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The Underdark
"Never does a star grace this land with a poet's light of twinkling mystery, nor does the sun send to here it's rays of warmth and light. This is the Underdark, the secret world beneath the bustling surface of ~Ayenee~, whose sky is a ceiling of heartless stone and whose walls show the gray blandness of death in the torchlight of the foolish surface dwellers that stumble here. This is not their world, not the world of light. Most who come here uninvited do not return... ...Dark corridors meander thought out the dark realm in winding courses, connecting caverns great and small, with ceilings high and low. Mounds of stone, as pointed as the teeth of a sleeping dragon leer down in silent threat or rise up to block the way of intruders. There is a silence here, profound and foreboding, the crouched hush of a predator at work. Too often the only sound, the only reminder to the travelers in the Underdark that they haven't lost their sense of hearing altogether, is a distant and echoing drip of water, beating like the heart of a beast, slipping through the silent stones to the deep Underdark pools of chilled water. What lies beneath the still onyx surface of these pools one can only guess. What secrets await the brave, what horrors await the foolish, only the imagination can reveal - until the stillness is disturbed. This is the Underdark." ~ from R.A Salvatore's "Dark Elf Trilogy"
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Ched Nasad
This great cavern-city of the Underdark is just one of many in the realm of the Drow. It holds many family houses of fair prestige. The importance of this one cavern, however, is the existence of one house in particular.... |
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| Welcome to the Castle Yeog'il'rymmin. Within it the family and clan members live, work, fight and die. The doors have been opened to you in confidence, but watch your back. Enemies are unwelcome and spies will find only a bitter end. Keep what you see to yourself and keep yourself from touching what you see. And should you have a question, just ask Kierhelsa. She's one of the few who won't skewer you for breathing. | ||
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Dare ye enter this dark abode,
where even demons fear to go.
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