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The Mines of Uhrômunïhr

Summary

While clearing the tunnels beneath Barrowdown hill in Asala, the party discovered the spirit of Yeffres, a long-dead thief whos spirit cannot rest until the holy necklace stolen from a Dwarf he killed was returned to the temple in a long-lost mine to the north. The party first stops by Aven Mirba, the home of the Comte of Cascade Provice where Asala is located, then makes their way east to Aven Bourlême, the seat of Duc Féret, to claim the rewards promised them for their heroic actions in Asala. While in Aven Bourlême, Teal reveals the mission she has been sent on by her Prince to try to bring the Elves, Dwarves and men of Athervon and Veniri into an alliance to confront an evil that threatens all of them. Violet is inducted into Le Garde du Pennant Jaune et Noir, Duc Féret's honor guard.

Maps & Figures

Map of South-West Athervon

Discovered Treasure

Discovered Treasure Spreadsheet

Adventure Log

Month	Day	Hour	Notes/Event
Huma	8	-	Group arrives at Aven Mirba and is welcomed by Comte Chagnon. Gabriel spends time researching the Dwarves of the region.
Huma	13	-	Group departs Aven Mirba towards Aven Bourlême.
Huma	14	1500	Group encounters a strange knight on the road, who identifies himself as Avgustyn Abodovskij, from the land of Iruzhin.
Huma	17	1200	Group encounters Luzifer Iraola, a traveller from Endeja to the south, on the road, who invites them to rest with him. He wins a considerable sum of jewelry from Gabriel in a card game. He confides is is on the run from debtors but that now he can pay them with his winnings. They decide to travel with him to Aven Bourlême.
Huma	18	1600	Group reaches Aven Bourlême & takes rooms at the Double Ox Inn.
Huma	19	0900	Group calls on Duc Féret regarding the reward. He provides each of them with a Letter of Credit for 500 gold crowns, and explains the restrictions and duties of Le Garde du Pennant Jaune et Noir. Violet asks if being a member of the Daughters will conflict with her duties in the Order; Teal reveals her mission from her Prince to [try to bring the Elves, Dwarves, and the Humans of Veniri and Athervon into an alliance against the darkness that threatens her people. The Duc asks for time to consult his advisors, requesting they tell no one of Teal's mission.
Huma	20	-	Day passes with no word from the Duc.
Huma	21	-	Day passes with no word from the Duc.
Huma	22	1000	Group receives word to attend to the Duc and his advisors. They question Teal regarding her mission, but are ultimately satisfied. The Duc indicates he will send word to King Bruno of Athervon to get permission for an audience with him. This will take some time, during which the group can do as they pleas so long as he can contact them. The Duc also indicates that there is no conflict with Violet being inducted into Le Garde, and sets the ceremony for the following day.
Huma	22	1200	Group visits the Cathedral and is introduced to the Archbishop of Soirac, Côme De Verley. Violet gives him the ring and the tiara that they recovered from the White King in Asala, which he indicates the Church will attempt to destroy or hide if they are unable to. Group returns to the Double Ox until the induction ceremony.
Huma	23	1600	Just before leaving for the cathedral, Teal has a vision. The group returns to the cathedral for Violet's induction ceremony into Le Garde, meeting several of its members.
Huma	24	-	Party departs Aven Bourlême on the road west towards Aven Moel and the mountains beyond it.
Huma	25	-	Party encounters a procession of priests and a penitent headed towards Aven Bourlême.
Huma	28	-	Party witnesses a farmer being attacked by something below the ground. They engage and battle a terrifying insect-like creature. Darithe is slain in the battle. The party turns back towards Aven Bourlême in the hope that the archbishop there can raise her from the dead.
Huma	31	-	New Year's Feast.
Duece	1	-	New Year's Day.
Duece	2	1800	St. Allyson's Day (Feast Day); Party reaches Aven Bourlême. Archbishop agrees to perform raising ritual on Darithe if party can raise the funds for the mandatory donation. Party is able to do so, selling off much of their wealth.
Duece	3	0100	Darithe experiences a dream like vision. The Archbishop completes the ritual of raising the dead. Darithe returns to the living.
Duece	5	-	Darithe wakes. She realizes that a tattoo she had was burned away by the creature's acid. The farmers deliver the outer armored plates of the insect creature to the party in Aven Bourlême.
