The Amber Temple

amber sentinels

Built for a party of about level 10: random treasure here is rolled for that level.

Places

  • Under the Vaults: 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).
  • The Goat Path Camp: A shelf of rock above the goat path round the Tsolenka watchtower, out of the wind, where the guide makes camp with the families he leads up to the Amber Temple (The Guide to the Temple, docs/story/side_quests.md).
  • The Amber Temple: the Doors: A shelf of wind-scoured snow high above the Tsolenka Pass, where a temple's doors are cut into the mountain between two colossi of amber, one split and dead, one watching. Inside: a frozen vestibule and the wardens' two guardrooms.
  • The Amber Temple: Hall of the Faceless God: 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.
  • The Amber Temple: the Library: The wardens' library: long stacks furred with frost, a reading room of lecterns, a barred alcove of books the wardens did not want read, and the study where Exethanter, the last warden, tries to remember what he is for. A scholar named Vosk reads here too.
  • The Ice Stair: The last climb from the Tsolenka Pass to the Amber Temple: a switchback shelf of snow and broken rock with the drop on one side and the mountain on the other. Where the road's fights and meetings play out.
  • The Amber Temple: the Vaults: 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.

Quests

People

Dahlver-Nar, Drizlash, Exethanter, Fekre, Floarea, Great Taar Haak, Khirad, Master Vosk, Norganas, Patrina Velikovna, Remus, Savnok, Seriach, Shami-Amourae, Sykane, Tarakamedes, Tenebrous, The Amber Sentinel, The Eye Below, The Guide, Yog, Yrrga, Zantras, Zhudun