Warehouse 42

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Ethan Rhenfeldt was over a century old at the time of his death and devoted to the collection of rare or powerful artifacts that might pose a danger to the world. This fascination with the arcane lead him to found Thrane's Argentum (before said organization became corrupted by the powers of evil).

History

Originally, Warehouse 42 belonged to House Cannith and was one of Aaren D'Cannith's workshops. Merrix D'Cannith the Elder used this place to hide financially useless but brilliant works like the perpetual motion machine, the Miracle Cure All (from Mordain Fleshweaver), and other things that were created by House Cannith that threatened their perpetual domination of free trade by being too effective.

After Merrix III was born and Aaren D'Cannith was exiled, the clone Zorlan D'Cannith began filling the place with his own research that was taken from study of Atlan technology. The Warforged Creation Forges were amongst the devices studied here and amongst the few that were ever allowed to leave Warehouse 42 when it was done.

The Mourning brought an end to Zorlan's experimentations and Ethan Rhefeldt drove him out just in time to prevent many of the most powerful objects from being transferred to Zorlan's castle in Karrnath. From there, Ethan proceeded to wrap the place in exceptionally strong wards and made it his own storage place.

Ethan transferred all of his private collection of terrible artifacts and weird items to Warehouse 42 over the past three years. He then slowly began removing the most dangerous artifacts of the Argentum from them while sending people to work on ways of destroying the more terrible devices. Ethan began to sense the Argentum was being corrupted and could no longer be trusted to safely keep the items in their possession.

The Emerald Claw made a raid upon this place in the year of 999 A.G. after Ethan's death.

Known Contents

1. The Compass of Time 2. The Sword of Kas 3. The Fury's Claw 4. The Blitzschlag Virus 5. A functional Creation Forge. 6. The Panties of over a 1000 attractive young noblewomen. 7. A Tarrasque Tooth 8. A frozen Primordial Human Being (identical to Rupin) 9. The Ark of the Kalashtar 10. A fragment of Tira Mirron's hair. 11. A Functional Cloning Machine 12. A Crashed Githyanki Spelljamming Vessel 13. The Constructifier 14. The Cure All of Mordain Fleshweaver 15. The Hand of Vecna Ir'Vol 16. The Eye of Vecna Ir'Vol 17. 3 of the Rod of Seven Parts 18. A complete DVD collection of something called Star Wars 19. A DVD player 20. A television set (non-functional) 21. Ode D'Ben-kun (attracts Cat-Girls) 22. Ode D'Cassius (attracts Rabbit Shifters) 23. Ode D'Gerald (attracts Woofgirls) 24. The Mummified remains of Ari and Reade 25. Ethan's Hat 26. Ethan's Bullwhip 27. The original Book of Vile Darkness 28. The original Book of Exalted Deeds 29. A resurrection table (only resurrects Warforged) 30. A glowing crystal ball that hums when people approach. 31. The pickled head of Jarlot the Last Emperor of Thrane 32. The Regalia of Galifar (reclaimed from all of the Royal Family and substituted with fakes) 33. Kael's Dad (a stake through his heart but not dead) 34. Erandis D'Vol's diary 35. Cassius' Dating Book 36. A portal to the Forgotten Freedom Universe 37. Elminster's Dead Body, apparently shot in the back of the head by Ethan. 38. A complete collection of Dungeons and Dragons 3E books 39. A test copy for 4th Edition 40. A tanned piece of leather (elvish skin) containing the Lost Mark. 41. The government documents that explain what REALLY caused the Mourning. 42. The map to Atlantis 42. Dagon's rotting head (pickled in a jar)

Inspirations

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