Ruined Abbey of Telophus
Along the Cross Cut Road stand the collapsed stone walls of an old abbey, destroyed at some point after the Eastreach Decree by forces unknown. The remains of the walls are no more than 4ft high, but they still show the abbey’s original shape. They are overgrown with ivy, and grass and wild wheat grow tall between the broken flagstones of the old floor. A statue, worn smooth from its exposure to wind and rain, stands in the abbey’s northwest corner. Clerics would be able to identify the statue as being the Telophus, the ancient Hyperborean god of farming and agriculture.
Inspecting the abbey floor results in finding several rectangular patches where the stone is of a different variety than the rest of the flagstones, and has weathered into a slightly different color. There are ten of these. Nine of them are the tombs of the abbots who supervised the place when it was a functioning place of worship and solitude. The tenth is a secret entrance to the abbey’s cellar, and slides upward and to the side on now-rusted metal tracks that must once have been well-oiled and easy to use. Stairs lead down into a 40ft by 40ft chamber underneath the abbey floor.
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