Leilon

Leilon is a partially ruined town encircled by an earthen rampart. At the center of town, the House of Thalivar, a wizard tower, rises like a beacon, four times the height of every other building.
Leilon was once a mining town that sold copper, nickel, and silver to Waterdeep. It was also a port where merchants sometimes offloaded goods on barges (since most ships cannot pass the town's shallow mud flats) to be transferred to cities along the Sword Coast.
Two hundred years ago, the wizard Thalivar made his home here and raised a tower at the town center to conduct his mystical studies. The House of Thalivar was topped with a planar beacon that lured creatures from other planes into the structure, trapping them there. After Thalivar mysteriously disappeared, the people of Leilon were content to leave his tower and the monsters within alone.
The Spellplague, a divine phenomenon that twisted Faerûn's magic, corrupted the tower's defenses. The creatures sealed within were freed to attack Leilon, and the magic of the planar beacon was redirected back into the Material Plane, causing humanoids who looked upon it to become paralyzed. Leilon was quickly overrun and subsequently abandoned and has remained that way for more than a century.
The first action the soldiery of Neverwinter took in Leilon was to destroy the planar beacon inside the House of Thalivar. Gallio Elibro, a mage, has rebuilt it to perform his own studies into the Ethereal Plane.
Before its fall, Leilon was defended by a loosely organized group of adventurers called the Swords of Leilon. When the House of Thalivar released its monsters, the Swords fought to cover the escape of the townsfolk. They died, becoming ghosts bound to Leilon's ruins. They now watch the rebuilding of the town with caution, hoping that the reconstructed tower does not bring similar disaster.
The former members of the Swords include the male rock gnome cleric of Lathander Alston Timbers, the female silver dragonborn urchin-turned-samurai Thrail Mystan, the male shield dwarf poet Hemlocke Glanhig, the male lightfoot halfling exiled outlander Vordrid Ilrid, and the female sea elf charlatan bard Jione Liadon. All five of these members are now ghosts.

Maps

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  Leilon

  • 3 Landmarks
  • 1 Inn and Tavern
  • 7 Shops
  • 2 Temples and Shrines
  • 1 Danger

Founding Date

1357 DR

Type

Town

Population

1,000

Included Locations

• House of Thalivar

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