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UNESTONE CAVERNS IS DESIGNED FOR FOUR Characters who destroy Ezzat and locate his phylac-
16th-level characters, and characters who tery earn Halaster's favor. Those who ally with the lich
defeat the monsters on this level should gain earn Halaster's enmity.
enough XP to advance halfway to 17th level.
This level introduces the characters to a po- STONECLOAKS
tentially powerful ally in their fight against
Halaster created stone golems in his own likeness and
Halaster-or an enemy whose destruction
used fragments of the Runestone to imbue them with
can put them in the Mad Mage's good graces.
intelligence. Then he set them loose on this level. Called
Stonecloaks, these 10-foot-tall golems worship the Mad
WHAT DWELLS HERE? Mage as a god and regard the Runestone as his eye into
The Runestone is a large magic crystal, created by their dark domain. The Stonecloaks don't like it that a
Halaster Blackcloak, that is embedded in the top of lich has taken refuge in the stalagmite tower, but Ezzat's
a huge, hollowed-out stalagmite that rises from the wards mean that there's little they can do about it.
center of this level's main cavern. This spire serves Unless otherwise noted, a Stonecloak uses the stone
as the lair of a lich named Ezzat, who has long been golem statistics, with these changes:
Halaster's enemy.
• A Stonecloak has Intelligence and Charisma
In an effort to destroy Ezzat, Halaster created a legion scores of9.
of stone golems modeled after himself, placing a frag- • It understands the following languages but can't
ment of the Runestone in each one to imbue it with more speak: Abyssal, Celestial, Common, Draconic, Dwar-
intelligence and personality. When Ezzat learned what vish, Elvish, Infernal, and Undercommon. Stonecloaks
Halaster was up to, the lich placed wards on the stalag- use a system of eye blinks to communicate nonver-
mite tower to prevent constructs from assailing it. This bally with one another.
countermove prompted Halaster to abandon his golems
and stop making new ones. WANDERING MONSTERS

EZZAT THE LICH The magical emanations of the Runestone attract
earth-dwelling creatures such as bulettes, earth ele-
Ezzat has become obsessed with destroying Halaster mentals, purple worms, and xorn to this level. The char-
and usurping his control over Undermountain. As his acters might also come across an expedition that has
mania and thirst for power grows, the lich becomes traveled from Shadowdusk Hold.
more like Halaster with each passing day.

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