Pathfinder U2

Aura strong (two variable schools); CL 13th Slot none; Price +2 bonus; Weight N/A Each runeforged weapon opposes a school of magic. The wielder gains a +2 morale bonus on all saving throws against spells from the weapon’s opposed magic. All runeforged weapons are, to a certain degree, empathic. They enhance sin or virtue in those who wield them, so a fighter armed with a dominant weapon becomes more domineering than before, for example. Anyone wielding a runeforged weapon takes a –2 penalty on all Diplomacy checks, as her vices or virtues are magnified at the expense of personality. A creature that carries two runeforged weapons (even those of the same type) takes a –5 penalty on all attack rolls, Will saving throws, and skill checks, as her mind is constantly assailed by multiple empathic urges. Each of the seven Thassilonian schools of magic is opposed by a single runeforged weapon quality—each of these being the combination of that school’s opposition schools. The correct component ...

Tunnels.  The chambers beyond are little more than vast, empty caverns. In order to manifest a key, the heroes subjected the stone heads of the Sihedron Circle to a spell effect of a school identical to the one each runelord related to. When the proper key from the Sihedron Circle outside was placed in the proper pillar’s keyhole inside the frozen cathedral and then turned in two complete revolutions, the pillar began to hum and glow softly. Once the pillar was glowing, its key vanished. When all seven pillars were active at the same time, the central pillar began glowing and rippled with a vortex of light that combined all seven of the surrounding colors. At the pillar’s base, the vortex whirled in on itself like a vertically aligned whirlpool, opening into a 7-foot-wide circular portal through which could be faintly seen a long tunnel. When the heroes stepped through this portal they stepped into Runeforge. Runeforge The approach from the portal is along a 10-foot-wide stone tunn...

When the dragon was severely injured, it left Rimeskull. The seven pillars surrounding the central pillar are each marked with hundreds of Thassilonian runes—arcane formulae describing the basic tenets of one of the seven Thassilonian schools of magic. The seven pillars form the points of a huge Sihedron, and the heroes noticed a small keyhole hidden four feet off the ground on each pillar, facing the central monolith.

The white dragon became invisible right before it entered combat.   It flew low under the heroes (just above the standing stones) and used its breath weapon, at the same time relying on its frightful presence to weaken their morale. When the heroes scattered, he singled Gryxxa out in between rounds when it breathed and made a flyby tail slap followed by a bite so that it snatched her, carried her aloft, and breathed on her. The heroes are still fighting this battle.

Of Runeforge itself, very little is written. The heroes knew that Runeforge was once a legendary place of learning and discovery for students of the arcane, but that its location had remained a mystery—Thassilonian scholars believe it to have been lost during the empire’s fall. The heroes travelled to Rimeskull using a combination of teleporting and magical flight. The Sihedron Circle From the rocky eastern shoreline of Lake Stormunder, the ground rises into the craggy snow-dappled roots of Rimeskull, casting its long shadow over this area. Yet not all of the ground here is rugged and mountainous. Several hundred feet from the lake’s edge, the land suddenly levels off to create a circular hill. Rocks and tenacious shrubs poke through the scattered clumps of snow here, but they are dwarfed by the ring of seven ten-foot-tall stone heads that circle the hill’s edge, their faces angled inward at each other, mouths agape. To the east, the sheer mountainside of Rimeskull rises, icy and w...

The green dragon taunted the heroes in combat, but didn't flee and was eventually defeated. The heroes determined that the bas-reliefs depict dragons who have grown beyond even the stature of great wyrms. The field of crystals is in the shape of a decad, and the gap in its center immediately accepted the  Bellwether Brooch  when the heroes placed it there. The runes read, in Draconic: “To erase with Dahak and to begin with Apsu.” The green dragon's hoard was contained in a single chest set next to one of the claws that reach out of the walls. The chest held coins worth 3,304 gp, gems and jewelry worth 2,160 gp, a +2 adamantine rapier and a silver raven figurine of wondrous power . When the heroes returned the Bellwether Brooch to its setting, it returned to its proper place with a crackle of light. For a moment there was silence, replaced shortly by a faint hum that filled the air as a golden radiance took form. The spirit of Auronorex appeared before the heroes: “You did as I...