Overview
The road climbs from the south along the cliff, crosses the gorge on a narrow bridge to the roc's shelf, then turns north up to the tower. The road goes on through the tower's gate passage and up into cloud.
Resting: Risky: a rest here can be interrupted.
Getting here
Ways in
- The travel map: The Tsolenka Pass, in Berez, Mount Baratok and the Tsolenka Pass.
Ways out
| # | Exit | Leads to | Only when |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The road down to the valley | the travel map | |
| 2 | The road down to the valley | the travel map | |
| 3 | The guard tower's door |  The Tsolenka Guard Tower | |
| 4 | The road up to the Amber Temple | the travel map | tsolenka gate open |
| 5 | The road up to the Amber Temple | the travel map | tsolenka gate 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
the roc's nest
a wayside shrine
the gorge
People
Who turns up at points in the story (1)
- Tibor, The landing (#6): when level ≥ 9 and quest.the last egg isn't done and quest.the last egg isn't sold
What to find
| # | Where | What | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | the roc's nest | Chain Shirt, Longsword, Potion of Healing, +2 Greatsword, 140 gp | open it |
| 12 | a traveller the roc dropped (hidden) | Wings of Flying | Search: Perception DC 15 |
| 13 | a feather as long as a man, caught on the rocks (hidden) | Feather Token (Bird) | Search: Perception DC 12 |
| 14 | something in the frozen traveller's pack (hidden) | Rope of Climbing | Search: Perception DC 12 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | a wayside shrine | Religion 14 | Pray at the wayside shrine | Heroic Inspiration |
| 9 | the gorge | Acrobatics 14 | Edge out along the rocks over the gorge | finds Feather Token (Bird); on a failure: 2d6 bludgeoning damage |
| 10 | Bones on the shelf | Medicine 15 | Examine the roc's leavings | finds Wings of Flying |
| 11 | Carved faces | History 15 | Read the carved faces | lore: The watch at Tsolenka |
Fights
- A shadow the size of a barn roof slides across the bridge. Then the wind comes, and the scream, and the…, in The Tsolenka Pass: Roc. Scales with your level.
By party level (the first line your party fits is the fight you get)
- The Tsolenka Pass, when day and not roc driven off and level ≥ 9: The Roc of Mount Ghakis (Roc) (7200 XP)
- The Tsolenka Pass, when day and not roc driven off and level ≥ 8: The Roc of Mount Ghakis (Roc) (7200 XP)
- The Tsolenka Pass, when day and not roc driven off: The Roc of Mount Ghakis (Roc) (7200 XP)
- The Penitent stands up out of the gorge wall, nine pilgrims fused in grey ice, and turns all its heads toward…, in The Tsolenka Pass: The Penitent, Ghast. Scales with your level.
By party level (the first line your party fits is the fight you get)
- The Tsolenka Pass, when level ≥ 11: The Penitent, 8 × A Pilgrim's Shadow (Ghast) (10800 XP)
- The Tsolenka Pass, when level ≥ 10: The Penitent, 5 × A Pilgrim's Shadow (Ghast) (9450 XP)
- The Tsolenka Pass, when level ≥ 9: The Penitent, 4 × A Pilgrim's Shadow (Ghast) (9000 XP)
- The Tsolenka Pass: The Penitent, 3 × A Pilgrim's Shadow (Ghast) (8550 XP)
- The stone birds come down on the shelf with a sound like a quarry falling, and the falconer lands among them,…, in The Tsolenka Pass: Vampire Spawn, Gargoyle. Part of The Last Egg.
Quests and lore
- The Frozen Pilgrims: Nine pilgrims from Vallaki went up the Tsolenka Pass forty years ago to ask the Amber Temple never to be cold again. Their lamp came back…
- The Last Egg: Tibor the egg-hunter, camped at the Tsolenka landing, says the roc of Mount Ghakis lays once in eleven years, and this is the year. He has…
- The Mountain's Heart: The mountain folk say Grandfather Stone, asleep in Mount Ghakis, is walking, since the count's men cut a quarry in the mountain's south…
- The Tsolenka Gate: The road to the Amber Temple crosses the Tsolenka Pass, through a guard tower whose portcullis has been down for centuries.