The Boneyard
(Middle Earthroot)
A large necropolis flourishes in the western portions of the Earthroot, deep under Thesk. Ruled by a vampire named Hamezaar, the city has more than 1,000 inhabitants. Only five of the residents are living; three of these are necromancers and two aspire to lichdom. Much of the city's population is composed of mindless undead, mostly zombies and skeletons of all shapes and sizes. Ghouls, ghasts, shadows, and wraiths are also plentiful.
The Boneyard is more properly known.as Pholzubbalt, the Mausoleum City. A secret cabal of Mulhorandi necromancers founded the city as a secret stronghold more than a thousand years ago, before Thay rebelled from the pharaoh's rule. For centuries the cabal's power waxed and waned, depending on how vigorously the reigning godkings chose to suppress it, but by the year 1000 DR, Pholaubbalt lay abandoned and forgotten, and the necromancers vanished into history. In the year 1238 DR, a lich named Ulpharz rediscovered Pholzubbalt while pursuing hidden secrets of the ancient cabal. Delighted to find a whole city of mausoleums and chambers devoted to necromantic rites, the lich set about animating a suitable contingent of servants and followers for himself.
Adventurers exploring this portion of the Earthroot stumbled into Pholzubbalt a few years ago and beat a hasty retreat. Without any knowledge of the city's history or purpose, they simply christened it "The Boneyard" and marked it down as a good place to avoid.
Denizens of the Boneyard
Over the course of centuries, literally thousands of skeletons and zombies have been amassed in Pholaubbalt's crypts and halls, waiting for the next necromancer or cleric to issue them orders. While dangerous to inexperienced adventurers, such creatures are not particularly threatening to skilled delvers of the Underdark. The city's undead masters, however, are decidedly threatening.
Hamezaar (NE male gold dwarf vampire fighter 7/ranger 3/blackguard 9) gathers powerful undead to his banner with a bold vision of conquering the Earthroot. Hamezaar overthrew the lich Ulpharz more than a century ago and claimed Pholzubbalt for his own. He rules by his strength of personality and political astuteness, pitting each of his lieutenants against each other.
Espera (CE female earth genasi necromancer 17) despises the living and loves the dead. She hates the quirk of fate that made her a native outsider, because she would like nothing more than to become a vampire.
Dawn of the Lightless Sun (NE female human cleric 17 of Velsharoon) lived in the Wizards' Reach for most of her life. A few years ago, she had a vision of the earth convulsing and vomiting forth undead of all descriptions. In her dream, she proudly presented them to the avatar of Velsharoon. When she woke, she distinctly remembered the name Hamezaar and went in search of her destiny. She serves him because his goals seem to coincide with hers, but she also contemplates how to best kill him and take over the rulership of the Boneyard.
Gohzet (LE male mummy rogue 5/assassin 6) is Hamezaar's most powerful tool. Gohzet pledged his loyalty to Hamezaar and serves him unquestioningly. Sometimes the vampire sends Gohact into the Darklands or Great Bhaerynden on missions of assassination.
Ss'lesh (LE female medusa vampire) is the direct spawn of Hamezaar and serves him faithfully. Her mix of medusa and vampire abilities makes her an exceptionally tough opponent. She never leaves her vampire-father's side.
Vr'tark (LE male mature adult blue dracolich) had the misfortune while alive of becoming the target of a cult that wished to make him into a dracolich. First, they presented him with a cursed item, a headband of idiocy, which appeared to be a headband of intellect. Then they completed their mission and transformed him into a dracolich. Vr'tark eventually escaped from his captors and fled into the Underdark, eventually ending up at the Boneyard.
Confused and not very sane, Vr'tark views Hamezaar as his lieutenant and is content to feel that he rules through the vampire. The dracolich spends most of his time playing with the treasures in his hoard and muttering about some adventures he had in life. Thus far, the dracolich and the vampire have not been in conflict, but tensions are rising. Vr'tark is becoming more demanding, and Hamezaar is losing patience with placating the powerful, but dumb, dracolich.
Cleotraw (NE female drow sorcerer 4/cleric 11 of Lolth) came to the Boneyard to finish creating her phylactery as the last step of her development into a lich. A member of a powerful drow House in the city of Undrek'Thoz, she would ultimately like to lead the forces of the Boneyard against her former home city. But she knows that such an effort must wait until the numbers of undead grow and she has completed her transformation.
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