Overview
The goat track comes up from the south through switchbacks of pine. The hut stands in a yard to the east; the summit, with its cairn, rises to the north-west; a lookout to the west shows the lake below.
Resting: Risky: a rest here can be interrupted.
Getting here
Ways in
- The travel map: Mount Baratok, in Berez, Mount Baratok and the Tsolenka Pass.
Ways out
| # | Exit | Leads to | Only when |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The goat track down the mountain | the travel map | |
| 2 | The goat track down the mountain | the travel map | |
| 3 | The stone hut's door |  The Mad Mage's Hut |
Map
Key: gold, people; red, containers; purple, hidden finds; teal, skill checks; white, exits; orange, traps. The numbers match the lists on this page.
Close up
a cleft in the rock
a wand fused into the ring of glass, the heart of the ring of glass
a page blown into the snow
What to find
| # | Where | What | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | a cleft in the rock | Potion of Healing, 15 gp | open it |
| 6 | a wand fused into the ring of glass (hidden) | Wand of Lightning Bolts | Search: Perception DC 15 |
| 7 | a stone that isn't part of the cairn (hidden) | Ioun Stone (Intellect) | Search: Perception DC 16 |
| 8 | a page blown into the snow (hidden) | Spell Scroll (Cone of Cold) | Search: Perception DC 13 |
The containers here also get random magic items and potions, rolled for a party of level 9 the first time you come (Random Treasure). Hidden finds need a Search (F) nearby; the party's best roll counts.
Skill checks
| # | Where | Check | Try | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | a cairn on the summit | Arcana 16 | Unpick the ward round the cairn | disarms baratok ward; on a failure: 2d8 lightning damage |
Traps
| # | Trap | Find DC | Disarm DC | Save | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | A ward around the cairn | 15 | 15 | DEX 15 | 4d6 thunder |
Fights
- The storm comes down off the ring of glass at you, and the lightning comes down out of it., in Mount Baratok: The Forgotten Storm, Air Elemental. Scales with your level. Part of The Forgotten Storm.
By party level (the first line your party fits is the fight you get)
- Mount Baratok, when storm sent east: The Forgotten Storm, A Squall (Air Elemental) (6800 XP; lair)
- Mount Baratok: The Forgotten Storm, A Squall (Air Elemental) (6800 XP; lair)
Quests and lore
- A Seat at the Table: Ratatouille learned magic so that people would sit with him. He crossed the mists to apprentice himself to the Wizard of Wines, a master of…
- The Destined Ally: Madam Eva's fourth card named the one who will stand with us against the devil.
- The Drowned Library: Something whispers up the old well on the shore of Lake Baratok, from the archmage Khazan's library under the lake: don't come down.
- The Forgotten Storm: Every evening lightning lands on the ring of glass on Mount Baratok. The mage told it something once, and it's still doing it.
- The Mad Mage of Mount Baratok: A powerful wizard lives alone on Mount Baratok with his memory gone. Someone took it on purpose.
- The Mage's Lost Pages: Mordenkainen's memory came back with pages missing: letters in a hand he knows better than his own, and no name with it.
- The Name Over the Door: Mordenkainen says the archmage who built the tower on the tarn never died: he moved downstairs, and he's waking.