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**-100 Identification for +1 sword with locate objects
 
**-100 Identification for +1 sword with locate objects
 
**-1000 for identification of the three Five Falcons magical objects
 
**-1000 for identification of the three Five Falcons magical objects
**-308 payout to departing sailors
 
 
**-other expense
 
**-other expense
 
*Ending Balance Y
 
*Ending Balance Y
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*[[Player's Map -- For Real]]
 
*[[Player's Map -- For Real]]
 
*[https://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Candle_Ley_Line_Map Ley Line Map]  
 
*[https://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Candle_Ley_Line_Map Ley Line Map]  
*[[Swamplands Aerial Map]]
 
  
 
==Treasure Maps==
 
==Treasure Maps==
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*[[Hex 18.22]]
 
*[[Hex 18.22]]
 
*[[Hex 18.23]]
 
*[[Hex 18.23]]
*[[Hex 18.42]] -- Jacaar, the Jewel of the East
 
 
*[[Hex 17.23]]
 
*[[Hex 17.23]]
 
*[[Hex 17.41]]
 
*[[Hex 17.41]]
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[https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?806873-IC-IV-The-Wilderlands-of-Absalom&p=21503125#post21503125 Link]
 
[https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?806873-IC-IV-The-Wilderlands-of-Absalom&p=21503125#post21503125 Link]
  
Located in 12.40. The hex's land value is 9.
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Located in 12.40. M'ellgotharx'o, fifth Furusiyya of the Serriterae is their ambassador to Wolf Keep.
In subhex 306: an organic structure, resembling a termite mound, but much, much larger. It towers perhaps two hundred feet above the ground and, from where they stand on the hillside above the valley in which it stands, looks to be maybe 75 feet in diameter.
 
Mel'ar'Quinthai is their Queen
 
M'ellgotharx'o, fifth Furusiyya of the Serriterae is their ambassador to Wolf Keep.
 
  
 
They call themselves serriterms, and Harn gets the impression that their Hive has been in existence for centuries, at least. "We learned to write in the Common tongue from the human traders that used to ply these routes," she -- for Harn discovers that M'ell is female, at least as far as human genders are concerned -- writes, "and the memories of my people run deep. We have not forgotten, though it has been many broods since we last saw Man in our valley. Every once in a while the folk you call 'beastmen' would stray into our Hive, either to trade or raid." They seem to know little of the outside world, and Harn gets the impression that most of their civilization is underground. He cannot get an accurate picture of their numbers -- M'ell is constantly referring to both herself and her kin in the second person. The adventurers would guess they are cultivating some 600 or so acres of vegetables -- of what variety he is not sure -- but again, many of her references seem to imply an underground source of food, as well.
 
They call themselves serriterms, and Harn gets the impression that their Hive has been in existence for centuries, at least. "We learned to write in the Common tongue from the human traders that used to ply these routes," she -- for Harn discovers that M'ell is female, at least as far as human genders are concerned -- writes, "and the memories of my people run deep. We have not forgotten, though it has been many broods since we last saw Man in our valley. Every once in a while the folk you call 'beastmen' would stray into our Hive, either to trade or raid." They seem to know little of the outside world, and Harn gets the impression that most of their civilization is underground. He cannot get an accurate picture of their numbers -- M'ell is constantly referring to both herself and her kin in the second person. The adventurers would guess they are cultivating some 600 or so acres of vegetables -- of what variety he is not sure -- but again, many of her references seem to imply an underground source of food, as well.
  
 
The serriterms, as Harn learns, are divided into several rigid castes. M'ell belongs to the warrior caste, while the three smaller termite-men accompanying her are what she refers to "drones". There are others she refers to as "alchemist", but Harn gets the impression that they may be closer to shamans than the chemists he is familiar with. There is also, of course, the Queen, of whom M'ell refers to often but doesn't actually describe that much.
 
The serriterms, as Harn learns, are divided into several rigid castes. M'ell belongs to the warrior caste, while the three smaller termite-men accompanying her are what she refers to "drones". There are others she refers to as "alchemist", but Harn gets the impression that they may be closer to shamans than the chemists he is familiar with. There is also, of course, the Queen, of whom M'ell refers to often but doesn't actually describe that much.
 
===Jacaar and Jadlierbron the All-Seeing===
 
 
Located in [https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?806873-IC-IV-The-Wilderlands-of-Absalom&p=21516872#post21516872 18.42].
 
 
First encounter between the Company and Jadlierbron [https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?806873-IC-IV-The-Wilderlands-of-Absalom&p=21387896#post21387896 here].
 
 
Jadlierbron is a massive beast, some fifty feet from snout to tail, with scales the color of dull flames. She is terrifying to behold.
 
 
The following details learned [https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?780003-IC-II-ACKS-The-Wilderlands-of-Absalom&p=20499465#post20499465 here]: The great wyrm lairs in an ancient temple, half collapsed with age and destruction. Her hoard is vast; Isenda guesses it is worth no less than fifty thousand gold, many times than if you consider the value of the many magical items she no doubt possesses. Isenda believes that Jadlierbron has within her hoard the key she seeks that will allow entry into the starship, and safe passage through its wards, but none of us could see it. Of course, it is likely we only saw a small portion of her treasure.
 
 
Jhadlierbron is served by a score or more skeletal constructs, for she is old and has grown fat and lazy and rarely ventures forth from her lair. I suspect her to be at least six hundred years old, for she mentioned speaking to Ser Furecus in passing, and he ruled the Free Folk two Cycles ago. Zamed claims the skeletons are animated through divine magic, although there is no evidence that Jacaar is inhabited by any other than herself and her silent skeletal servitors. I do know she has some means of divining what is happening within the boundaries of the city, because she knew we had been digging through the rubble of on the outskirts in search of our quarry.
 
 
The dragon can use magic, of that we are now certain, for she read our thoughts and intentions as if they were scribed on our foreheads. Our lives were only spared by our immediate supplication and the gift of Isenda's staff of power, a sacrifice she was loathe to make. Our first thought, upon our escape, is to find or craft devices that will prevent the readings of our thoughts.
 
 
She may be more active than we have been led to believe. The spies we stationed to the east have seen her fly thrice in the past week, once to rain fire and destruction down upon the gnolls to the east for some inscrutable reason, the other times to sail upon the thermals.
 
 
There are rather detailed, but theoretical, notes about the dragon's strengths, weaknesses and habits, as well as speculation as to the contents of her lair and her motivations.
 
  
 
==Languages==
 
==Languages==

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