Ru'Mal

Underdark continent under Malnax

~ Tunnels of magical darkness links Ru'Than, The Undersea and Ru'Mal together.


Goblin Scaffolding down to Holozar village - 3 hours from Tomb/Heltersdeep turn off
* The Tasty Bone Pub (Travellers' Inn) - OWNER: Slaga (3 beds per room) serve Honey Milk (to Preet)

ROOTSTALK

town

Rotting Bridge

rotting trees - not strong
leads the THE BARRENS - lower land; steps down; land empty of life with a few lava rivers and pits; volcanic heat

MISTY LAKE

steams from the heat of The Barrens making it challenging to see

TWISTED TREES

boundary between road to Oggun town and the Barrens - a a dozen dead looking scary trees

FUNGAL WILDS

surrounds the Myconids village of ROTT (based on Neverlight Grove )

Natha
Drow town at fork in path; contains a Drow Manor

The Hand
Giant Stone hand with steps craved into side - palm upwards with arcane ruins craved into palm

The Citadel of Spirits
across rough waters of Shav Lake

CHETH AULSSIN - Drow Fortress - near an EXIT

DARKE
(previously known as Kaiock) Drow town
An empty town, abandoned - no one remembers who lived there - a magical darkness encloses the area - had Gothic-like Abbey to The Plane of Void (now in ruins with dangerous arcane symbols on floor) which elemental used as Portal from The Plane of Void to Prime Material Plane.

Lai'Tol City
(Vampires and Drow)
It contains a huge Market on lower level

MARKET

* A transmutation wizard has been turning copper into gold and scamming the entire market; merchant selling real Human flesh instead of animal meat;
* A polymorphed demon with amnesia works at the market in the form of the Human and keeps charming everyone he meets without realising it or the fact that he is not really a Human;
* Every day, the same people follow the same path, say the same thing, buy the same produce from the same merchants. Those few travelers who stay long enough to notice, disappear;
* The only bakery stall has put up the price of bread and there is a picket of disgruntled people; * The animal sellers pen has been left open and some baby piglets have escaped into the market causing damage and eating food;
* the rum has gone;

Amethyst Swirls

NEVERSEE Village

EGLASSKI

Mind Flayer settlement

BLACK MARSH

Black Puddings roam - forest of Stalagmites

AUBADE GROVE

Daylight Grove
Many skeletons scattered about where people tried to climb out; Mossy rocks and damp healthy ground

BASK

Hamlet

Gatch Forest
tall massive dark trees
Trees hides Laboratory creating Krasis and mutants.

THE PILLAR ARCH

Goblin homes built into centre pillar and into walls of arch

DEEP ONE LAKE

(expansive) on sands of SNAKE BAY

SHAV LAKE

Dark Lake

MORRUS RIVER

giant's skull "Head" sits as part of a high bank near the Shav lake entrance

Thunder Alley
leads to GAPING MAW (Demodorgon's Lair) = part of the Lair contains deep, dark water; contains Blood Fountain;

OGGUN

town
small Demons/slaves/cults

TUZRATH City

Demon city
portal/gate to The Hells.

BONE BRIDGE

Huge dragon skeleton lies over the deep water = up steps to cross over to higher side (East) of Ru'Mal.

MIDDLEDARK

Helterdeep MINE - finishes at middledark level, however nothing but rock is beneath it - Middledark level Over Tunnel to Tomb of Liftrasa Hammerheart (an EXIT)

EXITS

up to Helterdeep
near Cheth Aulssin
other side of Amethyst Swirls near Misty Lake = comes up into the Ruins of a City (on an island just off Tucalyos) with broken aqueducts pouring water down into streets

Geography

Ecosystems
Terrain
Light (glowing plants)
creatures & insects
Deities
weather
Refurgees
villages/communities
equipment
slaves
taverns
sellers
market

Fauna & Flora

Black Pudding
Mind Flayers
Cloaker
Behir
Aboleth (lake)
Demodorgon
Drow (Dark Elves )
Goblins
Myconids

Natural Resources

forest of Fungi (Fungal Wilds)
forest of Stalagmites (Black Marsh)

History

The first creature squirmed out from within a mucus cloud during the Elder Days, created by Sharran, was a massive Aboleth known as Joalorr - who made a nest deep in the forming world of Esau - of rubble and murky water. Forming the underdark of Ru'Mal.

Maps

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  Ru'Mal

  Underdark beneath the continent of Malnax is Ru'Mal (the Underdark).
  
  

Type

Continent

Location under

Malnax

Included Locations

• Gatch Forest
• Lai'Tol City
• Natha
• The Citadel of Spirits
• The Gunts Garrison
• The Hand
• Thunder Alley

Inhabiting Species

• Banshee
• Flumphs
• Succubus