Overview
What the Amber Temple's wardens sealed under their own vaults: a stair down through the weeping floor, the hall of sleepers in their amber, the wardens' archive and, at the bottom, the chamber of the Eye Below (The Amber Debt, docs/story/side_quests.md).
Under the vault floor the amber isn't set. It weeps out of the walls like resin from a cut pine, warm, and slow, and it smells of honey and of something that has been asleep for a very long time.
Resting: no Every time you shut your eyes, you feel it looking at you through them. Nobody sleeps down here.
Getting here
Ways in
- From The Amber Temple: the Vaults: Down under the vault floor
Ways out
| # | Exit | Leads to | Only when |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Up into the vaults |  The Amber Temple: the Vaults | |
| 2 | Up into 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
a tall mirror, turned to the wall
the wardens' book
the broken amber block
People
Who turns up at points in the story (1)
- The Eye Below, The chamber of the Eye (#3): when not eye below slain
What to find
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.
Fights
- Something blinks inside the nearest block of amber. Then the amber blinks back, everywhere, and the little…, in Under the Vaults: Amber Golem, Dream-Gazer.
- The Eye Below sinks back into the amber to its middle as the last note of the lullaby goes, and wakes too…, in Under the Vaults: The Eye Below, Dream-Gazer. Scales with your level. Part of The Amber Debt.
By party level (the first line your party fits is the fight you get)
- Under the Vaults, when deep lullaby sung and deep mirrors turned: The Eye Below (10000 XP; surprise: enemies)
- Under the Vaults, when deep lullaby sung and not deep mirrors turned: The Eye Below, Dream-Gazer (10100 XP; lair; surprise: enemies)
- Under the Vaults, when not deep lullaby sung and deep mirrors turned: The Eye Below (10000 XP)
- Under the Vaults: The Eye Below, Dream-Gazer (10100 XP; lair)
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.…