Waterdeep - Dungeon of the Mad Mage

RCTURIADOOM IS DESIGNED FOR FOUR 13TH-LEVEL
characters, and adventurers who defeat the
monsters on this level should gain enough XP
to advance halfway to 14th level. The lich Arc-
turia, who dwells on level 23 of Undermoun-
tain, is one of Ha laster's most accomplished
apprentices, arguably the most powerful of the
Seven, and a mas ter of transmutation magic.
Arcturiadoom is her personal retreat ("doom" being an
archaic term for a lord's domain). Hidden on this level
is Arcturia's phylactery, and adventurers would be wise
to find and destroy it before facing the lich in battle
on level 23.

WHAT DWELLS HERE?

Arcturiadoom has been taken over by fire giants in the
service of Halaster. The fire giants are accompanied by
a large force of hobgoblins. Drow have aJso infiltrated
this level of the dungeon, though they have no quarrel
with adventurers.

FIRE GIANTS

Emberosa, a fire giant, has come to Undermountain

with six of her kin on a mission to raise fire giants to

the top of the giant ordning, dethroning the mighty

storm giants.

Emberosa hopes to obtain a lost rune of power cre-

ated by the giants more than forty thousand years ago.

She believes dwarves s tole the rune from the giants and

hid it under Mount Waterdeep. Halaster found the rune

and hid it in on level 23, but he has agreed to part with

it if the fire giants use their exceptional metal-forging

abilities to build a giant construct for him. Work is under

way, with the construct being assembled in area 15.

For more information on the giant ordning, see the

"Giants" entry in the Monster Manual.

DEATH'S HEAD PHALANX ~~~~~~~~~

The Death's Head Phalanx is a force of hobgoblins that

came to Undermountain a long with Emberosa and her

fire giants. This force is commanded by a hobgoblin

warlord named Doomcrown, who is the estranged son

of Warlord Azrok (see level 3).

A devout follower of the godslayer Maglubiyet, Doom-

crown wants fire giants to ascend to the top of the giant

ordning, envisioning their brutal tyranny sweeping

across FaerOn. He expects to play an important role in

Emberosa's ascension and conquest, and he dreams of

ruling what remains of the High Forest once the elves

and other forest denizens are purged and the trees are

reduced to ashen spines.

Since arriving in Arcturiadoom, however, Doomcrown

has developed strange habits. He spends more and more

time locked away in his quarters, chasing some strange

new obsession. His followers remain loyal, but they

worry about the mental state of their warlord.

HOBGOBLIN PATROLS

Hobgoblins of Doomcrown's phalanx have secured

most of the h alls and chambers in Arcturiadoom. Con-

sequently, the only wandering monsters of consequence

LEVEL 14 I ARCTURTADOOM

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