other devils as weapons against the dragons but never got the chance.
Mot – God of Eternal Death, Lord of the Undead, the Death of Fire, Emperor of the Silent Land of Mirey, Prince of Necromancers, and High Potentate of Dragonslayers (Southlands 260).
Ibbalan is heavily engaged in the current holding of Kyprion and Rumela, taken from the Seven Cities.
Parsis is the Morza establishing the illicit artifact train to Nuria Natal. Parsis is the most tricky of the Morza.
The Puzzle Box of Katel can open a Red Portal to the ruins of Nurduran or Siyaz.
Ruins of Nurduran: A Nurian human city that resisted the arrival of the dragons in the first rush of Mharoti expansion. Charred stones and a few pillars are all that remains.
Ruins of Siyaz: A great experiment by a kobold alchemist named Mektree the Mad went horribly wrong in Siyaz, releasing vampiric mists and flesh-rotting vapors that turned the town from a thriving metropolis to a tomb almost overnight. Scattered bands of gnolls use its empty buildings, but the dragon urmanli consider it a place best left fallow.
Thoth Hermes is the God of Knowledge and Learning, The Wise, Creator of Language, Lord of Merchants, Patron of Scholars and Thieves, Master of the Arcane Realms, Patron of the Magocracy of Allain. Green and white feather quill with green ink.
Fantastic Locations
Pit of Ending Thirst
Ziggurat of Thoth-Hermes
Cyclopean holy cenotaph of Bastet corrupted by the Sanguine Path that screams: All creatures have disadvantage on int, wis, or cha saving throws.
Notable NPCs
Fames Wyrmwatcher – Urmanli Governor of Ibbalan the Illustrious who took Kal's vineyard.
Sister Ethelia – Goblin sage of Hune seeking puzzle cube.
