Chartreuse (pp 17 Inv 20 Ins 11) – Pillar of the kuo toa disrupts her crystal.
Eldrox (pp 16 Inv 10 Ins 16) – There's a bending of nature in the ziggurat.
Helm Hobbs (pp 17 Inv 10 Ins 17) – St. Cuthbert is a long way from these tunnels.
Radon (pp 14 Inv 10 Ins 11) – The Kuo Toa are cursed beings.
Voxi (pp 11 Inv 17 Ins 11) – The monoliths bend reality, causing cracks in the walls between worlds.
Zaffre (pp 14 Inv 14 Ins 11) – The blade knows of Asberdies and vice versa.
Strong Start
Grimblade approaches seeking an alliance with the drow to take over Grayspire Cavern.
Scenes
Grimblade approaches.
The drow outpost and Kelena d'Elservs.
The whispers of Asberdies.
Across the river with Thoopshib the Rogue.
The deep gnomes and the umber hulks.
The ziggurat of the Kuo Toa
Secrets and Clues
Asberdies the lich hides in a tomb behind the rock near theGray Spire Cavern. He travels beyond worlds and knows much of the monoliths and the Black Cathedral.
Umber hulks lurk in the depths of the underdark. They steal the minds of those who ever see them before devouring them.
Far beneath the surface of the earth dwell the Svirfnebli, the Deep Gnomes, a race related to the gnomes of the bright world. Small parties of these demi-humans roam here and there in the underworld mazes of small passageways, always in search of gem minerals.
The Svirfnebli fear the drow who hunt them and war with them often. They often hide in small towns or villages buried beneath the rock they can mold and manipulate to their purpose. They're protected by and can summon beings of the elemental plane of earth including earth elementals.
Kuo toans hate other humanoid races, using them as slaves and food. They worship Blibdoolpoolp the Sea Mother.
Blibdoolpoolp resides in the Elemental Plane of Water.
The Kuo Toa captured a drow scouting party led by Derinnil d’Noquar. She is the only one remaining and is being prepared for ritual disembowelment.
The ziggurat of the kuo toa hides a monolith beneath tied to the Elemental Plane of Water and one of the ancient monoliths of the Black Cathedral.
A continual cold war exists in Erelhei-Cinlu. House Eilservs rules the other houses of the city, but is constantly threatened by the other houses. Matron mother Eclavdra dEilservs is the matron mother of Erelhei-Cinlu.
Priest-Prince Va-Guulgh leads the kuo toa of their ziggurat. He is vain and bloodthirsty. He believes he is a chosen child of Blibdoolploop.
Va-Gullgh is served by his Master of Assassins – Quolp-Ool.
Fantastic Locations
The underground river – kuo toan boat and monitor lizards
A holy twilight grotto
An entombed crumbling throne
An unearthed shadowy fountain
Notable NPCs
Kelena d'Elservs – female commander of the Grayspire Cavern outpost CR 5
Trissan and Brake d'Noquar – CR 4, drow blademasters of house Noquar.
Grimblade – Bugbear chieftan.
Asberdies CR 13 – Lich of the cavern – travels the outer worlds. Seeks an amulet of the planes worn by Eclavdra.
Thoopshib the Kuo Toa rogue. CR 6
Priest-Prince Va-Guulgh – priest-prince of kuo toa. CR 8 AC/DC 15 HP 136 Atk/Prof +7 DPR 53 Atks 3 × 1d6 + 15
