Map of the Coastal Cave "Yeekadeedah', "Kobold's Buried Treasure". Ages ago, a dragon named Thornugordonon made the largest chamber his lair, with minions throughout the rest of the cave, but an earthquake collapsed the only entrance large enough for him to use for egress, and after a valiant attempt by his minions to keep him fed with virgins - or anything close to virgins - eventually he sickened and was relatively easy prey for a band of adventurers circa 400 years ago. His minions remained in the caves, coaxing a monstrous squid-creature to full adulthood after an epic quest all the way to Mlastina to procure one of Abaia's desecrated children; but the monster is of only high animal intelligence and not much use in protecting the minion descendants who live on land; it would eat any of them who strayed too close anyway. Recently, a band of Ophitic sorcerors running from the law 'discovered' the cave and it's nearly complete skeleton of Thornugordonon, an incredibly rich source of nitre or saltpeter, the rarest of the three main ingredients of gunpowder. The enterprising cultists immediately established a black market mine, forcing minions and slaves to collect the bone, crush it to a powder, and use various simple chemical reactions to separate, purify and refine the nitre before selling it to criminal interests such as the Past Lives and, until recently, the Steel Reciters.