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SKULLPORT
IMMORTAL INSANITY Skullport overlooks the
GUILD OF MANY EYES
The Mad Mage of Under- Sargauth River, a watery
A thieves' guild that was mountain has destroyed thoroughfare that cuts
driven from Waterdeep long himself or been destroyed through the third level of
ago still lurks in Undermoun- many times, but his demise Undermountain. Pirates once
tain, waiting and scheming
is always short-Jived. Folk used the subterranean settle-
to win back power in the city
say the dungeon cannot exist ment as a trade port, but now
above. These villains make
without him, and so it magi- it's a monster-infested haunt
the sewers unsafe for honest
cally re-creates the archmage where spies and assassins
folk to venture into. They have whenever he meets his end hone their craft. Beware the
recently taken over Skullport,
within its crumbling halls. fortress overlooking the river!
a subterranean town con-
Each time Halaster returns, Its garrison is commanded
nected to Undermountain.
less of his sanity remains. by an evil knight with a
wyvern mount.
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ARCTURIADOOM
WHAT DROW FEAR
TANGLED WEB One of Halaster's apprentices Part of Undermountain
Secret temples exist in great was a human transmuter was carved out by the drow.
numbers in Undermountain, named Arcturia, who created Muiral, said to be a former
particularly those of evil gods all manner of new monsters
bodyguard and apprentice
not welcomed in the city and often made herself the of Halaster's , claims this
above. The vile servants of subject of her own horrid domain and hunts trespass-
these deities are locked in an magical transformations. ers for sport. These halls
endless war for supremacy She claimed an entire level are littered with the bones
in the dark dungeon. Lolth, of Undermountain as her lair of the slaughtered. Even the
the Demon Queen of Spiders, and polymorphed prisoners dark elves speak of Muiral in
is the fiendish mastermind into monsters to guard it. It's hushed tones. Anyone who
behind many of these bloody likely that Arcturia resides in can terrify the drow should be
conflicts. Undermountain still, in one avoided at all costs.
form or another.
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MAD HOUSE
DWARFCRAFT
SCHOOL OF MAGIC The Shadowdusks were a
Much of Undermountain was Rumor has it that a wizards' Waterdavian noble family
built long ago by the shield academy has opened on one whose quest for political su-
dwarves of the Melairkyn
of Undermountain's levels. premacy ·ended centuries ago
clan. These dwarves were
It's not known who runs this after Shadowdusk wizards
masters of stonework and hid
academy- perhaps one of opened portals to the Far
many of their rooms behind
Halaster's apprentices or the Realm. Twisted by madness
secret doors. They also dug Mad Mage himself- but many and driven from their home,
deep in search of precious mages have been drawn down they sought assistance from
metals. These mines were
to it. What wizard wouldn't Halaster and sank into the
later stripped by duergar
want to glimpse the powerful depths of Undermountain,
invaders, leaving a maze of magic gathering dust in the never to be seen again-yet
worthless tunnels and cav-
depths of Undermountain? vestiges of the noble house
erns for monsters to inhabit.
undoubtedly remain.
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