Tirana's Lair, Part 14 (Desnus (V) 9th, 4709 AR)

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Tirana's Living Quarters. This hidden chamber is simple but elegant, the walls covered in minimalist reed-mat paintings and tapestries. A high four-poster bed with a canopy rests at the far end, and a bookshelf, claw-foot bathtub, and desk covered in documents round out the furnishings.

The heroes had to locate the secret entrance from the summoning pit, but inside Tirana made no effort to conceal or trap her belongings. Most of her important or expensive items were carried on her person, but a search of the tomes and scrolls lying propped open on the desk revealed the same information as the library. In addition, the notes suggested that Tirana had the assistance of someone named Avaxial, who helped her research the swords and provided her with much of the dungeon’s defenses. The notes also contain information about the last whereabouts of the missing sword of greed: it was the property of a particularly greedy mercenary guildmaster from Riddleport named Viorian Dekanti. Viorian and the sword have been missing for the past 6 years, while everyone in her manor was found murdered, help and mercenary alike. The notes also contain information on the former owners of the other swords, collectors and retired adventurers unknown to the heroes. Only one name is familiar, that of Asheron Coyl, a wealthy supporter of the arts who lives in the Ivy District of Absalom. Aside from his local interests, Master Coyl is a generous sponsor of expeditions to ruins and dangerous places in the wilds.

A magic small feather propped open one of the scrolls, and a +1 keen dagger rested underneath one of the pillows on the bed. One of the desk drawers contained a potion of cure serious wounds, a potion of fox’s cunning, a necklace of fireballs type II and 78 gp. Inside one of the desk drawers were also the items Tulann was looking for: a dozen magic, exotic, bejeweled toys and devices of decidedly erotic natures and the magic fragments of a mirror.

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