Chapter 2: Gazetteer of tal’Dorei 71when the moon is high, and the ruins of ancient Drassig
war camps seem to still draw shadow demons to patrol
these lands, still bound by the contract between Trist
Drassig and the Demon Prince of Indulgence.
umbra hills aDventures
sh aDoWs of the past
For low-level characters: A famous gnome archaeologist
named Wilmet Wizcrack, who was staying in the same inn
as the PCs, died last night. Everyone is buzzing with rumors
by breakfastime. Wizcrack’s body shows no signs of physical
attack, but his skin is drawn tight to his bones and his mus-
cles are atrophied. Investigating his room reveals no sign of
any assailant, but it does turn up many relics, including a
very shiny +1 longsword with the inscription “Trist Drassig”
on the blade. One day after his death, Wizcrack turns into
a shadow. One week after carrying the blade, its wielder is
attacked by 1d4 shadows every midnight.
Yug’ Vor il
Where the dwarves of Kraghammer whisper fearful words
of the duergar, so too do the duergar whisper of Yug’Voril.
Beyond the ash-dwarves’ fiery kingdom, ever deeper into
the heart of Exandria, there is a miles-wide grotto coated
in glowing crystal. A lake fills the grotto, its surface so
smooth and placid it seems like a jade mirror, perfectly
reflecting the light of the crystals around it. In the middle
of the lake is an island, atop which looms the grand,
austere towers of Yug’Voril. The clean lines and beautiful
facade of the city belies its current, abominable denizens.
Thousands of years old, the builders and previous den-
izens have long vanished, leaving the unspoiled ruins to
become home to a host of psychic, mind-eating creatures
from beyond the stars. The tyrannical society of the
Flayers flourishes here, far from their cosmic pursuers
and giving them the freedom to build a legion of thralls,
mind-slaves whose delicious brains the Flayers allow to
remain in their bodies... until those bodies fall apart
from toil.
Yug’Voril and its inhabitants fell recently under the
control of the extraplanar aberration called K’Varn, before
he was slain by Vox Machina. Now that the Flayers have
been freed from K’Varn’s tyranny, they have reclaimed
Yug’Voril as their own and have continued work on their
strange and terrible plots.yuG’voril aDventures
a MinD is a terrible thinG to Waste
For high-level characters: Four of the foremost minds at
Emon’s Alabaster Lyceum have disappeared without a
trace. All vanished on the same night, and there have been
no confirmed sightings since. Investigations have been
underway for several months, and some dwarves of Kra-
ghammer have recently reported seeing four figures that
could be the missing scholars entering the lower passages
of the Keenstone Mine under cover of night. Something
has mentally dominated these scholars, and the Flayers of
Yug’Voril hunger for a specific morsel of powerful knowl-
edge within their brilliant minds.