Teacandle's Notes

Lost Dwarven Kingdom of Kilndelve (see Grimrigg for details)

Location: Great Barrier Range, far east of Kargau

Story: Dwaves excavated into liminal zone with the underworld, balrog’s legion poured out, tried to lure in venerable dragon to fight them, turned out that the dragon was old friends with the balrog, dwarves ran off

Dragon - Venerable? Must be enormous by now...

Balrog - opened gate to underworld, probably still open

Artifacts: Axe of the Dwarvish Lords - conveys leadership of dwarven clans; Bow of the Great Eagles - incredible range, friendship with all eagles?; Seal of Chaos - maybe worn by Balrog, gates in fiends, sounds redundant to be honest

The Ransomed Maiden, sunken prize ship off Birkenstrand

Location: 50 miles south of Birkenstrand, initially along coast

Story: Flagship of anti-piracy fleet was captured by pirates, cursed with undeath by captain’s wish as he walked plank so they could never touch his spear, attacked by dragon turtle on the way back to port

Dragon Turtle still guarding wreck? Those things live for centuries...

Shining Spear - destroys undead that view its brilliance or something like that, sounds useful right about now

Flooded Mass Grave

Location: North of Hainburg

Story: Proud queen murdered by her own doppelganger after gift sent by invading army, commander of army betrayed by underlings, rebels defeated, died alone in dismal swamp

Barrow Wights (lots)

Diadem of the Imperial Warmistress - can also be used by bladedancers

Treasure map to Great Axe of the North - would have been useful against those frost giants

Cursed Hero’s Cairn

Location: Between Halheim and Kargau

Story: Eternally regenerating hero enchanted with sleep, buried alive while resting at sinkhole of evil during a single night, body eaten alive slowly by gradually expanding rot-grub colony, became wraith, really bad-tempered about having spent several decades being constantly eaten alive ("I mean, I would be!")

Deathbound Wraith

Shield of the Empyrean Heavens - protects against evocations when invoked while stationary, only way to face down a death knight's fireballs!

Wandering mummy-worm “The Mendicant”

Location: Anyone’s guess

Story: Giant purple worm fed and charmed into protecting town, devoured all attackers, eventually army sent to capture town, worm devoured thousands of them before killed, then embalmed and raised

Purple Worm Mummy

Corselet of the Imperial Warmistress (might require refitting with new laces/boning)

The Mountain’s Root, stone troll colony

Location: Mountains east of Hochgrube

Story: Long tunnel to heart of mountain, center of mountain in permanent darkness, full of edible but unpalatable mushrooms, trolls keep pit full of thousands of captive humans to convert the mushrooms into edible meat (the brutes!)

Stone Trolls (lots)

Bracers of the Imperial Warmistress - deflect missiles with your wrists, bet that looks awesome

....at the end, Teacandle appends a personal note indicating that he'd be very interested in any reports about the location of the Boots of the Imperial Warmistress, which are red and strappy and unexpectedly great for jumping despite three-inch heels.

He also indicates that if the party doesn't have any use for this kind of gear, he can locate what he describes as "an interested and motivated buyer".

[DM note: As God is my witness, I rolled all these items randomly off the Heroic Fantasy table.]