Dragon of Icespire Peak
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Dwarven Excavation

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Key

  1. The dwarves' camp — Norbus & Dazlyn — stripped bare and abandoned in Session 6
  2. Buried settlement — ruins under Abbathor's avalanche
  3. The broken gate — black stone, long since shattered
  4. Entrance hall — the funnel — seven orcs came through it one and two at a time
  5. Main chamber — the jelly fight; a pillar base hid the gemstone coffer
  6. Rubble hallway — behind the north secret door — the last jelly, and a third secret door beyond it
  7. South passage — ends in rubble, beside a dead dwarf and the temple ledger
  8. The crypt — a skeleton wearing Abbathor's holy symbol — “Greed is good”
  9. The vestry — two dwarves in red vestments, a font dry for centuries, and a fourth secret door
  10. Sleeping chamber — three bed frames, a crushed body, and a longsword that never rotted
  11. The cave-in — burrowed through in Session 7
  12. The hidden chamber — two shattered statues; the last offering taken in Session 7

A ruined settlement behind a broken black-stone gate, where dwarf prospectors Norbus Ithermel and Dazlyn Grayshard were digging into a buried temple of Abbathor — and where the god’s transformed priests, now ochre jellies, blocked the dig. Site of the 60/40 treasure split, the hidden gemstone coffer, and the necklace that reads “This is what happens to those who displease me.”

By the end of Session 6 all three jellies were dead, the prospectors had walked out on the broken deal and stripped their camp, and seven orcs had come up the canyon to claim the ruin as a fort — and died in the entrance hall.

In Session 7 the party burrowed through the last rubble wall into a sealed round chamber: two pedestals, two statues, one already in pieces, and a booby-trapped emerald. It matches the ledger’s sacrifice chamber, though nothing in the room confirmed it. Working the gearing beneath both pedestals opened a hidden alcove holding the temple’s final offering chest — 150 gold, 70 tarnished silver, and a written instruction to take it and forget the god. The party left at dawn with all of it.

Two cave-ins in the eastern passage are still unexcavated, and the temple’s actual hoard has never been found.