Faction
Gnomengarde
A reclusive kingdom of tinkerers ruled by King Korboz and Queen Gnerkli. Recently de-mimicked by the party.
Status: active, friendly.
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Faction
The Orc Bands
Roving orc war-bands pushed into the region and looking for ground to hold. They remember who kills their people.
Status: active, hostile.
Faction
The Zhentarim
The Black Network. Thornton wears their pin, works out of something under the Miner's Exchange, and intends to run Phandalin.
Status: active, complicated.
history
Abbathor's Ledger
Generations of offerings to the god of greed, accounted page by page — thinning year by year, and ending nowhere.
places
Phandalin
Home base. Quest board, nervous townmaster, an inn with watchful strangers, and a Miner's Exchange with Zhentarim management.
history
The Final Offering Note
The last thing anyone wrote in the Temple of Abbathor: an instruction to stop paying the god, and permission for whoever survived the room to take what was left.
items
The Party Magic Item Haul
Everything magical (or suspiciously magical) the party has picked up so far.
places
The Temple of Abbathor
A ruined dwarven temple to the god of greed. The ochre jellies inside used to be its priests. Its last sealed chamber has been opened; the wealth it accounted for has still never been found.
rumors
The Trivial Trail Temple
Thornton's lead: a ruined temple south along the Trivial Trail where locals stash their gold. Unvisited.
places
Umbrage Hill
Adabra Gwynn's stone windmill — potion source for all of Phandalin, manticore battleground, and, as of Session 7, gone.