In the HQ11 thread,



It seems to me that this map reference (on Map Grid L5) invites some discussion as to what it might be.

Dragon's lair? Bandit hideout? Sanctum for a reclusive Shek-Pvar? Something else?

What would you put there?

I like the reclusive Shek Pvar, like a Bognor character.
Of course, nothing says how deep it is - maybe there's a dragon...or worse!
From an old HP Lovecraft story, a quote allegedly in an old tome:
"Great holes are secretly digg'd where the Earth's pores ought to suffice, and things have learn't to walk that ought to crawl."

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Heroes should be uncommon. They just happen to be the PCs.

Okey, I know it's a classic, but Algon was actually a renegade Odivshe Shek-P'var that fled from civilization around 689 TR (from Chyrefal) after he was caught stealing a tome from one of the masters. He managed to scare the garguns that live further up by manipulate the river and he has done that so many times now so they have started to pay tribute to him. Algon tries to "play" nice if adventurers and/or hunter/rangers come, but if he thinks that the visitors are from Melderyn and/or are Shek-P'vars, then he talks to the garguns and send them off to attack them. Normally visitors think that Algon is just a crazed hermit, probably Siem cleric that wants to become one with nature.
Algon feels quite safe in his cave, the cave is quite large and many passages and rooms are filled with water.

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I expect to find out in the sequel to The Fragment.

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"Some place needs to be the worst place in the world. Why not here?" -Brusselt Airmol

Necromancy ! But the seach engine is great.
I was looking for a path from the Silver way right to Tontury lake and found several ones.
One path leads over Algon's Cave and passes two Gold mines. And I was wondering about whom was operating them out there, 20 respectivly 30 miles in south of Felgoth?

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The Tontury Lake article addresses this, but the brief answer is prospectors from the Miners' Guild.

I take these two mine symbols on map L5 to be the sites where placer gold has been found. The Darl River entry of Harndex states 'Placer gold has been found on the banks of the Darl and there has been speculation that the mother-lode lies inside the cave.' That cave being Algon's Cave from which the Nadarl River (Northdarl) springs. Since one of these mine symbols for gold is located on the Sudarl River (Southdarl), it would suggest that deposits of gold are being washed down stream there aswell.

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