Amavin – Aware of the value of a Red Portal connection in the deeper Empire.
Matteo – Recognizes the ability to make duplicate Red Portal keys.
Rowan – Ibbalan the Illustrious is heavily engaged in the current holding of Kyprion and Rumela, taken from the Seven Cities.
Tolstoy – A dragonslayer potentate of Mot - given the hitlist of the three Morza.
Emmert – Family wiped out at a small village north of Sarkland. The village was named Kryvis – whose name is now illegal to utter.
Strong Start
Three angry learned specters angered by the destruction of their "sister", the killed wisp.
Scenes
The angry learned specters.
Continuing the explore the ziggurat.
The chamber of the Red Portal: Nurduran or Siyaz.
Secrets and Clues
Specters have the ability to drain the life out of their victims. They can be very dangerous.
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. Humanoid bandits and raiders; nearby bivouac of Mharoti soldiers on their way to the Dragoncoil mountains. Green hag trio who whisper to the dead.
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. Oozes, oozefolk, gnoll raiders.
The Puzzle Box of Katel can open a Red Portal to the ruins of Nurduran or Siyaz. Mateo can craft extra keys.
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.
Sister Ethelia made it down to the lower level to recover the first half of the puzzlebox but was routed by strange tattooed silvan folk who spoke to her of her imminent death.
The weirdling loreseekers want to open the Red Portal because they know it is part of a grand plan that will change the fate of Midgard forever.
Red Portals seem to travel instantaneously between locations but in the cracks between lie other worlds dark and light including hell itself.
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.
Ibbalan the Illustrious is quite flamboyant in reputation. Atesha is known for draconic brutality. Parsis the Hidden – few know much about them at all.
Fantastic Locations
Chambers of the Ziggurat: Armory, shrine, laboratory, classroom, privy, embalming chamber, crypt, gallery, barracks, divination room, fount of knowledge, meditation cells.
Shrine to three sages: Berte Drumwillow, a loving human; Machaon Coppersong, a suspicious halfling; Judithe Jewelsong, greedy dwarf.
