Overview
The temple's great hall, cut out of the mountain around a colossal robed statue whose face was never carved. East lies the ring of amber, where six sarcophagi talk; west, the frozen reading hall where something wails; north, the wardens' cells, the library passage and the stair down to the vaults.
Every sound you make comes back to you a moment later, slightly changed.
Resting: Risky: a rest here can be interrupted.
Getting here
Ways in
- From The Amber Temple: the Doors: Up the stairs to the great hall
- From The Amber Temple: the Library: The passage back to the great hall
- From The Amber Temple: the Vaults: Stairs up to the great hall
Ways out
| # | Exit | Leads to | Only when |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stairs down to the doors |  The Amber Temple: the Doors | |
| 2 | The library passage |  The Amber Temple: the Library | |
| 3 | Stairs down to the vaults |  The Amber Temple: the Vaults |
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
Offerings at the statue's feet, the faceless god
a warden's chest
a warden's locker
People
Who turns up at points in the story (1)
- Patrina Velikovna, The hall of echoes (#4): when not patrina fate and not patrina destroyed
What to find
| # | Where | What | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | Offerings at the statue's feet | Candle ×6, Holy Symbol (Amulet), 64 gp | open it |
| 6 | a warden's chest | Spellbook, Ink, Ink Pen, Robe, 20 gp | open it |
| 7 | a warden's locker | Spell Scroll (Level 1) ×2, Potion of Healing, 35 gp | lock DC 14 |
| 8 | a student's desk | Paper ×5, Magnifying Glass | open it |
| 10 | a loose stone in a warden's cell (hidden) | Ioun Stone (Insight) | Search: Investigation DC 17 |
| 11 | a drawer in the desk kept clear of frost (hidden) | Tome of Leadership and Influence | Search: Investigation DC 17 |
Tarokka treasure spots. If the reading hid one of the treasures here, it's in: Amber Temple Faceless God (statue_offerings)
The containers here also get random magic items and potions, rolled for a party of level 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | the faceless god | Religion 16 | Read the faceless god's rite | reveals faceless_gaze; disarms faceless gaze; on a failure: 2d8 psychic damage |
Traps
| # | Trap | Find DC | Disarm DC | Save | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | A crack in the floor, breathing | 15 | 16 | CON 15 | 4d8 cold |
| 13 | Where the statue's blank face looks | 16 | 0 | WIS 15 | 3d8 psychic |
Fights
- Things that were people once come scuttling from behind the sarcophagi, each with one great eye where a face…, in The Amber Temple: Hall of the Faceless God: Nothic, Wraith. Scales with your level.
By party level (the first line your party fits is the fight you get)
- The Amber Temple: Hall of the Faceless God, when not hollow eyed cleared and level ≥ 10: 5 × Hollow-eyed seeker (Nothic), 3 × Warden's wraith (Wraith) (7650 XP)
- The Amber Temple: Hall of the Faceless God, when not hollow eyed cleared and level ≥ 8: 4 × Hollow-eyed seeker (Nothic), 3 × Warden's wraith (Wraith) (7200 XP)
- The Amber Temple: Hall of the Faceless God, when not hollow eyed cleared: 4 × Hollow-eyed seeker (Nothic), Warden's wraith (Wraith) (3600 XP)
- Patrina screams, and the frozen students at their desks lift their heads to scream with her., in The Amber Temple: Hall of the Faceless God: Banshee, Specter. Part of The Wailing Hall.
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 Amber Temple: High above the Tsolenka Pass, a temple of amber where dead powers talk and bargain, and where the lord of the valley once made his.
- The Last Lesson: Wren Featherfoot's old master, a dusk elf called Sorrel, died before Wren's training was finished, and left him one errand: a sealed letter…
- The Wailing Hall: In the frozen reading hall of the Amber Temple, a dead woman weeps over a book that will not stay whole.