The Grimburg
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Known to only a few is that the Grimburg is a planar prison for holding the most dangerous and powerful of extraplanar fugitives, fiends, and godlings. Its interior gives access to many dimensional gates and cells. It has been manned by the Stoneface Clan of deep gnomes who were given their charge at the end of the Age of Strife, roughly 14,000 years ago, by the elemental Lord Mocham — who infused it with a portion of his power to enable it to hold its prisoners. It has had no verified escapes, with one possible exception. When the Wizard’s Wall was raised in 2947 I.R. — when Alycthron and Margon called on the spirits of The Haunted Steppes and the Stoneheart and Deepfell mountains to move the very foundations of Akados itself — in that moment of siphoning power, a great crack appeared in the wall of the fortress. It has since been repaired, but rumors persist that one unidentified prisoner was able to make its escape. The Stonefaces deny any such assertion.
Since that time, however, observers of the earth-spirit in the Stoneheart Mountain Dungeon have noticed that it seems to grieve deeply.
Known to only a few is that the Grimburg is a planar prison for holding the most dangerous and powerful of extraplanar fugitives, fiends, and godlings. Its interior gives access to many dimensional gates and cells. It has been manned by the Stoneface Clan of deep gnomes who were given their charge at the end of the Age of Strife, roughly 14,000 years ago, by the elemental Lord Mocham — who infused it with a portion of his power to enable it to hold its prisoners. It has had no verified escapes, with one possible exception. When the Wizard’s Wall was raised in 2947 I.R. — when Alycthron and Margon called on the spirits of The Haunted Steppes and the Stoneheart and Deepfell mountains to move the very foundations of Akados itself — in that moment of siphoning power, a great crack appeared in the wall of the fortress. It has since been repaired, but rumors persist that one unidentified prisoner was able to make its escape. The Stonefaces deny any such assertion.
Since that time, however, observers of the earth-spirit in the Stoneheart Mountain Dungeon have noticed that it seems to grieve deeply.
This massive stone fortress is ancient, predating the arrival of the Hyperboreans. A very visible part of the landscape of northern Waymarch, the Grimburg is often mistaken for a huge block of stone rising from the rolling green foothills of the Stoneheart Mountains. A closer look, however, reveals observation holes and arrow slits that are cleverly hidden into the crevasses of the stone, and cold-wrought-iron stapling pins running up one side of the huge rock.
The fortress itself is seemingly constructed from a solid piece of granite that emerges from the natural bedrock here. The only entrance is a massive, concealed gate that is always guarded by surly, heavily armed and armored deep gnomes.
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