Campaign Background: Local

Mount of the Red Doors

It is located a few miles to the northwest of the fortified town of Karlsburg. It was excavated from the tallest mountain in the Wintertop range and is reputed to have at least half a dozen levels, if not double that number.

The dungeon was the site for the most important magical research of past eras.

For hundreds—maybe thousands—of years, Mount of the Red Doors served as a fortress for a succession of empires. It fell two centuries ago, when a rebel uprising culminated in a mysterious cataclysm that sealed the dungeon off from the outside world.

Many of the inhabitants of Karlsburg and the nearby region known as the City-States are there to keep an eye on Mount of the Red Doors. Some hope to enter the dungeon to get rich, others to free one of the powerful beings which the local authorities hope will remain locked away in its extra-dimensional prison.

Within the last few weeks, rumors have begun to circulate that the magical wards that once sealed off Mount of the Red Doors have fallen. Shadowy figures are reportedly going into, and coming out of, the mountain fortress.

Politics

Previous Empires:

• The Great Ancients
• The Eld
• The Sulian Empire

Currently the areas near the Mount of the Red Doors are controlled by rival city-states. Karlsburg is a vassal town of Adamas city state. The other nearby city states are Retep City and Yethlariz (City of the Dead)

Updated: 3/28/2015
To the south of the city-states lies Volmar a southern remnant of the old Sulian Empire.


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