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Getting to Runeforge (Neth (XI) 3rd-Kuthona 8th (XII), 4712 AR)

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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...

Intermission (Neth (XI) 1st-2nd, 4712 AR)

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...