Kal – One of the captains of Blackspire was there when she lost her vineyard.
Matteo – Moving so much gold could be a huge problem.
Rowan – Understands the needs of supply lines to keep troops functional.
Tolstoy – Can call Ketel of Mot to open a portal to dump the gold.
Strong Start
A wyvern mounted knight flies overhead.
Scenes
Breaking into the lower catacombs.
Secrets and Clues
A shadow road lies between Nurduran and Ashadar called the Scholar's Path. It's heavily guarded and watched by agents of both Parsis and Ibbalan.
The Scholar's Path is used to transfer gold between Ashadar and Nurduran for the war effort in the north west.
Ibbalan the Illustrious is heavily engaged in the current holding of Kyprion and Rumela, taken from the Seven Cities. The battles have been costly.
Ibbalan, Parsis, and Atesha all fund the Sharpened Coin mercenaries and the supply lines of the conscripted army being sent to Kyprion and Rumela.
The other six morza fund their own armies from their own treasuries.
The expansion of the Dragon Empire has stretched the empire thin.
Baal – Lord of fire and Master of Noble Sacrifice, King of All Dragons, Guardian of the Sultan, Lord of Soldiers, Scarlet Protector of the Innocent, the Supreme Fire Dragon, and Patron of the Empire and Dragonkin "Fire Must Be Fed". horned dragon head and a leaping flame. His priests wear red, gold, black, and orange.
Blackspire has always been a shrine to Baal. Baal-following knights were interred below.
A Baal-worshipping wraith hates that no sacrifice has been given to Baal in a long time and sees the dragons above as heretics who forgot who they worship.
A well exists in the keep that leads down to caverns deep. It has been barred since creepy crawling ghost walkers have come up and murdered the dragonkin.
Sunray holds the key to the vault.
Fantastic Locations
Monument of the Shadow Road
The fireforge of Baal.
Notable NPCs
Amalth Wyrmsteel of Parsis, dragonborn Timarli who's in charge of watching over the treasures to Blackspire.
A Spellscale Vassel of Ibbalan named Graymist guards the treasury in Blackspire.
A young brass dragon named Sunray oversees Blackspire on behalf of Ibbalan.
Nurduran hosts 5,000 mercenaries of the sharpened coin and 15,000 conscripts.
Monsters
6 Veterans and 2 spies of Parsis. 6 Veterans, 2 mages, 6 scouts, 24 soldiers of Ibbalan. 2 knights. Four priests of Baal (pg 369)
Wyvern mount (Deathsting).
Wights, skeletons, wraith in the crypt below.
Treasure
1,350,000 GP to pay the mercenaries (27,000 pounds)
1,200 gold bars (10 pounds x 500 GP) to pay for the supply line (12,000 pounds)
5 x bloodstone (100 gp each)
haunted natural glass eyeball can cast the spell disintegrate once (500 gp)
(dragon) beast buckle (common)
potion of clairvoyance (rare)
potion of healing (uncommon)
feather token (bird) (rare)
The Desert Falcon, +1 magic crossbow of Horus the Sky Lord (Southlands 238); Can cast fly once a day.
