Overview
The abbey's east wing: the Belview family's warren in the old kitchen, the infirmary hall, the foundling ward where the abbey once raised the valley's orphans, a row of barred cells, the matron's locked room, and the surgery where Vasilka lies waiting under a sheet.
Resting: no Something in the cells is saying your name, in your own voice, over and over. Nobody sleeps here.
Getting here
Ways in
- From The Abbey of St. Markovia: The wards
Ways out
| # | Exit | Leads to | Only when |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Out to the courtyard |  The Abbey of St. Markovia |
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
Belview, the Belviews' stew pot
a foundling's locker
Instrument cabinet, a false back in the instrument cabinet
People
- Belview, One of the Belview Family: The Belviews' kitchen (#2)
Who turns up at points in the story (2)
What to find
| # | Where | What | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | a foundling's locker | Blanket, Candle ×2, 3 gp | open it |
| 6 | the matron's trunk | Fine Clothes, Perfume, 12 gp | open it |
| 7 | Instrument cabinet | Healer's Kit, Vial ×3, Antitoxin | open it |
| 8 | the Belviews' stew pot | Ration ×2, 2 gp | open it |
| 10 | a child's hidden treasure under the cots (hidden) | Figurine of Wondrous Power (Golden Lions) | Search: Perception DC 14 |
| 11 | something sewn into the trunk's lining (hidden) | Robe of Useful Items | Search: Investigation DC 14 |
| 12 | a false back in the instrument cabinet (hidden) | Periapt of Proof against Poison | Search: Investigation DC 15 |
Tarokka treasure spots. If the reading hid one of the treasures here, it's in: Abbey of St Markovia Wards (foundling_locker)
The containers here also get random magic items and potions, rolled for a party of level 7 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 | a basin and instruments | Medicine 14 | Study the surgeon's instruments | finds Periapt of Proof against Poison; lore: The Abbot's surgery |
Locked and secret doors
- The matron's door: lock DC 13
Fights
- The bars bang open all down the row. They come out low and fast, in every shape the Abbot ever tried, and…, in The Wards of St. Markovia: Berserker, Mongrelfolk. Scales with your level.
By party level (the first line your party fits is the fight you get)
- The Wards of St. Markovia, when level ≥ 7: 2 × Belview Brute (Berserker), 6 × Mongrelfolk (1200 XP)
- The Wards of St. Markovia: Belview Brute (Berserker), 4 × Mongrelfolk (650 XP)
Quests and lore
- Mother's Ninth Improvement: Mother, the Belviews' matriarch, hasn't left the abbey since she was carried up the mountain as a baby. Now that the Abbot is done…