Ahead is a cold mountain lake enclosed by misty woods and rocky bluffs. Thick fog creeps across the dark, still waters. The trail ends at a grass-covered causeway that stretches a hundred yards across the lake to a flat, marshy island with a stone tower on it. The tower is old and decrepit, with collapsing scaffolds clinging to one side where a large gash has split the wall. Timeworn griffon statues, their wings and flanks covered with moss, perch atop buttresses that support the walls.
Parked near the base of the tower, within sight of the entrance, is a barrel-topped wagon spattered with mud.
One of the men employed by
Ravna to raise
Castle Roeyen was an archwizard named Khazan. After his work on the castle was complete, Khazan retired to the
Dibril Valley and built a tower for himself on a small island on Lake Baratok. With the help of some engineers and laborers, he also built an earth-and-gravel causeway connecting the island with the nearby shore.
Khazan’s tower stood empty for ages, it seemed, and would have collapsed under the weight of neglect were it not for the magic wards placed on it long ago. Recently, the tower was taken over by the Inquisitor
Rudolph van Richten, who used it as a base from which to explore Dibril. He later relocated to the nearby
Town of Vallaki. Following in van Richten's footsteps is his protégé and daughter,
Ezmerelda d’Avenir, who has taken to living in the tower while she searches for her mentor.
Developments
After Ezmerelda arrives with
Rahadin close behind, the party is forced to fight the
Dökkálfar chamberlain and his minions. Simak manages to kill Rahadin and trap his soul in Luka's black mirror. The party then retreats to the refuge of the tower to rest. In the middle of the night, Ravna arrives to express her anger at the murder of her closest ally. In retaliation, she detonates Ezmerelda's explosive wagon at the base of the tower, causing the tower to collapse, and leaves the party for dead.
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