Overview
Under the great hall: a long gallery of ten talking sarcophagi, a door of glowing amber over a vault heaped with the offerings of the desperate, and at the bottom of everything the sanctum where a prince of the west once made his bargain with the thing whose sarcophagus is now empty.
The amber in the walls glows here, faintly, like honey held up to a candle. It is the only warm colour for a mile.
Resting: no Nobody sleeps down here. The voices in the amber know your names now, and they take turns.
Getting here
Ways in
- From Under the Vaults: Up into the vaults
- From The Amber Temple: Hall of the Faceless God: Stairs down to the vaults
Ways out
| # | Exit | Leads to | Only when |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stairs up to the great hall |  The Amber Temple: Hall of the Faceless God | |
| 2 | Down under the vault floor |  Under the Vaults | deep stair open |
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 heap of offerings, a staff under the heap of offerings
a sarcophagus of amber (a face turned up)
a sarcophagus of amber (an empty ribcage)
People
Who turns up at points in the story (2)
- Master Vosk, The sanctum of the hollow (#3): when not vosk fate and not vosk destroyed
- Exethanter, The sanctum of the hollow (#4): when (vosk fate or vosk destroyed) and not amber seal decided and exethanter met and not exethanter destroyed and not exethanter hostile and exethanter phylactery isn't “smashed”
What to find
| # | Where | What | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | a heap of offerings | Potion of Healing ×3, Jeweler's Tools, Mirror, Perfume ×2, Spyglass, 640 gp | open it |
| 6 | Sealed urns | Antitoxin ×2, Holy Water ×2, 120 gp | open it |
| 7 | a staff under the heap of offerings (hidden) | Staff of Power (Quarterstaff) | Search: Perception DC 16 |
Tarokka treasure spots. If the reading hid one of the treasures here, it's in: Amber Temple Vault (gift_heap)
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.
Traps
| # | Trap | Find DC | Disarm DC | Save | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | A line of glyphs across the floor | 16 | 17 | WIS 16 | 4d8 psychic |
| 9 | Cracked amber in the vault ceiling | 14 | 0 | DEX 15 | 4d10 piercing |
| 10 | Black ice on the steps | 12 | 0 | DEX 13 | 2d6 bludgeoning |
Fights
- The alcove beside the doors was not empty. Something tall and golden steps out of it, and the hall's light…, in The Amber Temple: the Vaults: Amber Golem, Wraith. Scales with your level.
By party level (the first line your party fits is the fight you get)
- The Amber Temple: the Vaults, when not vault guardian destroyed and level ≥ 10: The Vault Guardian (Amber Golem), Warden's wraith (Wraith) (7700 XP)
- The Amber Temple: the Vaults, when not vault guardian destroyed: The Vault Guardian (Amber Golem) (5900 XP)
- Vosk's shape slips like a badly hung coat. Under it: a jackal's head, a scholar's robe, and claws that shake., in The Amber Temple: the Vaults: Arcanaloth, Flameskull. Scales with your level. Part of The Amber Temple.
By party level (the first line your party fits is the fight you get)
- The Amber Temple: the Vaults, when vosk named or vosk weakened: Vosk, unmasked (Arcanaloth) (8400 XP)
- The Amber Temple: the Vaults, when level ≥ 10: Vosk, unmasked (Arcanaloth), 2 × Bound skull (Flameskull) (10600 XP)
- The Amber Temple: the Vaults, when level ≥ 8: Vosk, unmasked (Arcanaloth), Bound skull (Flameskull) (9500 XP)
- The Amber Temple: the Vaults: Vosk, unmasked (Arcanaloth) (8400 XP)
Quests and lore
- The Amber Debt: Exethanter has an old note pinned under all the others, in his own hand: DO NOT GO BELOW THE VAULT. YOU SEALED IT. YOU DO NOT REMEMBER WHY.…
- 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 Wailing Hall: In the frozen reading hall of the Amber Temple, a dead woman weeps over a book that will not stay whole.