Duece	6	-	Party is able to with Darithe. Archbishop De Verley indicates he will dispatch a letter to Archbishop DeMarre of Avis Armois to confer on the strange and evil presence that haunts their dreams and visions. Teal asks Duc's armorer to create a suit of armor from the plates of the ankheg.
Duece	8	-	Violet receives a letter from Capitaine Du Serna of the royal garrison of Avis Armois. Gabriel receives a letter from his former teacher, Boulen Aphier. Teal researches the story of the wizard of old who wore armor made of the ankheg as well as tries to learn what she can of the Dwarves of the region.
Duece	12	-	Darithe is released into the care of the party.
Duece	19	-	Darithe is well enough to travel.
Duece	21	-	Teal's armor is ready.
Duece	22	-	Group returns to the road heading west towards the mountains and the dwarven mines.
Duece	28	1500	Group reaches the town of Aven Moel. Esker engages in a conversation with a halfling in the town guard who provides him with several stories & rumors. Teal speaks with a local dwarf merchant and tells him of their quest to the mines. He demands proof before he will help.
Duece	29	0900	Group returns to dwarf merchant and shows him their dwarven necklaces. He agrees to help and provides them with several things he knows or has heard about the mines.
Duece	29	1900	Yeffres appears to the group after they have made camp and speaks to them about finding the mines, telling them to look for some broken machinery and make camp at that spot for the night, so that he can guide them the rest of the way.
Duece	30	1200	Group reaches Bénaume, a village on the westernmost border of Athervon. They speak with a local innkeeper who tells them a few things about the mines, including a tale about an adventurer who returned from the mines mortally wounded who spoke strange dwarven words before dying. Group departs village to find mines.
Alum	1	1200	Group reaches a rusted and broken piece of metal machinery on the trail into the mountains. They make a camp, waiting for nightfall to see if Yeffres will appear to lead them to the mines.
Alum	1	1900	Yeffres appears and leads the group to a trail that takes them up to a ledge where they find the entrance to the mines. They make camp outside of the doors, which stand ajar, waiting for morning to enter.
Alum	2	0700	The group enters the mines. They find a long stone bridge spanning what appears to be a bottomless chasm, with doors on the far end. They open the doors and are attacked by foul-smelling, lizard-like creatures; they manage to slay the creatures and dump the bodies into the chasm.
Alum	2	0730	They pass through the doors in the room the fought the creatures in and enter a large area that contains what looks like a winch-operated platform that can descend to lower areas, which is surrounded by a set of stairs leading down. They hear a clicking noise in the room.
Alum	2	0800	They also find what appears to be an abandoned dining hall as well as a long-abandoned kitchen.
Alum	2	0830	The group takes one of the hallways from the main area; they are confronted by a makeshift gate fashioned from wood. Violet and Esker move the gate out of the way with effort.
Alum	2	0900	The group explores an empty room; finding stairs leading up, they ascend to the upper level.
Alum	2	0930	After passing through a few empty rooms, the group hears voices muttering in the Black Speech. They enter a hallway and are attacked by a group of trolls. They manage to kill three of the monsters before the last flees past them. They find Khrumm, a dwarf, who was prisoner of the trolls. Esker is badly wounded in the battle.
Alum	2	0945	Group explores the rooms of the upper level. They find Khrumm's equipment along with a chest full of treasure in an area the trolls had been using.
Alum	2	1045	Group rests for 1 hour after Teal uses the Nap spell on Gabriel, Esker, Khrumm, and herself, allowing them to recover their mage spells.
Alum	2	1145	Group rises from rest; mages spend one hour studying their spell books to recover spells.
Alum	2	1245	Group decides to rest a full day.
Alum	3	0700	Current time.
Alum	3	0715	Party descends to entrance level to resume explorations there.
Alum	3	0800	Party hears noise as they are exploring. They are attacked by a strange creature that causes Violet's plate armor to turn to rusted dust when it strikes her with its antennae. Party manages to slay the creature.
Alum	3	0815	Party continues to explore around the hallways; only a few doors are either locked or stuck and cannot be opened.
Alum	3	1030	Party forces several of the doors and investigates the rooms beyond.
Alum	3	1200	Party exits the mines and moves to feed and water their horses. They set watches and rest.
Alum	4	0000	Party rises and returns to the mines.
Alum	4	0030	Group descends down the stairs from the entrance level and finds a large chamber with more rail car tracks at the bottom, with two large stone doors nearby.
Alum	4	0030	Group descends down the stairs from the entrance level and finds a large chamber with more rail car tracks, with two large stone doors nearby.
Alum	4	0045	Group opens the doors to find an antechamber of a Dwarven temple, with two large stone statues of dwarven warriors watching over it. Khrumm dons the necklace from Asala with the strange glyphs on it and passes through, followed by the others, to enter a large temple room, including a massive altar to the god of the dwarves.
Alum	4	0100	Group explores the large room, finding doors around the periphery, and a number of dwarven tombs inscribed with various names.
Alum	4	0130	Group enters through one of the doors from the main temple to find a large fountain with an inscription indicating to drink. Khrumm, Violet, and Teal all drink from the pool.
Alum	4	0145	Group enters next room, which appears to be a vestry with another door from it. They enter that to find the remains of a bedroom, which they search but find nothing of interest.
Alum	4	0200	Group explores next room off the main temple area, which appears to be an office or study, complete with large tome on a reading table and a desk as well as a bust statue. The tome contains dwarven prayers, including one of banishment. They find nothing else of interest in the room.
Alum	4	0215	Group moves back to the altar and places the necklace that was stolen by Jeffries into the bowl of the altar; but nothing happens. Teal makes an appeal to the dwarven god, resulting in a noise of grinding stones; but when they investigate, they find nothing has changed.
Alum	4	0230	Group explores the next door off the main area to find a room with a large sand pit scattered with stones and boulders, which has been raked into an intricate pattern. Khrumm explains it is used for divination by priests.
Alum	4	0300	Group enters next room and finds a huge, translucent green crystal mounted to the floor between four large braziers, which contain coal. They take the coal back to the altar and light it; the resulting fire seems to destroy the necklace that Jeffries stole, which Khrumm interprets as acceptance of the sacrifice.
Alum	4	0315	Group decides to descend to the next lower level to attempt to find and banish whatever drove the dwarves from the mines. Reaching the bottom, they are attacked by several more of the slimy lizard-things, which they manage to slay.
Alum	4	0330	Group is attacked by more of the lizard-creatures, which they again manage to defeat. The leader of the creatures, speaking in rudimentary Black Speech, offers a deal: if the group will kill a monster that has been terrorizing his tribe, he will give them safe passage to the lower levels. The lizard things set a trap using the young of their tribe as bait for the monster.
Alum	4	0530	The monster appears, exploding through one of the rock walls and killing a nearby lizard-creature, before attacking the group. The group manages to slay the creature after a short battle. The chief of the slimy lizard-folk agrees to give them safe passage to the level below, saying they will not be harmed if they journey there.
Alum	4	0600	Group returns to the surface to set watches, rest, and recover spells.
Alum	4	1700	Gabriel & Teal are on watch when they hear the sound of a wagon on the road above, and a voice singing in Gnomish. They meet Zbyšek and Romana Jaroš, Gnomes from the city of Nyírvan, who have been prospecting in the mountains. They are returning home, and offer to wait for the characters to make the journey together. Party spends the night with them.
Alum	5	0700	Party rises and re-enters the mines. They use the winch-platform to lower themselves to the lower mines.
Alum	5	0745	Party reaches the lower mines. Violet detects a faint evil, and they move to investigate.
Alum	5	0815	While party is exploring a chamber, a horrifying creature from dwarven mythology bursts through the wall and attacks them. After a pitched battle, they manage to slay the thing, dispelling it back to wherever it was summoned from. Darithe and Khrumm are badly injured in the fight.
Alum	6	0845	Party explores a further cavern and finds the body of a dead dwarf, which looks to have fallen casting a spell of imprisonment on the creature. Teal buries the body in the rock after taking the broken weapon it carried.
Alum	6	0930	Party exits the mines and returns to the Gnomes.
Alum	6	1930	Group reaches the village of Bénaume (end of adventure).

NPC's

Surname	Given Name	Occupation	Location	Notes
Fergasse	Vincent	Guildmaster	Belis-ar-Weil, Gorges Province	Boss of the Five Points Brotherhood criminal syndicate in Belis-ar-Weil; son was killed by Darithe. Has placed a bounty on Darithe's head.
???	Possa	Criminal	Outer Docks, Avis Armois, Armois Province	Leader of a local criminal gang (Mark of the Wolf, aka The Mark); former associate of One-Eyed Kem; requested Kem's head as proof he was dead in return for information on where the hideout was.
???	Alceste	Criminal	Outer Docks, Avis Armois, Armois Province	"The Asp"; Handsome, quick rogue of The Mark working for Possa
Deramaut	Robin	Sherif	Asala, Cascade Province	Sherif of Cascade Province, in service to Comte Ladislas Chagnon du Cascade
Chagnon	Ladislas	Comte	Aven Mirba, Cascade Province	Comte du Cascade Province, a vassal to Duc Féret
Féret	Djeferson Chappelle	Duc	Aven Bourlême, Soirac Province	Duc le Domaine Sud, Comte du Province Soirac, Marquis du Marche Les Fens; vassal to King of Athervon
De Verley	Côme	Archbishop	Aven Bourlême, Soirac Province	Archbishop of Soirac; resides at the Cathedral of St. Maudènan le Perdu in Aven Bourlême
Abodovskij	Avgustyn	Knight	Road to Aven Bourlême	A knight in service to his most regal presence, Avto Ramaz Nizharadze, True Tsar of Iruzhin. He has been sent to Athervon to serve under Duc Féret, in some kind of exchange or in return for some favor.
Nizharadze	Avto Ramaz	Tsar	-	Mentioned by Avgustyn Abodovskij as the "True Tsar" of Iruzhin, a land far to the east.
Irazola	Luzifer	Traveller	Road to Aven Bourlême	Traveller from land of Endeja to the south, on way to Avis Inia.
Vaugeois	Jean-Charles	Unknown	-	of Angougueux Province; someone that Luzifer Irazola lost money to in a bet and now has a debt to.
Alarie	Loïc	Advisor	Aven Bourlême	Maître des Clés (Master of Keys, aka Spy Master) for Duc Féret
Ancel	Séverine	Advisor	Aven Bourlême	Savante de Bason (Scholar of Truth, High Sage) for Duc Féret
Delacroix	Talan Amand	Soldier	Aven Bourlême	Capitaine de Le Garde du Pennant Jaune et Noir
Vallée	Ancilla	Soldier	Aven Bourlême	Member of Le Garde du Pennant Jaune et Noir; mother's family is the Di Sandro minor noble house based out of Senulli in Veniri.
????	Yeffres	Spirit	Asala	The spirit of a deceased thief who robbed & killed a Dwarf long ago and died in Asala. His spirit can only be freed by returning the Dwarf's necklace to the temple in the lost mine of Uhrômunïhr.
????	Dejis	Farmer	road to Aven Moél	One of the farmers the party saved from the Crimson Bishop. Brought the creature's exoskeleton to them in Aven Bourlême.
Asselin	Moïse	Town Guard	Aven Moél	Halfling member of the town watch in Aven Moél; Esker bought him a drink at Azaïs’ Flask tavern there, and in return was told a number of tales and rumors.
Sax	????	Innkeeper	Aven Moél	Proprietress of Azaïs’ Flask tavern.
Loupe	Vincentius (III)	Comte	Aven Moél	Comte du Saubonne Province. Resides in Chateau du Bouille in the town of Aven Moél.
Irüre	Urâda	Weaponsmith	Fhÿldrmüdhrm	Master dwarven weaponsmith in the halls of Fhÿldrmüdhrm; maker of the weapons that Teal bought from Küzhu Ïmkhÿr in Aven Moél.
Ïmkhÿr	Küzhu	Merchant	Aven Moél	Merchant who trades in dwarven goods in Aven Moél.
Brú	Esbern	Alquemiste	Aven Moél	Proprietor of Brú's Brews Alquemiste shop in Aven Moél.
Jaroš	Zbyšek	Prospector	Nyírvan	Gnomish prospector from Nyírvan, scouting the area near Uhrômunïhr for minerals. Husband of Romana.
Jaroš	Romana	Prospector	Nyírvan	Gnomish prospector from Nyírvan, scouting the area near Uhrômunïhr for minerals. Wife of Zbyšek.